Part 2: DbD Timeline - Characters

[donnie donathan]

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Character Timeline

Dating Survivors

The hard thing about dating the survivors is that you have to determine points based off aesthetics. Nonetheless I'll be trying my best to provide logical evidence to back up any claims. Tally-Ho ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥s.

Meg(an) Thomas

After looking at the lore for Meg you will see that there are little to no details concerning putting a date on when she was taken to the Realm of the Entity. If you search hard enough you get details on Megs mother falling ill after highschool so Meg gives up her oppurtunity at college to take care of her mother. After an unknown amount of time Meg goes on a jog and goes missing. We can assume Meg is in her early 20's, I'm gonna go with 24 years old. Meg's initial outfit with the vest and running pants seem sort of Marty Mcfly-ish. I get a real retro, back to the future feeling when I look at this outfit. I understand that it's modeled after track and field athlete garb but after intense searching, I couldn't find specific dates on when athletes adopted that style of track suit. I want to say her getup is 1985-esque. My range puts 1980-2000 but the possible range could be wider, not by much however.

Claudette Morrell

This one should be easy. Claudette was a avid internet user. She frequently visited chat rooms and forums due to real world social ineptitude. Her lore also mentions a modem. This narrows down the range of her disappearance to 1992-2016. 1992 being the earliest because of the popularization of the internet via Sprints service, 2016 being the latest because there's no dystopian future references in the game so I get to assume the games time-frame is parallel to the real world. My estimate is probably 2008, good year, yahoo answers was really blooming then, maybe thats where Claudette originates. Claudette was in college, as she studied botany. This might be an agregious claim to some, "Oh well ♥♥♥♥ you in highschool I was an avid botanist, I grew pot in my basement you ♥♥♥♥ing loser." But I don't give a french lick I'm gonna say she was around Meg's age probably a bit older. 26 or 27 years old. Also she is also said to have gotten a scholarship to college, so, suck it.

Jake "The Snake" Park

Looking at Jake's aesthetics he obviously is from recent times as he's sporting the new yeezy three collection, look at him in game, your boy comes from a wealthy family but still looks homeless 24/7. All sarcasm aside, Jake's attire literally tells us NOTHING, other than he likes khaki cargo's (ew) and vomit green coats (double ew). His lore states he lives in a time with Wi-Fi. Sweet. The earliest Wi-Fi technology was in 1991, so we have another character that could be in the 1991-2016 range. In my opinion I'd just throw his awakening around 2007, as that was when WPS was invented and it's a good median area, however I completely encourage you to choose your hard dates yourselves, or look into it further. As to Jake's age, he dropped out of school, lived in the woods for a bit, 25-30 would be most likely.

Dwight Fairfield

By Dwight's aesthetic you get the nerdy office worker, pencil pushing, no life vibe. This one is tough. I see a pattern in the other survivors as to them joining the realm of the entity around the early 2000's, and I feel like it would be fair for Dwight to follow suit. His range could be anywhere from the popularization of the CUBICLE desk job 1970's to our current day of 2016. It's hard to pin down exactly Dwight's age but he is old enough to drink, and maintain a office job. He doesn't look too old, with a distinct baby face. I would put Dwight's age at a very early 30's.

Nea Karlsson

Nea looks to be the youngest of our survivors, but that assumption is unfair. She clearly has had lots of life experience and has lived in Sweden and moved to America. Then she was able to adapt into a sort of punk in America, I would put her age at 19 to 20. Her awakening into the realm of the entity is VERY DIFFERENT from the rest of the DbD cast, and for good reason; Nea lit the Crotus Prenn Asylum ablaze. I strongly, STRONGLY believe in the theory that Nea was the one to set the asylum on fire and thus she was awakened into the Realm of the Entity. On the official DbD website the other survivors are given a brief and vague explanation on how they entered the realm of the entity, Nea's bio is left devoid of this background information allowing room for this speculation to be plausible. This would put her awakening around 1990-2016.

Evan MacMillan

Chuckles, or the Trapper respectively, is a middle aged man. It's fair to assume this after reading the lore and looking at the killer's model. The lore timelines this killer as being raised, have a brief period of just existing and then his father falling ill for a period of time. Then Evan blew the mine like Pamela Anderson did 1999 (sorry Tommy Lee) and became the most infuriating killer to play against, ever.

Philip Ojomo

By the Wraith's size you could assume that he was a fully grown man. Phillip Ojomo killed his boss in what is called a Car Baler. It's what cubes the cars in a junkyard up, the lore specifically says that this form of compactor was cubing the vehicles. Those sort of compactors haven't been around very long, dating his awakening around 1990 to 2016 range. Philip's bio is very vague and doesn't do justice when attempting to date the invisible monster, I'd say by his life experience and length of backstory Philip is in the range of 26-35 years of age.

"Billy" Thompson (NAME UNKNOWN)

I call him Billy Hill, a pun on the whole Hillbilly thing? Y'know? As the killers before him it's simple to correlate his date of entering the Realm of the Entity to when the incident occurred to add his zone to the Realm of the Entity. This case his zone being the Coldwind Farm, putting his awakening toward the later end of the 1910-1946 gap. Blank Thompson's age is relatively hard to pin down. The lore states that he wasn't raised properly, he was mature enough to kill his parents, could have been 18ish, then he roamed free on the farm grounds killing things for X amount of time untill taken in by the entity.

Sally Smithson

Ah, our deranged Nurse. This is alittle complicated. The backstory of Sally Smithson is that she inhabited the old Asylum after she had done her incident. But, I don't believe that is true. By looking at the Nurses' aesthetic you can see that she obviously didn't die in the asylums fire, in fact her model doesn't seem to have any burn marks or scorch marks at all. The Entities sort of pattern is to choose the killer after they have committed their heinous act, of course the Entity is omnipotent and can do what it pleases but the concept that she killed the patients, then chilled in the asylum for X amount of time (a long time) only to later be acknowledged by the entity and brought to the RotE as a killer many years after her incident seems too convenient. I believe, after Sally's mental lapse and mass murder she wrapped her face in cloth because in her insane state she couldn't help looking at herself knowing what she become, after all she was just a nurse, it was just her calling, the voices in her head, constantly calling, telling her to take care of any living thing in the only way she knew how. This mentality and incident would make Sally PRIME for the Entity, directly after the incident. A secondary theory is that she truly did inhabit the Asylum for X amount of time and when the arson was committed she was badly burned and tended to her wounds, as she was a nurse after all, and the Entity sought out her burning vengeance and made her into one of her pawns. Both work.

Now after some backstory fabrication we have two possiblities: A younger Sally Smithson or a much more aged Sally Smithson. Younger Sally would be in her early 40's, this being right after her murder (due to the previous timeline way at the top). Older Sally would have to be... well, about 130 years old, If you go with the theory that Nea was the one to burn down the Asylum (which for this sake we are). This secondary theory would require a reworking of the time frame of the Scrotus Peen incident, a simple alteration, just that Sally Smithson came to town around 1920, moving the time frame of the incident to 1941 making Sally still significantly old if Nea was the one to commit the arson. However, this is SUPER open to personal interpretation, this character is the ONLY character I can't confidently provide answers for without bringing up more questions.

Character's Awakening Timeline (tldr)

Evan MacMillan-1895

Sally Smithson(1)-1901

"Billy" Thompson-1930-1946

Dwight Fairfield-1970-2016

Nea Karlsson-1990-2016

Philip Ojomo-1990-2016

Jake Park-1991-2016

Claudette Morrell-1992-2016

Meg Thomas-2007

AFTERTHOUGHTS

If you disagree with anything above please comment I put A LOT of time into researching and developing my points and posts and videos, If you have theories or suggestions I should look into feel free to post it here, to my steam profile or YT comments. Stay Smelly

EDITS

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[sm1rk]

Really well thought out and well said.

[donnie donathan]

Originally posted by Spicy:

Really well thought out and well said.

Thank you, It's sad that the this Lore section of the DbD community on STEAM has so many posts and repeat posters yet no people I expected to comment or acknowledge did, nonetheless again thank you :)

[CigaGhad]

Very well written and thought out, I always assumed that Macmillian was before the 1900s because back then factories treated their workers like ♥♥♥♥, before unions sucessfully getting workers rights.

The Realm of The Entity reminds me of The Immaterium from Warhammer 40k, time isn't the same in the 40k universe while your in the Immaterium compared to the Materium (real world). The fact being is that their are humans and machines that are 10,000+ years old in there that still work in their prime.

One thing about Baker is that he could be from before 1900 as well, but since time doesn't work as the same in the Realm of The Entity he could see survivors from present day, and the Hillbilly (which would explain how he knows what a chainsaw is)

[donnie donathan]

Originally posted by Macharius:

Very well written and thought out, I always assumed that Macmillian was before the 1900s because back then factories treated their workers like ♥♥♥♥, before unions sucessfully getting workers rights.

The Realm of The Entity reminds me of The Immaterium from Warhammer 40k, time isn't the same in the 40k universe while your in the Immaterium compared to the Materium (real world). The fact being is that their are humans and machines that are 10,000+ years old in there that still work in their prime.

One thing about Baker is that he could be from before 1900 as well, but since time doesn't work as the same in the Realm of The Entity he could see survivors from present day, and the Hillbilly (which would explain how he knows what a chainsaw is)

Thanks for giving it a read, as for benedict the lore says he begins investigating in 1956, not to say he can't have been born in the very late 1800's. As to the flow of time in the RotE I'm still super ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ confused as to how that works.