u/veggievoid

Another thread talking about how Shizuku sucked up Pike's blood got me thinking, she was only able to do that because she believed blood wasn't a living thing. Similarily, Kurapika's Chain Jail theoretically performs the same way. As long as he truly believes someone is a Spider, his ability should work without killing him.

But that raises an interesting question. Since Nen restrictions are all based on personal interpretation, not reality, doesn't that give stupid people an advantage?

For instance, what if someone believed in something that clearly wasn't true, but it gave them an insane powerup simply because they believed it was?

Like, say there was a Nen savant who happened to have the mind of a child, and believed that everything was a plaything of some sort. People are plushies, guns and nukes are plastic toys, total childlike view of the world. It's not that they don't believe they can't get hurt, they just believe that they would only get hurt from these things as much as you or I believe we would get hurt from plushies or plastic toys.

In more technical Nen mechanics, this would either apply an area-wide Zetsu effect on everyone else, or greatly increase their Ren, making either everyone around them powerless, or making themselves indestructible.

Now, maybe this exact scenario doesn't hold up under scrutiny (I just thought of it on the fly) but would this general idea technically be a possibility?

Not my auction, I just stumbled across it and thought I'd share because of how insanely rare it is. Looks like the person doesn't have the box (according to Google Translate, though I can see the box in the first picture). High likelihood that it will break during shipping without a box (statue is incredibly fragile, wrote about it here). Good luck to anyone who wants this!

I believe that Audrey's storyline largely took place while she was in her coma in a hospital of some sort. In addition, we know that a new timeline got created when Laura disappeared toward the end of S3. In this new timeline, the events from the Twin Peaks we knew don't happen anymore. Cooper still came to Twin Peaks because of Ronette, but everything played out differently.

It's possible that what we're seeing throughout Audrey's storyline is her coma dream while the original timeline is still active, and what we see in her final scene is where she ended up in the new timeline. Basically, the transition from her coma dream to her final scene happened the exact moment the old timeline and the new one switched over (the electrical buzz we hear).

I also believe the sub-plot with Billy is a clever anchor for us to realize that she was in the original timeline throughout her coma. We know the events with Billy play out in the original timeline because we see elements of it interacting with the broader story and characters. I believe Audrey is receiving information about Billy from the people around her while she's in her coma.

She wants to go to the Roadhouse, most of the people involved with Billy's storyline end up at the Roadhouse. She's just osmosing the events happening around her and assimilating them into her dream. Take Charlie's phone call for instance. Someone is likely just having a conversation on a phone near her, and it gets represented in her dream the way that we see it. We hear Charlie's responses, but never find out what's said on the other end. That's because Audrey is only able to hear what the person near her is saying, not what the person over the phone is saying. She can't osmose what she can't hear.

Going a step further, Audrey and The Arm share a line, "The story of the little girl who lives down the lane." I believe the intention of this connection is the same as the Tremond/Chalfont reference in the final episode: to make you aware that lodge forces are at play. More specifically, I think that Charlie, in addition to having been a conduit for integrating things from the real world into Audrey's dream (like the phone call) was also a lodge conduit, and that he was attempting to save Audrey a place in the new timeline, like how the Fireman saved Cooper and Diane a place as Richard and Linda. The Arm may have even chosen Charlie as his form in Audrey's dream, given the context of the line him and Audrey shared. With respect to the late actor Clark Middleton, his physical stature does resemble Michael Anderson's.

When Audrey was being difficult with Charlie, he warned her: "Do you want me to end your story, too?" Basically, I took this to mean that a place in the new timeline wouldn't be saved for her, and that her story, like many others, would end along with the original timeline when the time came. But as we saw, she does seem to cross over. So, in my mind, Charlie (who is possibly The Arm) brought her over.

Lastly, Audrey's line about it "being like Ghostwood," referencing the prison, may not have been that far off the mark. If we assume everything above to be true, we could then assume that Audrey was in fact being kept in her coma state intentionally by the lodge force, as a means of keeping her confined until the timeline crossover occurred. In which case, if she had woken up before then, her story might have ended. This would also explain why Charlie dragged his feet in regards to leaving the house. They had to stay there until the crossover was close to occurring.

Was it meant to be malevolent, though? Or was he trying to help her? Was she brought over for some grand purpose? Dunno, I'd imagine that a potential season 4 would have reunited her with Richard, Carrie, and maybe even Linda. But like Frost and The Secret History book said, the lodge motives and morals are beyond our understanding.

I was pleasantly surprised at how horror dark fantasy esque this game was. The Berserk influence in particular was unmistakable. I love Final Fantasy in general, but it's rare to see an entry embrace horror as much as this game has. The only other one I've played that did so was FFXI, which shares *a lot* of similarities with Tactics (the unreliability of religion and history that gets passed down and the straight up body horror at the center of it all).

Throughout the book, I couldn't help but feel like Cooper was an extension of Jeffrey Beaumont. He was written like a horndog and made a lot of bad (romantic) decisions. From what I've read, they originally planned on making Cooper in the show closer to that interpretation as well, such as with the canned romance with Audrey.

While it was interesting to read the book with that context in mind, I'm really happy the Cooper we got in the show wasn't that. In the show, his innocence contrasts the seedy underside of Twin Peaks. Like he was what the town, and specifically Laura, needed, and not just another sex pest chasing after high school girls.