![]() In this ending, the James you see throughout the game appears to have been at times an actor playing the role of your brother and at times an actual ghost. This ending, to me, feels a bit tacked-on as it doesn't really fit with the escape scene, Lily's monologue during the A Trip to the Moon homage, or the 'you called out to me but something else answered' idea. ![]() In light of this, the scene where Lily apparently murders her brother in order to 'live forever' should potentially be taken as literal and not metaphorical. At the end, she 'remembers' who she really is, and the Lily personality re-surfaces. ![]() The Forever ending turns this on its head by suggesting that it was actually Lily, at least in body, who survived the original ship, and became an actor by playing the character of her brother. The James you see throughout the game appears to have been at times a memory and at times an actor who is playing the part of you at a younger age. In the Flame ending, he recovers, with the suggestion that everything he went through was, in fact, the movie being filmed and completed. This causes James to relapse into madness, wandering the ship until he is able to remember who he is. the Metropolis scenes, which in-universe was Mechanopolis, a movie James starred in). The Director is a devotee of this entity and set up the film at her direction, which re-enacts, sometimes metaphorically, key scenes from James's past, relating them to some of his past movies (e.g. However, in this process of calling out into the void for his sister, 'something else' responded, which the mystery items strongly suggest to be the 'Rat Lady' entity from LOF1. There is some suggestion he crossdressed as her and possibly even appeared in some films as a woman (aided by the fact that the film was silent). It appears he attempted to 'bring back' his sister by a form of method acting, 'becoming' his sister (who in turns plays other characters hence 'layers'). James goes on to become a matinee star, appearing in numerous films and stage performances. Either way, she tells him she will always be with him and that he will 'find her'. The passengers flee the boat either Lily returns and attempts to escape with James, only to become trapped as the gangway collapses, forcing James to leave her, or she never returns and James only hallucinates that she was with him until the collapse. At some point the ship strikes an iceberg and sinks (possibly exascerbated by the mutinous crew). James is left on his own and apparently goes mad, talking to himself and rats. The children begin to starve, and are reduced to fighting with a dog for mouldering meat.Īs the situation becomes more desperate, Lily ventures out alone and doesn't come back. They stow away an ocean liner to America, initially able to hide in unoccupied cabins (the map we see) during the day and venture out at night to find food, but the security chief wises on and locks away the food in the hold, rationing it out to the crew who are accused of being thieves and docked pay for trivial infractions such as breaking a flashlight (which is extremely unpopular and causes unrest amongst the crew). The father becomes abusive and Lily decides to take James and run away (it's also possible they killed their father or he killed himself but these scenes may just be their fantasies of escape). The father found a job as a cinema projectionist and the children grew up immersed in the world of early cinema, sneaking into the cinema to view movies like The Black Wanderer (which seems to be based on The Black Pirate, the 1926 Douglas Fairbanks movie). Lily was born first (pre-WW1) the father returned from the war wounded (blind in one eye) and then the mother died giving birth to James. On a literal level, it's the story of two siblings. My understanding (based on 'The Flame' ending): I believe it's too about that Lily must take his role since she's an actress like her father. And in James' ending there is a phrase like "The boy must leave and the man must stay" - something like that. Director's instructions in acts are always like "destroy female mannequin" which means "destroy Lily in you". But new character can be created only if last one is destroyed. I think like this because we can see ghost boy all the time we play and the Director said, we must create a new character. But something happened and the ship was set on fire and then drowned (why "James" hates ships).Īnd I think that Lily was the only one who survived that day, not James. I believe that Lily and James somehow sneak on the ship, where they tried to live and not getting caught (those memories of James and Lily). Also, he was cruel man and beat us instead of our brother James. Yes, our father was an actor before and got injured at war. ![]() Originally posted by oku:So, my thoughts are. ![]()
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