#going crazy

Based off of some research August(The man from the shadow) is from the players past, resulting from trauma and other events blah blah. But that’s all the info i got. NOW what if August is a remake of someone the player used to know? Like their mind knows August but at the same time doesn’t, like a person who you have history with but your mind hasn’t registered it. Now based off that, i’d LIKE to believe (head canon) that August was a past lover/ significant other. Now using THAT logic I’d also like to think(head canon) that the player in the past went through abuse when they were with August. But not physical, mostly mental. Manipulation, gaslighting and the thought that August was probably an EXTREMELY suffocating partner. The type to want your location 24/7, want to know who your with, always interrogate you or go through your stuff etc. To the point where the player couldn’t handle being with August, he’d probably threaten them physically or emotionally. Then something probably happened and the player had a typical trauma response where they don’t remember their past or a specific part of their life after an event. Now back at the present, August doesn’t physically haunt the player as a person but more of what the mind is trying to piece together of what it remembers about August, like a figure or “imaginary friend”. Kinda like the logic behind sleep paralysis.

My brain fucking sucks.