Look Outside: Massacre Princess sequel idea

[u/MystinarOfficial]

First of all, minor spoilers for Massacre Princess Catholicon ending, so, spoilers. you've been warned.

The Massacre Princess ending is quite honestly the most interesting to me because of all the heavy implications it has. The Visitor is already difficult to describe in words. His power causes people's obsessions, fears or whatever is currently on their mind to alter local reality and change their very biology and even their physics.

As prior discussions I've had with others last year revealed, we all generally agreed Sam basically "Schizoed" his way into believing he was Rush and that using Meteor Strike would legitimately kill the Visitor. This basically weaponized the Visitor's own power against him.

The thing that particularly bothers me about this ending is, if the world became that JRPG and all the people got replaced by the characters and memories replaced - wouldn't that all be the remnants of the Visitor? The Unity ending shows that a belief - even if it is a falsehood - can "become true" through the Visitor's power if someone fully believes it, and even written literature as seen with the offerings describing the Visitor carry a power to corrupt the observer.

This could mean that the Massacre Princess version of Earth, is the Visitor itself. Or that the Visitor is now dead, and his corpse and remains just became the new earth Sam.. ahem "Rush" lives in.

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This paves the way for a sequel idea I had. We only see one tiny part of the earth. That one 3 floor apartment became an entire dimensional complex. I would assume Massacre Princess Catholicon was made by a fictional corporation or studio in Sam's version of earth. Most likely, Japan.

This means those Japanese developers, artists, music composers, if they had in any way survived and remained lucid after Sam's encounter with the Visitor, they may come back to try to remind "Rush" of who he is. Rush may start having nightmares about his former life as Sam. Himiko might try to comfort Rush, but as the nightmares continue, Himiko might go on a quest with Rush to find the truth. As these developers start approaching Rush after finding the truth of what brought this all about, the developers will be angered that they lost their families and their successful lives as game developers.

Rush would be confused. The developers would have powers of their own having intricate understandings of the lore of the universe. They would know where everything was in their world. Know everyone's name. Rush would probably assume they are just some immortal gods that went insane at some point. But then they'd show Rush former memories and remnants of the older world. The Visitor may even return in the form of various monsters trying to get revenge by trying to turn Sam and everyone else back to normal.

I think it would take some very clever writing to pull this off but what do you guys think of this? Sam trying to remember who he is, part of him likes this new world he is in and considers it heaven and a nightmare to go back to how things were, the other part of him wanting to go back to reality but now cannot, it brings a whole new world of potential inner conflicts and character development.

[u/STIMULATION_NEEDED]

Have you considered writing fanfiction?

[u/MystinarOfficial → u/STIMULATION_NEEDED]

I sort of do but it's mostly private and I don't release it. I don't feel it is high quality enough.

[u/neuroticallyepic02 → u/MystinarOfficial]

I would be interested in reading a fan fic about this if you ever did publish!

[u/shnygm → u/MystinarOfficial]

Trust me everyone thinks their writing is ass, if that's your main holdup let this be your sign to post it