![]() ![]() The helper sheep who are Keepers of the various checkpoints within the Nightmare world are those who have failed to escape and can no longer attempt to escape due to their bodies in the real world dieing off, but have certain criteria that allows them to stay instead of going into oblivion. However, judging by the possibility of Nintendo Hard, most of the sheep have a set number of "lives" as it were, where they merely wake up after getting killed and have a second crack at escaping, but they die PERMANENTLY when they lose all of them. It also connects with the deaths of males in the real world as well, as those people that died are those that have failed to escape. Thinking more about it, this also explains the Immoral Beast/Buttmonster, which doesn't really fit the theme of babies and children and marriage and/or anything else - it seems like a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, but in the context of his struggling with coming to terms with being into men, it might make quite a lot of sense that the thing chasing him is a giant butt with a tongue, referencing the two most "common" forms of male/male sex.Īll the sheep are actually men trapped in the nightmare world just like Vincent.The only reason Vincent is the only one that is human is to differentiate him from the rest of the flock, as it were. This is also why True Freedom involves breaking off both relationships - he's finally realized that his problem isn't cheating or relationships, it's that he's forcing himself into relationships that aren't natural for him, as someone who's primarily or completely attracted to men. Climbing the tower is symbolic for self-acceptance and leaving the door is symbolic of coming out. He originally cheats with her because he's unsure of a relationship with someone (Katherine) he just kind of ended up with because he had to be. Vincent is gay or bisexual, and becomes Armored Closet Gay in the Catherine endings, miserable and quietly closeted in the Katherine endings, and True Freedom is accepting his sexualityHis ideal woman is an exact stereotype of what an "ideal woman" is supposed to be in Japanese culture (which informs the game), yet his dreams of sex with her are when intoxicated/otherwise unwilling, and even when he is willing (the True Catherine ending) it seems almost like someone desperately trying to play Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?.
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