Quest:Ruby Quest/Theories

This is a compilation of all the current theories for Ruby Quest

They will be ranked RIDICULOUS, PLAUSIBLE, or VALID based on how likely they are to be correct. If proven (Ha! That won't happen), their status will become CANON.

GRAND THEORIES

Put possible explanations of the entire scenerio here.

1: It is all happening in Ruby's Mind- a grand hallucination

2: Abduction by scientists?

FACILITY THEORIES

Put theories concerning the nature of the facility itself here.

1: The facility is a real installation deep underwater. Any FUCK YOU PHYSICS incidents are hallucinations or illusions.

2: The facility is a real installation deep underwater. However, for some reason it does not abide by normal physics laws. It does not abide by normal physics laws because-

3: During Tom's second imprisonment and Ruby's first blackout, the facility was not repaired. Instead, they were both moved to a different but similar set of rooms. This supports the "scientists/observation" grand theory.

4: The facility actually changed when Red used the eye pendant. The broken physics are explained by the damage to reality caused by the use of the pendant.

Rooms

Gas Room

1: The gas was a mutagen that causes the abomination affliction.

2: The gas was a deadly nerve agent or toxin of some kind.

CHARACTER THEORIES

Put theories on the characters, their purposes, their actions, and their motivations here.

Theories Concerning Ruby

Ruby is Going Insane

Several of the events in the story make it seem that Ruby's grip on reality is failing. Possible instances of hallucination include:

Her third eye appearing (she was the only one to experience this and her character prevents her from asking Tom to verify)

Her "waking dream" in which she seemed to wake up from bed, take a key from her dresser that may have actually been a filing cabinet, and attempt to interact with Tom who turned out to be the dummy.

Her corpse in the do not open box. Although she was highly perturbed by this site Tom had no apparent reaction to it.

The Dummy in the room where she woke up seems to "watch" her as she moves about.

The Eye painting in the bear zombie room seemed to "watch" her as she moved about.

Ruby is Psychic

PENDING

One moment Ruby looks into Tom's eye (which is hurting) and the next moment there's a physics-defying chasm and Tom has no eye. In the meantime Tom went oddly "black-outlined".

What happened then? Dismissing it as "just Ruby's hallucinations" doesn't cut it. She got the copper key from her dream. It's likely still stuck in the door and very physical, meaning her hallucinations are more than "just hallucinations".

Ruby is Psychic/experiencing preternatural phenomena AND is going Insane

Superpowers and mental instability frequently go hand-in-hand in the cosmic horror genre. It could be that some of Ruby's experiences are hallucinations and some of them are "really happening."

Tom Seemed to verify that the enormous fissure in the broken-physics room existed but he did not react to the site of Ruby's apparent corpse in the "do not open" box.

Tom Gouged Out His Own Eye

VALID

Tom's story simply doesn't add up. He was dragged up a ladder by a creature he did not see, which gouged out his eye, locked him in a room, and left? Sounds like something Red might do, but Tom didn't see his attacker. But in the Brig, he was sitting in the corner of the room, away from each and every entrance into the room. There is no way something could have snuck up on him. On top of that, his story is that he lost his eye as soon as we left him, explaining the blood. But, he still had his eye when we saw him on the computer monitor, well after he was taken away.

So, why is his eye missing? Maybe he was trying to save himself from something worse than loss of depth perception. What if he had transformed, down there, while he was weak on Arsenic and feeling miserable? He fled upstairs, and met Red up in the Monitor Room. Red wasn't going to deal with a monster Tom, and locked him in the room where we found him later. Eventually, Tom knew something was wrong with himself, and that he was monster. To stop the infection from spreading, he removed his own eye.

When Red eventually saw this in the monitors, he knew Tom was safe again, and let him back out. Tom doesn't remember Red from that first encounter because Tom was still a monster. Tom isn't telling Ruby any of this for the same reason Ruby is hiding her third eye - they love each other, and don't want the other to know.

Theories concerning Red

-A prisoner?

-A villain?

-Prisoner in league with villains?

Red Killed Himself To Stay In Control

RATING PENDING

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 <citation here>.

Red Killed Time

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, the major change occurs.

Red didn't kill himself at all

RATING: BUSTED

The picture with the dead Red doesn't have a blood trail between the wall Red wrote on and the place he is lying dead, while he'd need a lake of blood to write all that he's written. Also, suicide by passing several spikes through your head can be quite difficult to perform.

The theory has been officially proved wrong since Weaver said the trail is absent for simplicity of drawing.