#nell's yapping

oh if i see ONE PERSON complain about this weeks episode being filler. it's on sight.

harmony cobel is the real inventor of the severance procedure. she CREATED THAT. most likely when she was STILL A CHILD. and was told that if she ever sought credit she would banished. no wonder she was so fixated on not only mark but the severed floor as a whole: that is HER BABY. she works there to prove to herself that her invention WORKS.

she has been working for lumon since a child. she was told by JAME EAGEN HIMSELF that he saw kier in her. and then she was fired for something entirely out of her control, something that she could not have been able to predict or stop. the only time she was given credit for her creation was when it backfired and nearly killed the lumon heir. she only got credit when it failed.

she's so fixated on mark because she needs to prove to anyone, even if it's just herself, that her device WORKS. that even two people, who LOVE each other, who's grief permeates their entire life, can work with each other and never know who the other is. but to her it's also a failure, because NO ONE will know she was the reason it was successful. just another corporation, another man, stealing a woman's work and pawning it off as his own.

there’s a color cipher when you input “forget the past” (which i’ll include without the glitches for anyone with photosensitivity/sensitivity to flashing lights who wants to see it!)

and the decoded version is this!

transcript is in alt text but just in case it’s too long:

TWO DIMENSIONS TO AND FRO /

YOU ALWAYS KNOW WHICH WAY TO GO /

IF YOU'RE LOST DON'T BE AFRAID /

IN EUCLYDIA WE HAVE IT MADE /

RUN TOO FAR TO RIGHT OF FRAME /

YOU'LL APPEAR ON LEFT AGAIN /

JUMP TOO HIGH DON'T CRY OR FRET /

YOU'LL POP UP FROM THE GROUND I BET /

IN THIS PLACE THERE IS NO FEAR /

LOVED ONES WILL BE EVER NEAR /

ROLES AND RULES ALWAYS CLEAR /

so! i have spent the last 10 hours going through this godforsaken website and finding everything i could on my own, and solving a bunch of stuff - and now i'm gonna share that work with y'all!!

below is a link for the doc i've compiled all my stuff onto - heads up that its NOT VERY AESTHETIC and NOT VERY DETAILED, its mainly for those who wanna know where things lead but either don't wanna or can't spend all that time solving ciphers and stuff

also there are a lot of flashing lights in some important lore sections so i figured if you wanted to see that stuff but didn't wanna risk anything i'd add it in for you!

there is a spoiler warning on the very first page, and the first section is just the stuff you can find without needing much searching and decoding, but i hope everything is accessible enough!

and please keep in mind this is a living document! anything that i may have missed please let me know and i will be sure to add it asap!

so. spoilers below cut

spoilers for the website under cut!