Someone please explain the story in detail (MAJOR SPOILERS)

[76561197971439067]

EVERYTHING IS SPOILER SO GO BACK IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE GAME

i finished the game on my iphone and didn't understand anything at all. i thought i figured it out but then i got lost.

from what i got:

2 identical twins (Hannah and Eve) are born, the midwife steals one of the babies (Eve) and tells the mother one died because her husband died in the war and she was crazy and wanted a child.
then some years later the 2 twins see each other through the window and become friends. they play in the attic, fool everyone but pretending to be the same person, make out with boys etc. The stolen baby (Eve) is more outgoing and seduces the boys while the other (Hannah) is more shy. They make this whole THE PRESTIGE procedure. skip forward they meet Simon, Hannah falls in love with him doesn't allow Eve to play the game with him and takes him for himself. She gets impregnated they marry and everything is dandy. They wanna name their daughter Sarah. Hannah loses the baby 8 months in, becomes infertile then her parents die and Simon meets Eve at some bar where they make out. Meanwhile Hannahs parents die from mushroom poisoning. Eve get's impregnated by Simon she tells Hannah. It's Hannas birthday and Simon gives her a mirror as a present. She hates getting the mirror because it reminds her of her shared life with Eve(?!) and she smashes it and slashes Simons throat with it, killing him. Meanwhile Eve is some place else crashing cars and visiting a hospital. Eve goes to Simons/Hannahs place later to find the dead body with her sister bloody. They make a plan to get Hannah off by providing evidence that Hannah wasn't home (being Eve). Somehow later Eve still confesses to everything and tells this story to the cops.

In the middle of all of that there is something about 2 aborted babies in an attic or something? The police came because it smelled? No idea how to fit this in at all.

Then to confuse me even more at the end some guy messages you, calls you SARAH (didn't that thing die 8 months in?) and talks about your mother?

I don't understand anything. Also they made it look like their parents were killed by someone, since the dad was a mushroom expert yet they died from mushrooms?!

Or are there no twins at all and Hannah and Eve are the same person? As in multiple personality disorder like in the movie Identity?

If someone who thinks he has figured it out could tell me please the story since I obviously must have missed something major because nothing makes sense. I have seen all videos with the admin command btw.

[Phen]

Man.. you get story totally wrong.. In this thread Mr.Misfit did a great write-up on story: http://steamcommunity.com/app/368370/discussions/2/530645446308267042/
But I don't agree with everything.

I believe that Hannah and Eve are same person (no one ever saw them together, even parents and Simon).

Eve is Hannah's evil part. Note "Snake and Apple" tattoo. It's clearly reference to biblical Eve.

Midwife Florence was killed by Eve (since she was obessed with fairy tales, she imagine stereotypical "evil old witch" and herself as Rapunzel). Stairs accident wasn't accident.

Parents were poisoned by Eve because she was envy that Hannah had a life she missed.

Simon was killed by Eve. And here I have another theory: Simon knew about Hannah's split personality. He gifted same unique mirror to show that he know that there is no Eve. But evil part misunderstand him and went crazy cutting his throat, then hiding his body in cellar.

Abortion was Eve's imagination. Hannah born a child and it's Sarah (player).

[76561197971439067]

thats almost the exact same I wrote.......just i left out the unimportant details.
also doesnt answer the mushroom incident, or the 2 dead babies and the smell.

[Phen]

I edited my post with personal theory. BTW I have no idea where you got that "2 dead babies" thing.. Hannah fabricated evidences to "defend" Eve and call police herself.

[Vox]

Simon was pretty clearly killed by Hannah because Hannah was jealous that Simon was cheating on her with blonde wig wearing Eve.

[Karl Marx]

also if you notice whenever she is hannah she has her arm covered so you can't see the tattoo.

More than likely the same person

[dubesor]

i don't think Personality disorder is an option, unless they screwed up because there are clearly scenes where you can see a lot of the left arm and there is clearly no tattoo. The are some scenes with the white-blueish blouse where the sleeve is very short/high up and there should clearly be a tattoo visible if it was the same person, but there isn't.

[Vox]

If you pay attention to the timeline the tattoo is something that happens midway through the interrogations. There are two explanations for how the tattoo gets there (ie, from each personality).

If you want, go to \SteamApps\common\HER STORY\HerStory_Data\StreamingAssets in your Steam directory and you can view all the videos in chronological order.

[Vox]

Also, for you to believe they're not the same person would require you believing that Eve lived in the attic for most of her life (from age eight to when Hannah married and from when Hannah's parents died to the current day) without a single person ever noticing. That's a bigger stretch than all the clues pointing to multiple personalities.

[Morg]

They're definitely multiple personalities. It's obvious quite early, and confirmed for me when she sings her song - the story from the song about drowning her sister is something she incorperated into her personal history, which is something people with identity disorders tend to do.
If anything I think they hinted it a little too hard - I was searching 'multiple personalities' from almost the beginning. Of course nothing shows up, because she refuses to admit it - if you search 'twins' you get a fascinating response where she almost flips out.

[Vox]

I agree with you Morph that they hinted at it a little too early and heavily. Some red herrings to throw me off or a little more subtly would have kept me in suspense longer.

[Acrimony]

Originally posted by Morph:

They're definitely multiple personalities. It's obvious quite early, and confirmed for me when she sings her song - the story from the song about drowning her sister is something she incorperated into her personal history, which is something people with identity disorders tend to do.
If anything I think they hinted it a little too hard - I was searching 'multiple personalities' from almost the beginning. Of course nothing shows up, because she refuses to admit it - if you search 'twins' you get a fascinating response where she almost flips out.

Almost right off the bat I also searched multiple personalities and a few other keywords associated with it to no avail. One thing that is throwing me is that she has a bruise on her face on June 25th, but then at the next interview on June 27th there is no bruise. She faked it maybe? I'm no shrink but from what I understand with multiple personalities you don't necessarily have control over who shows up and when. It would take planning to fake a bruise. So she's faking multiple personalities in order to get off on the insanity plea?

The thing that really confuses me is at the end where SB says something along the lines of do you understand why your mother did what she did. Now I'm like...did what? Faked multiple personalities in order to get out of the murder? Really did have a twin and a lot of the "living in the attic" is just bologna and a "story"?

I made a playlist to watch all the clips in order and I'm only about halfway through, so I'm hoping it clears it up some. But I think now that I'm literally watching them in order I'm more confused. Because in the interviews on June 25th she is wearing a short sleeved shirt and clearly has no tattoo.

Edit: I also searched for "kidnapping" (and variations on the word) curious if the midwife kidnapped her and then she was eventually reunited with her family. But no.

[Vox]

I think she got the tattoo as her Eve personality took over more. At the beginning, she was fully Hannah and at the end she was fully Eve.

I think the SB line is more along the lines of "This is how your mother could end up killing your father -- she was/is crazy." It's unclear whether Hannah/Eve is in jail, in a mental hospital, or free, but I think it's a way for Sarah to maybe understand the circumstances around her father's death. I didn't see the SB line as excusing Hannah/Eve's actions.

As for the bruise, it is interesting. Not only was it gone shortly but when asked about it she touches different sides of her face on different interview days. Perhaps she put it on herself as a way of acting Eve's physical abuse. As in, she didn't physically hurt herself but she wanted to believe she did so she applied makeup.

I do think there is a little ambiguity as to whether it was all faked to get off on an insanity please, but if Simon wasn't cheating on Eve, then why kill him? If the multiple personalities are real, then there's a supported motive for Hannah's actions. If they're faked, then I don't see any motive presented for killing Simon and the game becomes a much weaker story, imo.

[Acrimony]

Originally posted by Vox:

If they're faked, then I don't see any motive presented for killing Simon and the game becomes a much weaker story, imo.

If the multiple personality is fake why kill him? Because she's batpatoot crazy and it's greatly implied (or maybe I simply greatly inferred) that she offed her parents already. Possibly even killed the midwife, if she ever actually existed. She's a serial killer who wants to live in a fairytale land.

But right now, I'm still super torn on the multiple personality disorder concept being legit. On June 30th, the first time she does the tap code while on camera, she says "Hannah Hannah Hannah, what are you doing talking about Eve?" and does tap code that spells "Bad Hannah". So was that an example of Eve trying to break thru her personality (multiple personality) and scold Hannah? I dunno.

Every time I really want to solidly say "Yep I was right from the start searching for multiple personality disoder" I turn around and go but ... ... ...

[dubesor]

She said she got the tattoo 8 years ago.. it's the clip after she spilled the coffee, or the one after that.

[cckerberos]

I considered the possibility that she got the tattoo in between interviews, but it doesn't seem possible to me. While the sleeves during the 30 June interview are longer than the ones on 25 June, they're still short enough that the tattoo would be visible. So that means she would have had to go and get one in the time between when that session ended and when she came back to the police station the next day, which just isn't possible.