Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Theories (section)

==Debunked theories==
===Gas is a Mutagen===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

The gas is the reason for the mutations. Ruby, the Hound, and the Bear (and possibly Red) are known to be infected, and all of them were either next to the Back Room (Bear and Hound), were in the back room when we activated the gas (Ruby), or are commonly assumed to have been everywhere (Red). Tom is not infected at the moment because he has never been near the gas. Ruby is growing her eye where it is because the gas entered through the claw wound.

Alternatively, going by the [[Ruby_Quest_Theories#Tom_Gouged_Out_His_Own_Eye|Eye Gouge]] theory, the gas went through our pneumatic pipe and up to Tom. It likely infected him when he opened it to get the antidote, and got in his eye. This would be why he gouged it out after the antidote was received, instead of earlier.

DEBUNKED: Ruby's condition has apparently been around since birth, and we are in an experimental medical facility. Therefore, its quite likely everyone who is mutated is either like that because of their condition, or because of the experimental cures. The gas is a defense system, so it is very unlikely to be an attempt at treatment or anything like that.

===Tom Clones===
[[Image:Tom clones.png|thumb|right]]
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

The Tom we see now is not the same Tom we saw back then.

Made after part 3, the theory went that the original Tom died from arsenic poisoning. The Tom we met after our dream was a new Tom. The evidence for this includes: Tom vanishing, Tom appearing somewhere no one had access to, Tom reappearing suddenly right where we left him. I would go into more detail, but Tom's story has mostly checked out. The discrepancies don't lead us to think he is someone else entirely... but there are still problems with his story.

===Red didn't kill himself at all===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

The picture with the dead Red doesn't have a blood trail between the wall Red wrote on and the place he is lying dead, while he'd need a lake of blood to write all that he's written. Also, suicide by passing several spikes through your head can be quite difficult to perform.

The theory has been officially proved wrong since Weaver said the trail is absent for simplicity of drawing.

Characters in Steel Glen, especially mutants, ''do'' seem to contain [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HighPressureBlood lakes of blood].

Also, one of the items found in the holding room was an empty red spraypaint can

===Red was Murdered===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

It must be pretty hard to drive a pair of wooden spikes through your head, draw some words on the wall, then walk back to the middle of the room and pose for us. Something out there could have killed Red.

The only real hole in this theory is WHAT is written on the wall - NEVER CATCH ME NEVERNEVERNEVER fits Red's personality perfectly, so the killer either knew him very well, or it really was a suicide.

DEBUNKED: He definitely committed suicide to lure out Ace. His bomb and letter confirm that he wanted Ace there, and his suicide was the way to lure Ace out of hiding.

===Stitches is /tg/===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE, but UNLIKELY</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

Stitches could be an in-game manifestation of /tg/. He seemed to want to communicate with Ruby, he showed her an item, and he was "stitched together" like some kind of Frankenstein's monster. This could be symbolic of the nature of /tg/, which is also a mosaic of personalities and minds. He also seemed to be bound or hindered somehow and was surrounded by what looked like images and text. This could be symbolic of how /tg/ has trouble making decisions and taking action because of its inability to reach consensus. 

Weaver said that we'd seen Stitches before <citation here> and may well have been talking about /tg/, but this theory loses water considering that we may have seen him from the gas room while searching for Tom's antidote.

'''DEBUNKED:''' Stitches seems to be a regularly-occurring character, like everyone else in the facility. He appears on Weaver's cast lineup and has been shown to be semi-lucid at least once.

=== "F" is a dead or missing staff member ===
<s>PLAUSIBLE</s> '''DEBUNKED'''

"F"'s arm was found and used on the hand scanner. Even if he is still alive, he appears to have fallen in to some trouble. <s>Other body parts we have found may have belonged to him as well.</s>

'''DEBUNKED:''' Now that we've seen him, we know that he's alive, well, and paranoid, and he cut off his own hand to stave off the infection.

=== "F" is a bird ===
<s>PLAUSIBLE</s> '''DEBUNKED'''

Continuing the trend of character names coming from Animal Crossing, "F" may be short for Franklin, the name of a bird from AC. Evidence for multiple bird characters comes from The Metal Glen poem, which speaks of "birds" in the plural.

'''DEBUNKED:''' He's Filbert, and he's a squirrel

===Stitches was a Hallucination===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> <strike>UNLIKELY</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

<strike>Several of the events surrounding Stitches don't seem to comport with reality as it's experienced afterward. (the white out, etc.) However, we did receive an item from Stitches - the cross peg - which makes him being completely unreal a bit unlikely.</strike>

Both Tom and Ruby saw and interacted with Stitches in part 8, injecting him with Tranquilizer after tripping him, and then shoving him into a locker with the group photo.

===Stitches is Useless/Stitches is a Red Herring===
<strike>VIABLE</strike> <s>UNLIKELY</s> '''DEBUNKED''' He is a recurring character, and has been confirmed as a former patient.

When Stitches was revealed from behind the tarp, there was a fish painted in blood next to him. Blood is red, a herring is a fish. "Red herring" is a phrase that means "misleading clue." Google that shit, nigga. This could merely have been a visual pun or it could have been a suggestion to regard Stitches as a distraction. When Weaver was directly questioned about the connection between Stitches and this possibility, he did not deign to answer.

Additionally: The poem "The Metal Glen," part 5 lines 3 and 4:

 The bear cried "This is just our lot,"
 And surrendered to his pain.

"The Metal Glen" Part 6 line 6:

 The bear knotted up himself and died

When Ruby encountered Stitches after Red's bomb exploded, it was apparent that he had Bear ears. 

'''<s>Courses of action suggested by this theory: Do not rely on Stitches for anything. If he turns out to be helpful in some way, fine; but do not bank on it and do not turn Ruby's or Tom's back on him.</s>'''

He was very useful indeed in the end. When Ace went PSYCHO RAAAAAGE on us, Tom stayed behind to ward him off, but Stitches pulled a One Winged Angel right at the end and was presumably killed by Ace, but made a small margin of time where Ruby, Tom, and Jay could escape.

===Tom has Crossed the Line of "Not Surprised by Anything Anymore"===
'''<strike>VIABLE</strike>''' '''DEBUNKED'''

<strike>This is the reason he didn't seem particularly shocked about the most recent plot events: He already saw Ruby killing him in a record, and nothing, absolutely nothing this game can throw at him, could surprise him anymore.</strike>

Tom seemed pretty goddamn surprised at mouthdoor.

===Ace is a Piece of Emobird===
<strike>'''PLAUSIBLE'''</strike><strike> DEBUNKED</strike>PLAUSIBLE

<strike>The character "Ace" in Animal Crossing is a bird, and we've never seen both in the same place at the same time, nor have they ever been referenced separately--indeed, there has been no mention of this patient in the facility records (with one exception, see below), while all others so far have been referenced or at least appear in videos or notes Tom and Ruby have found.

"Emobird" begins to appear only after Ace is badly wounded by a trap, and Ace hasn't been seen since "Emobird" started showing up.

The only place we have seen Emobird in past records is in the photo of all the Metal Glen patients, but this doesn't necessarily disprove him being Ace, as Ace is not in the photo and it could be a very old photo.

^This is also possible because the picture was covered by wall chunks.

We saw Jay's body and Ace in the same room. Also, Ace wasn't exactly a bird anymore.</strike>

When Jay was found and carried out of his cold storage prison by Tom, he seemed a bit taller, as shown while he was hunched over.  This being said, he has the same shape as "ACE" who was obviously a giant in his own right.  Though it is unknown how long Jay was kept in that water filtration Unit.  Not only that...  it is unknown if the WFU could have also been a makeshift revival locker of it's own, that ace kept jay alive with.  Ace's mask clearly resembles a bird's beak.  And no flesh is shown on ACE aside from his tentacle face.  What I'm saying is... that Jay's wounds were more than coincidental.  As these treatments were based from the strange flesh that seems to grow throughout the facility, ace could be made up of it, completely.  A total opposite entity that broke off of him, and became malevolent.  This... "new ace" attacked and subdued jay and stored him in the unit, causing him to become atrophied over time, though never truly dieing, for one reason or another.  While he was a "clone of jay" in a sense, he would obviously have a similar mind, though tainted with whatever darkness the flesh and the "old ones" had.  So this new ace, which ruby found to be "unfriendly" merely at a glance, was running around with whatever orders it remembered from jay's latent memories, which would explain why it listens to Bella.  If only to an extent.  While it is evident he never did anyone any REAL harm, this is not to say he wouldn't. /tg/ was lucky enough to avoid that situation.  As seen with the other mutations, it definitely made all of the other patients quite deadly.

=== Filbert really was clean ===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> <strike>'''VIABLE'''</strike> <strike>'''UNLIKELY'''</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

<strike>Filbert apparently spent several days in solitude behind his closet. If he was infected all along, as it seemed, the mutations would have occurred long before Ruby met him. No, it was more likely that it wasn't until Ruby who, by punching him with her prickly fist, finally caused the infection, that instantly mutated his right arm as well as the cheek he took the hit in.

Also, looking back to when we first entered the analyzer room. When we flicked the blood from the hand, who we know know was Filbert's, into the analyzer, it came back as inert. But the blood from Stitches AND Tom came back as infected.

However, the notes found in Filbert's office seem to indicate that either he WAS clean and just had a ton of symptoms of being infected, or he's insane and was trying to fool himself. Either way, he's not clean now.

Also, it seems Filbert will be an upcoming boss because he returned with a somewhat resemblance to the Hound Zombie. He seems relatively pissed, and claims he will "Make Tom and Ruby clean again".

... /tg/ is fucked.</strike>

So, it turned out that Filly was totally infected, as his shoulder, ears, and thigh sprouted mouths. Tom killed Fil' with his MANLY PHYSIQUE and a touch of PSYCHO RAAAAAGE.

Somehow Filbert was infected somewhere along the line.

===#6 Is A Shapeshifter===
<strike>VIABLE</strike> <strike>DEBUNKED</strike> <strike>'''PLAUSIBLE?'''</strike><strike> '''''Not entirely impossible'''''</strike>''''' Entirely Impossible'''''

Stretched evidence: <strike>It attempted to pretend it was Tom, in spite of its appearance.</strike> Maybe #6 was once capable of transforming, but is no longer? Alternatively, it might shapeshift in a different way - it grows and grows, out of control, and could conceivably make a people-puppet to use as a tool. If what we talked to was one such people-puppet, then it looks like #6 can't make them perfectly - the puppet had no eyes and was a quadruple amputee. If it can make puppets in this manner, the dummy could be one such abomination.

 Jan 16 07:13:38 <TG_Weaver> 7) #6 might be a shapeshifter.
 Jan 16 07:13:40 <TG_Weaver> This... uh

===Monitor figure is the Room Dummy===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

<strike>See above, if Monitor figure is rooted to one spot, the chance that it's inside the dummy is possible. The dummy has no way of breaking and it is immobile...</strike>

The monitor figure is Bella.

===Emobird is #6===
<strike>PLAUSIBLE</strike> '''DEBUNKED'''

<strike>It is constantly dark in the upper lab B, and Emobird complains about darkness. This suggests a connection, and it might be possible that he is manifesting himself outside his cell as a ghost or something. He was shut to lab B because he was getting dangerous, but perhaps he was not being malicious at all - just a danger to those around him anyway. Perhaps the darkness that he inadvertently causes is dangerous to everyone else.</strike>

<strike>We found who Subject 6 really is [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3494380/#3494403 here.]</strike>

"Our" Tom was Subject 6 all along.

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