So she has outmaneuvered Ned using Henry.Īnd she does this all from merely sitting in her watchtower, directing Ned and Henry like a puppet master. She feigns going along with Ned's scheme but manages to find a way to wriggle out of her complicitness in the accident by manipulating Henry into only suspecting Ned of wrongdoing, and that she didn't know Brian was dead. Thus Delilah hates Ned now and Ned writes "she has a skewed perception of her own history".ĭelilah is "selfish" and a master manipulator. Ned needs to cover up his role he blackmails Delilah due to her earlier poor decision by cooking up a conspiracy for them to keep Henry from discovering Brian's body after Henry has found the cave. Ned loses his sanity to guilt and becomes a hermit in the wilderness. This leads to him witnessing Brian's accidental fall and death in the cave. Ned metaphorically pushes Brian too hard as a father. She likely had a sexual encounter with Ned behind her boyfriend's back. Perhaps this is because she and Brian get along well, and Delilah at age 43 may consider herself too old to have kids. Ned brings Brian along with him to his posting, which is strictly forbidden, a few years before Henry.ĭelilah, with a history of making bad decisions, doesn't report it and implicitly assumes responsibility for Brian's fate. Let me see if I can summarize as simply as possible: That would have made for a more satisfying narrative, with a neat parallel to Henry's situation with his wife, while keeping the themes of escapism, loss, and the unremarkable truths of life still in focus. I remember one redditor's suggestion to improve the story: make Delilah be Brian's mother who's been coming here because she can't let go of her missing son. Mind you, I don't think the narrative is great, and I understand the desire to look for a more exciting one, but it just seems to me that the writers willingly sacrificed it in order to get their themes across. Was everything she said in this game a lie?įinally, the narrative presented by the theory just doesn't really match the themes of the game. And why would Delilah believe a story where Ned sends Brian home? She's the one who tells Henry about the grandmother dying and Ned having to be discharged since he was the only next of kin. For example, the provided motive for Delilah and Ned working together to fuck with Henry, despite mentions that they don't like each other, is that they're "weird and bored". The later parts of the theory get a little too ambitious for my liking. The only thing that does seem strange is that she can't see Wapiti Station from her lookout, even though it should be visible. If it was that simple, how are the 2 rangers in this story involved and why did she have to lie to them? As an aside, a less narrative based explanation for this section of the game is that it forced you to visit the incredible landscape at Cottonwood Creek. In her story, she does mention she hiked to a cache box, but it's likely not this one since it would be an extremely lengthy hike (as was mentioned in the video). While it seems strange that she wouldn't know about that, I've heard others here mention that D later says the information was always available and she just didn't know about the station due to incompetence on her part.Īs for how she got the radio to the cache box, it's possible that she got a ranger to do it for her. She even mentions the meadow so she was just confused about there being a station. She doesn't know Wapiti station just like she doesn't know about the fence. For almost every strange event Mari mentions, there's a somewhat rational explanation.ĭelilah doesn't seem worried about the clipboard because Henry's surveillance story sounds insane, and she doesn't know Henry enough to just trust everything he says. I like the thought that went into this, but I can't believe the theory.
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