I just wanted to ask everyone a question or two since my interpretation of the end is different than what seems to be the most popular opinion. While it seemed plenty obvious to me at the time, the fact that the majority of the people who finish the game think differently makes me wonder if I've missed something.1: What are the dream creatures doing around the site of her death at the end?2: Where's the body (or even parts thereof)?My theory was this: http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.111206859.jpg
I just wanted to ask everyone a question or two since my interpretation of the end is different than what seems to be the most popular opinion. While it seemed plenty obvious to me at the time, the fact that the majority of the people who finish the game think differently makes me wonder if I've missed something.
1: What are the dream creatures doing around the site of her death at the end?
2: Where's the body (or even parts thereof)?
My theory was this: http://ny-image3.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.111206859.jpg
I think the jellyfish dream guys are Shinto priests, maybe.
Japanese fan art seems to cast them as buddhist priests, and when you interact with the jellyfish they sound what could be a death knell. That said, you also encounter them near dead people (Shitai, for instance). Therefore, the jellyfish at the end may just be symbolism for Madotsukis death. And the blood stain conforms that Mado lost a lot of blood when she fell. If the fall caused her to lose so much blood, is it not safe to assume that she died from it?
I'm one of the people who thinks Madotsuki is already dead and with that theory the 'death chime' jellyfish people become the silent authority of her dream world. They appear near scenes of death like a reminder and move in when she finally accepts her life and disappears. The lack of body about the bloodstain could then either be the bloodstain being symbolic of 'another passed on person' in the jellyfishes' register or that since she actually killed herself prior to the game it's the last remaining evidence of her living body after cremation and the final connecting piece in the afterlife.
>>877The question wasn't how much blood she lost, it's why there isn't a body or anything. It isn't there, which would seem to imply that she was still trapped in the dream world after "waking up" the last time (or maybe the entire game was a dream). Throwing herself off the balcony and falling to her "death" in the dream would have forced her to wake up, which would explain why she isn't there.
>>877
The question wasn't how much blood she lost, it's why there isn't a body or anything. It isn't there, which would seem to imply that she was still trapped in the dream world after "waking up" the last time (or maybe the entire game was a dream). Throwing herself off the balcony and falling to her "death" in the dream would have forced her to wake up, which would explain why she isn't there.
I see it more as the death of her dream world, and maybe her body's just left the dream as she presumably does when she pinches her cheek and wakes up. Maybe it was still a dream when she jumped and she just needed to sort her mind out before she could fully leave.