Editing Quest:Ruby Quest/Theories (section)

===Theories concerning Red===

====Red's Mobility====
[[Image:3D map overview - pipe ends here.jpg|thumb|right|The pipe simply ends, right where the metal box in the back room is.]]'''PLAUSIBLE, but UNLIKELY'''

Red's room was sealed by the Cross Peg most of the game. But, he was apparently able to get in and out of his room. Of course, he likely had the cross peg, and may have given it to Stitches when he hung him up on the wall (see [[Ruby_Quest_Theories#We.27ve_Seen_Stitches_Before|We've Seen Stitches Before]]). But, how would he get down from there without being able to open the floor hatch?

Well, there is a tarp on the ceiling of his room. Maybe there's a secret passage. And the image to the right gives a good hint where it goes - the blue line pipe is in Red's room, goes down the monitor room, into the Z Hatch room, and simply stops at the back room, inside of a metal box. We know the pipe can't go anywhere between the back room and the dummy room, because that window there shows the walls are somewhat thin. So, it is quite possible that the metal box is a secret exit, and unlike Tom, Red is more than thin enough to crawl through to the Z Hatch room.

====Red showed up because he lost the peg====
'''PLAUSIBLE'''

Somehow, Red lost the peg (someone stole it from him?), then, unable to return to his hideout or find the peg, he revealed himself to Ruby. After pulling down the tarp, he discovers the peg in Stitches' hand and (knowing Stitches or whoever placed Stitches there, with the peg) starts laughing madly.

The wall with Stitches was a trap set up for Red, the peg being the bait. But Red can see the trap, so he lets Ruby get the peg and trigger the trap. Because Ruby wasn't the trap's target, she survives, but over the time (3 days?) Red can use the peg to access his hideout. He returns it later, for reasons yet unknown.

====Red had romantic feelings for Ruby====
'''UNLIKELY'''

His concerned look after Ruby when she had hooked him may have been of friendly and platonic nature, but it is also possible that there were deeper feelings involved. This might also explain the lack of footage right after Ruby and Tom kissing in the latest record. Whether he ever told Ruby about what he felt, and how she might have reacted to this, is open to interpretation.

As well, as soon as Ruby and Tom come back upstairs after the kiss, the monitor/console is smashed, possibly meaning Red saw the kiss and smashed the monitor in a RAAAAAAAAAAGE.

<strike>''This is actually borderline ridiculous, but there's no evidence against it, it doesn't defy any great laws of physics or common sense, and I kinda like it, so I decided to add it anyway''</strike>

When we saw the recording of Ruby giving Red his characteristic INFINITE PLANE OF TEETH, the tape ran a few seconds after Ace took her away and we can see Red looking not only wounded, but betrayed.

====Red Quest====
'''PLAUSIBLE'''

Why did the back room release gas the moment we turned the power back on? There are 3 possibilities:

1) It was a defense system that was already active, and needed power.

2) It was a defense system that needed power, and someone activated it after we turned the power back on.

3) It was a defense system that needed power, and someone activated it before we turned the power back on.

Since 1 and 3 are effectively the same, and the window of opportunity for number 2 is however long it took the analyzer to dispense an antidote for arsenic, it is safe to say the system was active beforehand and the chip was removed to turn it off. Therefore, someone must have had the Rubber Gloves and the Hook, and was in that back room when the poison gas was released the first time. To deactivate it, he pulled out the chip with his gloved hands and the metal hook. Then, to prevent someone (Like Ruby) from doing something stupid and reactivating the gas, he hid the gloves, hook and chip separately - the gloves in his own locker, and the chip and hook inside a box in the Monitor room, then glued the box shut. He kept the hook and the chip together in case he needed to pull the chip out again. 

Going by the [[Ruby_Quest_Theories#Red.27s_Mobility|Red's Mobility]] theory, he didn't need the door to the monitor room to get in, so he smashed the panel. So, this leads us to assume that if any of this happened at all, it was Red's doing, and he didn't count on Ruby having /tg/, and hence Wikipedia, in her head.

====Red Killed Time====
'''RIDICULOUS'''

When Red used the eye pendant in the vision that the God Zombie sent Ruby into, he not only ended the dream, but affected the physical world possibly even before the story even started. The laser intersected Tom's head, Tom's eye was missing later. The gibberish when the laser was being used was scrambled terms from earlier threads. The HUGE UNEXPLAINED GAP appeared. The broken physics room. The back room was no longer filled with blood and the closet Bear was in now has shelves instead of zombies. The tube is no longer broken, neither is the mirror. The things which could be used to kill the Plant Zombie no longer exist. Tom said that nothing happened when asked about the past, while Bear certainly counts as something, possibly more evidence that Bear didn't even happen in this timeline. Ruby's inventory changed, gaining the key and losing the items that the altered past no longer gave her to opportunity to collect.
:gap in the theory: at first, after Ruby exits the room, the changes are only partial. It's after she looks into Tom's eye that the major change occurs. Still, this might be simply because her fractured mind expected to see the room as it had been before.

Even more so, what could lead to this is somewhat reminiscent of Silent Hill. In Silent Hill, dreaming/falling asleep/mirror-like interaction was used to transition to The Otherworld. Perhaps the second "world" that Ruby and co. end up entering is the Otherworld of the Metal Glen.

====Red is A Ghost====
'''PLAUSIBLE'''

How Red ends up dying is obviously planned, and it is not considered that he was never really there in the first place. Even though Red helps Ruby in certain situations, and he is proven to be a viable resource, he is often found sitting on the couch like nothing has happened.

In addition, one of the most recent installments shows that Ruby somehow decided to try and kill Red with her Right Hook. She split one half of his mouth open and then was hauled away. Red is suffering from injuries in the last shot of the video, and is on his knees in pain. Perhaps later he died of this injury, and was put in a situation similar to Ruby's.

He was put in a revival chamber somewhere in the facility, and mutated to the extent of having a wide-open mouth and a somewhat warped mind. He went about his business as normal until Ruby showed up and "The Shit Hit The Fan".

Since Stitches was first encountered (Second? See We've Seen Stitches Before) as a gory mess, it could be that the closet he was in was not a regeneration closet and that he was near death and crazy, just as Red was. He and Red seem to follow the same timeline, and given that Stitches was encountered (mostly) okay the second (third?) time, they may also follow the same plotline as well.

====Murder Theories====
=====Red Killed Himself To Stay In Control=====
'''CANON'''

Red wants to be in control, and even if it is the illusion of control.  He tells himself that he is not trapped, yet he appears to be in the same situation as Ruby and Tom.  He refuses to answer questions, and even helps Ruby in some instances to either help or to further convince himself he is in control.  In order to preserve that desire to be in control, he kills himself, going out on his own terms with a smile on his face.  Perhaps Ruby and Tom's presence and desire to find out why they are not in control compounds the fact that he does not have a role in deciding his future, so he kills himself.

The theory is supported by Weaver's description of Red's feelings on the matter:
  <TG_Weaver> You know, from Red's point of view, he won. 
 He never got caught. He never got beaten. 
 He never gave up. And he exited on his own terms. 
 And most of all, he died with a smile on his face.

In addition, his death caused Ace to pay him a visit, just as a bomb Red made went off. It is quite clear Red had this all planned out from the get go.

However, it's likely that he was already infected (F's note) and that <strike>Ace got his body back through the door before the bomb went off</strike> Weaver confirmed that he was blown to smitheroons.