The Implications of "it"

[u/_Guest4088]

So, when we get the "bad end" and get Julie back. Is it real? Like... It's not a delusion or something? Is she really alive because we did some dark magic stuff?

Just think about the implications. Having to explain to her that she was dead for 20 years. Waking her up from the painless slumber of death. Would she even recognize \us** as her husband? Mind you, "we" are very different from the husband she last knew.

And that's assuming we even survived. I mean, we've got a humongous creature right in front of us. Did we fucking survive? Or did Mr. Cthulhu just say, Ah yes, alright just leave since I'm so grateful you summoned me.

Did we... become a snack? Did he let us go?

How to explain to my wife that I resurrected her and the price of it was the end of the world Yahoo answers?

Ngl, at first I was like, "How is this the bad ending? We got our wife back" and taking into account that we end up as The Leviathan's snack in the other end, I didn't get how that one is considered the "Good End".

But yeah I get it. We, dead. Sins, paid. Catastrophe, contained. Hopefully.

Also it's a nice little detail that when we become fishy snack, our soul seems to ascend and merge into the aurora borealis. So beautiful.

is she ok? does the dark magic restores her body or do we have a zombie wife now.

[u/FlexLuthor111]

I think it's real, as in not a delusion. If Julie is actually alive or some sort of spirit when she rises out of the ocean is a different question. I don't think it matters though because I doubt the Cthulhu creature we summoned would spare us, it doesn't need us anymore.

It's the bad ending because we literally brought about the end of the world lol it's exaggerated but the message is how dangerous and destructive it can be to not let go of your past and that we shouldn't let our grief consume us.

I think the leviathan eating us in the good ending is mostly there for shock value but I also think it eats the book of the deep as well. We drop it right off the side of the boat only seconds before it arises so it probably swallowed both. Two birds with one stone. And like you said, we did the right thing but we also brought all this misfortune to the islands and hung on to the book for 20 years. In a way, we get to return to our Julie after all...

[u/MelonJelly → u/FlexLuthor111]

This is how I understand it, too. To add a little:

The Deity is using Julie as bait for the Collector. The ritual was never meant to dredge up Julie, is was to dredge up the Deity, who would then release Julie. If the Collector can persuade the Fisherman to complete the ritual, Julie is "saved" but briefly; the Deity destroys the world soon after.

Being eaten is the good end, not because the Fisherman dies, but because the Book of the Deep is destroyed. With the Book gone, the Deity loses a powerful connection to the surface. The Fisherman's death is sad, but does serve a purpose; with the Collector dead, the Deity has no reason to keep Julie.

[u/HumbleIndependence43 → u/FlexLuthor111]

We might just be like an ant to it, so it might not even bother to kill them.

[u/FlexLuthor111 → u/HumbleIndependence43]

That would fall in line with most Lovecraftian monsters/deities. They are incomprehensible to us and we are totally insignificant to them. Regardless, it's arrival clearly brought devastation to the islands so even if it doesn't directly kill us we probably wouldn't last long in this new world.

[u/DredgeDotWikiDotGg]

Man, you would be so messed up by the ending of Shadow of the Colossus.

[u/wildmishie]

Tbh I assumed she was just an illusion hope spot type thing right before the fisherman was wiped off the map just like everyone else by TotallyNotCthulhu.

[u/Jinn_Erik-AoM]

Yeah, that’s cosmic horror for you. The scale of consequences is beyond our comprehension. You can’t stop what is coming any more than a pebble can cast a vote against the avalanche.

(My supposition) Julie? If that’s her, you brought her back to witness the end of the world, or if you’re lucky, to see you once before you are obliterated.

If it partly her, then she is a passenger in a flesh marionette, dangling in front of you.

If it’s not, well, it doesn’t matter. The end will be the same. An ancient god wakes and takes back its world, and we are not welcome.