Rw Watcher Spoilers - Blog Posts

[WIP] This guy sure... Watches a lot. Wonder whats up with that

couldnt find it anywhere on the map but there is graffiti of prince from the basegame

what if the slugpup thats not the watcher that we see in the opening cinematic actually kicked the shit out of that mean slugcat with the spear off-screen

ok here is a vague transcript of spinning top (watcher echo)'s voicelines. slowed down

was anyone going to mention this one asset having blue

maybe

Brain World Time!

The true nature of the cyclic world (cerebral realms) is brain, and you can see it slowly get unveiled as the worlds get pushed to the fringes of reality

Fetid Glen has a lobetree (C10) and sentient rot spores floating through it. Fetid is also a future alternate version of Salination (see F05), and both regions only connect to each other and Shattered Terrace, which is incredibly odd.

Perhaps Fetid is not meant to exist, and is being pushed further and further outwards by the ripples. The brain-thoughtform nature of the world slowly beginning to bloom right before you

All the rot (vanilla) regions have the braintree talks and lobetrees too, the Unstable Fringes. OTR does as well, but you see it paired without the rot!

It's clear that the braintree stuff comes first, and THEN the rot

(Notice how similar the stalks seen here are to the Brain Tree from the kickstater? The one that never got implemented but was apparently somehow important? Isn't that so fucking awesome. I always stood by you Brain Tree :) )

As the brain world nature of these strands becomes apparent, it becomes unstable and begins to decay and fall apart. After all, if you had your skin peeled off, wouldn't it get infected more easily?

The rot that Watcher drags along with them is not the same. There is no brain-related imagery that comes with it. Instead these odd trees show up, along with the rot and goop we all know

What's happening in Watcher is that Spinning Top and Watcher have basically been touching the diseased corpse of fringe cerebral realities never meant to be explored and getting all that disease onto perfectly fine realms

Thankfully, because none of these realities are of the True Material, the world isn't going to end or anything

The cerebral realms, the ones your mind is stuck in- the STRANDS- are all simply shattered reflections of a TRUE reality in which your body ACTUALLY lies. The one where you wake up, eat, survive, and shelter again. The one where Hunter delivers the payload. Not the ones ST mentions where you are eaten by crawling and flying things

Also considering these realms are all thoughtform realities caused by material realm brain activity it makes sense why they would also fall apart so easily.

These realities are the unfortunate, tangled mess The tall, messy fur you crawl through The fishing net that traps you

It's not JUST about escaping the material reality, its about escaping the constantly moving and shifting brain worlds your mind and soul are trapped in. The Cycle.

Why is it like this? I don't know. This is just how Rain World's metaphysics works

The way this became relevant...

It so cool they exploring stuff they planned all way back then

musings watcher got too much pigment. their sibling didnt get enough

THE IMPERATIVE THAT WAS IN THEM REMAINS IN ME

moon isnt actually conscious in the watcher, i checked and there isnt any flower in the hunter's deathplace. meaning no slag reset. the watcher's strand of reality isnt one that happened in the actual material world as far as i can tell, just an imagined "dream plane" (like moon mentions in the karma flower dialogue). one that never truly happened in the 'collective' plane

watchie spoilers (plot/lore, worldstate)

i just wonder how watcher!moon felt, realising that the rot was going to continue spreading everywhere, outside of pebbles' control. like nilla!moon definitely has some very complex emotions towards him (& herself). i get the impression that she's angry, worried, afraid... and of course we know how msc!moon feels towards pebbles.

but watcher!moon... imagine what an awful realisation that would be? and such an awful position to have that realisation in. she's already collapsed, already lost most of her memories, already afraid of dying whether by wild animals or by the rain or just sheer bad luck. and then the rot slowly spreads into her chamber, absorbing her environment, the last remnants of her can ... and knowing it's probably already taken pebbles? her brother?