Is The Chicken Mask The Grim Reaper & The Master of Limbo? (spoilers)

[Swan Dancer]

Attention: I wrote this moments after finishing the game and still don't fully understand the story. So I'm probable far, far, far from the truth.

In the game the Chicken Mask shows up out of nowhere when people who put on the chicken mask. They/he processed to say things that will happen in the future and have conversations with others. An example of this is the intro to the mission where the four animal masked vigilantes die. Before they storm the building to kill Russian mobster three of them (the Zebra, the Tiger, and one of the two Ducks) put on the masks the Bear said were just delivered. They all start to say, word for word, what they (or maybe it was only Alex) say at the end of the level before the Mob Boss kills Ash and Alex (the Ducks). The Bear and the one other Duck paid now mind to seeing their friends speak as if they were in some kind of shared hallucination. Yes, the Bear was alarmed and slightly concerned but when they took off the chicken masks they all acted as if nothing had happened.

Second, is what happens at the end of the game where the escaped convict was in Hawaii with his mother. She reaches into a duffel bag and puts on the mask after they both hear the both the U.S. and Russian presidents were assassinated. The mother, now imitating the Chicken, says that the convict doesn't have much time and tells him the it's not so bad to die. After that the world starts to end right before their eyes and sweeps them up in the annihilation.

The Chicken Mask's ability to predict the future, appear when worn by others, and control the world around him is clearly supernatural. I believe that the white flashes that appear to each character at the end credits is a meant to be them leaving limbo and cross into the other side.

Finally, If I'm right, and I'm probably far from it, the Chicken Mask is the manifestation of the Grim Reaper and the whole (or atlest some parts of the) story is set in limbo. So that begs the question of when and why.

When did each character die and why are they in limbo? Does everyone go to limbo when they die, regardless of whole they are?

And why does the Chicken Mask play a role in all of it, is he trying to steer all the characters to some form of remorse for their action or to some form of redemption? I doubt it's the latter because there is no sign of that, No one changes their motivations, no one feels guilt for what they did, and no one changes or grows as a person. And a person who controls limbo could get anyone to do what he wants instead of letting them move on.

What do you all thing, I really want to understand the story. I wrote this just after finishing the game and I'm interested to see if any one has figured it out completely.

[Average Makoto Niijima Enjoyer]

Richard is the Grim Reaper of the HM Universe. idk about limbo tho

[silly billy❸]

This entire discussion made me cringe. Richard is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Rooster.

Anyways, aside from that, heres Some explanation for you, normie.

No, Richard is not the 'Grim Reaper', and no, there is no Limbo going on. Every character in the game dies by the end, like it or not. Richard is Jacket's insanity, whom scolds and reminds those he visits that what they do will serve no cause in the end. Richard appears to these people as a subconscious persona as listed: The Fans, The Henchman, The Son, Richter, Evan Wright, and Martin Brown. Richard is the one who foreshadows that everyone is heading down the wrong path, and subliminally points out to those whom he visits that they are all going to meet a sorrowful/deadly fate, shall they keep doing what they are doing to put themselves down a much more dark path. Richard wants no remorse or redemption from anyone he vists subconsciously, what he wants is to observe and see the inevitable end of those whom he has warned be either abandoned, or killed.