My ENA theory
Didn't know where to post this, but I'm assuming this is probably fine.
I haven't really been keeping up with ENA stuff for a while, so I don't know what theories people have now. Recently I was thinking about it again, watched some playthroughs from a while ago, when I encountered the ENA is a species theory. This reminded me of my own theory that I had however long ago I first played dream BBQ. I never posted the theory though because I didn't know where it should really go. But for some reason seeing people treat the ENA is a species theory as fact just really ticked me off today, so I made a whole Reddit account just to post this theory. No clue if this stuff has been disproven at this point, so tell me if so. Honestly I don't think this really really super different to the species theory, but the implications it has are way more interesting in my opinion.
Anyways, to get to the actual theory. I don't think ENA is a species, but I do think there is multiple ENAs. ENA was split somehow and now there's a bunch of ENAs, but that are parts of one entity, not a species of entities. Of course the part where there's multiple ENAs is the easier thing to accept, there's a bunch of references to other ENAs, but the way they talk about them really never felt like the way you'd talk about a species. This is really the thing that got me thinking about this initially, specifically when the witch says she thinks ENA gave her the motherboard. The fact that she didn't say an ENA gave it to her, just that ENA gave it to her just felt weird to me, so I started thinking more about it. And as far as I remember, I didn't really check this whole thing is off the dome, but people refer to other ENAs like that multiple times, where it just sounds more like they're talking about a specific individual rather than a member of a larger specifies. Characters also seen to know about ENA and have a bias against them, treating ENA as if they've done something awful, which like, I guess could just be racism against a whole species, but like I think this just feels more correct.
The things that really cement this theory for me personally are the conversation with the shaman, and some dialogue from hangover ENA. The shaman dialogue that I was thinking of was the "One person can be in two places at once. Although, the magician does not have to be in two places at once… He can be in one place at one time…" I don't know if this is a stretch, but I think this could imply that all the duplicate NPCs are actually the same person in multiple places. The shaman says a person, so like anyone, can be in two places at once, but a magician doesn't have to be, which to me days that for others it's against their will. Which of true could mean that talking about people the way people talk about ENA is super common, and could explain why people treat ENA the way they do, assuming ENA is just one person in two places at once. And the fact that ENA finishes what the shaman says could also imply familiarity with this idea of being in two places at once and being stuck in the other person's mind. Hangover ENA I think it's in some way an unsplit, or at least less split version of ENA, which might be why she isn't split down the middle like the rest of them. She says that the giant bathroom isn't enough for so many bodies, which in my opinion implies pretty heavily that ENA has multiple bodies, and lots of them, which could be related to how ever ENA OC is canon.
As for how she was split and why, I could see it being a thing where she wanted to be in multiple places at once but without getting lost in the other person's mind, so tried to seperate into a bunch of ENAs, but messed it up somehow, which potentially causes her personality to break into the pairs of 2 emotions we see in ENAs rather than one complete person. They don't seem to remember exactly what happened or what was happening before that seemingly. And ENA saying she isn't doing what they say she's doing might mean that either another ENA is doing bad things, or whatever ENA was doing before the split was bad enough that it got her nearly universally disliked.
That was a bunch of yap for that I'm realizing isn't actually nearly as much evidence as I thought, but as far as I know, it's a plausible theory, it seems kind of interesting, and I think it just kind of fits better than the species theory. Also if you're wondering why I didn't mention the YouTube series, I've seen it, but I kinda forgot what happens. Anyways, that's my theory, I think it's pretty cool, but I'm curious to see what other people think. I don't think I conveyed my thoughts super clearly, but at least now I can say I got them out there. Please point out any problems with this theory or ask any questions. It wasn't super thoroughly researched or anything, being I pretty much made it up as I initially went through ENA stuff, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm missing some big thing. Anyways thanks for reading all this, bye.