Lonnie

So rn I'm romancing Florian, the guy that looked like the most normal between the three. I kind of expected him to pull out some really bad stuff because of course, the game is about dating killers and he looked too chill, but FLORIAN MY LOVE WHAT THE HECK. My husband killed Josè??? For who don't know: Josè is the guy that tried to romance the MC in the initial chapters and was brutally rejected because he's an idiot, but in this last chapter he looked a teeny tiny bit like a better person. And Florian poisoned the pills he took for his anxiety. And anonimously bullied him online. And boycotted his own career?? I didn't get this part, to be honest.

He was a soldier in the army, amazing. He knows how to read people, we kind of expected that since he's a psychologist and that's his job. He wrote a secret santa and signed it as C? It's probably related to one of the spinoffs, but guess who has no money to spend on games and isn't willing to watch someone play them. Why killing Josè though? was it because he bothered MC??

He did hand her some drawings of her that he did on one of the last chapters (I think it happens regardless of wheter you romance him or not), and he always acted very nice to her, he doesn't make her pay for therapy sessions and I'm not going to forget the fact that our dude put a hand on MC's waist towards the end of the second chapter when he proposes to accompany her home and you gotta choose between the 3, so it might be a yandere situation. It feels way too stereotypical... Even though this game plays a lot around stereotypes. We have murderous onlyfans theatre kid, murderous chill rich boy with a deal with the devil (technically not the devil, but we'll call them that) and now murderous yandere psychologist. Even though now I'm starting to suspect Florian also has a deal with our devilish friend, since we've seen golden marks on his arm at the end of this last chapter and Cain's marks also were golden... though Cain's ones were more like a sigil, while Florian's mark looked like some animal slashes. Maybe they have a different kind of deal? (I heard Cain has to kill once every X or else the person they love the most will die, but I'm not sure if that's an actual thing or what).

Also, I'm pretty sure Ned is related to the devil guy. He's clearly got something going on with Cain, he's appeared out of nowhere and is trying to act like he's a good friend with MC, he first says he's french and everyone says nobody would have guessed he's french, but then in the truth or dare game if you ask him if he's really french he says that no, he's not french, giving it an explanation like "you come from where you feel at home", and then in the balcony he says he's from a little of everywhere, AND ALWAYS IN THE BALCONY (I might be going crazy here) I think he replies to one of MC's thoughts? I played the chapter twice and everytime that scene plays I get the doubt if MC actually spoke out loud or if she was still thinking, but I'm pretty sure she doesn't speak. So that's really sus.

Ty to @the-ultimate-quokka for telling me abt the fact the Florian’s profile changes after the chapter. Gotta rant for a moment.

Anyway ig we finally understand why his birthday was so weird compared to the others. I was always wondering about that.

If he’s a vampire or some other kind of supernatural being ig that also explains why he covers up so much. Maybe the “joke” about him burning up in the sun back at camp was actually real. And it’s not like it’d be too random bc Cain has that whole pact thing going on.

After a bit of research tho, I learned that tuberculosis was especially severe during ww2 (the time period from when the old photo of Florian was taken). If yall remember from Caleb's funeral, Florian's parents died of tuberculosis, which adds up. He also said that his parents died "a long time ago" which is waaaaayy more true than we thought. They also apparently had a complicated relationship.

Vampires are also known for having black hair, pale skin, and red eyes. Florian’s eyes aren’t red exactly but they’re a magenta-ish pink. As far I i know, Florian is the only character in the entire game that’s shown with a “unnatural” eye color. Plus colored contacts exist. Also, Florian is confirmed to have dyed his hair white and that his original hair color was black.

And btw

Clusters of death from illness = tuberculosis during ww2

"Within the same family or same community"

"Tuberculosis was associated with outbreaks of vampirism."

Also, I just remembered we still need an answer as to what he said to us in this scene

Based on our reaction, we were pretty surprised. But if u took the Florian route, you'll give him a kiss on the cheek and he'll say "I'll tell you after your trip to Paris," so I'm not sure if what he hinted at was smth along the lines of "I'm not who I say I am", "I have a secret to tell you," or "I'm not human." The last option is probably out of the picture tho.

(nah I was wrong. The text is revealed if you buy the portrait at the end of the chapter lol.)

You get this conversation if you choose to pressure Florian about his family in chapter 13. This scene is referring to your first meeting with Florian during ur first session when you're sharing personal things about each other (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong). We DEFINITELY did not remember it wrong, so he was totally lying to us back then and is currently trying to gaslight us.

Now, I might be looking wayyyy too far into this now but]

These two are friendly at first

Then this happens. Why was Florian’s gaze uneasy after hearing smth like that unless it touched a nerve or smth. Why the sudden bad vibes?

This whole conversation about death + complicated family relationships + whatever Florian has going on in the 1940s? Feels purposeful.

If I had to take a wild guess, I'd say that Florian and his family either got into vampirism probably as either a direct or indirect result of the severity of tuberculosis back during the ww2. The complicated family issues probably also had smth to do with the living conditions during the war.