As a Fridge subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy. You Have Been Warned.
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Fridge Brilliance
- Golden Skull is dressed impeccably in white — except for his hands. He seems to be wearing red gloves. As the part of Lucas who doesn't want to forgive himself, he wants to remember that he has the blood of his friends on his hands.
- Golden Skull claims he can end Lafcadio instantly. Why, then, does he lead him through the murders, the clocktower's events, and ask him to make his own judgement? Because he could theoretically end him in this loop, but he can't stop him from coming back in the next. Lafcadio's independent existence, Bloody Girl's intervention, ways to save the guests — all of these are only possible because Lucas has reached a point where he genuinely considers forgiving himself. Even the Red King revolts against Golden Skull. It all depends now on Lucas' decision. So his guilt — in the shape of Golden Skull — tries to discourage him from intervening by making him face the truth in the clocktower, then appealing to his nostalgia.
- If you listen closely, you hear hisses from the mansion's nightmare engine. The tube the Red King is trapped in is an iron lung. Just like the breathing mask that forced Lucas to live after his fall, so does the iron lung keep him suspended, alive despite his frail condition, but trapped in pain.
- He has to heave for breath whenever he uses Tequila's mask power, although it enables him to sing that high. It points at Lucas' receiving damage to his respiratory system. Most likely the fire's heat and smoke damaged his lungs permanently.
- When Lafcadio first wakes up, he's lying on the floor with the sun shining through the window. The beams it casts on the barred window show him symbolically imprisoned, but by nothing more substantial than shadow.
- You might wonder why the game lasts until midnight when the bombs that cost Lucas his friends went off at around 3 PM... Then you realize that it's because midnight was the time Lucas intended for the bombs to go off at, after which there wouldn't be a mansion to explore.
- It also explains why the copy of the mansion reached after saving all the other guests is always up in flames - this copy of the mansion takes place after when Lucas intended the bombs to go off, which is offset from the main mansion by a full twelve hours. (So when its 1PM in the main mansion, it's 1AM in the burning mansion)
- Ever wonder why Seven Clubs seems particularly nasty towards Tequila Belle? Well, considering he's Lucas Bondes, Tequila's Ex, it makes perfect sense. Seven Clubs is possibly even the part of Lucas that was still angry and bitter at her when they broke up.
- The Bloody Girl discourages you from hanging around after saving someone's life. This is because ultimately there's nothing good or healthy to see there - they died, and that's reality; trying to imagine, in-depth, a world where they were saved and survived is likely to force you to confront the truth too soon and would only torment you further in any case.
Fridge Horror
- The notes in the portrait room imply that the murders used to happen differently. One example is that Clay faced the spider, but he always killed it. The Golden Skull later confirms he can change the loop's events as he pleases when he remarks that he might change Redd and Greyson's scenario to be worse (have Redd die second instead and make him watch Greyson die). Just to heighten his own — Lucas's — torment. How many different iterations did the loop go through before the current one? What horrific ways for his friends to die did he imagine up in his fantasies?
