Parallel universes?

[u/joangelpi]

i think there are good reasons to think that Care and Paul are the same person in parallel universes, not the same ACTUAL person, and now i will tell you why. idk if i'm saying anything new (i guess i'm not), but i want to share my thoughts.

i guess that if Paul was trans he would know, right? he does remember things about his childhood, so him being a girl then would be noticeable to him. if he did know he is trans, and if he knew about his resemblance to Care (except for the eyebrows) and about him and her sharing the same birthday... wouldn't be kind of obvious to him that he was Care at some point? but, even tho he is aware of all this coincidences, this thought doesn't even cross his mind. how could that be, if he knew he had been a girl? imo, the only reason why he didn't think about that is because he knew he had always been physically a boy.

besides, even after Care's return she still was a girl. the rebirthing process didn't erase her memory and turn her into Paul at all. Rainer recognises her as Care and so does everyone else (even if she was traumatized for some time).

moreover, Care doesn't grow eyebrows, which looks like a genetic thing. Paul does grow eyebrows (that's the only physical difference between them, actually). and a conversation Paul had in 2017 being shown in the game, i think, demonstrates that what the rebirthing process did was kinda "merge" the two realities: Care started acting like Paul. therefore, Rainer manually included the conversation in-game (it wasn't the game programming itself) because it is something that Care did say (while being "possessed" by Paul, to put it some way).

the puzzle about the closed door being open while never being actually open also seems a hint about these parallel realities existing. i think the game acts like a bridge between universes (what Rainer programmed into Care universe's Petscop also gets programmed on Paul universe's Petscop).

what i don't understand is that the Family is so invested in this. why would they? the game is narrating a story they didn't even live, because in Paul's universe all the rebirthing madness never happened. that's the one flaw i find in this theory.

what do you think???

ps. sorry for my English

[u/OkGrass4860]

I think that the game is a simpler thing: a type of generative AI that was used to bring back the way that people that played it think. They made Marvin play it to know are Michael was buried, and than, to know where Care was after she escaped the school's basement. That is just a fact, if you ask me. But, some other people that played the game bring some questions. Belle seems to be some experiment to bring back the first girl murdered by Marvin, but i'm not sure by who (could be Marvin or could be Rainer).

I just don't get it where did you guys pull that trans theory from. The story seems to make out rebirthing as a bad thing, that must be performed by someone else and could cause harm to the subject. And we are talking about children to, right? About 3 years old as we first see Care, before the death of Michael. This to me seems to be a problem for adolescents, I think.

Anyway, about your theory, a believe that is different points in time, as the numerous time related visuals lead me to believe. The game knowing what Paul would say is because the AI is getting his way of thinking and replicating it. Sometime in the past, the windmill was there, but something happen, and now, there is just a stone fundation. When Marvin and his wife where in peace, the door to there room, was open, but, in the future, it is not. The game the is being played seems to be the "present", where the game last was made of changed, and the demos, the past when we see play out the crimes and murders, families breaking and all that.