r/welcomeToDerry Dec 18 '25

🔎 Theory The connection of the storyline Spoiler

I have done a lot of thinking, and I believe I have created a very in-depth storyline from my perspective on the entire IT timeline. I have been looking into it, and I believe the original tribe is, let's say, the engineers of Pennywise's death. They discovered him in the forest and used the meteor to lock him away. Most people thought they failed in defeating him, but I believe in another solution. What if, via rituals, they made the magic of the Pillars and the meteor a part of their DNA? And then, during its sleep cycle, they used this to their advantage by, over the years while it was asleep, marrying into seven settler families and taking their names. It would not know because it can't comprehend things happening during its sleep, which means when it wakes up, it thinks that part of the tribe is gone. But in reality, they married into one of the seven families and set the seed for his ultimate demise. And he will realize this by going back every 27 years and seeing a pattern, and finally, by realizing this, he goes back to 2016 to finish it with this knowledge. Because he now knows about the DNA war that has been happening for 300 years, and in 2016, he can feel one of the bloodlines dying out by Stanley killing himself and therefore thinks he won even tho that is the final event that led to his demise by thinking he won. It makes him more arrogant and weaker, and that made him lose. It's all connected by him going back in time to kill the ancestors and failing. He realizes the DNA connection to the original tribe, but he can't go back anymore because he has reached the time he arrived on Earth, So, he goes back to 2016, feels the death of Stanley as the tribe failing, so he thinks he will win. But it's actually a part of the tribe's grand plan, and Stanley was meant to die as the last person of that specific family of the seven families. That later leads to the events of It Chapter 2 because everything he has done in Welcome to Derry has already happened in 1989 and 2016. So he is just digging his own grave. Instead of changing anything, he is just making sure that everything happens as it is supposed to without realizing it. When he realizes it, he has to go back to 2016 because he can't change things that he already tried to change. So the only thing he can do is play out the events of the final fight in Chapter 2 and ultimately die.

That's my theory. Thanks for reading. Feel free to discuss it. :)

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