Brandon: the missing evidence.
I keep saying that there’s no signs of Brandon had a problem. What I mean is there’s nothing even suggesting he did until he died. There’s no discarded pill bottles, there’s no used needles. We saw emails where people were complaining, but only after he had died. Before that there was nothing about mood swings, hints of brandon sneaking away, no signs of him being intoxicated. People noticed when he wasn’t acting right, because it was outside the norm.
Again these people are on an island. There’s nowhere to go and hide, everything is too packed close together and someone would have seen something.
With how much was aired out in game the fact that there’s no mention of this makes me wonder if this is proof that there’s nothing to find. There would be no reason to hide this considering how Connor is dumping the files of everything. Brandon killed 3 people and died of drugs I doubt knowing he had a problem would warm him up to anyone.
Knowing that someone who was in need of corpses had access to the type of drugs that killed him. If he was dosed, then there would be no signs of drug abuse because quite literally the drugs weren’t used.
I'm sorry, but I can't help myself: I WILL write on this one, even if some points are for my analysis video.
So we know that he first died of overdose and only after being reborn as starling murders happen, correct? I already wrote under other person's rant that possibilities of him getting fentanyl in the first place vary: an accident that sent him to island's First Aid center, shady people stealing and selling it (why not?), and, now that I'm thinking about it, laboratory working on starling project could possibly order fentanyl. You make a good point that they're all on an island: it's a tight place, most people know each other, especially they know people in mascot suits, so it's logical to assume that Brandon's colleagues would eventually learn his shenanigans with drugs and talk about it. I would believe the claim that Brandon is a drug addict if we were talking about Shipwrecked 64 legacy edition, because he was a drug addict back there. But this is a full version, and full version has a lot of info filtered already (along with Broadside Beach universe in general). So I don't think claiming him as such is right when usage of fentanyl by him is only mentioned once in a new game. But maybe it's just not important where he got it, even if it might clear some things.
It is pretty much in the face that victim's injuries stay with them after transfer: Nathan's skull is split, legs are broken and organs damaged, so as starling he limps slowly and hunch; Gary's face was smashed and boiled in oil - my poor guy cannot see and feel his face, throat and respiratory tract; Olivia got beaten up, dragged through broken glass and drowned in a lake - she's constantly freezing. And it's not only pain and fear they feel, but betrayal (Olivia) and hunger (Gary). So imagine what Brandon's state on a permanent basis is. I'm not going to write how fentanyl works, but if to sum up: he's on borderline of ecstasy and agony, always feels like vomiting his stomach out while his head spins in a best way possible. Always. Due to Nulla Terra's mineral that considered a dose in his blood as a norm he's always on cloud nine yet he feels like he's about to drop dead again because that's exactly what happened last time. Brandon just like others feels pain, fear and betrayal, but he's somewhere deep in a subconcious while "Bucky" personality in charge acts all wacky and homicidal: you can pretty much see it in color of webpages he throws at you while chasing you. And all of that unfairness is due to a drug and a corrupt company.
I also want to point out that perhaps the reason why all four of them ended up so aggressive yet so easy to brainwash into being cartoony fluffs is due to them being revived either right after their death or in interval of three days before their bodies could start decomposing. A reason why it didn't work with Rex as intended: he was dead for 16 years approximately. Or maybe old man's body was cryogenically frozen, idk.
Maybe we both will get debunked, maybe not. Either way, mulling these topics over is not wrong.
I'm not disputing his cause of death. I'm only disputing the ownership of the drugs.
And plus Bucky cares about his brother more than anything. Nathan should have been the most brutal death. Simply because Bucky wants his brother back. But Gary had it the worst. I simply wonder if some past memories of his food being tampered with made him more vicious at the thought of someone pretending to be a chef?
I will be honest, I haven't heard of any theory or hint of his food getting contaminated with the exception of one person theorising on "Brandon" video (which I guess is outdated?) that "it could be Nathan who caused Brandon's overdose by putting too much fentanyl into whatever medication he had" out of jealousy, but there's no way to back this up and it's irrelevant.
Sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My theory boils down to a couple factors.
The first one being that if Brandon didn’t own the drugs he took, how did he take them? Easiest solution to that is that it was in his food. People eat.
The second thing that caught my attention is Gary’s death was brutal but in a way that doesn’t make a lot of sense. Bucky’s priority is his brother so someone pretending to be his brother (which was how Bucky-Brandon perceived him) should have had a more brutal death. Someone pretending to be a chef could have struck a nerve if he were poisoned and cause the more brutal nature of the murder. There were cleaner and less messy ways to kill Gary.
It’s less of there’s direct evidence for what I think and more of the behavior is really weird and for what we know things don’t line up. I’m just trying to make it fit.











