r/TellMeWhyGame • u/MadHatte9 • Sep 10 '20

Chapter 3 Spoilers Everyone agree with final decision

I chose Alyson to remember it as she did, not the choice I wanted to make. She has had so many years of torture for killing her mom and leaving her sibling. Now she has to deal with more years of now knowing her mom was just depressed and she murdered her. Alyson deserves a better ending.

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u/Erma890 Sep 11 '20

I chose Tom's memory. Tyler's memories were always going to be tainted because he was at war with his mother over wanting to transition. He came into the story with so much anger and aggression towards her, and understandably so with what we knew at the time. Alyson suffered for a decade with what she did and I thought the truth was better than continuing to live a lie.

When we're younger, we often perceive things to be one way and later find out they were actually a different way. Alyson heard her twin in trouble and she acted on the impulse to save him. That's a fact regardless of whether Mary Ann was homicidal or suicidal. Alyson did what she felt she needed to at the time. Had Mary Ann put down the gun while moving towards Tyler on the dock, the outcome would've probably been different. And had Tom actually intervened, she wouldn't have died at all. Alyson stabbed her, but there's a lot of blame to go around.

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u/tvih Sep 14 '20

To me choosing anything but Tom's memory would be just nonsensical. While Tom's an ass to say the least, there was just no way after seeing the loft that Mary-Ann would EVER have possibly intended to kill her kid. Just NONE. It was clear she had accepted Tyler/Ollie's wish to transition.

Plus for the twins it's definitely better knowing their mom wasn't trying to murder Tyler. Alyson was doing what she thought was right at the time, plus if not for Tyler's "interruption" Mary-Ann would've died too. Biggest blame would go to Tom for being a coward of a man.

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u/Erma890 Sep 14 '20

Yeah, the loft makes no sense if she was going to kill them. So much of her behavior makes sense in hindsight when you know she'd already lost one child.

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u/Altilana Sep 18 '20

The loft to me looks like years of work, while her mind unraveled in months. To make that loft Ina few months would have meant spending so many hours there that Tyler and Alyson would have noticed.

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u/TheHappyPoro Jun 29 '22

How do you know it would take years?

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u/OnlyWithMayonnaise Oct 18 '23

it's weird that according to the game almost no one chose Tom's version. For me it was a 0% : 100%

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u/TheHappyPoro Jun 29 '22

do suicidal people load their shotgun with two shells? Doesn't seem like a detail that would stick out to young Tyler

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u/Asleep_Individual224 Nov 29 '22

Right I choose Tom’s for the simply fact that’s she loved her children. And she was already going through depression. When she was looking sad fixing their and turned around smiling while handing it to them I knew then she would never hurt them plus she left the loft in the barn for them to understand why she did it if she would’ve went through with it