Gathering Fandoms

I've been haunted by the image of the Mermaid watching Gripp float up to the surface, in the style of one of the HER paintings. It's literally been appearing in my dreams these past few nights (definitely not because I've been playing the game over and over since it came out every day..) and so the best way to stop the dreams is to make it a reality (like Freya)

Mystid Mansion, Tangle Tower, all of its inhabitants. The Mermaid Mask (the only reason the game is called that and not The Mermaid Tongue is because it’s not alliterative!), and the majority of its guests (except for JD Wirman, for some reason). Silkwirm Serpent.

what does that mean. Why is that important.

Do you think Gripp maybe... wanted to get caught?

Idk. The compass - he put the Necklace Key in there on purpose. He even tells the team that he put it in plain sight so Sinthia (or other people) could see that he was 'working on it'.

When you do his Suspicion segment, he says he's been looking forward to this part, and is disappointed that the team has decided to grill him over his cane, of all things.

When the complete Mermaid's Tongue is placed on the table, he has a perfect opportunity to hit the lights and run before he's outed. But he waits for the team to put everything together - encourages them to keep probing, keep going. He admits motive and answers questions.

(And the compass at the end... oogh, it makes me so emotional. Something about the service sticker in particular really hit me hard. And he encourages the team to keep putting answers together so that everyone has as much closure as possible, tells Symmetry to put aside her anguish, before he goes. For all his anger and bad choices and manipulation, there is in Godrik Gripp still someone who cares about other people, the people on that submarine.)

its crazy how it was Mortuga, Zephyr, and Gripp all on a mf ship for awhile and then Zephyr just adopts a kid. No one else is on. Congrats 12 year old Symmetry Silkmoth, you have 3 fathers now. Probably hits harder when Gripp is telling her nothing was her fault.

I was nowhere close to suspecting the actual murderer, gripp was full of too much whimsy I never saw it coming until the model town evidence when everyone was gathered, and then I was crushed because no his ass IS missing-

My first suspect was dirk, mostly because his himbo vibe was all off, he's too smart to be a himbo but he is still trying to be one. Me and my friend both agreed this was suspicious, unfortunately we were wrong his ass is just haunted by capitalism and the abuse of Hollywood, my bad man.

My second guess was zephyr, his alibi for the murder night shows him taking something from the airlock, tadpole said the mask from the murderer was placed there and taken while she was away, so I figured he was the murderer who took it back, this was before I knew of hex roaming there at night, plus I saw the mask in the bookshelf in the dark, so up until the town reveal I thought it was him, it was my trying to figure out if he would be in the town that I realized gripps emporium was there but gripp was not.

Honestly replaying the game knowing who dun it makes it so fun, I know all the context now, I can see the inconsistency in the alibi and know why certain characters felt what without forgetting via natural progression. This also puts gripps suspicion bit into a whole different light with how almost disappointed he was that the suspicion was only about Cornelius cane, and then maybe real shock because of the connection to the wheel, because that part wasn't a lie. Do ya think he was worried we knew? Well, grimm and Sally knew. I wonder if he was expecting it to hit close to the truth, like him being the true oldest member of the crew, or that he was on the dearest selene, but instead it was just "your stick isn't canon compliant to the source material"

Oh and the captains log! The very first entry, chronological wise, says "final preparations before we take out the submarine for the first time" and it's before zephyr shows up and sets up his room. The clues were there from the very beginning!!

i am ill.

Plot the unplottable.

Chart the unchartable.

they are so cutieful,,, two of my favs from this game actually (which is saying a lot because i love all of them)

...and it's probably one of the best detective games I've ever played, the Grimoire dev team has done it again, I was mesmerized from beginning to end, and the animation budget really skyrocketed, the scenes at the end of the game are gonna stay with me forever!

Also... I just had a thought that sadly I had AFTER I was done streaming it... but SPOILERS FOR THE GAME AND TANGLE TOWER!!!

Hey detective Grimoire fandom.

Godrik Gripp x Magnus Mortuga x Felicia Stonetop doomed polycule.

as much as i love to hate wirman (/silly, he's super fun actually) he was actually right. about gripp at least.

i know that like everyone knew gripp was actually smart and stuff but he like instantly clocked that the whole silly thing as a facade, as well as that cornelius was much more than just a piece of branding.