Unhinged theories
Okay I fucking love this game. The highs are so incredibly high and the lows are so incredibly low but I absolutely adore what the devs have cooking and I desperately need more story. I just like to imagine how the story might unfold as time goes on and I've got a handful of unhinged theories.
The adversary is a sea urchin and the deep is doomed regardless of whether viscous wins or loses. To start this viscous is a sentient sea anemone who relies on coral to anchor himself to the ocean floor and the adversary is an unknown oceanic leviathan that threatens the entirety of the deep. I believe the urchin is devouring the deep coral and threatens to clear the ocean of all organic matter making the deep inhospitable. This is a two parter. There's an unreleased character who is described as a forgotten god of the deep who had a track record of violence and conquest who if they get their wish would damn the surface and the deep to ruin.
Every wish has a consequence. I'll only give a few examples but I truly believe especially considering the geist visual novel that no one will truly be satisfied with their wish. Firstly we can look at geist who wishes to return oathkeeper to the tome which is a bandaid fix at best as the oathkeeper will simply birth himself back into existence and judging by dialogue with the drifter he's a petty individual who will kill geist in the end. Abrams doesn't even get a satisfying wish. Infernus will save the bar but will relapse on the violence and likely lose hank because of his actions during the ritual. Warden can't stop the patrons because no patron would grant a wish to not be summoned. Holliday might stop the troubadour but she can't stop more violent entities from victimizing countless. Drifter will never be satisfied, seven will find godhood as boring as the doorman does because ambition as its' limits, Vyper will never not be who she is and no clean slate will stop her from back sliding into a failure, Apollo will forever be his father's shadow, pocket has to be the person they hate just to win over (as in defeat) their father. Etc
Oathkeeper gets a wish. Geist owes her power to him. The only reason she can even perform in the ritual is due to the oathkeeper. The patrons are shown to be unbiased entirely to those on their side who can say they don't give him a talking to about how he can finally break free if he helps geist which is lended more credence when geist doesn't wish for his destruction but rather his removal meaning his wish was freedom so he can exact revenge and hers was to be given an out from her obligation.
The drifter was a civilized vampire at one point. Less unhinged and more confirmed but the man on the fire place painting is clearly the drifter. Same wrist tattoos and red hand motif. We know Simon (the current viscount) is curious at all times about the drifters whereabouts and would likely know he's there and I'm betting they have a history
Dynamo is evil. Doesn't care one bit about the nightmarish horrors his best friend is committing with his company. Doesn't care that his godchild pocket was shot by that same person even still calling them kinda friends still EVEN THOUGH HE KNOWS POCKET GOT BLASTED BY THEIR FATHER. so obsessed with knowledge he sacrificed his body just to be first on the scene, publishes deep dives into astral gates giving aspiring monsters a treasure of tricks to slaughter innocent's. Seven even told Dynamo that if he never published those books he would've never strived for apotheosis. Dynamo is a man who thinks the ends justify the means. Willing to summon an Eldritch God so he can hug his wife not caring at all what that means for the world.
Victor was made by Shelly's husband before he died. There's a theory Shelly made him but I think it was her husband and it has to do with the line Victor says about his creator wishing for a son he could never have which is the exact same line describing the reason Shelly made bebop. Two people who couldn't have kids finding two different ways to make it happen but Shelly's husband died before he got the chance to finish victor leaving a body with no soul ready to be piloted by whatever poor sap got stuck in there and bebop being given a soul and a metal body. Bebop even relates to him (not in a literal sense)