[MAJOR SPOILER] The Curious Case of Warren Graham

[Arashi]

The steam community has mentioned some really interesting theories about who should be on the list of prime suspects. But I would like to bring up a character that is unwary of by most players.

That person is Warren Graham.

Despite his attempts to look innocent and friendly. There are a few incidents that point to his evil/dishonest nature:-

1. After you return the flash drive to him. He mentioned a very disturbing movie called Cannibal Holocaust[en.wikipedia.org] which portrays graphic brutality, sexual assault and violence towards animals. This movie is not just an average horror movie. It is very sick and you can watch it if you don't believe me and Warren said that he "laughed his a s s off" watching it. Max would respond by saying that he is a 'sensitive' guy and he would reply that Max said it in an awful way. If you asked "How so?" he would reply "sensitive means not gonna have sex with you". In a note that he left in Max's room he mentioned another movie "Ultravixens" which is basically a film full of excessive porn action.

The above suggests that Warren could possess a violent nature along with strong desire for a sexual relationship with Max rather than a romantic one.

2. In episode 2 when you confront the awaiting Warren outside the girl's dorm, the conversation involves Warren asking Max out to a drive in movie 60 miles out of town, which is a prime location for Warren to assault a helpless young girl and possibly make her "disappear" afterwards. If you say "yes" Warren would call Brooke and tell her he's no longer going to the movie with her. Implying that he had Brooke as a backup plan all along.

The above suggests his dishonest nature and in general it's simply a d i c k move to do that to Brooke.

3. In episode 2 inside the science lab you can find a graffiti on the table close to where Brooke is standing which reads "Warren+Alyssa 2013" in a heart shape. You can also see Warren wrapping his arms around Alyssa comforting her when Kate is about to jump off the building.

The above suggests that Warren has simultaneously maintained a romantic relationship with Alyssa without Max's knowledge. At the same time actively persuing Max and passively keeping Brooke in the scope. The fact that he is eager to persue multiple female characters also suggests that he could have other secret relationships that we have not discovered yet. Namely Kate Marsh? Rachel Amber?

4. In episode 3 max found a developed photo of herself and Warren inside his locker in the boy's changing room at the swimming pool. Her surprise attitude suggests that this photo is not a photo they have taken together. Naturally a photo taken together would be using Max's camera. Rather this is a photo Warren editted and pieced together. This is backed up by the fact that Warren mentioned he is good at using graphical editing software when he discovered Daniel posted a portrait of Max online and if Max asked him "Can you draw?".

The above suggests that Warren is obsessive about Max. His look on that photo is also creepy as f.

5. In episode 3 Warren also told Max that he bought an extra movie ticket just in case she changed her mind. However by examining a poster at the diner it clearly shows that the drive-in ticket is per car not per person. This implies that Warren is telling another outright lie.

Warren and Jefferson are both characters that the developers purposefully put under the radar to look clean and innocent. However after examining the hints they left behind I am more disturbed by Warren than Jefferson. As a male myself I know Warren's behaviour is clearly abnormal. I am convinced that Warren is one of if not the biggest threat to Max's safety and I recommend everyone to watch out on this guy in the future.

Mysteries/Speculations:-

1. Warren has asked for his flash drive back in less than a week while expecting Max to check out most of the content inside when he lent it. Why did he suddenly want it back urgently? Does he know Dana borrowed the flash drive? Is there something he doesn't want Dana to see?

2. Before Kate jump off the building Warren walked into Max's classroom and mentioned that he saw Kate and asked Kate what's wrong before Jefferson asked him to leave. What exactly was the conversation between Warren and Kate? Did he make nasty comments about Kate's video (He confessed to Max that he watched Kate's video "one and a half times" at the end of episode 2)? In a storytelling point of view this scene is totally unnecessary unless Warren is somehow involved in Kate's suicide attempt.

3. In episode 3 Warren seems to have hidden the fact that sodium chlorate is used in weed killer purposefully from Max. Max only found out by examining a textbook in the science lab. Did he hide the fact so that Max would fail and ask him to come and help? Or does he know Max is breaking into the principal office and wants Max to fail?

4. Kate asked for her book "October Country" by Ray Bradbury back the very next day after Warren asked for his flash drive back. In Max's journal she mentioned Warren threatened to revoke Max's "geek cred" because she hadn't read many books written by Ray Bradbury. Is there a connection betweeen these two events?

5. If you compare Nathan and Warren their facial features actually look quite similar. Are the two related in blood or just coincidence?

EDIT: 6. It seems that Warren only targets girls that are not part of the vortex club for some unknown reason (probably due to them more likely to be bullied and vulnerable). In the alternative timeline Warren hooked up with Stella presumbaly because Max became a vortex club member.

[Aetorious]

Please guys, you can't blame Warren. First of all, he's scripted to act this way; secondly, our little Maxine is a bit you know... yeah... at least to me?

[Beabs]

I hate warren, so I really enjoyed reading this.

[Chi]

引用自 Beabs：

I hate warren, so I really enjoyed reading this.

LMAO I'm dying xDD

[TBD]

* Cannibal Holocaust has been a 'cult classic' since I was a pre-teen on the early internet. People have always laughed at it too. Yeah, people have also been horrified or nauseated and some are all three, but laughter is not an unusual reaction to it. Aside from some peoples' suspension of disbelief being a non-issue; so strong they don't even realize they're doing it, there's a complicated kind of humor that involves what's meant to be a joke going too far, then going so far beyond that that it's funny again. Sometimes it does that several times when dragged on long enough. Family Guy's chicken fight, Conway Twitty and 'hisssss, aahhhhh' jokes are an example of this kind of humor. Horror and gore fans can probably cite dozens more examples than Cannibal Holocaust that to a non-fan would seem just as shocking when described, and described as funny. They're not closet psychos, just have an ironic sense of humor and no problem seeing what they know are fictional, or long past, events however shocking.

* Drive-in movie theaters are rarer than they used to be. They mostly exist to appeal to retro geeks EXACTLY like Warren and Max, and it makes perfect sense that he'd know where one is, and want to take his geek crush there. She'd likely never have thought of going to one, if she ever even thought of one at all, and surprising her with such a cool thing she'd never have done otherwise was incredibly thoughtful. Also keep in mind that Arcadia Bay is a bit of a nowhere town - see the lack of ANY first responders near the diner area during the storm, let alone disaster professionals from a bigger city - and it's always gonna be a long drive to any sort of niche interest.

* To address his nebulous relationships with Brooke and Alyssa; there are a few things to cover.

(a) He's young and inexperienced.

(b) He's a young inexperienced *man*.

(c) He's a young inexperienced man with mostly female, older friends.

(d) He's a young inexperienced man with mostly female, older friends to whom he's shy about being forthright.

These four things are a perfect storm for producing a confused mess of feelings toward his female friends. It's understandable, predictable even, that a person experiencing those four conditions would have had uncertain feelings of affection for the young women in his life before Max stumbled on to the scene.

That some of those loose ends weren't tied up when Max did arrive and his affections for her did seem, to him, to supersede his previous ones may be an argument that whatever he feels or thinks he feels for Max will not last long, but I do not believe it is an argument that his admittedly less than perfect handling of the situation should condemn him.

How would you handle his situation, and are you biased because of your greater age and experience? Can he be condemned for not coming up with the optimal solution while living in the moment? Likewise, being outside Max's window would be an easily understandable impulse for a young, inexperienced man dealing with a confused mess of feelings for several friends. Being outside Max's dorm might well help him think about what - who - he wants more from. Or, perhaps he was white knighting again, guarding the dorm from Nathan. I think either are possible.

* Regarding the book and his perceived similarity in looks to Nathan, I think the cigars are just cigars. Kate *was* doing a report on that book, and might have wanted it back sooner than she had originally projected so she could bury herself in her work due to her own troubles at that time. His looks, I think, are just coincidence. I wonder if the developers themselves even noticed before a fan suggested a similarity.

* Finally, who *wouldn't* watch Kate's video? Who wouldn't watch *any* such video, let alone one involving a known prude apparently letting her hair down? Almost nobody didn't look up photos of at least one celebrity when 'the fappening' happened, if only to check that they were real leaks.

[Arash The Great]

Your theory failed :|

[Yusaji]

just wanted to say you were wrong lmao