This Is Just A Diary TBH

I think that donna already knows the full story and simply just refused to k*ll herself because she want to keep living , but I’ve also been cooking up a new theory that on the night they sacrificed their children for their immortality, there were actually 4 eldrich terrors that were summoned that night (the man in yellow, the spider, the kimono woman and the boy in white) who all feed on different human emotions and are in charge of different stages of a torture cycle that every resident of fromville has to go through (though the 14 have reincarnation once they finish the torture stages)

the town is actually stage one of the torture cycle and that is the kimono woman’s domain (the monsters are her children and she feeds on pain, hence the violent murders), the forest with the fear spider is the next (abby was at some point there, we see her caught in the webs), where you experience your worst fears (Ethan told us as much), and then the final stage is the tower (man in yellow’s domain), where you experience endless despair (you are chained to a wall, with no end in sight, wanting to die but never can) , and like the man in the tower said, ‘he always thought the town would be the worst part’, so donna probably knows that the next stages are about to be horrible so she’s just choosing to stay in the town for as long as possible.

I think there is some overlap in realms, like the despair that the town feels from being trapped, the man in yellow feeds off of, and the fear of the monsters the spider probably feeds off of, I think the ballerina is some sort of allotted time slot for the kimono woman to come through and cause pain and feed for a short time, which also heightens fear, but the realms are mostly kept separate, with the most powerful terror, the boy in white, who feeds on hope, kind of being able to transverse all 3 realms at whim, feeding on the human instinct to keep hope alive even in the most dire situations (or possibly the light house is his domain and he’s kind of the keeper or this realm so maybe the only way to break the pocket dimension and end it for good, is to destroy the lighthouse/kill the boy in white)

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I now think the village is the legendary New England viking settlement called Norumbega not an indigenous one! (the symbology on the stones, the village etc look more like runes do they not??)

I think that donna already knows the full story and simply just refused to k*ll herself because she want to keep living , but I’ve also been cooking up a new theory that on the night they sacrificed their children for their immortality, there were actually 4 eldrich terrors that were summoned that night (the man in yellow, the spider, the kimono woman and the boy in white) who all feed on different human emotions and are in charge of different stages of a torture cycle that every resident of fromville has to go through (though the 14 have reincarnation once they finish the torture stages)

the town is actually stage one of the torture cycle and that is the kimono woman’s domain (the monsters are her children and she feeds on pain, hence the violent murders), the forest with the fear spider is the next (abby was at some point there, we see her caught in the webs), where you experience your worst fears (Ethan told us as much), and then the final stage is the tower (man in yellow’s domain), where you experience endless despair (you are chained to a wall, with no end in sight, wanting to die but never can) , and like the man in the tower said, ‘he always thought the town would be the worst part’, so donna probably knows that the next stages are about to be horrible so she’s just choosing to stay in the town for as long as possible.

I think there is some overlap in realms, like the despair that the town feels from being trapped, the man in yellow feeds off of, and the fear of the monsters the spider probably feeds off of, I think the ballerina is some sort of allotted time slot for the kimono woman to come through and cause pain and feed for a short time, which also heightens fear, but the realms are mostly kept separate, with the most powerful terror, the boy in white, who feeds on hope, kind of being able to transverse all 3 realms at whim, feeding on the human instinct to keep hope alive even in the most dire situations (or possibly the light house is his domain and he’s kind of the keeper or this realm so maybe the only way to break the pocket dimension and end it for good, is to destroy the lighthouse/kill the boy in white)

***Edit***

I think that donna already knows the full story and simply just refused to k*ll herself because she want to keep living , but I’ve also been cooking up a new theory that on the night they sacrificed their children for their immortality, there were actually 4 eldrich terrors that were summoned that night (the man in yellow, the spider, the kimono woman and the boy in white) who all feed on different human emotions and are in charge of different stages of a torture cycle that every resident of fromville has to go through (though the 14 have reincarnation once they finish the torture stages)

the town is actually stage one of the torture cycle and that is the kimono woman’s domain (the monsters are her children and she feeds on pain, hence the violent murders), the forest with the fear spider is the next (abby was at some point there, we see her caught in the webs), where you experience your worst fears (Ethan told us as much), and then the final stage is the tower (man in yellow’s domain), where you experience endless despair (you are chained to a wall, with no end in sight, wanting to die but never can) , and like the man in the tower said, ‘he always thought the town would be the worst part’, so donna probably knows that the next stages are about to be horrible so she’s just choosing to stay in the town for as long as possible.

I think there is some overlap in realms, like the despair that the town feels from being trapped, the man in yellow feeds off of, and the fear of the monsters the spider probably feeds off of, I think the ballerina is some sort of allotted time slot for the kimono woman to come through and cause pain and feed for a short time, which also heightens fear, but the realms are mostly kept separate, with the most powerful terror, the boy in white, who feeds on hope, kind of being able to transverse all 3 realms at whim, feeding on the human instinct to keep hope alive even in the most dire situations (or possibly the light house is his domain and he’s kind of the keeper or this realm so maybe the only way to break the pocket dimension and end it for good, is to destroy the lighthouse/kill the boy in white)