As you recall, Sky said chapters 10-12 would be pretty dark. Chapter 10 proved that to be absolutely correct.
Assuming chapter 11 has something equivalent or worse to what we just saw, what do you think that thing would be?
Obviously Mother is some kind of monster thing that could run on that logic
But more importantly, Mother has a bunch of children, who can only start to reclaim their identity by reclaiming the names. This is basically how very young children actually form their early identity.
Children don't call their mothers by their actual names but by mummy or something similar. When does that start to change? When children are becoming independent and leave their mothers house.
Thematically it makes total sense that learning Mother's real name severely limits her power over you, just as learning your own name is the beginning of having enough personal agency to even try to fight back.
I do not know if this breaks the rules. Pls let me know if it does.
And it looks really cool! I love it ^^
The Backwards House is fighting back against characters' memories more than you might initially think. Just because you remember your name in the Backwards House, doesn't mean you remember everything about yourself. But you can remember if certain things ring a bell to what you forgot.
Catie says their memories have been fuzzy ever since they got to the Backwards House, and while they forgot, the game show's final round helped them to remember they were a dancing prodigy. After the game show ends, while not as vivid, Catie feels a bit of deja vu when Od-Dog calls them "quite the liar" as a vision of someone who bears a striking resemblance to someone we see in a flashback at the end of Chapter 10.
A flashback that ends with Catie calling said someone "liar" being echoed in context to this interaction. A friend it appears? Catie and their friend talk about getting second place in a dance competition because Catie couldn't catch their friend at the end of their performance.
Catie remembers their proficiency at dancing because of a dance competition happening, but they aren't the only one to remember something. When Catie and Od-Dog finish their performance, Od-Dog briefly remembers when Catie catches him only to forget when they accidentally drop him after it's announced they got first place. With Chapter 10's flashback, this confirms Catie's friend is Od-Dog! But then why doesn't Catie remember their friend? Fuzzy memories.
I purpose this theory. Od-Dog got trapped in the Backwards House and Catie went looking for him. But since they got trapped too, Catie doesn't remember who Od-Dog was in real life and that they were looking for him at all as the Backwards House blurs one's memory unless the situation jogs it.
For some reason Katie's sleeve thing and her beanie clip thing were in the wrong place. Dont know I if i am the only one who noticed this and i just think they didn't notice that mistake.
Should I make more art like?Tho I wish skynix would see this🥹
Break me off a piece of that curious cat bar
Moribund
So, Catie just died. Got munched. But there’s zero chance they stay dead. My hypothesis is that in the event that someone dies, they wake up in their room in full health. After all, it wouldn’t be good if someone got into an accident or wandered somewhere they weren’t supposed to and shattered Mother’s perfect little world by traumatizing the rest of her precious children. This is what happened in Chapter 2. As Catie ran, something got them - so fast they didn’t even realize what happened. They died, and revived in their room.
The reason Od-Dog was able to get past was from nothing but trial and error. Fighting, learning, dying, reviving, rinse and repeat until victory is achieved. Remember what EE said? He had the look of someone who was prepared to die as he walked upstairs. And he was, because he ultimately had nothing to lose by doing so. Perhaps that’s also how he got all of that reference material for his drawings of the nightmares. He was able to get up close and personal because… well, you get it by now.
So I’m betting chapter 11 will go something like this: Od-Dog and EE are in utter disbelief at what just happened. Or maybe they don’t even know. Either way, they’re surprised to see Catie come out of their room as if nothing had happened at all. Alternatively, what if their memory (sans Catie) of the events has been removed? That includes going up the stairs and the fight itself and anything else that can be used to figure out Catie died.
The tldr is that the children are functionally immortal. There are quite a few parallels between the house and Purgatory after all!
After reading the new chapter I loved Od-dog's human design so I decided to put him on my island (Thanks to u/EnchantEleven for the name idea)
Too soon?
I ask because of the parallels between the dance scene last chapter and the dialogue in the real world flashback.