Game Theory: The Curse is a LIE! (Edith Finch)

If you are reading this then, unfortunately, what I predicted happened. I was onto something I was sure of, but I also knew that uncovering secrets like this could lead to my death if I could look around the right corner. You could just open the right box or turn the right knob. The truth would be clear. Why did you open this FNAF-style cold open when you were doing an episode about Edith Finch? I guess that would remain a mystery forever. Hello Internet, welcome to

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the program that exists to document my life instead of keeping a diary like a normal person today we are finally covering a

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community has been asking me to cover for the last five years what is left by

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that's a long time to request a game, so i decided to reward your patience with a blind playthrough on gt live, a very long and complete playthrough of the game.

It feels like I'm advancing the story, but I don't want to advance it. I want to check that other route. He wants to be spicy. I'm not being spicy. I just want to make sure I'm not missing anything. You know, unfortunately, my walking speed is that of a snail, but hey, we made it to the end. Can I just say that you don't want a shag rug in your bathroom? It's a dangerous, high-risk game, no doubt, for what audacious reward it is if all the people in this house didn't die in tragic circumstances that they would have been dying for. black fungus growing on your walls yes, there were many comments about proper building codes along the way.

I was afraid of the house. I'm afraid it would collapse under the weight of its own poor structure and I have to be honest now that I know what this game is really about. I'm surprised we haven't covered this before. I mean, it's just what suits us. Fantastic stories. A family

curse

. Dead children. And not just one, but several dead children. I mean, it's like the golden buzzer. On the fast track to a theory, what do you say about a game that people have been analyzing for the last half decade, a game that has been analyzed up and down and sideways and that its die-hard fans practically memorize?

Well, what if I tell you? that great-grandma edie is a serial killer that this supposed family

curse

that took the lives of at least 10 people was actually edie all along a serial killer who kills family members one by one seems crazy, well , sometimes crazy ideas lead to the best theories and I think today's can answer some strange logical inconsistencies found within the story, so come with me, friends, as we climb the not-so-structurally-sound tower of lies that hides inside this not so structurally sound house. Seriously, this thing is like a Jenga Tower from the latest game and we're about to pull the piece that makes everything fall apart.

Hey, I'm mixing metaphors here, like at one point we were climbing this wobbly tower, but now I'm pulling up the tower. down I'm just saying that I'm very confused about what I'm doing with this tower of lies right now I'm just saying also before I start I'm just going to say that there are a lot of names and details in the story that I'm going to do I'm doing my best to Keep it as simplified as possible, but you know, it might be helpful to have a set of flash cards ready to remind you of the difference between a Gregory Finch and a Gus Finch.

Anyway, this game is narrated to us by Edith Finch, a 17-year-old girl. A mother-to-be who returns to her abandoned childhood home before the birth of her child to try to uncover the truth of her family's backstory. The big twist at the end. Spoiler alert is that Edith already died in childbirth and that the entire game. it was her son her Christopher her reading the diary she left him, so from the beginning we're dealing with a story about stories about legends that are passed down from generation to generation. We also have a story about unreliable narrators, people telling their versions of events keep this in mind, it will be very important, so what is the big family secret that made a pregnant woman run across the roof of her old abandoned house ?

Well, her family is supposedly cursed. People in the family keep dropping dead due to something tragic or unusual. circumstances a man is hit by a train after years of staying in a bunker a child star is killed by monsters in quotes a boy jumps off a cliff while swinging and a little girl dies of poisoning from eating toothpaste and berries the list It goes on and on as we explore the house room by room, we get flashbacks to relive these fantastic tales of death, one by one, someone is thrown off a cliff by a deer while another is crushed by a giant dragon slide, a baby falls drowns in a bathtub while another child dies in a storm, but notice the word I used here death tales, stories, these are not necessarily the actual events that resulted in the death of family members, they all have some mixed element of truth and fiction, it's actually something that Edith herself begins to realize halfway through her journey.

I thought it was time to listen to my stories and find out what happened to everyone else, but now I'm worried that the stories themselves might be the problem. Maybe we believed so much in a family curse that made it real and who controlled those stories great grandmother edie dear eden there are so many stories I wish I could tell you but there is only time for what edie who I suspect was responsible for many, if not all, of these deaths and then he was using a manufactured family curse device to cover up the murders Egypt has a right to know these stories, my children are dead because of your story, that is a very big statement, so let's take a second to look at the great grandmother, what?

Will we be the first thing that made me suspect her? It was his age and no, that's not me being aegis, that's me noticing a very clear pattern here in a family that supposedly cursed the family where the average age of death is 19 where the oldest anyone has ever been is the father. from Edie, odin, at 57 years old, here's great-grandma edie over here clocking in at an old 93 93 almost twice as long as anyone else in the family the only other person to live remotely that long in this walter family who literally made it to 50 he locked himself in a bunker for decades oh Don't worry, we'll have a lot to say about Walter soon.

Edie has lived long enough to see her great-grandchildren, while everyone else didn't even get to see her own children grow up. So why did it take so long for The Family Curse to take Edie's life compared to everyone else. I found it suspicious, although even more suspicious is that she keeps photos of her dying loved ones next to her bed and let me be clear, I'm not saying photos of dead loved ones. although that is more than true, I mean photos of them in the process of dying in a shrine in front of their bed, we see a photo of her husband sven falling off the top of a dragon slide he was in the process of building , this would be the The event that would cause her death was the timer camera that took this, Edie regardless of whether having that photo next to her while she sleeps is not evidence that Edie is totally disconnected from her emotions, I don't know what it is and she it matters.

She has many other photos of him being safe and happy, so it's not like this was the only one she had to remember him by. It's strange, it's uncomfortable, and it starts to show that there may be something very strange about Great-Grandma Edie. Views on death, we see at the beginning of the game that Edie has a shrine dedicated to her dead father Odin as part of that shrine. He has two of his books on the mysteries of death on display, and from then on, joining the vast majority, we never get context as to what either of these two books may be about, but with a title like Mysteries. of death and, thereafter, one can guess, shows that for this first generation of

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es there was something that persisted after death: mysteries that continue to join the vast majority as a The game's designers clearly put it here as part of the shrine for a reason, so, well, I had a feeling it had to do with death too, and although it took a bit of research, my hunch was right, the expression.

It was first used by Edward Young, an English poet who wrote many philosophical writings about the nature of death. The full quote reads as follows: Life is the desert, life, loneliness, death unites the vast majority of us, here are the brilliant notes on that for your next English newspaper everyone dies, join the club, so Edie's father, Odin, was the guy who literally wrote the book on death. In fact, two books in and we see this obsession with death continuing in Edie's story. Sven built the house, but it was Edie who designed the cemetery. type family finishes building a cemetery before starting the house, she even finds death funny, including the tragic untimely death of her own husband when Edie told people that Sven was killed by a dragon.

She could also have said that she was building a dragon-shaped slide that collapsed. She could have done it, but she didn't. I asked Edie once about the dragon in the pond. She said he killed her husband. I was six years old. Even then it seemed like a strange joke to me. That right there gives us more evidence that Edie and the truth don't always go hand in hand, but the fact that Edie is obsessed with death and happens to be a bit of a storyteller doesn't make her a murderer, well, no, no. on its own, but take all those details and look a little closer.

We look at some of the stories of death that were told throughout the game and suddenly something great starts to look a lot more sinister. One of the most memorable sequences we play in the game is Barbara's death. This is told to us in the form of pulpy tales of the crypt-style horror comic, basically, Barbara was a child star whose best years were behind her one night while her boyfriend was trying to teach her how to recover her iconic scream, she is attacked by a murderous hook man that they show us. that under her bed her younger brother, Walter, hides out of fear, but he witnesses everything.

She defends herself against the attacker using a crutch and throws him off the balcony when she comes down to see him in a true horror story. The hook's body has disappeared. suddenly there is a knock on the door, Barbara opens it and sends dozens of monsters who have come to a party and end up eating Barbara alive and only leaving her ear and that is all they tell us about Barbara's death , It's a strange story, right? and it's obviously very fictional and yet we know that some elements of it are true, we see the balcony of Edith's house still broken where the hook man fell or whatever it was, we also know that her younger brother, Walter, in fact He saw something that sent him. running to the basement in fear living in a bunker under the house for decades afraid of what was on the other side, he even keeps Barbara's crutch down there, on top of the fake window he created for himself, either as a souvenir of his deceased sister. or as a means of protection, most likely a combination of both.

The truth about Barbara's death is to this day one of the game's most enduring mysteries, one that people have theorized about for years, guessing everything from her boyfriend being the killer to the house, literally. consuming her alive, one theory I haven't really seen is that it was Edie, her great-grandmother, Edie did it intentionally or not, she caused Barbara's death. Let's look at the fact, as I mentioned before, Walter sees something the night of Barbara's death, something that makes him lock himself in an underground bunker for decades out of fear when he is down in the bunker he gives us this line if you wait long enough you get used to any thing, even a monster on the other side of the door starts to feel normal.

He wasn't hiding from death or a curse, he was afraid of a monster, a monster on the other side of the door, he is so afraid of this monster on the other side of the door that when he finally decides to leave his bunker, he digs a He punches a hole in the other side instead of going through the door and back into the house and remembers who killed Barbara in his story. Monsters. We see that word repeats connecting these two stories. These two deaths together. So what kind of monster could be in the other... Next to Walter's door, Edie, I saw Edie sneak into the basement once carrying packages.

I thought maybe she was hiding gifts. It turned out that she was hiding a lot more than that. Edie is the monster, no matter what she does as a mother, her children are afraid of her. Whatever she did to Barbara scared Walter so much that she would rather live in a basement and choose to punch a hole in solid rock with a sledgehammer and then face her again. I guess Edie and Barbara had a fight because her boyfriend was In the house during the confrontation, Edie becomes violent and angry, pushing Barbara, who then falls over the balcony railing and dies.

In fact, there is a small detail that is easy to overlook, but the gametry to make sure we notice it are the skates on the. balcony as we go up the stairs in Barbara's story one skate rolls down randomly then the other skate is what finally sends the hook man tumbling down the balcony that detail feels important it feels real that's the instrument of murder here and If there were any I doubt the monster on the other side of the door is Edie Walter also tells us this. I can't believe he was down here for 30 years that first day after the shaking started.

I didn't think I would survive a week this is not fear of a curse, it is imminent fear, it is fear of a real and palpable current threat, someone determined to silence a person who has seen too much and we know for a fact that, in fact, there is some dark secret to find inside the finch house. Very early in the game, this line appears. I was four years old when Milton disappeared. Mom spent months looking for my brother and then sealed the doors. Whatever Milton had found in the house, Mom didn't find it. I want him to come out.

Milton is the only finch that disappeared so as not to have a confirmed death. He found something and then disappeared. It would seem that his destiny is that of Walters. You learn the truth. You come back. crazy talking about walter do you know what else is suspected of his death walter waits years to get out of his bunker only to be immediately hit by a train the thing is that there is no train the game takes place on a very real island the island of the orca is a real place in washington state and there is a train on that island it's a train privately owned by whoever owns the property it resides on, as far as i can tell it's not so much a railroad as it is a ride, It's not the huge steam locomotive that is implied in Walter's story and still doesn't explain why he was going under the Finch family's private residence just doesn't add up.

Walter also doesn't specifically mention the train. However, if you look on the other side of the bunker, there is a model train that Walter was clearly building. Perhaps that turned out to be the source of inspiration for the story that would ultimately cover up the truth about his death because, you see, there is something else you must do. know about great grandmother edie, not only does she love making up stories but she also loves fame that comes from her stories in her room we see this newspaper hanging on the wall. I'm so excited to win a family day at Druid World.

It's like a boring YouTube giveaway like me. If you hit the subscribe button, leave a comment. Next, I will give you three passes to the world of the druids. If you can get over your enthusiasm for the world of druids, you can check out the article about the mole man. Edith told us that Edie gave a great interview about a living mole man. under the finch house my mom was furious a mole man who lived under the finch house my friends is walter that's her traumatized son edie literally called her son a mole man and sold the story to a newspaper on CD which is the kind of person we're dealing with here, in another part of the room, we have this short story about one summer when they evacuated the island, but Edie refused to go for a few weeks.

She was a celebrity, she loves fame and is shameless in pursuing it and nothing shows that. More clearly than Barbara, the first time I played it I found it strange that a comic would publish the real or fictional story about the tragic death of a very real young woman and I wasn't the only one Edith says this as she wanders through the house of all stories that people wrote about Barbara's death. I'm surprised Edie kept this one well. Your daughter dies, but you keep the comic that tells how she was eaten to death. I mean, that's pretty sinister even for someone who's joking. death and I'm sure we'll understand this line later, Edie told me that all Barbara wanted was to be remembered, but again, Edie lies, Edie lies a lot for the real reason the comic is there, look no further than her bedroom. great-grandmother, right next to the mole man story.

In Edie's room and just below the article where she became famous for not leaving the house, we see a folder labeled Barbara's Concepts, Concepts of which well, I think they are story concepts. She sold Barbara's story just like she sold Walter's story as the Mole Man all along. The wall is something like her wall of fame, little fragments of time in which she became passively famous. She is directly or indirectly related to the deaths of those around her, at which point she twists them into something fantastical. I guess Faraday being the one creating fictions making her less responsible for the deaths is probably also part of the coping mechanism and lastly is making those deaths beautiful and poetic, blame it all on this legendary family curse that allows their stories to live on in everything Barbara wanted to be, she was remembered, Edie, yes, I think you could be just.

Speaking of you so far, I've mainly focused on Walter and Barbara, but Edie is a monster who is also shown less explicitly in other stories when she leaves her bunker. Walter says this, I know he's out there somewhere, whatever he killed Barbara, Molly and Calvin, well, let's look. For both Molly and Kelvin, then, Molly is the first finch girl we meet and the first death we play throughout the story is that she is sent to bed without dinner and, because she is hungry, she decides to eat things like a tube of toothpaste. christmas berries probably holly berries depending on the color and an old carrot, it is speculated that this combination somehow poisoned her but I researched the food she ate and I don't realistically believe it could have actually killed her, the carrot was in the same container than what appears to be gerbil droppings, so she could have contracted salmonella, something known to be transferred through rodent droppings, but that would not have killed her.

She would have been sick with symptoms like stomach cramps, vomiting and fever, but all that. It would have happened in about a week. Holly berries are a similar story. She only eats about three and, while they certainly can be poisonous, she would have had to eat about 20 or more to have ingested a fatal amount. Toothpaste has the same pattern as toothpaste in 1947 and luckily they stopped using soap as an ingredient, they were just starting to use fluoride which again can be poisonous in large quantities but it is very unlikely that a tube of toothpaste may be fatal, but still, this whole thing is missing the main point of why Molly was hungry.

First of all, I'm leaving soon, but I wanted to tell someone what's going to happen. It started when Mom sent me to bed without dinner. Edie, her mother sent her to bed without dinner. We can see that her Halloween candy is gone, I guess. This detail shows us why she is being punished, she ate her candy when she shouldn't have and when you try to walk out the door you run into this mom, can I come out now honey? It's late, go to sleep, she's 10 years old. girl who is literally locked in her room and starving, that is intentionally not okay or Edie's actions of locking her daughter in her room and not feeding her resulted in the girl's death in some way that is not okay next from the Mole Man and Barbara's Stuff, we have another concept portfolio, Molly Concepts, perhaps the story of a girl who is hungry, but instead of violently starving to death while locked in her room, everything becomes magical when her hunger transforms her into a cat, just like we play. in the game, hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Edie invented Molly's diary in the first place, since Calvin, well, jumps off a cliff while playing on a swing, I mean, he didn't build that swing on top of a big cliff whose fault falls absolutely on her parents that's not all notice her leg is in a cast it's broken now it's necessarily Edie's fault I don't know, I can't find any proof one way or another, but it's very clear that her children They're scared and this house hides a dark secret that makes people run for their lives, so I wouldn't be surprised, at best, if Edie is an aggressively neglectful mother;

Worse, she is actively attacking her children and, at worst, she is killing him. When they go overboard and then cover up the truth with tall tales, it's interesting to note that every death in the Finch family has been connected to Edie in some way, any family member who lived with her or was close to her has passed away. , Edie. Is she always there? Edie is calling Molly while she is starving. She's there calling for Kelvin to come in before he jumps off a cliff. She is the monster on the other side of the door to Walter's bunker.

Barbara dies in her house and then Edie continues selling. the story there is no curse here there is just edie she is the curse and I think she knows it from all the comments that have been happening about this game. I've never seen anyone talk about Edie's final story, which you'd think would be the most important of the lot is the story she tells Edith the night before Edith and her mother ran away. It's actually a story that Edie writes in the form of a book hidden in the now closed library dear Edith, there are so many stories.

I wish I could tell you, but there's only time for one. This is about what happened the night you were born. It is also the only story in the game that remains unfinished. Basically, the story is about a night when there is a particularly low tide. Edi can to revisit the ruins of her old house, one that had sunk beneath the waves decades ago on the way there, she gets lost when the fog rolled in, I got lost, I turned around, I started to see things, finally she arrives at the house while saying in her own words that that night many things came back to me or maybe I came back to them things that I can't explain but I need you to try and

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what are you doing here open the door a light turns on one of the windows and then the book is ripped away from Edith before she can finish.

What is this story? What is it that Edie asks Edith to do things that I can't explain but that I need you to try and try and what does it figure? Explain, convey what I think this must be Edie's confession. She tells the story of her abuse and past misdeeds in the way that only she can in the form of a highly symbolic, overly fantastical, symbolism-filled story. The line that sticks out. For me, this is when the fog came in, I lost my way, I turned around, but what was all this? What way did she lose and what does her return to her old house mean?

Well, Edie says this is the story of what happened The night Edith was born, we know that Edith was born in 1999, at that time there hadn't been a quote-unquote death in the family since 1983. The next death would be in 2003, when Milton discovers the secret inside the Finch house and suddenly disappears walter leaves his bunker and immediately dies on a train in quotes in 2005 and then there is edith's brother lewis in 2010. could this whole story be a symbol of edie's journey with her father's ideals, returning to the old house, returning to her origins? Going back to her father's teachings, she says that when she returns home she remembers things like if she had returned with old friends, the light that turns on at the end would be the representation of that illumination, but what does it mean? is it enlightening you?

Is it a return to the importance of family? Is it a return to being a monster? Does she realize that by killing people, she is once again helping them join the vast majority? A lot of this sounds like the actions of an addict, they may know what they want. what they're doing is wrong, but their old habits can be like a crutch, the friends they feel safe with despite knowing it's bad for them, maybe that's why Dawn rips the book out of Edith's hands because He has already discovered it and does not want Edith to read.

To get similar ideas, Edie wrote to Edith to explain his actions so that Edith could take the lessons and apply them for future generations. The Edie family knew that she was getting older and couldn't go on forever. Maybe this was meant to be a temporary thing. of the torch however you slice it, Edie is a monster, I don't think there's any way to deny it, whether or not she actively killed members of her family intentionally can't really be proven, at least not yet, but it seems likely that she She has been directly involved in many of the tragedies that happened to the family and then went on to mark the family and their curse on local pop culture so she could be immortal.

She was selfish, cruel and seemingly violent, and when people found out. the truth about the matriarch finch they had a habit of disappearing walter milton what remains of edith finch is a mystery of trauma everything points to the actions of a woman remember this final story they tell you in the library a place where edie once told me that all the finches that ever lived are buried somewhere in the library, it's the story of all their deaths and why all their deaths relate to her, either that or you know Edie loved taxidermy, maybe That last line is a little more literal than you think.but hey, that's just a theory, a game theory, thanks for watching.