WMG
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This article contains wild mass guessing, or original research about the settings, characters, or events in a work of fiction.
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This page contains short summaries of potential WMG concepts. Each item should contain at least one sentence phrased as a question.
In their necessarily unfinished state as written, some items may be better classified as headscratchers or fridge logic.
Due to the nature of this content and the formatting limitations of this wiki's spoiler template, small spoilers will likely not be marked. A "small spoiler" is any material that would be flagged with the inline spoiler markup on TV Tropes and/or All The Tropes and does not constitute a complete sentence.
Administrivia
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Works are alphabetized by title. Due to this page's limited scope (all topics are currently video games), no section headings are used to distinguish media categories.
Wikipedia links are provided only for convenience; I make no claim that Wikipedia is the best resource about each work of fiction mentioned. In particular, Wikipedia's non-free content policy means that it will almost certainly not have screenshots sufficient to illustrate every item I mention about each game. Use a general-purpose search engine instead.
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If Richter defeats Shaft in stage 6 before returning to stage 2 to rescue Maria, he finds Maria lying on the ground. Ordinarily, she would have been held up by Shaft's magic beam; was Shaft nice enough to shut it off cleanly, or did he let her hit the ground like a ton of bricks?
TODO: Check the original Rondo of Blood
If the titular protagonist lost her hair for medical reasons, what substitute would she find for the function that it originally served?
- This section covers only the original game, not any subsequent adaptations. This is important especially in regard to the graphical proportions of characters or settings.
- Mostly moved to User:Eighty5cacao/misc/WMG dump/Yume Nikki
- If one of the air-conditioning units in Madotsuki's apartment needed repair or replacement, what would happen? Do such maintenance people even exist in this universe? (The building has no other visible occupants even though it has multiple AC units, and no other buildings are visible from it.) Are the AC units hiding something sinister?
- What are the books on the bookshelf in Madotsuki's room? Some can be assumed to be blank or used dream diaries, but what else is there?
- Graphical proportions:
- At first glance, Madotsuki must be old enough to be familiar with her city's train system, to use a porta-potty unassisted, and to have seen and understood the use of a knife as a weapon. However, she is just about as tall as the AC units outside her apartment. (Another building has AC units which look slightly smaller, but it isn't a huge difference considering that the intended scale may differ anyway.) These requirements aren't easily satisfied in the normal course of human development; is she of short stature?
- As far as the player can see, Madotsuki's apartment is as wide as the building itself at that height. Is it a penthouse suite? It seems awfully small and incomplete for that purpose. Why does she live in a penthouse anyway, if her caretakers presumably can't afford to treat her better?
- In the dream world, how does Madotsuki scoot her wheeled desk chair beyond arm's reach of her desk if her legs are too short to reach the floor when she sits on any chair (which includes the aforementioned traincar as well as o-Man's couch)?
Related thoughts
- As noted by established tropers here, the key items are called "Effects" because they're personal effects, not because they're all effective at making something happen. (TODO: Rephrase as a question.)
Thematically relevant songs (may contain spoilers)
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- This section is intended to provide ideas for future fan works and does not constitute a complete WMG theory by itself.
Footnotes:
In the absence of a footnote for a particular song, the relevance of the lyrics and/or music video is assumed to be obvious.
- ↑ The following similarities present themselves:
Poniko is found in the Pink Sea, in which balloons are used as teleportation devices.
"Dam" (as in "Dam dam dam says my mind," pronounced as in the song "Dam Dariram") sounds like dame (駄目), one of the only two words Madotsuki can speak, for example upon attempting to leave Poniko's room after Uboa has appeared.
"3, 2, 1, go" (from the song's bridge) represents the countdown displayed as Madotsuki falls asleep.
The lyrics "I feel lonely at night" and "I close my eyes / And it's all right" fit with the general theme.
See the description of this YouTube copy of the song, as most lyrics websites seem to have copied an allegedly-inaccurate version of the lyrics from an official source.
- ↑ Aside from general themes, "Take everything from the inside / And throw it all away" corresponds to the process of Madotsuki disposing of the Effects into the Nexus.
- ↑ The music video's fictitious desert environment vaguely resembles The Wilderness.
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Possibilities for a shared universe
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- 40 Winks: The Hoodwinks completely defeat the Winks, and Tumble a.k.a. Madotsuki becomes entangled in their twisted web of nightmares
- Palette: After B.D.'s first attempt at sorting through her decaying memories of a troubled past, she enters a new counseling program, where she is given the code name "Madotsuki" and told to keep a dream diary for later analysis. Unfortunately, further trauma sends her spiraling deeper into insanity, as reflected in her dream world.[su 1]
- Weird Dreams: Madotsuki unwittingly slips into a dream world shared with Steve, appearing as the knife-wielding girl and the fat ballerina as she vies with Zelloripus for control of Steve's mind. TODO: Would this happen during the operation depicted in Weird Dreams itself, or would it be a hypothetical sequel in which Steve reruns said dream scenario?
- Alternatively: Yume Nikki is a prequel to Weird Dreams, and in particular Madotsuki is Zelloripus (...)
To expand later:
Footnotes:
- ↑ Spoiler, but deliberately vague: B.D. was subjected to an experimental amnesia-inducing treatment to prevent her from inheriting her parents' criminal tendencies. It was not entirely successful.
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Possibilities for a shared universe (inherent spoilers)
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Glitches and dummy data which need in-universe rationalization
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- Speed glitch – Suppose that the bicycle has the ability to transform into "speed shoes" similar to those worn by Sonic the Hedgehog
- Similarly, Noclip glitch: the knife and/or umbrella has the ability to puncture the fabric of spacetime
- Debug party member: invisible friend/protector?
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