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fandomsecrets2014-07-22 06:56 pm
[ SECRET POST #2758 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2758 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Stormlight Archive]
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[Legend of Galactic Heroes]
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[OFF]
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[Robin Hood]
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[Pretty Little Liars]
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[Orange is the New Black]
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[2NE1's Park Bom]
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[Constantine]
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[Miss Fisher's Mysteries]
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[Firefly]
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[Batman]
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[The Witches. Aliens. Coraline. It.]
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[Ocean's 11]
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Re: OP
(Anonymous) 2014-07-23 12:30 am (UTC)(link)Giant massive spoilers go here
(Anonymous) 2014-07-23 01:25 am (UTC)(link)The old world was destroyed somehow, and three beings rebuilt it and became guardians of the various zones. I'm not sure exactly where they came from--it's possible Hugo created them--but one way or another, when they made the new world, they made it from Hugo's imagination. That's why it's such a surreal world, and why the inhabitants are so childlike.
They made a crucial miscalculation, though: not all the things Hugo imagined were pleasant. He had his share of irrational fears, and those manifested in reality as specters. The specters could be destroyed, but they would always reappear so long as Hugo was afraid.
This ties directly into the game's most famous translation error, that line that said "I will not allow you to kill the son we brought into the world" and should have said "I will not allow you to kill the son who brought us into the world." Hugo created the Batter as his protector against the specters, and one way or another, the Batter realized that Hugo himself was the source of the specters. He existed to destroy the specters, and that meant he existed to destroy Hugo.
Of course, since Hugo created this world, not much of it could exist without him.
The biggest hole in this theory is what the Judge is, and how he can still exist even with Hugo dead. My best guess is that, like Hugo, he comes from the old world. (Perhaps he was a pet cat who Hugo modified to be intelligent, or perhaps talking cats were just a thing the old world had.)
(There's also the question of Zacharie and Sugar, but Sugar could be almost anyone, and Zacharie is basically just the developer making fun of the player.)