Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Theories (section)

====Tom Gouged Out His Own Eye====
'''PLAUSIBLE'''

Tom's story simply doesn't add up. He was dragged up a ladder by a creature he did not see, which gouged out his eye, locked him in a room, and left? Sounds like something Red might do, but Tom didn't see his attacker. But in the Brig, he was sitting in the corner of the room, away from each and every entrance into the room. There is no way something could have snuck up on him. On top of that, his story is that he lost his eye as soon as we left him, explaining the blood. But, he still had his eye when we saw him on the computer monitor, well after he was taken away.

It is also possible that his eye was taken sometime between the two events. The story may be that he lost his eye as soon as we left, but Ruby spent some time in the rooms beyond before coming back, which leaves "as soon as" up to Tom's sense of time.

It is also possible that the abomination was invisible, therefore Tom could not see it. This, however, could be just a hallucination that actually harmed the one who saw it. Such as Ruby with her third eye. She complained of a severe headache before her eye appeared, just like Tom did before his eye vanished.

So, why is his eye missing? Maybe he was trying to save himself from something worse than loss of depth perception. What if he had transformed, down there, while he was weak on Arsenic and feeling miserable? He fled upstairs, and met Red up in the Monitor Room. Red wasn't going to deal with a monster Tom, and locked him in the room where we found him later. Eventually, Tom knew something was wrong with himself, and that he was monster. To stop the infection from spreading, he removed his own eye.

When Red eventually saw this in the monitors, he knew Tom was safe again, and let him back out. Tom doesn't remember Red from that first encounter because Tom was still a monster. Tom isn't telling Ruby any of this for the same reason Ruby is hiding her third eye - they love each other, and don't want the other to worry about it.

Variant: while poisoned, Tom hallucinated a monster and lost the eye while wandering around in confusion. It was still likely Red that locked him in, though.

PLAUSIBILITY: While initially very likely, new evidence from Part 5 has shown that the room he was taken in was the Holding Room, which means it is exactly FOR holding prisoners. In addition, his mutation was growing extra arms, and had nothing to do with eyes, so if he was crazy enough to try to destroy the mutation, then he wouldn't have started with his eye. He also identified his attacker as Ace, who we know also carried away Ruby and hid her from everyone else too.

How exactly he lost his eye is still up in the air, however, but it has become more unlikely that Ace was at fault, <s>especially since Ace is the facility's doctor</s> Ace was/kinda still is the security guard (which still means he's unlikely to really hurt the former patients).

Filbert stated that he cut off his hand to halt the spread of the infection. Ace might have removed Tom's eye to <s>prevent</s> cause further mutation.