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Fridge Brilliance
- Why are the latex beasts already driven by a Horror Hunger to engulf and assimilate any human on sight especially determined to catch you? Even the ones designed to prioritize on stronger prey rather than the weak? Because you are Secretly Dying, infected by the same deadly virus that ended civilization, and only have a few hours left to live before you succumb. The latex beasts were originally created to be the ultimate vaccine against the ulimate disease. They're trying to save your life. Even if said assimilation means your Death of Personality.
- Yuin, a feminine goat-like creature with exceptional Objectshifting capabilities, can shapeshift into just about anything. So why do they insist on assuming only the form of a fake savepoint? Because you, the player, interact with this object more than any other; you need to save your game often due to the Nintendo Hard difficulty.
- The different goo species normally hate each other. Why is it when Colin gets assimilated by the light-latex puddles on the Library floor, he/she immediately wants to hug/flirt with Puro? Because the dark latex wolf tried to setup his own farm, and raised all the resident monsters from tiny blobs.
- Alternatively, both 'transfurs' in the Library still have blue eyes, indicating Colin didn't suffer Death of Personality. It's possible Colin was being friendly to Puro, and is now taking advantage of being a latex to hug him. As for why the female variant tries flirting, likely either the Third Law of Gender-Bending or a case of Jumping the Gender Barrier.
- Why is the Headless Knight in Dr. K's area? As a horribly deformed creature, he's likely studying it to understand how and why it has no head. Likewise the scientist despises putting Colin in 'unwinnable situations', so the monster having no eyes or ears to sense a human's trapped with it, is a more ideal subject.
- Puro, a dark latex beast cannot survive forever without a human host. Without one, he would undergo a regeneration cycle (a common quirk of his kind) where he'll revert to crystalline form, and back again. Puro rightfully fears this process will destroy his sapience and because his species have already rejected him, he'll be alone forever. Doctor K in the ESC ending provides him the means to survive indefinitely out in the wilderness with Colin, saying he found a "biorobot" for the monster, no different from a human. Anyone who knows what happened in the Chernobyl disaster can tell you what a "biorobot" is - they were civil and military human liquidators called upon to clean up and contain the consequences of the nuclear accident. Puro managed to find another human survivor, and assimilated them, so he could be with you.
- Maybe Fridge Brilliance when you remember there's barely any non-transfurred humans. Most likely, Dr. K gave Puro a pre-transfurred human. Maybe a white latex? Or maybe something similar to Prototype.
- Lingering in the Tiger Shark's room on the deck for too long after defeating him causes him to throw a shark at Colin, transfurring him. However, the Tiger Shark is the only shark that ever displays tendencies of Terrestrial Sea Life, all of the other sharks refuse to pursue Colin on dry land, and the transfur screen shows Colin not looking happy at all. There's a good possibility that shark Colin ended up suffocating and dying offscreen on the deck.
- Given the Tiger Shark's awareness of his playmates, there's a good chance he knew a shark couldn't survive on dry land, making his Sore Loser tendencies far worse.
- Then again, some of his buddies were seen sitting on the railings and catwalks near the pools, so it's possible they can survive on land, like the Zora, so long as they don't stray too far from their habitat.
- While the Death of Personality element in some assimilations is quite terrifying, one needs to consider that for every assimilation that results in Colin still being himself, that means he inadvertently gave a Death of Personality to the latex beast, when most of them are established to be intelligent.
- This can border into Heartwarming in Hindsight if this was intentional on the beast's part (it was always meant to be this way with the Genetic Project as the monsters were supposed to be sentient vaccines for an incurable disease, not a Grey Goo doomsday scenario). Like with Headless Knight, it was more than happy to let Colin be the dominant-half of their merger, while it wags its tail.
- The latex monsters are just lab animals following their instincts. You the player, see them as threats that must be avoided. The goo beasts? They see you as the greatest thing that's ever happened to them; assimilating you makes some normal, others stronger, smarter and more. As they bang on the doors when you escape, you've denied them the change they're desperately hoping for.
- Dr. K is established as a Well-Intentioned Extremist determined to bring about the return of humanity, with him only antagonising Colin because the latter carries The Plague that wiped out humanity in the first place, and could easily accidentally give it to other humans and wipe out humanity again. However, creatures like the Civet and the Greenhouse birds show that the latex beasts, monsters that can assimilate humans or turn them into more latex beasts, and who cause all humans they turn to suffer Death of Personality and a Face–Monster Turn, have already escaped the tower. The odds humanity can pick itself back up in a world with them roaming free in it aren't very good.
