(Spoilers) Ending Secret. Explains things?

[jest]

So yeah ending secret.

I noticed you see the outline of the cult dude's head briefly when Mae kicks their helmet off. The outline was a cat with a piece of their left ear missing (Mae is missing part of her right). I hadn't seen any character like that untill I flicked through the journal...

Pics: http://imgur.com/a/eAFOf

I had suspicions that the ending was, in fact, a dream, or at least, reality and dream mixed together due to how tired Mae was.

EDIT: Apparently I can't get my left's and right's correct. Fixed.

[Iantos]

Oh man, I was LITERALLY just about to make this topic!

Miner cat can indeed be Mae's representation of herself, her desire to hold onto the past and not grow as a person, and she defeats that.

But I also think it could indeed just be Mae - one from the future.

Time travel isn't hinted at much, but there's a scene in the flashing when the miner cat makes and attempt to grab Mae, and Gregg and Bea both disappear, but Angus is still present. That seemed a bit odd to me, and then I realised that miner cat not only has scraggled ear(s) like Mae, but also the same haircut as her mother, implying the style may be a bit genetic (Mae does seem to have it, but dyed and trimmed).

Maybe Mae's dream of a dead Possom Springs came true, and she couldn't deal with it. She's an incredibly immature person who needs that place, and the people in it - so maybe using the power of the Black Goat (it seems to have some special ties to her; could this sort of deal be why?), she went back to a time when she could have prevented that fate. When she could have worked to make the town stable, a place where her friends would want to stay, the place younger Mae wanted to exist forever so badly...

But the events unfolded the same. She tried to change them, but young Mae screwed it up again, so in a final deranged effort to stop her, she attacks her younger self, leading to the battle and the elevator and the time distortions that temporarily whisk Gregg and Bae - her closest friends - away for a bit. Older Mae gets her helmet knocked off, sort of recognised by younger Mae, but kicked back down the mines to starve with the others.

Starvation is a painful way to go, and if younger Mae was somewhat aware of this going to happen, that she would be unable to avoid this fate...that would give that last conversation she has with the Black Goat some meaning, huh? She knows it'll all ♥♥♥♥ up, she'll lose them all, and her death - both as a person and starving in the mines - will be painful, but she is willing to go through it all just to hold onto her friends in the here and now, because it's all she has. And then, as with most details of the night, this foreknowledge fades, and so she begins down the path once more...

Not fully fleshed out, no, but I'm curious for some thoughts on this idea, and your own.

[NoelDeirrow]

Scar is on different ear and caped person is too tall to be Mae. You are kind of overthinking/ overkilling the whole idea, Mae isn't even that hyped to change things.

[TemmieNeko]

Originally posted by pairofsox:

So yeah ending secret.

I noticed you see the outline of the cult dude's head briefly when Mae kicks their helmet off. The outline was a cat with a piece of their right ear missing (Mae is missing part of her left). I hadn't seen any character like that untill I flicked through the journal...

Pics: http://imgur.com/a/eAFOf

I had suspicions that the ending was, in fact, a dream, or at least, reality and dream mixed together due to how tired Mae was.

um, mae is missing some of her RIGHT EAR.
do you know how directions work lol?
it;s in a picture on YOUR LEFT that means its HER RIGHT lol.

[jest]

Oh shiz you're right TemmieNeko. Will fix now thanks!

[NoelDeirrow]

Also, it wasn't a dream most likely. And her father doesn't seem like he lost his hand in the morning. Yet, we never got to see her grandfather's tomb when we got to graveyard, nor anyone talks about him. Also, you can find a tooth in his safe in the house while there was a secret society using teeth as a sign of membership, which had a rule of transferring tooth of a member upon his death (you should see the connection here already). So Mae's granddad was probably part of that society from the very beginning and then went nuts from hearing that hole's voice or something.

[jest]

Hi TarotOceans,

I don't believe that the miner/cultist is a "future Mae", literally. The missing part on the left ear of the miner/cultist is identical to that of Mae's grandads, as shown in Mae's journal entry (see imgur photos). The inference I'm trying to make is the miner/cultist is the ghost of grandad (I assume grandad has passed away? See 2nd imgur photo).

[Luxio | 🐺Ijbiñij🐺]

Hey so;
Here's a pic of Mae and Granddad from the Lost Constellation game
http://imgur.com/lMGv1gW
http://imgur.com/RtmkEb5

Mae's hair is the same as her mom's when she was smol,
but Granddad doesn't have fluff on his head.

Also you can see Mae had the ear scar since little.

Also; what did Granddad mean when he said "This house is haunted" at the beggining?

[(҂v_v)ᕤ Collieflower]

I believe you're overthinking things here. What occured really was mass hysteria and mass hallucinations related to gas leaks. Granddad may have been just spouting nonsense or just alluding to the death of the town, as deindustralization and neo-liberalism is kind of one of the themes of this game.

[jest]

Originally posted by Norman Reedus & the Funky Fetus:

but Granddad doesn't have fluff on his head.

Consider Dad's hair changes over time:

Proof: http://imgur.com/a/9cyi9

It is reasonable to believe that hairstyles on characters change over time, so as Grandad got older he lost his hair. While the cult dude grabbing Mae *has* hair, I can suggest this dude was a younger Grandad who *did* have hair. Which makes sense as Grandad was only a miner in his youth?

Originally posted by Norman Reedus & the Funky Fetus:

Hey so;

Also; what did Granddad mean when he said "This house is haunted" at the beggining?

I suppose he saw ghosts like Mae does? Mae seems to be linked to Grandad.

[Rich]

Originally posted by pairofsox:

Originally posted by Norman Reedus & the Funky Fetus:

but Granddad doesn't have fluff on his head.

Consider Dad's hair changes over time:

Proof: http://imgur.com/a/9cyi9

It is reasonable to believe that hairstyles on characters change over time, so as Grandad got older he lost his hair. While the cult dude grabbing Mae *has* hair, I can suggest this dude was a younger Grandad who *did* have hair. Which makes sense as Grandad was only a miner in his youth?

Originally posted by Norman Reedus & the Funky Fetus:

Hey so;

Also; what did Granddad mean when he said "This house is haunted" at the beggining?

I suppose he saw ghosts like Mae does? Mae seems to be linked to Grandad.

What if what he said about being with Mae as a ghost when she has kids was serious and something happened to him?

[RENDERMODE_NONE]

I'm currently near the end of my second playthrough. Maybe I'm taking things too literally, but I'd assumed that all the stuff with the cultists was real* (besides the dream sequences). There's a couple news articles about multiple cases of natural gas leaks causing insanity in the area, so my understanding was that Mae was weak and tired and became extremely susceptible to fumes in the mines which mixed with her mental illness, and the cultists themselves were doing everything because of the gas slowly driving them insane. There's even mentions of someone who commited suicide because of a gas buildup while talking about hearing singing, just like the cultists describe.

*The interactions with the cultists, not their beliefs, if that wasn't obvious.

[Known Fact]

Originally posted by Truck "Spike Boy" Gloshi:

I'm currently near the end of my second playthrough. Maybe I'm taking things too literally, but I'd assumed that all the stuff with the cultists was real (besides the dream sequences). There's a couple news articles about multiple cases of natural gas leaks causing insanity in the area, so my understanding was that Mae was weak and tired and became extremely susceptible to fumes in the mines which mixed with her mental illness, and the cultists themselves were doing everything because of the gas slowly driving them insane. There's even mentions of someone who commited suicide because of a gas buildup while talking about hearing singing, just like the cultists describe.

I'd say you are right on the money with that one.

[Rich]

Anybody else noticed the tattoo the Huncher kept of her sister in Lost Constellation is very similar to the Black diamond on the severed arm?

[Benji, limited edition shitlord]

First and foremost, why would the attacker target Mae? It was Gregg who shot him.
Even if it was Mae's grandfather (which doesnt make much sense, as he seems to love her in both Lost Constallation - telling her stories and actual game - giving her his old books), why would he attack her?
That segment doesnt make much sense at all. Whats the damned thing on his face? Night vision googles? Would a cat need something like that? Hes also only cultist to use that...

[Jazz]

Originally posted by Dead half of Schrödinger's cat:

First and foremost, why would the attacker target Mae? It was Gregg who shot him.

Probably because Mae was the closest person to the elevator?

Originally posted by Dead half of Schrödinger's cat:

That segment doesnt make much sense at all. Whats the damned thing on his face? Night vision googles? Would a cat need something like that? Hes also only cultist to use that...

It's a miner's helmet. Cultists are probably ex-miners.