Thread:SeaniiBoi/@comment-3452092-20171119044143/@comment-3452092-20180112143600

Looks like your prediction about the MC's neighbor probably isn't going to come to pass, but the story isn't over yet, so who knows. It's still possible that something is going on there.

Yeah, his mom treats him like dirt and quite frankly, she's not the only one. Noah didn't just lose Jane that day. He lost everyone. We don't know anything about his dad (I don't think), but he lost his twin sister, he lost his mother (even though she is still physically present), he lost all of his friends. He lost everything and for ten years, he had no one. There is no indication whatsoever that he has any friends outside of this group. Grant you we've seen five other teens (Connor is probably twenty, since I think he graduated two years prior) and four of them are/were bullies.

I guess there are two potential scenarios here.

1) You suggest that he freed her. If he did, there is the question of when. It would have had to have been before Dan went to the woods, because otherwise it would be Dan that freed her. If that's the reality, how long was she free? I would guess not long, but there's no way that it would have gone unnoticed for long if he did. I suppose it's possible that Jane was somehow reaching out to Dan and that's what got him more focused on coming back here. I just don't know why she would reach out to Dan over the MC seeing as the MC not only lives right there, but when Jane was alive, the MC was the second closest person to her, with her being closer only to Noah.

There were those odd texts at the beginning. Every indication seems to be that Dan did indeed send them and I guess it makes sense for him to send them to everyone. . . except if he was going to do that, why not send a group text? I guess we didn't actually see the wording of his texts to the others, but I got the idea they were the same as what the MC got. Do you remember? If they were different texts, but all equally weird, it would still fit. And it would explain the lack of group texts.

It seems like there was another time texts did something, but I'm not remembering anything specific, so maybe not. Still, there is a reason they were suspicious of Andy's texts (which we now know were done by Noah). Multiple instances of suspicious texts would make Noah complicit the whole time more likely.

2) The other option I see as possible is that Dan did release her. Noah, who either way has never gotten over the death of his sister, is suddenly forced into a situation where Jane's death is the main thing on his mind. As if it wasn't already high up there thanks to his mom's, probably frequent, words about wishing her sweet daughter had been the one to survive, now nothing is on his mind more.

Except. . . suddenly this whole situation has brought him back one of the things he lost, his friends. And he wonders if there is a way to bring back his sister, too. He thinks about it constantly. He sees his friends getting gifts from whom he thinks is Redfield (and someone posted a list pointing out he's the only one who didn't get a gift from Jane). He wonders if maybe there's a way to get Jane back. And then the MC turns down "Mr. Red"'s gifts and things get even worse.

They do the ceremony to lock Mr. Red back up and maybe he notices something I noticed and kind of pushed to the back of my mind, how mild Mr. Red's reaction to it all was. Yes, "Mr. Red" wasn't happy, but I expected more of a reaction. It was just too anticlimatic. As if I didn't know all ready that it wasn't the end (and there were just too many loose ends for that at that point), that woulld have tipped me off. So maybe he noticed, too, and, already thinking heavily about his sister, he began to wonder even more.

Under this theory, the question that comes to mind most is when did he really make the connection. Was it before or after Andy was taken? Did he make the connection when Cora showed up and died and realized it wasn't Redfield and if it wasn't Redfield there was only one other option, Jane? That's kind of what I would like to think, but for that to work, he would have had to have found Andy's phone at the gym and having put together the pieces, started manipulating things there.

Another possibility is that he realized things didn't work as soon as they didn't. Maybe even then Jane reached out to him, but the way he worded things, I think it was a recent connection and I don't think he had confirmation until Jane wrote on the floor. I think he was just pretty certain he was right and working off that theory. If he realized after the ceremony, then I would have to assume that he contacted her and I just don't get the idea that he did contact her. I get the idea he made the connections and he took advantage of the situation, because there was no way he could even consider behaving differently. This was Jane.

Sorry, apparently I can't put into words my thoughts on how the second possibility for the second possibility would work out.

So that's two (or threeish) ways that could have worked out to get us where we are.

My only hope is that Noah isn't planning on sacrificing himself or one of his friends to help Jane. Redfield needed Jane in order to move on. Noah wants Jane back or at the very least to move on. I worry that he's planning on sacrificing himself in order to give her that. If I am very wrong and Redfield actually did kill Jane on accident (I think a blood sacrifice was necessary or something along those lines, so I think he did kill her on purpose), then maybe all they have to do is show that all of them are not afraid of her and Jane will be able to move on. There is a power in the woods, something beyond Jane or Mr. Red. The thing that gave them their powers. Maybe it is possible that it could bring Jane back if the group of them stand firm in some way. Or maybe this will be a chance for a proper goodbye. Maybe whoever loses their nerve is going to die along with Jane passing on, because they just won't be strong enough to survive the situation coming up. There are a lot of maybes running around in my head.

I still hope there are several more chapters to come, but at this point I am leaning toward somewhere between two and three more chapters to come, one or two to take care of the situation with Jane and one chapter with wrap up.

And hopefully this isn't the end of this story, because I want a sequel.

- M