YMMV / It's Not Me, It's My Basement

• Adorkable: Dr. D. Light, a traveling doctor with an incredibly positive mindset and a kind heart. His attempts to connect with Embry often end in awkwardness, but he never stops trying to reach out to them and help them. Which makes his death all the sadder.
• Alternative Character Interpretation: Some fans theorize there actually is no monster and that the whole game is just Embry trying to cope with their parents' deaths. Some even theorize that it was Embry who killed them, accidentally or otherwise, giving an explanation for the monster suddenly speaking with Embry's voice on day three and Embry's nightmares about the monster looking like them.
• Fridge Horror: When Embry attempts to open the door at Dr. D. Light's request, they realize the key is missing. Eventually, they find it in their toy box, but what is unnerving about the whole scene is that Embry is certain that's not where they put the key. There is a heavy implication that the monster somehow managed to leave the basement when Embry was asleep and put the key into the wrong place when returning it.
• The Woobie
  • Embry. Their parents were killed gruesomely, and they've been forced to care for their murderer for months. They seem to have nightmares about their parents every time they go to sleep and the stress of having to feed the monster in secret is slowly chipping away at their mental health. Ultimately, they lose the only person who could have understood them due to their own fear and decide to confront the monster, in a way that heavily implies they just want it all to end.
  • Dr. D. Light. He was just trying to help a troubled child and is not only treated horribly by said child, but in the end is eaten alive by a monster.

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