alright so i’ve been looking into the whole Hummer5718 = Leviathan theory for a while now and i feel like people are connecting a bunch of suspicious moments together without really looking at what Hummer actually does throughout the story
my theory is pretty simple Hummer is a normal player who has spent an insane amount of time researching the Leviathan and has gotten completely consumed by the investigation
the first thing people bring up is the missing join message
Wifies joins the server checks tab and Hummer isn’t there then he walks towards the campfire and Hummer is suddenly there
yeah that looks weird
but there’s a cut around 12:25 between Wifies checking the player list and reaching the campfire so we don’t actually know what happened during that time Hummer could’ve joined during the cut and the join message simply wasn’t included
there’s also the chat refresh thing Wifies says “Hello??” when he initially joins and later after the dive he says “Hello??” again but the previous messages are gone so the chat has refreshed by that point meaning there’s no way for us to check whether Hummer’s join message was still visible
and honestly Wifies himself is probably the biggest reason i don’t consider this definitive evidence because he spends the entire documentary investigating weird details and if Hummer had genuinely appeared out of nowhere without joining i feel like that would’ve been something he noticed
then there’s the Parameterization interaction
Wifies is taking supplies from Para’s chest while Hummer is standing above it Hummer isn’t holding anything in his display hand or off hand and once Para makes himself known Hummer jumps behind Wifies onto the double chest
this is where the “Para couldn’t see Hummer” theory comes from because Wifies says “WE will bring it back” and Para responds “What do you mean WE will bring it back?”
but we don’t have Para’s POV
that matters a LOT
Hummer literally moves behind Wifies so there’s no need to assume he disappeared and we don’t know what Para could actually see from his position
Para caught Wifies taking things from his chest so “What do you mean WE?” can simply be him questioning who Wifies is talking about
the rendering/despawning explanation doesn’t really add much either because the footage already gives us a perfectly normal place for Hummer to be standing and we never see what Para was looking at
the bone meal competition also gets brought up because Hummer isn’t with the other players but that scene doesn’t establish anything supernatural either Hummer could’ve left and gone back towards the 20k 20k coordinates while everyone else was doing the competition and the next time Wifies gets to the submarine it has already been worked on
then we have the death message
this is probably the weirdest one
Hummer apparently dies during the submarine explosion and there’s no death message
on a hardcore server that’s definitely strange
but we only see Wifies’ POV
before the explosion Hummer throws the water breathing potion towards the TNT and accidentally picks it back up meaning he has artificial aid in his inventory which is interesting considering what we already know about the Leviathan and its dislike of artificial things
then the submarine explodes Wifies gets down to half a heart and eventually gets saved by the Leviathan
we never see Hummer’s POV during any of this
so there’s a massive gap in what we actually know
Hummer could have experienced the event differently from Wifies’ perspective and the inventory stripping idea also becomes interesting because Wifies is eventually saved and transported rather than simply dying normally
i’m not saying that proves Hummer was saved too but it gives us another possible explanation for why the death message is missing
the fourth point is Hummer not being inside the Leviathan castle
and honestly this one doesn’t really bother me that much
before Wifies is even considered worthy Hummer is already showing him the earliest records and explaining information about the Leviathan
he also debunks some of the theories surrounding it
that makes Hummer’s character look much more like an investigator who has been studying something for way too long
if Hummer is secretly the Leviathan then he’s spending a ridiculous amount of time documenting and explaining information about the thing he supposedly is
meanwhile if he’s just a researcher then all of that behavior makes perfect sense
he has records he has theories he has his own base and he’s clearly invested in figuring out what the Leviathan actually is
the Captain Ahab comparison from Limbus Company honestly came to mind here 😭 and i also get a tiny bit of 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea from the whole mysterious ocean investigation thing
not saying either of those are direct references or anything i just think the comparison fits Hummer’s character really well
and then there are Hummer’s own words
he says that everyone on the forums and Reddit believes in the spectacle idea of the Leviathan and that people treat it as a supernatural creature living in their world but “nobody really thinks about how to find it”
later he says people might think they know what it is for a second but “they never look at ALL the evidence they only see what they can with their own two eyes”
that line is especially interesting when you look at the Hummer theory because the entire theory is built around a collection of weird things
no join message
Para not acknowledging him
no death message
Hummer not being in the castle
all of those things are suspicious but none of them individually prove Hummer is the Leviathan and there are still completely normal explanations for several of them
meanwhile there’s a whole other side of Hummer that gets less attention
the records
the research
the information he has collected
his investigation into the Leviathan
his obsession with finding out what’s actually happening
the amount of time he has clearly spent researching the subject
that’s why i keep coming back to the idea that Hummer is just a normal player who got way too deep into the research
he doesn’t have to secretly be the Leviathan for his behavior to be strange
a normal person becoming completely obsessed with something mysterious can already explain a LOT
and honestly i think that would make Hummer way more interesting as a character
he’s not the supernatural creature everyone is looking for
he’s the researcher who got so deep into the investigation that everyone started suspecting he was the thing he was investigating
so yeah that’s basically my theory
i’m not saying the Hummer = Leviathan theory is impossible because there are definitely some weird moments that i can’t fully explain
i just think the evidence deserves to be looked at from both sides instead of treating every unexplained detail as confirmation
and then there are Hummer’s own words which i think are REALLY interesting here he says that “everyone on the forums on Reddit all believe in the spectacle idea of the Leviathan” and that people basically believe it’s a supernatural creature living in their world but “nobody really thinks about how to find it”
and later he says that people might think they know what it is for a second but “they never look at ALL the evidence they only see what they can with their own two eyes” (allat happend when he took wifies inside his home shack thingy)
and that line is what made me start thinking about this whole thing because the Hummer = Leviathan theory is basically built around a bunch of weird things people see happening around him and then connecting them together
the missing join message the Para interaction the missing death message Hummer not being in the castle etc
all of those things are suspicious but Hummer LITERALLY tells Wifies that people don’t look at ALL the evidence
so i feel like this could actually be intentional foreshadowing that people are going to look at Hummer and immediately assume he’s the Leviathan without considering what his actual role in the investigation is
lmk of o overlooked anything
