Rambley Raccoon & Mollie Macaw (Spoilers)

[Magick Masquerade]

I thought it was really strange that Rambley and Mollie are supposed to be best friends and yet Rambley (at least I assume it was Rambley) closes the metal door that subsequently slices Mollie’s head off without hesitation. Rambley doesn’t at all seem bothered by the fact that he apparently just killed his best friend. He doesn’t mention or even react to her death at all, which is really bizarre to me when they’re supposed to be best friends with one another. I feel like Rambley should have had at least some sort of reaction to Mollie’s death if they’re that close to each other even if he is currently just an AI guiding us around the park, because he can clearly break away from the standard programming to ask the protagonist for help.

[rhmagnussn]

I'm wondering if the Mollie Macaw mascot really IS Mollie, or some organic robot designed to resemble her. (Note that the clothing both her and Lloyd are depicted as wearing is missing)

[Cyber Akuma]

I found it even weirder that Mollie BLED when the door closed on her head. There were several throwaway lines that seem to hint that they might not just be robots/AI, although they could have just been actual throwaway lines that were not important.

During the train ride Finley told Rambley that they had known each other for 100 years. Unless this game is taking place in 2150 or something AIs would not have been around for anywhere near that long, and needless to say a raccoon if Rambley is somehow organic would not live anywhere close to that. (Although I guess they could have just been referring to the characters themselves being made long ago and they they should have known each other for that long even if that current version of themselves aren't that old. The video showing the grand opening of the park was clearly many decades old, and AI Rambley definitely would not have existed back then even if the character itself did.) Regardless, there might be some sort of immortality going on in regards to whatever they are if the 100 years line was meant to be taken literally.

When you first are about to go backstage Rambley is worried about you, telling you to be careful and that "Your cuff cannot resuscitate you yet".... then doesn't elaborate. Resuscitate? Those things can bring you back from death? (Or near death at least?) What kind of insane ability is that for a theme park access bracelet? Is that something that just the one you have can do or was that a standard feature for the cuffs? (And if so, why would a kids theme park need such a thing on all the guests?) And what did he mean YET? If they can do that, maybe that's also something they deploy on the mascots too. (I also wonder if that's an in-universe reason for why you can respawn and try again, that by then it could resuscitate you, but I personally doubt it and it's just a normal videogame do-over reload of your last checkpoint).

Near the end when Rambley dropped pretending everything is normal he mentions "The mascots are..." then trails off. Seems to imply that maybe something happened to the mascots (Or possibly to the "real" mascots?) as well and it's not just a case of them going FNAF on you, that they might not even really be the same person anymore in a literal sense.

Oh, and don't forget the arcade game that was some very obvious foreshadowing. It literally broke the in-game fourth wall and SOMEHOW manifested a pixelated item from the game in real life with how heavy the foreshadowing was. Notice that Rambley doesn't even talk about the skunk character during the ride, and her prop is smashed up. I saw others suspect she's the main villain, or at least will be the one for Part 2.

All this leads me to think they aren't just simply robots, and that there might be some sort of either supernatural or mad science immortality thing going on, or that possibly these are not even the originals and whatever these organic ones are have replaced them.

.... or I am just simply massively over-thinking this and Rambley had a split-second to choose between saving you or not harming his now murderous friend and he chose to save you.

[Incompetent spy]

You're 100% overthinking this. That "resuscitate" line was 100% a throwaway, and the 100 years old comment was likely in reference to the character's age, not the actual AI's. As for him not addressing killing Mollie, I doubt he'd begin discussing that immediately after the fact, when he hasn't processed it himself. There's 100% something ominous going on with the robots bleeding, though.

[Cyber Akuma]

I feel that out of all of those, the resuscitate line definitely has something going on, that's a bit too oddly specific to just amount to nothing. Especially the part where he said "yet".

Ironically, the one thing that I feel might be the most that can be overlooked is the "blood", it could just be "fluid". I admit though if they go that route, it feels a bit of a cop out since it looked and splattered WAY too much like real blood you would see in a horror game.

[SuperDean]

i said this in a discussion i made but no one commented on but i think they used robots/animatronics in the park first (they are shown in the train ride where you go to fix it) and later they made bio recreations of the mascots that are alive but went feral somehow and killed people causing the park to close.

[Camael]

Originally posted by SuperDean:

i said this in a discussion i made but no one commented on but i think they used robots/animatronics in the park first (they are shown in the train ride where you go to fix it) and later they made bio recreations of the mascots that are alive but went feral somehow and killed people causing the park to close.

You're probably right on this, the Mollie plush's description states that the main protag visited with his family at one point because of a new live "Meet-and-greet" with a real Mollie.

[gamer]

Rambley is aware of the state of the mascots and they're not necessarily his friends at present. When he brings up the mascots when coming clean about the state of the park, he seems upset about it, but he only uses body language to show it. I think that's good enough in regards to showing his feelings about doing that. In general though, I think there's a separation between the live mascots and his relationship with the characters.

Originally posted by Cyber Akuma:

During the train ride Finley told Rambley that they had known each other for 100 years.

Basic explanation. It's a park ride. Rambley's the dynamic AI, while the Train ride's characters are using prerecorded lines. 100 years is just a reference to the amount of time of the characters' existence. Note that Lloyd continues to speak as if nothing happened when Rambley prematurely starts the train up to get away from him.

[Anthuny]

Originally posted by English Breakfast:

I thought it was really strange that Rambley and Mollie are supposed to be best friends

Who told you that? Rambley? He also acted like everything was perfectly fine until the end. I suggest you lookup "unreliable narrator".

[BlackWolfAnime88]

Originally posted by English Breakfast:

I thought it was really strange that Rambley and Mollie are supposed to be best friends and yet Rambley (at least I assume it was Rambley) closes the metal door that subsequently slices Mollie’s head off without hesitation. Rambley doesn’t at all seem bothered by the fact that he apparently just killed his best friend. He doesn’t mention or even react to her death at all, which is really bizarre to me when they’re supposed to be best friends with one another. I feel like Rambley should have had at least some sort of reaction to Mollie’s death if they’re that close to each other even if he is currently just an AI guiding us around the park, because he can clearly break away from the standard programming to ask the protagonist for help.

the lack of care in the mascot may be because he doesnt consider her the "real" Molly Macaw maybe he make a distincion betwen the mascots and the character itself?, the dialouge affter the chase section mention that visitors and workers stop coming and "the Mascots...." . he refering them as mascots not friends or maybe he is too self aware and he know that he just based in a cartoon.

[BlackWolfAnime88]

Originally posted by Cyber Akuma:

I found it even weirder that Mollie BLED when the door closed on her head. There were several throwaway lines that seem to hint that they might not just be robots/AI, although they could have just been actual throwaway lines that were not important.

During the train ride Finley told Rambley that they had known each other for 100 years. Unless this game is taking place in 2150 or something AIs would not have been around for anywhere near that long, and needless to say a raccoon if Rambley is somehow organic would not live anywhere close to that. (Although I guess they could have just been referring to the characters themselves being made long ago and they they should have known each other for that long even if that current version of themselves aren't that old. The video showing the grand opening of the park was clearly many decades old, and AI Rambley definitely would not have existed back then even if the character itself did.) Regardless, there might be some sort of immortality going on in regards to whatever they are if the 100 years line was meant to be taken literally.

When you first are about to go backstage Rambley is worried about you, telling you to be careful and that "Your cuff cannot resuscitate you yet".... then doesn't elaborate. Resuscitate? Those things can bring you back from death? (Or near death at least?) What kind of insane ability is that for a theme park access bracelet? Is that something that just the one you have can do or was that a standard feature for the cuffs? (And if so, why would a kids theme park need such a thing on all the guests?) And what did he mean YET? If they can do that, maybe that's also something they deploy on the mascots too. (I also wonder if that's an in-universe reason for why you can respawn and try again, that by then it could resuscitate you, but I personally doubt it and it's just a normal videogame do-over reload of your last checkpoint).

Near the end when Rambley dropped pretending everything is normal he mentions "The mascots are..." then trails off. Seems to imply that maybe something happened to the mascots (Or possibly to the "real" mascots?) as well and it's not just a case of them going FNAF on you, that they might not even really be the same person anymore in a literal sense.

Oh, and don't forget the arcade game that was some very obvious foreshadowing. It literally broke the in-game fourth wall and SOMEHOW manifested a pixelated item from the game in real life with how heavy the foreshadowing was. Notice that Rambley doesn't even talk about the skunk character during the ride, and her prop is smashed up. I saw others suspect she's the main villain, or at least will be the one for Part 2.

All this leads me to think they aren't just simply robots, and that there might be some sort of either supernatural or mad science immortality thing going on, or that possibly these are not even the originals and whatever these organic ones are have replaced them.

.... or I am just simply massively over-thinking this and Rambley had a split-second to choose between saving you or not harming his now murderous friend and he chose to save you.

i do think that your theory have some weight, when he drops the act after the chase section he reference them as "mascots" not friends so maybe he has a distinction betwen the character itself and the mascot, besides if he were self awere enought to know that they only fictional characters he would prioritize in escaping the park instead of wanting to fix it, there also the credits song he refere himself as a "Kingdom s faithfull devotee" meaning that maybe he consider the park a literal kingdom and the last part "till all my old friends are united again... so i wont feel left behind" so their friends are real or at the very least he belive it.

[Hickory (she/them)]

The Rambley we interact with is an AI that's given the likeness and personality of a cartoon character; if there is a real Mollie Macaw that he's friends with, it'd likely be a similar AI. Otherwise, I think he may just be programmed to consider the character Mollie Macaw as his friend. He seems to be aware that the mascots aren't these characters but are beings designed after them that do not adhere to their personalities and behaviors, hence him trailing off mentioning them. I imagine it probably bothers him that there's these things that look like his friends walking around the park attacking people, but I don't think he considers them to actually be his friends.