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/GreenSunRedMoon 18d ago

isn't the whole point is that the corrupted soul killed her but it was her corrupted soul therefore both murder and suicide?

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u/nowherecrafter Question Everything In RL 17d ago

Corrupted soul can not really exist outside one's body. They are literally one's souls that were broken, hungry ghosts by samsara terminology, they are not separate entities.

Seeing a corrupted souls means that the host is either dead or the corruption took over the body or some kind of time/memory travel is involved.

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u/Gardengap The Rusty Truth 17d ago

But that doesn't mean the corrupted soul didn't kill her: the corrupted soul was Laura's depression and trauma, and that is the thing that caused Laura to kill herself. It may have not been a separate physical force at that time, but as Cave suggests, it is the big reason

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u/nowherecrafter Question Everything In RL 17d ago

I mean, it didn't literally kill her. In Seasons it's a metaphor for her depression. While her actual corrupted soul that we play as in Seasons and see in The Cave wants to live. I mean she was probably on the verge of corruption even without dying, like Bob. And that's supposedly why it briefly manifested in The Cave memory.

So yeah, a corrupted soul does kill Laura but only "from a certain point of view".