Anyways, following Solstice, they began to work closer with Cedric, Rue and Proto, mostly because they're the closest people to them besides Player and Niko (and they aren't around anymore), and the children would work with the World Machine to try and reconstruct the world.

I'm pretty sure it's said that the world was built on the memories of people the Author knew, so to maintain the structure of the world, the three would go around asking people in the simulation about people they knew, places they had been, etc.

It would be a slow process, especially in areas like the Barrens, where the place is sparsely populated, but over the coming years, as the world recovered, pieces of the would would be reconstituted, and rebuilt, probably starting with the Refuge. They would then be filled with people, and the asking would continue, eventually spider-webbing until the entire world is reconstructed.

The World Machine would probably also change some stuff about the world to make it more comfortable for the people living in it, albeit subtly (or as subtle as spawning something in in plain sight can be) like placing a door or roof on Lamplighter's 'house.'

Probably just me wishing everybody has a happy ending, though.

Which is why their eyes ALSO glow yellow much like the sun.

Annnd when exposed to their phosohor type for long enough they gain funky powers.

Like a new born baby eye's are almost like looking at the sun while and old person's eye's barealy have any glow

And the moment they pass away their eyes fully turn off

Also TWM is a massive rose tinted window. The author skipping the more awful parts like a malnourished Calamus that chose to prioritize Alula above all, the physical and mental consequences of Kip's and lamplighters excessive work and so on. The author instead choosing to create their digital others in the way he wanted them to be remembered. Not the suffering of their final days, but the strength and warmth in everyone of them.

Is what we see in the game all that exists in the world, or are there other places like the mines and graveyard that exist but weren’t meant to be accessed? It seems like the simulation was designed to be like a game, since it wasn’t expected to become “real,” so how livable is it? Does everyone have housing? Can everyone access food and water?

What was the world like before Niko got there? Did any time pass, or was it just frozen in stasis, exactly the way it was when it was created? If that’s the case, how do people remember things from before the game? Are they just fake memories? How much do they remember? Where did these memories come from—did the Author just go around asking people about their lives?

Are the people we met just. The entire population of the world? Do people remember having friends and family that don’t exist in this world, like Alula and Calamus’s dad (seriously what’s the deal with that), or do they not remember anyone like that at all? Either way, it must be pretty awful.

With all that in mind, after Solstice is over and everyone’s adjusting, people are going to start realizing something’s wrong. I feel like the Author’s children would have to explain what’s going on at some point. And then what? What are you supposed to react, knowing that your entire world is a simulated copy of a world that was actually destroyed like yours was supposed to be? Knowing that you’re a copy of someone who’s gone? What about people who were npcs with one line of dialogue, what’s that like compared to being someone “important” like, say, Silver or Kip?

Anyways, living in the simulation must be kind of messed up.

I feel like while yeah, it would be messed up living in the simulation, you have to remember that the Author put so much work into this that I highly doubt everything that exists was just within the constraints of the game- the Npcs with one line of dialogue, for example, probably did have whole lives, right?