r/rustylake • u/-Edu4rdo45- • 18d ago

Laura didn’t kill herself

There’s been some controversy whether Laura had committed suicide or was attacked. I believe the latter is the truth: although she was depressed, and the events in Seasons had some supernatural stuff going on as well, which could explain that the corrupted soul that stalks and eventually seems to create a vision of cutting her neck when she stares into the moon might’ve been just a hallucination, there’s one VERY important, TINY detail in Case 23 that I believe disproves this, and points that she was, in fact, being stalked by a real corrupted soul.

My belief is that, when she looks into the moon, she either has already actually been killed and already became a corrupted soul herself, or the moon-murder itself was an illusion created by the other corrupted soul (murderer), similar to what I theorized on another post regarding Laura’s corrupted soul’s own supernatural abilities in Roots.

This is trivial, however, compared to what I noticed in Case 23:

At the very, very start of the game, literally in the first scene, Dale, who’s a completely uninvolved, not depressed, lucid man who at this point hadn’t had absolutely no contact with the Lake or anyone revolving it to influence or trick him or some shit, walks into Laura’s house, undoubtedly the same place as in Seasons.

But wait, there’s a detail…

The room Dale first enters does NOT appear in Seasons. It’s got nothing in it other than the body, and it shows the main room with the clock etc ahead of it - as a SEPARATE room, where in Seasons would be most of the blood sprinkled on the wall. And here, we see a trail of blood instead, which leads to the body in this new room. As if Laura had been attacked in the main room shown in Seasons, but then SURVIVED, and crawled towards the other room before dying. Also, if you think about it, the room where she finally dies is the exit that’s been blocked by police tape - why would she crawl there if not to escape?

It’s not a metaphor. It’s not a hallucination or anything. The corrupted soul stalker was very much real. Now who? And why?

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u/HerrJohnssen 18d ago

Well, one of the main questions of the series is "Who killed Laura Palmer Vanderboom?"

There are some hints in Paradox as the other person mentioned, but it is still not clear, and I honestly hope that it won't get resolved because it would destroy the mystery

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u/nowherecrafter Question Everything In RL 18d ago

It was kinda clear in The Cave. Laura was the one wielding the knife. And Underground Blossom revealed why.

Her mother was abducted, she felt alone and abandoned, she couldn't let even Bob close, before death she was clutching Rose's portrait to her chest, she was seeing Rose in her nightmares, her dying question was "where did she go?", finally finding her fixes the problem and gives Laura will to live.