I haven't seen any other fan theories like this, but if anyone else thought of this first, please let me know.
Anyways, alchemy obviously plays a big part in the magic system of the protocol universe. And I've seen several people bring up that Celia mentioned the three primes of alchemy. Based on my very non-expert google knowledge, the three primes are salt, mercury, and sulfur. Salt represents the body, mercury represents the mind, and sulfur represents the soul.
In other words, physical horror, psychological horror, and existential horror. There are three fear entities in this universe; Salt, which is fear relating to the body/physical harm, Mercury, which is mental/emotional fears, & Sulfur, which is existential fears. This lines up pretty well with what Colin said:
This time, the way to keep the entities from entering our world is to keep them balanced. And based on what we've seen, the way to keep the balance is probably by sacrificing people to them.
This next part is a bit of a stretch & I don't expect it to be right. Something interesting I noticed, all the Externals we've met so far seem to be Salt-coded. Maybe the OIAR is only in charge of the salt part of the balance? What if the Hilltop Center and the Magnus Institute were in charge of the other two elements? Colin didn't mention what happens when there's too much salt, but we might see that for ourselves soon.
The finished prototypes for the ears, crown as well as the Goat & Lamb's horns...
Also, here's what the shape of the faces should look like.
Goat: Lamb:
Whilst I'm definitely going to make both of them. It'll be more of a one at a time deal.
Anyways...
... So many worms in my brain, yet the strings are cut, so they must continue to linger
The cape's nearly finished outside of some finishing touches, but my sewing machine has decided it doesn't like me very much and has stopped working.
Anyways, frustration aside, look at this little goober...
Been looking more at the original board for inspiration.
Meaning, I'll be going for a simpler style for separating the columns. And incorporating the logo? Icon? Banner as a bookmark.
As for the other side, I'm thinking of putting the conversions on that end since it's a lot more convenient than the instructions, or maybe I'll add both.
My last little contribution, just before the end of Pride Month...
Quick doodle of a drunken dad-joke from our favourite eldritch DILF
Okay, so I have a small theory on when/at what point in the game we start the dlc as well as how we acess it, and It has to do with the cat - humanity to be specific...
So I'm not the only one who's noticed, but we seem to have a friendly relationship with the cat; alongside showing more physical acts of emotion in some parts of the trailer.
Now it's established in the game that we have the best relationship with the cat when our humanity is more or less maxed out by the end of the game (when we are able to get the golden lie). So it's reasonable to believe that if the dlc follows the same rules as the game, then we likely access the dlc at the end of the game before we start ng+.
Another thing, something I and many others believe is that the golden stargazer is how we access the dlc because of how it currently reacts when we interact with it. Now, going back to my original point with the golden lie, it's my belief that we are going to use it to access the stargazer and start the dlc. My main reasoning is the weapon's behaviour when starting an ng+ run with it. Unlike other weapons, it's still linked to your humanity and is consequently reverted to a duller state which you can grow back by gaining humanity.
Now, it could be a dev oversite. However, since the only time we're going to use it is in ng+ (as well as 1-2 bosses before), I feel like it was intentional. Now, if let's say a maxed out golden lie (which requires max humanity), it is needed to access the golden stargazer it ensures we're starting the dlc in a more human state. Another small detail I want to bring up is that you can get the golden lie in all 3 endings if you listen to enough record (I've done it) as choosing the non-human options don't contribute to any of the endings (only the choice to let Sophia live or to give up your heart). This means that if I'm right, you can access the dlc no matter which ending you get as long as you have that weapon. I'm probably definitely wrong buuut it's not gonna stop me from playing it plus making crackpot theories is just fun :p
immortal escargot anyone?