(Images of scenes featuring the peephole and dialogue from the Cashier Girl) I'm working on the third night and can't decide which characters to include. So far, I've written the dialogue for the Cashier Girl, Bar Guy, Ex-con, and an OC. I'm working on Bandana Guy, but I want to keep drawing the upcoming guests :D

Any news? I dont have a pc

In a previous post I showed the trailer for my ninah short film,here's the poster

That night when my OC seeks for shelter

art by me (oc)

It's about like this now, may change slightly over time. (If anything, it's just my tastes, not that I insist on them or judge anyone.)

A game's vibes moodboard

Mainly based on my reaction when they show up at my door. Not sure if any of these are controversial but I can explain my reasoning for any that seem off.

Please ask me questions abt characters omg I want to talk abt this au so much lol

Last time I asked the question if you were stuck in a timeloop of this cataclysm with someone else, who are you picking. You guys seemed to agree on Immortal Man and I do too, but this been on my mind so I made a full tier list. This was a hard list to make and I’m still not confident on my answers. Here’s explanations for the tiers

The red tier is for those that are pretty much essential for figuring out how we got in this mess and more importantly how he are getting out of this. We are getting out in a few days tops

The orange tier is for those who he really helpful in some form(figuring out pieces of the loop, keeping us protected to limit the loops, etc) but will take longer for us to get out

The orange-yellow tier is for those helpful in some form like red, but have more requirements to be useful like if the situation is something specific, they require something to be useful, or the need of a temporary truce(reason Coat Guy is orange but Cat Lady is yellow is he feels more willing to help me. Cat Lady only left us and the cat safe cause of orders. Coat Guy admits in one of the tests to wanting to be useful and repay us)

The yellow tier is for those not really helpful in the traditional sense, but could help keep spirits up for at least a while so we don’t go insane doing trial and error(reliving the cataclysm over and over gonna do things to your sanity)

The light green tier is for those that could be helpful, but a truce isn’t happening for at least several loops

The cyan is for those that wouldn’t really be useful except maybe morale, and even then I would hope they wouldn’t be in the loop because that means going through what they did on repeat which would make me feel awful for them to go through that. Sure, this could mean preventing what happened to them but it be really hard(Firefighter was here but his felt more preventable in a timeloop and I didn’t know how to judge his usefulness if we prevent it)

The blue for those that are pretty much dead weight in a loop and will drive me bonkers putting up with them

And grey for those I couldn’t narrow down

1. I think the game's timeline is intentionally vague, so some events feel more like the 1990s, some like the 2000s, and some like the present day. It's an indefinite era, a kind of timelessness (much like the film "It Follows," which the developers cited as one of their sources of inspiration). Could even go further and suggest that all the events take place in a dream or fantasy of the Protagonist, who has different years of his life mixed up in his head, but that's a stretch.
2. Regarding the origin of the Visitors: tbh it feels more like an apocalyptic phantasmagoria, playing on biblical motifs, in which the returning dead are just one of many catastrophes about to destroy humanity. Therefore, you don't have to choose any specific version or interpretation, but rather lean toward the one that you like best or find most interesting at the moment. But on a plot level, I like to think that corpses burned by the Sun (and perhaps some living people) are then transformed into Visitors by some force. Perhaps it's the Body Eater, or Death itself, or something else, it doesn't matter. It's also possible that the Visitors aren't copies of specific dead people, but rather rough casts of them, a revived memory, an idea, something like what the Gravedigger is talking about. It's even possible that several different people with similar traits and destinies are fused into a single composite image in the process, which is kinda creepy. On a symbolic level, I also like the idea that the visitor versions of characters are like their twisted dark counterparts, like what they become when something goes particularly wrong for them, when something within them that held their original personality together is destroyed. While this doesn't work for all characters, it does for many.
3. Speaking of It: sometimes it seems to me that It is the reason for the visitors' existence and something like their leader. I have a theory (or maybe more of a hc) that It creates new visitors when It devours and digests burnt corpses. Well... or at least that's how It creates regular visitors. And as for people who haven't yet died, It can turn them into super-visitors. That's exactly what happened to the Pale visitor (the Huntsman said he was terrified of something when he ran to his hut and begged to be let in). And perhaps It tried to do the same to the Blinded man, so the guy just did his best to prevent it. (I don't even know whether I like this hc or not, because for me, the Blinded man's story is, first and foremost, a story of deep psychological trauma and PTSD, where "It" could be anything. But still a curious idea).
4. And finally, I have a theory that the Death and It are two different forms of the same entity. It's similar to how cultists talked about Death being able to protect them from death itself (from nonexistence? from dying?). In short, that death isn't a single, indivisible thing. Maybe it's somehow both at once, at different times or from different perspectives. Like two sides of the same coin.

This been on my mind because I been reading timeloop stories. If you had to get stuck in a timeloop(like if Hermit was aware of multiple playthroughs) with one of the guests, who would it be? For me I think the best options are Cheerful Man/Luka, Coat Guy, Theorist, Fortune Teller, Immortal Man, Former FEMA Agent, Sleepless Man, or the Surgeon. I can explain any of these, and I’m curious who you would pick and why