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oneway.exe: Module 1.0 Lore Guide
SPOILERS FOR THE ENTIRETY OF MODULE 1.0, ALL IT'S ENDINGS, AND THE ARG. ALL EXCEPT DARKFOX AND THE RESTORATION TEAM ARG (those stay secret for NOW :3c)
Last updated: 08/18/2026
Estella's recommended order for maximum lore enjoyment:
1. Fiona, 2. Ophelia, 3. Spiderface, 4. Anita, 5. Billie, 6. Meaty, 7. Mikey
Look at this super cool GMV! (SPOILER WARNING)
SUMMARY
"You're stuck inside an abandoned video game, haunted by its own digital decay. In oneway.exe, uncover the mystery of UNTITLED.exe, its three developers, and the evolving Internet eras that once shaped their relationship."
In oneway.exe: Module 1.0, you play as Emci, one of the three devs who made UNTITLED.exe. Emci finds himself stuck within his computer and the UNTITLED game, without any memories as to why, who he is, and what happened.
As you play through you find out more and more about who TRIO8 is, and Emci slowly learns of the strong love he held for them, and how loved he was by them back.
You also learn of what happened during the murder, and can begin to piece together the events of Emci's past and what led to that tragic end.
TRIO8
The three developers who were working on UNTITLED.exe.
They first met on August 8th, 2012, and somewhere along the years developed a romantic relationship between the three of them.
EE / Emci / Em / Emmie / Muppet
He is associated with the Joker card, the animal lizard, the color cyan, and zombies.
The protagonist/player character. The most enigmatic of the three, entirely by his own design. Emci prefers to stay in the shadows and control things without being the center of attention.
Very controlling, very protective, very possessive, very secretive and very very very devoted. Kitty and Slushie are the only people he seems to care about.
Family life:
Little is known about Emci's family life, but from what little we know we can infer it was not very good.
In 2012, when Kitty and Emci were 13, she made a joke about needing to take him away from the stupid place he lives in.
November 12th, 2012
Emci seems to have little self-preservation skills. He can't cook, he doesn't sleep healthy hours, and he tends to neglect his own health often.
January 12th, 2022
SS / Slushie / Andy / Baby / Andrew Tagliere
He is associated with the Queen of Spades, the animal mouse, the color red, and vampires.
The killer seen in the video. Slushie is the most serious of the three, but underneath that he's a total softie and very easy to tease about it. He loves both Kitty and Emci and ultimately always ends up doing what they ask for.
Very fragile, enough that the game makes a point to remind us consistently. He is the most sensitive of the three.
Family life:
We know the most about Andrew's homelife. His father appears to be an Italian American, while his mother is Chinese. His relationship with his father doesn't appear to have been a good one, but he was very close to his mother.
It is possible that Slushie's father worked in the police force, or was an investigator, as he had access to ForenZXCase when Slushie was a child, and Slushie overheard about Boone being attacked likely from his father. Slushie has a negative view of cops, and it might be a reflection of his relationship with him. Slushie also seems to disapprove of the way his father treated his mother.
November 28, 2012
May 15th, 2019
It is also likely that Slushie's mom died around January 2nd, 2023, because of a diary page written by Kitty.
CT / Kitty / Nibs / Catherine Wright
She is associated with the King of Clover, the animal cat, the color green, and werewolves.
The murder victim. She is very hyperactive, possessive, aggressive, intense, and loving. She is particularly possessive over Slushie alongside Emci, and wants to lovingly hurt him all the time. She is far from the defenseless victim she might appear to be at first, or the friendly sweet girl that her typing style might make seem.
She self admittedly doesn't care for anyone else but Slushie and Emci, and would do anything for them.
Little is known about her home life, but she playfully expresses jealousy towards Slushie's relationship with his mom and seems to even be close to her. She also implies her mother never taught her how to cook, so she might have distant parents.
She was also sent to a summer camp she didn't enjoy when she was 13.
Kitty is by far the most aggressive and physically violent of the three, but she likes to show her love through it. This is important, given she ended up being the victim of violence despite being the typical aggressor in the dynamic.
Her “love” aggression seemed to be exclusively targeted at Slushie.
THE ROLES
“In closed groups, co-dependency builds without instruction -- people make themselves available, responses become expected --
-- is measured by who replies and when. No one initiates it. No one ends it. Proximity becomes the default, and devotion soon follows.
Obsession maintains itself, sustained by access without relying on escalation -- kept, habits mirror, and over time, roles form that are not once directly assigned –
What starts as a connection becomes ritualistic.
Joker / Lizard
“The grass shivers, you hold back, watching the stir itself.
A figure bolts from the corner recognition, the pattern repeating itself.
The chase tears the field open, counting each turn like markers in a game.
Teeth catch the light, the moment unfolds, you let it settle under your skin.
The end presses close. With the sight preserved.”
A figure bolts from the corner recognition, the pattern repeating itself.
The chase tears the field open, counting each turn like markers in a game.
Teeth catch the light, the moment unfolds, you let it settle under your skin.
The end presses close. With the sight preserved.”
To be the Joker is to be the wildcard with much more power than they appear, watching and controlling royalty from the shadows.
To be the lizard is to observe the kill from behind the glass, to hold the moment and never let himself forget what he loves most.
Holding mentions:
Emci is connected to the concept of “holding”, which we grow to understand means to take ownership of a moment. To watch it, to control it from the background, and become a part of it while staying on the sidelines.
He doesn’t like to be in the center of attention, but he still needs to be involved with Kitty and Slushie, to hold the moment for them.
Emci doesn’t like talking about himself or giving his own opinions. He values the opinions and voice of Kitty and Slushie much more.
In conversations, you will notice Emci tends to repeat things CTSS say, encourage them to keep ranting, or strategically say things to keep the conversation moving.
He wants to observe his two favorite people, and tries to not get in the way of his show.
May 11th, 2020
January 7th, 2021
February 19, 2013:
(Messages go in between these! Play the game if you don’t know >:v
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Queen / Mouse
“"The grass shivers, you freeze, willing the sound to come closer.
A figure bolts from the corner, a rush of heat. Half dread, half wish.
The chase tears the field open, running has always been your gift.
Teeth catch the light, the final grip leaving nothing left to doubt.
The end presses close. With every part undone."”
A figure bolts from the corner, a rush of heat. Half dread, half wish.
The chase tears the field open, running has always been your gift.
Teeth catch the light, the final grip leaving nothing left to doubt.
The end presses close. With every part undone."”
To be the Queen is to be protected, sheltered, and always cared for by the King and Jester. They know best.
To be the mouse is to be chased, seeking the thrill and certainty of being wanted even if it’s to be torn apart by those he loves.
“My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects.”
Moments connecting Slushie to the word “fragile”:
Kitty’s letter to Emci found on Ecdysis Archives:
- Fiona about Slushie’s heart
Referenced as a fragile prey for the Cat:
Mikey’s comment when you type in “queen” in his dressup game:
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King / Cat
“The grass shivers, you move in, slow, ready for silence to snap.
A figure bolts from the corner, the instinct to strike, to shut it down in your jaws.
The chase tears the field open, driving forward, circling tighter, every step sharpening the hunt.
Teeth catch the light, the life beneath your gaze trembles in attention.
The end presses close. With the outcome sealed”
A figure bolts from the corner, the instinct to strike, to shut it down in your jaws.
The chase tears the field open, driving forward, circling tighter, every step sharpening the hunt.
Teeth catch the light, the life beneath your gaze trembles in attention.
The end presses close. With the outcome sealed”
To be the King is to provide, be there when needed and keep the peace in the kingdom! But the King can be just as cruel and violent as she can be caring.
To be the cat is to hunger, to want, to deserve! Possessive! The cat takes what she loves until it stops wiggling, and shows off her fresh kill.
“helloooo diary!
today is another august 8th, the 9th one we have spent together~
i feel so full of love today !!! such a strong strong strong feeling. a silly little feeling!
it started off so silly. i was running around my room with too much energy, happy to call like always. everything warm and light and silly silly silly
but then it crept up agaaaain, much heavier and thicker and crawling down my arms into my fingertips!
when it grows like this, i can perfectly imagine taking this feeling from myself, then cutting open soft skin and sinking it deep into the bones to let it settle. then after a while cracking them open like candy shells to see what has grown inside!
i could scoop out the marrow while it is still warm, and taste the sweetness for myself ♡＾▽＾♡
BUT but but i also want to love love love and spill myself and spread every thought every impulse every need until we can sync up so perfectly! until we can take something apart together and feel every corner of each other's thoughts!
and then we could peel away everything soft, and we would hold a fragile heart to the light like a trophy. just to tuck it back again so kindly like nothing ever happened. maybe we could even leave a little present inside!
aaah i want to take what i love until it stops wriggling and stays still just for me! but i also want to share the moment and bask together until there is no start or end to it and me and me and it ! :D”
“and then we could peel away everything soft, and we would hold a fragile heart to the light like a trophy.” ← “we” refers to Kitty and Emci. “fragile heart” refers to Slushie’s heart.
“i want to take what i love until it stops wriggling and stays still just for me!” ← “what i love” refers to Slushie
“but i also want to share the moment and bask together until there is no start or end to it and me and me and it !” ← this refers to wanting to share the moment with Emci, and bask together with him as they take Slushie apart. <3
THE DYNAMICS
The Synners (EECT)
Snippet of an articles compilation Kitty put together, found on her desktop during Meaty's route.
Emci and Kitty have a very strange and unique relationship. It feels like they can communicate without having to explain, and have their own secret language. They seem to talk one on one more often than any other pair, but this is not to exclude Slushie out of malice, they often do it to protect Slushie or to talk about him.
Emci had to have communicated to Kitty about the keylogging, for her to be researching it while Emci worked on DWPA!. He trusted her with that information and to know Emci is doing it for Slushie’s own good. They seem to always be on the same page, understand each other’s goals, and want to be with each other when they accomplish them.
They share the moment Emci holds for her.
As a pair, they take on more burdens together. Emci only came to Kitty when he was struggling with the Constructs, because he knows she is strong enough to handle it and knows she’s always willing to step it up and do what needs to be done. They help raise each other up equally, rather than one taking care of the other like they do with Slushie.
They are equal, they are linked, and together they know what’s best!
The link was broken during the breakup, and it’s clear that Emci was to Kitty a way to balance herself, and keep herself together. Without her link, she was lost, and went off the deep end as her mental health got worse.
She never moved on up until her death.
Kitty loves to see Emci happy, and being the reason for his happiness. That’s the reason why the cat even shares her kill. Getting what she wants is not enough if she has no one to share it with, and since her relationship with Slushie is about giving, there’s no sharing in the joy with him the same way there is with Emci.
Emci holds great respect for Kitty, and knows her strengths and what she’s capable of. He doesn’t shield her from what’s difficult because they are stronger together.
Constructs conversation:
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Gender Reversal (CTSS)
Snippet of an articles compilation Kitty put together, found on her desktop during Meaty's route.
There is a theme of gender reversal with the relationship between Kitty and Slushie, where Kitty acts as the protector and hunter.
On the other hand, Slushie lets himself be taken care of, while also being her prey.
Their roles directly contradict the roles we see in the murder, as in their lives together, Kitty was the Hunter who lived in the strike, while Slushie was the prey who enjoyed the thrill of the chase.
It’s on purpose that the role usually associated with a man is given to the woman, and vice versa. There is nothing traditional or standard about TRIO8. Their relationship is “strange” and taboo and unique, and that’s the way they’re happy in their own little world.
It doesn’t matter that Slushie is 6’2.5” and Kitty is 5’4”, it doesn't matter their gender, their love transcends those stereotypes with the reversal of their roles!
In Meaty’s route peeking_opera.png leads to a drawing made by Kitty of Slushie as his DOLLHOUSE Malware. Looking into Peking Opera, there’s a connection with Gender Reversal, as male actors played the part of female roles.
The Skull facepaint Kitty draws for him also resembles the makeup of Peking Opera ladies.
An actor on a stage! How fitting! What a show!
Kitty’s violence seems exclusively reserved for Slushie, which she seems to find romantic and a way to show her love. This, again, goes against the killing, as within their roles the violence was from her to him, and not the other way around.
Another important thing is, Slushie enjoyed her attention and aggression, and it’s implied he would go out of his way to ragebait her for attention! He seemed to know the power he holds over Emci and Kitty.
The quiz also tells us this is the truth, because the mouse is described as wanting to be chased despite the threat behind it.
“Half dread, half wish.”
The image Kitty wants Slushie’s help to find the source of is found on her desktop during Meaty’s route, called “bye_kiss_1943.jpg”. Looking up the source, it is directly identified as “Role Reversal”, intended to be satirical, but its clear satire is not the meaning it takes on within oneway.exe.
When Kitty learns of Slushie’s mother’s death (potentially, not actually confirmed but an easy assumption to make), what she wants more is to take care of him and comfort him. That’s the role she had, and what hurts her is not being able to give it.
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Strings Attached (EESS)
Snippet of an articles compilation Kitty put together, found on her desktop during Meaty's route.
This dynamic is important too, because it is directly connected to the murder.
Looking at all the evidence of this dynamic, it further supports my theory that Slushie was essentially a doll/puppet in the murder, and his actions were controlled by someone or something.
Emci and Slushie’s relationship, while loving, is very controlled by Emci.
Emci seems to enjoy having power over Slushie, and secretly controlling aspects of his life without his knowing. There is the theme of dolls, and puppets, dolls, and puppets. And Emci might just be the puppeteer.
The keylogging with DPWA!, the little silly gaslighting just because he likes how Slushie reacts to a stray pixel, and how often him and Kitty talk about Slushie behind his back— not maliciously, but to talk about how cute they find him, how much they like to mess with him because they love his reactions.
This one is just funny
There is aggression from Emci too, but it’s much more held back and reserved than Kitty’s. Still, it’s clear Emci is also a “predator” to Slushie’s “prey.”
On the other hand, Slushie craves Emci’s attention and adoration.
“the mouse wants to be the exception.”
He wants to stay special to Emci, he wants to be treated nice. Just as much as Emci loves to control him, Slushie wants to remain as Emci’s favorite doll.
I have to note, nothing bad came after this conversation, and it wasn’t until 2022 that things began to change between them. Slushie might’ve reacted “negatively”, but it does not necessarily mean he was actually hurt or put off. At most, I think he felt belittled not having his concerns taken seriously, but that’s also not that uncommon. I actually think Slushie fights back this way when what he gets told is a little too accurate.
Receiving violent threats from EECT doesn’t seem all that rare for Slushie, either!
Despite Emci’s strange methods, all he does I do believe is done out of love for Slushie, to protect him. He provides for him, and shields him from what he thinks he can’t handle. Anita says it directly that Emci only spied on Slushie for his own good, because Emci knows best.
“You understand, don’t you?
When you know best, you act for their own good.”
- - Anita to Emci
As silly as he’s being in this next conversation, it feels representative of their relationship. He provides and gives without needing to get anything in return. He is also very annoying about it <3
Another side of it is how much Slushie cares to hear Emci’s thoughts, but Emci never makes that too easy for him.
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TRIO8 (EESSCT)
Articles compilation Kitty put together that fit the relationships within TIRO8, found on her desktop during Meaty's route.
As a trio, EESSCT all have deep love, obsession, and devotion targetted at each other. There is no jealousy between each other and they work in harmony as each fulfills their specific roles.
Within the throuple, EECT function more as one, with their shared goal being to take care of Slushie together and support each other as equals. In return, Slushie gives both of them his trust and allows himself to be controlled.
THE BASICS
The Tragic Event
"-- she had been subjected to prolonged torture before her death –
-- her body skinned, ripped apart, her injuries methodical and deliberate -- believe the crime was not only premeditated but carried out with the sadistic intention of creating a notorious home video –
-- to break her body and mind for entertainment–
-- the methods used in the killing closely resemble stories found on the perpetrator’s websites.
Some of these writings explore extreme violence under the guise of “creative fiction"
-- her body skinned, ripped apart, her injuries methodical and deliberate -- believe the crime was not only premeditated but carried out with the sadistic intention of creating a notorious home video –
-- to break her body and mind for entertainment–
-- the methods used in the killing closely resemble stories found on the perpetrator’s websites.
Some of these writings explore extreme violence under the guise of “creative fiction"
CT was violently tortured and murdered, and the video of the murder was uploaded to a site called "xo-dos." A switchblade was the murder weapon. The evidence is in all the rooms as well as the desktop parts.
The crime is considered to be copying the fictional murder of Emily that Slushie wrote for Crypt-x, but there are a few differences. It’s not a perfect recreation as Slushie seemingly struggled or fought against it enough to seem like he struggled with the knife and hesitated.
Slushie covered Kitty’s body, going against the “final act of unforgiving stripping of her humanity” that Slushie wrote Spiderface did to Emily.
That is directly going against the way the murder was written.
Covering Kitty’s body might’ve been the action Slushie committed on his own.
“It moves outside its cue! The blade without a pulse learns to improvise!”
- - Anita in the Final Act
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Reality Layers
Reality 1: The "real" world where the devs, TRIO8, lived. It sounds realistic to what we know the real world is like. The Restoration Team is also found within this reality.
Reality 2/The Haunting: The game, UNTITLED.exe, that TRIO8 was working on, and the events that happen within it. The game included "crossover" characters from different horror stories.
Reality 3/Fiction: The individual backstories for every character in UNTITLED.exe. They aren't connected to each other and are separate franchises, brought together by the love TRIO8 had for them.
The only exceptions are Billie and Spiderface, the final girl and slasher of the same movie franchise.
They all become “real” by haunting the game, through the use of Cerebral Tekton*.
* See Cerebral Tekton for more information.
The only exceptions are Billie and Spiderface, the final girl and slasher of the same movie franchise.
They all become “real” by haunting the game, through the use of Cerebral Tekton*.
* See Cerebral Tekton for more information.
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The Breakup
During early 2022, something changed with Emci. He missed special events, no longer communicated, was no longer present, took even less care of himself, and seemed to pass out on his computer constantly. This began in early 2022, but progressively got worse until Slushie sent his breakup messages to Emci on 09/09/2022, at 11:53PM.
It is likely he waited until Emci’s birthday was near over, because it had become yet another missed event, and that might have been the trigger for Slushie.
09/09/2022 11:53 PM
It makes sense Slushie broke things up first, as he was the most sensitive who couldn’t handle the worst of Emci as much as Kitty… and besides…
Running has always been his gift!
I also believe he not only broke up with Emci that day, but also Kitty, as she wrote this in her diary the day after. She also references losing more than just Emci because of his actions, implying she also lost Slushie.
09/10/2022
12/01/2022
It took Kitty longer, but she did eventually end things with Emci too, probably after many failed attempts to contact him.
12/20/2022
A looooot more follows after that. It's a heavy e-mail to read and very painful.
Kitty did not take the break-up well, even if she pretended she was ready to on her email.
mood:
listening:paper bag - fiona apple
drinking:
warnings:
date: 12/31/22
his page is already gone so quickly and so easily like it was never even there to begin with
like i'm not the one who made it and spent years and years improving it and adding more and helping and reading every silly rant and
i keep feeling the instinct to write walls and walls of text and apologize over and over and try again to explain my stupid feelings and think that maybe just one more chance one more talk one more call but it WONT IT WONTTTT IT WONT IT WONT IT WONTTTT GET OVER IT KITTY!!!!!! GET OVER IT ALREADYYYY
This is talking about Slushie, who deleted his neocities website that Kitty made for him. I believe it might’ve been too painful for Slushie to keep it up, and he might’ve tried to disappear from the Internet after their break-up.
A LOTTT MORE WRITING GOES IN BETWEEN THOSE, ITS THE BIGGEST DIARY ENTRY SHE HAS WRITTEN THAT WE KNOW OF. PLAY THE GAME AND GET THE LOVE ENDING TO SEE THE EXTEND OF THE PAIN AND INTENSITY OF LOVE KITTY HAS
Because of the love ending, we also see that Slushie did not truly want to break up the relationship, but he believe that being allowed to break up with them at all meant the love was over, because he wasn't stopped. Up until the end, he still wanted to be chased, but felt the lack of action meant Emci no longer cared if he left.
Obviously, there's more to this letter! Play the game :3c
"Farewell, old lovers. Perhaps in another life."
Worst of all, we can learn that Emci did in fact read the diary entry exactly as Kitty said he would, if he's still the Emci she knew, and he even went out of his way to saved it. But he also had a screenshot of Slushie's letter to them both, the last post he ever made on his website before deleting it on 12/31/2022.
This means Emci was not apathetic, and still actively checked on them. He still loved them until the end and beyond.
Remaining Questions
Why were their roles switched in the murder?
- The mouse, the prey, the queen who is protected by the other two, is the killer. The prey was forced to become the hunter.
- The cat, the hunter, the king who protects and owns and has clear control, is the victim. The hunter becomes the prey.
- the lizard, the joker, the devoted observer who sees CT and SS as lives above his own. He exists for them. He lives for them, to listen, to help them shine brighter, to own them, is nowhere to be seen during the murder. completely SEEMINGLY uninvolved.
Who was there to hold the moment?
THE FACTS
The killer in the video is Slushie
There is a lot of evidence for this one
- Kitty calls out the name “Andrew”, which we are explicitly told is Slushie’s name.
- The killer’s eyes match Slushie’s, who is asian. His eyes are so pretty <3
Kitty is dead
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence for this one. It is explicitly stated in the game multiple times.
All the streamer and youtube videos that play in the hallway talk about her murder. It’s treated as a cautionary tale and true crime.
There is currently no reason to believe it didn’t actually happen, and an overwhelming amount of evidence saying it did.
Slushie is dead
It is a more subtle fact, but one I am very certain of.
To start, it’s made clear the heart found in Fiona’s room belongs to Slushie, NOT Kitty. We know this for a few reasons:
- The heart is specifically referred to as fragile, a word that is only ever associated with Slushie.
- The heart is NOT stabbed but rotten. We know Kitty’s heart was stabbed, and since it’s post-death it could not possibly be the same heart.
- Fiona speaks using past tense for the heart. It no longer beats, and the reason we hear it is because of Emci’s guilt over Slushie’s death— even if he can’t even remember it yet.
- Dollhouse seems “sentient”, and more than just an AI thing. Slushie is haunting Emci through Dollhouse, which means he would most likely have to be dead for that.
Here’s his pretty corpse:
The player is Emci
Explicitly stated in Mikey’s route, numerous times, alongside some obvious evidence across the entire game.
We are on Emci’s desktop, and signed into both his Fantome account as well as signed onto Grapeline.
The hoodie Slushie wears in the video was Emci's
- The hoodie is described as a “bittersweet memory” for Slushie.
- Mikey makes a joke about how when you let someone borrow a hoodie you never get it back.
- In CT’s art of Slushie’s selfies, you can see Slushie wearing one of Emci’s shirts. You can tell by how tight it is on him that it belongs to Emci, who wear it in Ophelia’s comic!
TRIO8 were in a relationship together
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence showing TRIO8 were more than just friends. Also, this has straightup been confirmed by the co-creators!
Art of TRIO8 made by CT, found on her desktop only if you perform certain actions in previous routes.
Tumblr Ask answered by Disordered Media explicitly confirming that TRIO8 thought of the logistics of marriage together.
- Kitty and Emci call Slushie “baby” a few times in canon. Kitty calls Emci “muppet”. Very cute and romantic pet names!
(more conversation goes here. its a good one. play the game)
- They constantly... constantly flirted with each other. Both Emci and Kitty call Slushie cute multiple times, to his face but also they talk about how cute he is to each other in DMs.
- Kitty's diary is one of the biggest confirmations, the entirety of it. It's filled with more direct thoughts without any platonic explanation. She has a very open cuteness aggression towards Slushie.
- Kitty’s relationship with Emci is more equal but just as intense and loving. She self-admittedly has attachment issues and constantly wants him around and she shares everything with him. She also helps him with personal dark issues they both try to hide from Slushie to protect him.
- These don’t even need an explanation:
- Slushie so often acts shy and flustered at both Kitty and Emci, but it's also obvious he loves it and seeks their attention on purpose!! This is confirmed in billie's route, when he admits he ragebaits kitty on purpose for her attention and the quiz confirms the mouse loves to be chased.
- and of course, the breakups. The messages Slushie sends Emci from 09/09/22 are describing a “disgusting feeling" he wants to get rid of but can't, he calls it an infection.
“I am going to kill the us living inside my head.”
The password being LOVE confirms the feeling he was talking about is LOVE. He still loved Emci and he wanted to stop.
- Kitty’s breakup email shows she held on for months after Slushie, and she alludes to losing him too because of Emci. It reads very strongly like a depressing breakup letter, and not just the end of a friendship.
CEREBRAL TEKTON
A more in-depth look into Cerebral Tekton, and further speculation:
I HIGHLY recommend you give that document a good read, as it goes over some of the most confusing yet lore-relevant aspects of oneway.exe, in an easy to understand way!
“There is a will to survive beyond flesh -- immortality no longer lives in stone or bone but in data streams --
-- fragments that hit, spread, and rewrite themselves in a constant loop -- what has been written outlives the body, surviving both deletion and decay.
-- the imprint left remains past the memory. Every connection becomes a cause of its endless pulse, a record of the moments where it allows itself to touch.
-- fragments that hit, spread, and rewrite themselves in a constant loop -- what has been written outlives the body, surviving both deletion and decay.
-- the imprint left remains past the memory. Every connection becomes a cause of its endless pulse, a record of the moments where it allows itself to touch.
The creation then lives on as the new maker.”
Cerebral Tekton appears to be a concept that relates to manifesting thoughts into reality. TRIO8 were using Tekton in ways that are still a big mystery, but the current idea is that Tekton is the reason why the constructs came to life.
It’s possible as well, that TRIO8 were using the constructs to commit crimes, more specifically, murders.
It's clear that TRIO8 had big plans revolving around Cerebral Tekton, and using it to create their dream Home. A brick house. This home is referenced multiple times throughout oneway.exe
Kitty seems to have been the original architect, but Emci had stronger abilities using Tekton, enough that he began to hallucinate while awake, while Kitty and Slushie only suffered from night terrors.
On the other hand, Slushie was clearly the least knowledgable and capable of using Tekton, but this seemed to have been on purpose. Both Kitty and Emci made a point to shoulder on the difficult parts of Tekton in order to protect Slushie from it.
The Architect
Architect of the brain.
Anita calls Emci “Architect” at the end of her room.
On her website, her sillyman game has this text hidden:
The Architect builds the stage. The audience awaits entertainment.
The actors play their part like puppets.
The architect cuts not the strings, but lets the puppet run with scissors.
Senseless but fearful.
The puppet looks into your eyes. The puppet is no longer afraid.
The puppet bleeds for you.
The puppets never leave the stage.
The actors play their part like puppets.
The architect cuts not the strings, but lets the puppet run with scissors.
Senseless but fearful.
The puppet looks into your eyes. The puppet is no longer afraid.
The puppet bleeds for you.
The puppets never leave the stage.
In the final act she brings up the Architect again:
“The Architect set the play in motion.
The puppets sleep as the architect rots.
The script has been repurposed, as it was always meant to be.
Yet it's been rewritten, each iteration further from the first. gutted from the inside.
Oh, but look! it moves outside its cue! the blade without a pulse learns to improvise!
What a show, what a craftful work of art!"
The puppets sleep as the architect rots.
The script has been repurposed, as it was always meant to be.
Yet it's been rewritten, each iteration further from the first. gutted from the inside.
Oh, but look! it moves outside its cue! the blade without a pulse learns to improvise!
What a show, what a craftful work of art!"
The Architect seems to be the one in control of Cerebral Tekton.
It’s likely that Kitty was the original Architect as Emci relied on her to write the guidelines for it, but at some point it might’ve become Emci. Emci currently having no memories makes it hard to tell if that’s still the case, as he likely lost control of it.
The Constructs
The constructs are the seven fictional characters found within UNTITLED.exe: Meaty, Anita, Mikey, Spiderface, Ophelia, Fiona, Billie.
The constructs show various different levels of awareness based on their canon abilities.
Mikey is by far the most “meta” of the cast, as his god-like abilities gain him advantage over every other character. He can influence things outside of his room, take over any aspect of the game he wants, and even directly references the game, the existence of other rooms, the previous route the player took, as well as the other characters. He can change reality to whatever he wants.
Fiona has had a strong connection with Emci since the beginning, and even her character card has “EMCI I KNOW YOU” written on it. Fiona seemed to have been Emci’s favorite character, and her abilities to cause visions and infect people with what they like to call her “worms” seems deeply connected to the way Cerebral Tekton works! Maybe she is even a direct inspiration for the guidelines.
This ability shows throughout her route as she gives Emci visions of the murder, other routes, and tries to guide Emci towards the truth that they forgot about.
Meaty is another character who is highly aware of her own fictional nature, but she wants to be real more than anything. She targets Kitty as there is a lot of information Emci kept of her to consume and use, to learn, to steal from and become real like her, so she can in turn be real like Emci is.
“Smell the stripped skin. Guts spilled on the floor. You rot from the inside out. So I learn what it is to be her. So I learn what it is to be you. Life outside the screen.”
She has a powerful influence, but not as OP and easy as Mikey’s. She first needs to learn, adapt, and feed before she is able to take over someone else, like she eventually did with DOLLHOUSE near the end of her route. Unlike Mikey, Meaty needed a backdoor (highly likely provided by Kitty, as seen by her saying she “hacked” into his code with the DOLLHOUSE fanart) to take over DOLLHOUSE.
Anita is the next on the list, and while her abilities are slightly more limited, she is very aware. The difference is her only goal is to have fun as she deems appropriate. She uses her knowledge and abilities to control the narrative. She finds the rest of the game unsafe, and she finds anything about the murder too scary to allow, so she is the only one who purposefully tries to make Emci not remember, and keep having fun instead.
From this point on, the rest of the cast is much much more limited.
Ophelia is aware of the pain Kitty endured because of the emotional connection Kitty had for her, but she doesn’t seem to understand where it comes from and it causes her pain to feel it. She’s guided by her emotions and can’t seem to think past them.
Billie is aware enough to mock the player and pull the oppression olympics card, but she doesn’t seem to care much, either. She’s stuck in her own bubble and her own plot, and to her it might just be that anything “meta” happening around her is not important, because her own story is what matters to her.
Spiderface shows the least awareness, but I think it’s because of his personality. He shows understanding by calling out a “copycat” killer of himself, and mocks Emci by writing on the walls about the BIG BAD WOLF. He even directly references Slushie, with the writing showing ANDY with blood, and PIG written over it. It implies he even knows that Andrew was not the “big bad wolf” at the end.
The final fax we receive in Fiona’s route seems to be related to Cerebral Tekton. Reading it causes Emci to have visions of other routes in UNTITLED, and after that, the game appears on the desktop.
Emci manifests the game into reality by following the instructions written down, which are likely the guidelines he discussed with Kitty.
This is the price of participating in adoration.
Dollhouse
A silly Malware Slushie built himself in 2020, and a part of a few different malware TRIO8 all built around that time.
DOLLHOUSE talks in the same way Slushie does, and is based around his personality. It displays an impressive intelligence for malware, and can learn from the virtual environment it’s placed on.
But on that note… it’s also clear Dolly is much more intelligent and aware than it SHOULD be, as it sometimes breaks “character” to remind Emci of what they’ve done, and the events that happened.
This implies that there is a part of Slushie’s being in DOLLHOUSE, and he now haunts Emci through it.
Translation:
There are a few times throughout different routes where DOLLHOUSE breaks character, but it’s more obvious during the Final Act, when the text adventure retells when Slushie was preparing for the murder.
The music changes, his usual way of speaking is gone, and references to the murder are constant, which would have been impossible to pre-program.
In between those moments of awareness, Dolly returns to his usual dialogue, too, such as referencing EE as the one who came up with the jumpscare idea, knowing deep inside that he IS talking to Emci right now.
It’s possible Slushie is limited by the pre-programmed aspect of DOLLHOUSE.
Kitty / Terror
Kitty is a haunting presence throughout oneway.exe: Module 1.0. She is based on the sona created by Kitty to present herself in her own art and get fanart.
Despite not being a part of the original UNTITLED.exe cast, her form haunts the game by having a door that doesn’t belong in the hallway, but Kitty’s Room is an alluring aspect of the game from the start.
Her room is where we know she was brutally murdered.
“But after heavy agony, at times only hate is left behind.”
The Terror shares Kitty/CT’s voice, but interestingly they use “we” when speaking. It could be CT and her fictionalized sona speaking together, or it could refer to Slushie too. We currently don’t know much yet.
The Infection
“Inside soft flesh, something awaits.
The parasite twists through veins, biting, bruising, thickening the dark between muscle and bone. The skin swells, tight and thin, stretched over the rot that eats slowly from within.
Puppets move in time with the ache, limbs controlled by a force that’s tender with its violence.
Hurt pulses alongside the blood, entwined and inseparable, yet peace grows where it shouldn’t.
The host breathes, but the space remains occupied, pressure mounting.
The parasite twists through veins, biting, bruising, thickening the dark between muscle and bone. The skin swells, tight and thin, stretched over the rot that eats slowly from within.
Puppets move in time with the ache, limbs controlled by a force that’s tender with its violence.
Hurt pulses alongside the blood, entwined and inseparable, yet peace grows where it shouldn’t.
The host breathes, but the space remains occupied, pressure mounting.
Love ripens as it's grafted into both pain and comfort.
It becomes a home for three.”
It becomes a home for three.”
The infection has been revealed to be LOVE, and it has already spread through Emci’s desktop.
All the quarantine’d files in ViraShield relate to the word LOVE
LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVEITSTHELOVE
The House
“It becomes a home for three.”
- The narrator in Loop 6
“Now you’re all alone in your little brick house.”
- Mikey in the Final Act
VIGILANTISM
“Exposure leads to tolerance, that’s the mechanism. The first response is disgust--the next is curiosity --
Eventually it becomes utility. With repetition, the content stops registering as violent -- it’s viewed as usable, a scene to reference, a feeling to trigger what’s been dulled by previous clicks --
-- over time, the source becomes secondary. The footage is kept for how it might serve. To write, to reflect, to feel.
– the reaction fades, but the pattern remains.
It’s all sorted and categorized, then pulled back when needed.”
Eventually it becomes utility. With repetition, the content stops registering as violent -- it’s viewed as usable, a scene to reference, a feeling to trigger what’s been dulled by previous clicks --
-- over time, the source becomes secondary. The footage is kept for how it might serve. To write, to reflect, to feel.
– the reaction fades, but the pattern remains.
It’s all sorted and categorized, then pulled back when needed.”
“you didn't.” <_<
DarkFox
An encrypted application that EESSCT use to speak about more private matters, such as illegal activities! They use it to protect themselves as they do their vigilante work together.
DarkFox IS accessible, but it is the currently known most complex puzzle in the game and so the solution is not publicly known as of today.
The pieces are all there for you like always!
DarkFox requires an ID and a Key to access. In log_1 we actually get to see Slushie type his own, but in an .exhm from Kitty’s desktop we learn they all changed their passwords monthly, so Slushie’s password would’ve long stopped working for his ID.
In log_1 we also get to see a DarkFox conversation from Slushie’s side!
ForenZXCase
xo.dos
A website where people post real videos of violence, gore, maybe something similar to LiveLeak. TRIO8 used this website not only to find new targets with people who shared or enjoyed content there, but also used videos posted there to “learn” and write violence more realistically. It’s not known why that was as important as it’s made to seem, especially to Emci.
Toyroot
A website where TRIO8 shared their malware with the “Malware” community. It appears to be a site where fans of Malware share their creations in a safe and regulated environment that isn’t meant to actually cause harm, but TRIO8 like to cause harm anyway.
They used their Malware to track and spy on their targets.
THE RESTORATION TEAM
(Written by Thor and Fish!)
A more in-depth look into the Restoration Team: Document by Thor and Fish!
PLUS The Restoration Team Deepdive with ARG spoilers The Restoration Team
PLUS The Restoration Team Deepdive with ARG spoilers The Restoration Team
The Restoration Team is a group of individuals whose objective is to restore the lost websites that TRIO8 created and collect as much information as they could find that can reveal the truth of the murder to put an end to the rumors and misinformation. There are currently three known members: S4, X5, and Z6. While the exact number of total members is unknown, we know they are a relatively small team with different members taking care of different roles. The Restoration Team is interactable and it’s possible to directly speak with them to exchange information in the Discord server, which is also where the majority of their storyline takes place. Occasionally, the constructs make appearances which are referred to as takeovers. If you got the Ruin ending, this is the group of people that showed up in the images during the finale sequence.
It is highly highly encouraged to join the Disordered Media Discord server to properly learn about them!!!!
S4
S4, real name Stefania, shows up the most in the server. She is associated with grizzly bears, the color yellow, and is who Z6 called “Little Miss Uptight.” Her name was revealed by Mikey during a takeover. Stefania is stern, speaks formally, and has quite an odd sense of humor (she makes bad puns but she means well I promise). She takes the research of TRIO8 very seriously and gets angry quickly when things get in her way. Stefania cares the most about finding any factual evidence that uncovers the truth of what happened with TRIO8 and treating them with respect. Because of this, she doesn’t believe in any of Cerebral Tekton’s activity and thinks fiction cannot bleed into reality, otherwise it would be seen as disregarding the reality of what happened to TRIO8. Stefania gets along well with X5 and is protective over him; she trusts him and they spend a lot of time together outside of RT work. As for Z6, it’s a little more complicated but she always gets in a bad mood when interacting with him.
X5
The next known member is X5, who is the member that makes the second most appearances. He’s who Z6 called a “beefed up weakness packaged neatly with a :pleading_face:” and is associated with deer and the color magenta. He is known as “the cute one” within the server because he is clumsier, uses more emojis, and communicates casually. English is not his first language, and as of now his first language is unknown. Sometimes his messages come with errors, and is caught correcting himself frequently. X5 is regarded as Stefania’s “weakness” by both Z6 and Mikey and in the server he’s shown to care about her… quite deeply. 🥸 Even though X5 is clumsy, he is not one to be underestimated! He is very emotionally intelligent and observant. For example, he is aware of the false narratives the media has put out of Slushie and Kitty and cares about respecting both of them. He also helped Stefania calm down when she got doxxed and asked her to call him. Recently, he’s been quietly working on something regarding HnC we don’t know of yet.
Z6
The third known member is Z6, who is associated with the color blue and raccoons. Lovingly referred to as the "fax creep" by the fandom, he is the person communicating to Emci through the Dialer app. Z6 speaks in a condescending tone and disrespects the other known RT members, insulting them and leaking their private discussions to Emci. It seems like his main goal is gathering as much information as he can about the personal lives of TRIO8. He’s been familiar with TRIO8 for a long time and the root of his obsession with them is currently unknown. Z6 is incredibly invasive, requesting “intimate and vulnerable” conversations between TRIO8; The way he behaves when sent exhumes is creepy and overall uncomfortable. Z6’s appearances are the rarest and the messages he sends under RT’s account are in a more haughty, joking manner. When interacting with server members, he tends to mock them and can come off as a little rude. Literally the guy nobody invited, but a fun one to mess with. Maybe. Perv.
Storyline
The Restoration Team’s storyline is told through interactive roleplay, and their lore runs very deep! Since the Restoration Team is uncovering information that goes against the general public’s narrative of the murder, their work has been seen as controversial and criticized by others. They keep their identities hidden and speak as a unified voice when speaking publicly for privacy and safety (except we all found out some personal information anyway oopsies thank you Mikey). By interacting with them in the Discord server, we learn more about who they are and why they’re part of the team. As stated before, there are many members in the team, but this story focuses on S4, X5, and Z6. On their website, they claimed to have “no personal connection to TRIO8,” yet they care so much about changing the false narratives for some reason. 👀
A lot of strange mysteries surround the Restoration Team. There is much to be discovered about them and what will become of them. To give so much care to what has already been lost, perhaps what’s lurking behind is closer than it seems.
THE CONSTRUCTS
Anita's Great Transformation
Fred Caplan sets out to look for his missing sister, who no one seems to remember ever existing for the past ten years. His search keeps leading him back to Adair Fair, an abandoned carnival whose star character feels strangely familiar.
Anita the Animatronic
Anita’s Great Transformation is an indie mascot horror video game.
An animatronic named Tommy existed before Anita. She “took his hand,” and now she is the animatronic in his place. Tommy was a real person before her, too, which means there’s a paranormal power converting people into animatronics, and there always needs to be a “main character” for it.
An animatronic named Tommy existed before Anita. She “took his hand,” and now she is the animatronic in his place. Tommy was a real person before her, too, which means there’s a paranormal power converting people into animatronics, and there always needs to be a “main character” for it.
Everyone has forgotten Anita ever existed, but her brother Fred started to remember her and is now trying to find her. What happens after that is unknown.
It's possible that the "fake", as in the animatronic, can replace a real person, and makes them become the "fake" one until they can once again find a replacement. Memories of who that person was disappear once they take that place as the protagonist of the ride. (credit to @.weskers.)
Drowned Ophelia
Ophelia Fontenot was once a kindhearted office worker, until one day her lover murdered her in cold blood. Now, her vengeful spirit haunts a cursed chain e-mail, condemning anyone who reads it to suffer her same pain.
Ophelia Fontenot
Ophelia is from a creepypasta chain email.
Ophelia began dating her boss, William Richardson, who charmed her with love-bombing before becoming cruel, controlling, and isolating her from her family after her dad's recent death. She became pregnant, and William murdered her by drowning her in a swamp.
Ophelia began dating her boss, William Richardson, who charmed her with love-bombing before becoming cruel, controlling, and isolating her from her family after her dad's recent death. She became pregnant, and William murdered her by drowning her in a swamp.
Since then, she has haunted technology through creepypasta chainmail. CT, one of TRIO8, considered her his favorite character and often wrote about her, which might be influencing her actions. She seems to want revenge for CT.
Medium: Chain e-mail
Era: Late 1990s, but still circulating many years after its creation
Era: Late 1990s, but still circulating many years after its creation
Closest Real-World Equivalent: The Carmen Winstead chainmail for medium, but her story seems closest to something like the Grudge or Ringu
Possible Tekton connection: “But after heavy agony at times only hate is left behind.” The concept of a strong enough emotion letting a consciousness continue.
Synopsis:
Ophelia Fontenot was once a kindhearted office worker, until one day her lover murdered her in cold blood. Now, her vengeful spirit haunts a cursed chain e-mail, condemning anyone who reads it to suffer her same pain.
Ophelia Fontenot was once a kindhearted office worker, until one day her lover murdered her in cold blood. Now, her vengeful spirit haunts a cursed chain e-mail, condemning anyone who reads it to suffer her same pain.
Ecdysis Archives
Laurie Barclay decides to continue her missing father's investigation into the deserted town of Isaiah’s Meadow. As she uncovers the tragic story of a girl who once lived there, it becomes clear that something in the town is still alive.
Medium: Web series
Era: Likely it ran from the late 2000s to mid 2010s
Era: Likely it ran from the late 2000s to mid 2010s
Closest Real-World Equivalent: Marble Hornets
Possible Tekton connection: The more you learn about Fiona the more she infects you, which results in visions that can help you awaken a better version of yourself. Not many people can survive ecdysis. The connection with Tekton is strong, as ecdysis is exactly what Emci experiences through the loops, which is why Fiona is the one who judges Emci’s journey and titles it in the end.
On top of that, the more you know of Tekton the more dangerous it becomes.
Synopsis:
Laurie Barclay decides to continue her missing father's investigation into the deserted town of Isaiah’s Meadow. As she uncovers the tragic story of a girl who once lived there, it becomes clear that something in the town is still alive.
Laurie Barclay decides to continue her missing father's investigation into the deserted town of Isaiah’s Meadow. As she uncovers the tragic story of a girl who once lived there, it becomes clear that something in the town is still alive.
Fiona Saint-Rose
Fiona is from a web series of videos, like “Marble Hornets”.
Fiona was frail, sick, wheelchair bound, and horribly abused by her family back in the 1930s. A supposed “fire” released noxious gases into the town, leaving it abandoned, but in reality a horrible plague (?parasite? infestation?) spread and wiped away the population. This parasite seems to not only eat people from the inside out, but also cause hallucinations. Fiona appears to have bonded with the parasite, who she refers to as “Mother”, and that is the reason why she is still alive in a physical form.
Fiona was frail, sick, wheelchair bound, and horribly abused by her family back in the 1930s. A supposed “fire” released noxious gases into the town, leaving it abandoned, but in reality a horrible plague (?parasite? infestation?) spread and wiped away the population. This parasite seems to not only eat people from the inside out, but also cause hallucinations. Fiona appears to have bonded with the parasite, who she refers to as “Mother”, and that is the reason why she is still alive in a physical form.
These parasites can infect others, causing hallucinations, mental deterioration, and eventual death.
A woman named Laurie Barclay went to the town to investigate what happened to her father, who was studying Isaiah's Meadow before he disappeared. Despite Fiona being from the 1930s, Laurie claims that she would see her and she would talk to her, and this seems to be as a result of Mother infecting her and driving her to insanity. Laurie then has the same fate as her father, and anyone else who visits her town, but also had many hallucinations about Fiona’s home life and got to know her though them too.
We don’t know what happened in between or after, but she does go missing.
Fiona seems to be attempting to “enlighten” EE on their path, as they experience their past with TRIO8 and what eventually came of it.
Fiona seems to be attempting to “enlighten” EE on their path, as they experience their past with TRIO8 and what eventually came of it.
Garden of Spiders
Darcy James joins her high school's most elite clique on a summer trip to a private cabin. Fitting in becomes the least of her worries when rumors of a spider-like creature appear to be more than just urban legend.
Medium: Indie splatter horror film franchise
Era: The first film likely released mid to late 2000s (released online rather than in theaters)
Era: The first film likely released mid to late 2000s (released online rather than in theaters)
Closest Real-World Equivalent: IDK ITS A SPLATTER FILM THIS ONE IS EASY TO GET, think Terrifier meets I Know What You Did Last Summer
Possible Tekton connection: One of the characters in the movies, Cricket, discusses something he calls an “Echo” that makes people act out of character and at times even violent, almost like a possession. It seems very likely Tekton can do this based on what we know (what happened with Slushie).
Synopsis:
Darcy James joins her high school's most elite clique on a summer trip to a private cabin. Fitting in becomes the least of her worries when rumors of a spider-like creature appear to be more than just urban legend.
Darcy James joins her high school's most elite clique on a summer trip to a private cabin. Fitting in becomes the least of her worries when rumors of a spider-like creature appear to be more than just urban legend.
Billie A. Stuart
Billie is from a splatter film franchise. The “final girl”
Billie A. Stuart is the actual “final girl” of the movie (plot twist reveal, most likely).
Billie was once a popular “mean girl”, best friends with the prom queen and dating a football player. Her world turned upside down when her friends were horrifically killed by a creature with “the face of a spider”, but as he’s considered urban legend, Billie was blamed for the murders and arrested/institutionalized. Now, Billie is far from the carefree girl she used to be. She seems to be dealing with survivors' guilt, unchecked mental health issues, and a need for revenge, which in turn makes her unpredictable, unstable, and violent.
Her parents, along with her friends’ parents, were likely part of a cult called “Unification of Parousia,” which focused on the second coming. The second coming was meant to be virginal, and since Billie wasn’t, it’s possible she was chosen by mistake for being the only survivor. This might tie into the plot of a sequel to “Garden of Spiders” that we don’t know of yet. There are at least three movies.
Spiderface
Spiderface is from a splatter film franchise. The “slasher”
Spiderface is a sadistic, chaotic, extremely agile, and animalistic killer with no sense of empathy for human beings. It enjoys causing suffering, and seemingly has a child-like sense of humor despite its cruel and graphic actions to others. He seems to enjoy extending the suffering for as long as possible, and takes “trophies” from victims. He also appears to “crush” on his victims, or at the least, likes to pretend he does. Little is known about Spiderface as a person. Horrible creature.
Important to note that one of his victims, called Emily, was the “inspiration” for CT’s real murder.
RenoVirtual Laboratories
A collection of research papers and notes detailing the experiments conducted at RenoVirtue Labs. Most prominently, scientist Dana Lombardo’s documentation of their most successful subject, PT-19028.
Medium: Crowdsourced horror writing project
Era: Mid 2010s (Meaty's entries)
Era: Mid 2010s (Meaty's entries)
Closest Real-World Equivalent: SCP Foundation
Possible Tekton connection: The entire purpose of RenoVirtue Labs is to create synthetic life, and give a consciousness to something that shouldn't be alive, such as the constructs.
Synopsis:
A collection of research papers and notes detailing the experiments conducted at RenoVirtue Labs. Most prominently, scientist Dana Lombardo’s documentation of their most successful subject, PT-19028.
A collection of research papers and notes detailing the experiments conducted at RenoVirtue Labs. Most prominently, scientist Dana Lombardo’s documentation of their most successful subject, PT-19028.
Meaty / Desdemona
Meaty is from SCP-esque media. Unsure of what type. It could be just writing like the SCP wiki based on all the redacted information we see around her.
Meaty was “raised” and created in RenoVirtual Labs, with Dana being her “caretaker” of sorts. She named Meaty “Desdemona”, and seemed attached to her in some manner. Seems the experiments backfired, and something horrible went down in that lab as noted in her character card, and a scientist who wrote down a blood soaked letter of remorse for playing “god”.
Meaty was “raised” and created in RenoVirtual Labs, with Dana being her “caretaker” of sorts. She named Meaty “Desdemona”, and seemed attached to her in some manner. Seems the experiments backfired, and something horrible went down in that lab as noted in her character card, and a scientist who wrote down a blood soaked letter of remorse for playing “god”.
Meaty, as synthetic life, seems to be able to imitate and tries to find her own identity by stealing it from others. She has a natural curiosity for humans, but has no regard for their lives and is more than willing to hurt innocents for her own entertainment and new persona, as seen by the fact that she is willing to kill human babies in order to grow her “doll” collection.
Meaty is aware that she is fictional, and wants to become real.
Rob&Bert: The Trasheye Vision Tapes
Podcast hosts Rob and Bert find a set of tapes from an 80’s pirate radio show, where host Ben showcases his favorite music. The recordings take a turn as Ben documents his best friend’s disappearance, and soon the events of the tapes begin to bleed into Rob and Bert’s own lives.
Medium: YouTube podcast horror series
Era: Early 2010s. 10/21/2013 is the earliest mention
Era: Early 2010s. 10/21/2013 is the earliest mention
Closest Real-World Equivalent: Welcome to Night Vale
Possible Tekton connection: The manipulation of reality in general, especially through media. Mikey is able to create worlds and change the reality people see, which he uses to guide them to suicide. Tekton operates with many of those manipulation abilities as well.
Synopsis:
Podcast hosts Rob and Bert find a set of tapes from an 80’s pirate radio show, where host Ben showcases his favorite music. The recordings take a turn as Ben documents his best friend’s disappearance, and soon the events of the tapes begin to bleed into Rob and Bert’s own lives.
Podcast hosts Rob and Bert find a set of tapes from an 80’s pirate radio show, where host Ben showcases his favorite music. The recordings take a turn as Ben documents his best friend’s disappearance, and soon the events of the tapes begin to bleed into Rob and Bert’s own lives.
Mikey Van Lee
Mikey is from a youtube podcast horror series, like “Welcome to Nightvale”.
Likely strongly based around the satanic panic from the 80s. His “soul” was potentially sacrificed, and in return he became the rockstar he dreamed of being.
He was once a normal 18 year old in the 1980s, with a friend called Ben who ran a pirate radio show inside a video store. At some point, the video store owner, Frank, kidnapped Mikey and trapped him in a basement to perform some type of ritual. Mikey might’ve been “chosen” to be a vessel for a god called “the King” since birth, and after 224 months the King was awakened with that new ritual.
Ben had no idea what happened to him, but Mikey returned one day but was different. We don’t know what happens in between that, and the Mikey we know now that embraces being a god.
Now, his goal seems to be leading people towards their own deaths.
Mikey is a character that is fully aware of the fact that he is “fictional”. He has the ability to break the fourth wall and seems well aware of the player’s history, as well as what happened with TRIO8
DOLLHOUSE
A Malware created by Slushie heavily based on his own personality.
DOLLHOUSE was created by Slushie and sent to Emci so he could test him. Notably, the way DOLLHOUSE acts is exactly like Slushie, as well as the language used for his dialogue.
It also quickly becomes clear there's more ot DOLLHOUSE than the pre-programmed dialogue Slushie wrote for him, as it's been infected with LOVE, and highly likely is yet another construct.
Kitty
A sona that CT made for herself
Kitty was CT’s sona that many people would draw fanart of, and she would use to draw herself when online. Based on her Grapeline PFP, she has had the Kitty sona since she was a young child.
THE ROUTES
Fiona's Route
Nostalgia is the main theme. TRIO8’s early beginnings as little beanie babies but also sweet moments across the years to remember. All of the painfully bittersweet past, and just how much Emci was loved.
Guilt is another main theme, with the wall saying "The time approaches to bear the weight of your inflicted sorrows."
The same switchblade from the Snuff video appears in this room when you click on a newspaper that mentions CT’s murder.
Fiona seems to know of Reality 1 and knows Emci is guilty of something. She merges Reality 2 and 1 with the "Tale-Tell Heart" that shows up inside the room, the same hardcopy Emci received in 2013 from Slushie as we see on Grapeline.
“Memory crawls within the marrow… restless.”
Something begins to spread on the desktop, an infection? Worms? All of the above? You’re then kicked back to the game
Emci then finds a heart under the floorboards, one we can confidently say belongs to Slushie. The heartbeat is the sound that gnaws at a guilty mind.
Fiona says,
“The heart… fragile…
You know it was.”
A popup tells us something is running on our desktop! Minimizing the game to see shows a lot of different files, memories of Emci’s past.
“You walk through echoes.”
Until you find the one you’re looking for.
“The sights stay the same… but the eyes have… changed.”
The room ends with Emci seeing their reflection with Fiona behind them. It looks like who we learn in Module 1.0 is Emci, further confirming his identity. Fiona’s desktop is one of the clearer routes where we can identify Emci as the curly haired one.
NOTE: In this route, there is an optional ARG action that can affect the ending you get. The "Final Act of Love” requires this action!
Go to Ecdysis Archives, click “Archive”, and place ONLY the burnt photograph over the newspaper.
What is this telling you to do? Think of it carefully:
The tale slips through your thoughts. You read it, and you let yourself forget.
Then, return your love where you found it. Leave it to burn.
These are instructions. Instructions necessary to follow for the Final Act of Love.
Fiona’s Desktop:
This route starts with DOLLHOUSE throwing a tantrum. He can tell you’re sticking to the past and looking at old files, so he dumps all your pdf’s on the desktop.
Alongside the PDFs are two scanned letters from TRIO8’s beanie baby years, one from Kitty and one from Slushie sent to Emci, both from 2013. The other relevant fax is to set up the Dialer.
Throughout this route you “walk through echoes” just like Fiona said before. You read through old cherished conversations of their first meeting in person, read through a lot of firsts and important moments they had over the years, through the PDFs, Grapeline, and Fantome.
So many bittersweet memories that feel they don’t even belong to you!
After Fiona’s route:
“A hall of reminders.
One by one by one they trickle down.”
“you're such a hoarder :p
how many things do you secretly keep you big softie~”
“It's not like it's anything special.
The memory should be enough. “
“Is this how it plays out?
Memories breathe life back into a dulled heart.”
“Suffering stretches.
Becomes elastic, becomes eternity.”
SS: I just want anything to happen anything to fucking change in a positive direction for once.
SS: I'm so tired of this.
CT: we are all tired
SS: He's not tired, clearly.
SS: Sure stays up all night doing fuck knows what.
SS: I saw the new Laurie letter. I know you're doing shit without us.
CT: can we not do this right now?
EE: let him.
CT: :/
SS: Right, because I need permission.
SS: When are we actually getting out of this hell we're stuck in?
EE: soon.
Spiderface's Route
This route is about the murder, the violence, and the crimes TRIO8 committed together. Their vigilante work, and the eventual way things always end.
Spiderface’s Room:
A body is different from the others that is named Emily. You learn of a girl who mourns the tragic and horrifically violent murder of her cousin. There is nothing but a chair in the room, the same chair from the snuff video.
The murder matches CT’s description, but the name is wrong. Emily is the name of a fictional character from Reality 3, but someone must have recreated that murder in Reality 1 with CT, so her name is not the same.
When the rooms get destroyed, messages from Spiderface appear on the walls.
Insectwiz, null1321462, 3hdD63_e8kQ all belong to CRICKET, who was one of Billie’s friends that was also involved in the massacre. Interestingly enough, Cricket’s body was never found (as stated in Billie’s character card)
Emci gets CT’s heart from the desktop and places it on the chair, which triggers a cutscene in which Spiderface kills him. He then appears in the “Kill Room”
Spiderface’s Desktop:
We learn that TRIO8 were trying to break into an application used by police investigators to keep record of crime scenes, ForenZXCase (ZX)
In Grapeline, we also learn that this is not the first time Slushie has been faced with ZX, as he first saw it when he was a little 12 year old baby. Tiny innocent baby boy. He implies that his dad has an obsession with ZX, which might mean he used to work as a police officer or investigator before moving to China.
Slushie was traumatized by seeing a photograph of a skinned woman in a room, eerily similar to the way CT eventually dies by his hand. Baby Emci acts a bit strange about it, but Emci is always a bit strange.
November 28, 2012 (not the full conversation, play the game to see it !)
In 2020, Slushie is teaching Emci and Kitty how to break into ZX, in order to use the information there for their own mysterious vigilante needs.
12/21/2020
Unknown to them at the time, ZX would eventually contain information about them. Once you successfully break into ZX, you find photographs of a skinned woman in a room, but this time it’s Kitty. The investigator going over the case seems distraught over it, and how little sense it makes for Andrew to have killed a close friend in a crime as sadistic and twisted as it turned out.
For the outside world, it’s easier to think of Andrew as an unfeeling monster than to try to understand the “why”.
It’s also heavily likely that the one corrupted photograph is Slushie’s own corpse.
After Spiderface’s route:
“STAB! SLASH! DICE!
CUT! CUT! CUT!”
“I could teach you.
It's not hard to use a knife properly, you know.”
“hehehe~ :3c
“hehehe~ :3c
are you suuure you want us near a knife ?”
“THE SMELL THE SMELL THE SMELL.
It's fucking sickening.”
“No right to take it.
No right to leave it.”
EE: writing is good. murders feel real.
CT: the vision is coming together much stronger !
SS: I would sure fucking hope so, after that many rewrites.
CT: noo it's not a rewrite, every adjustment just perfects the craft~
SS: After enough adjustments you're left with a brand new ship.
SS: Granted, it's a much better ship.
EE: ship ship ship it still sails the same path.
Ophelia's Route
The rage, the hatred, the pain, and how the love perseveres despite it all. There's a lot of sweetness here too, like despite everything there will always be the love showing through the hate. The infection has already spread.
Ophelia’s Room:
Ophelia was Kitty’s favorite character, and her love for her is shown through her room. It’s also likely why there’s a connection between the two, and why she blames Emci for something that happened.
Terror and Kitty can be seen in a spam window. Her presence is constant. Ophelia seems affected by the agony left behind by Kitty.
If you type "Kitty" as your answer for who your best friend:
you get text that says "YOU DON’T FUCKING DESERVE HER PITY" on top of "You do hurt people who care about you." If you don’t type Kitty, the text says, "THIS IS YOUR RECKONING."
Alongside that change, the email is also unique, an email CT wrote for Ophelia.
“From: ????? [??????????.com]
To: Ophelia Fontenot [OpheliaF@noway.net]
Subject: i love you <3
i know it's so weird and childish, but it still makes me happy to write to you like this. just because someone's not real doesn't mean that the feelings aren't real either, right? and in a way my fee-[...] -n also make you real in return. So[...]we both help each other[...]lot of people cope this way, but i don't think[...]it's pretty normal all things considered, an[...]i even have anything to cope about which[...] t's me who acts stupid and messes[...][...]anyways, many things change but you never[...]you have just been a part of me for so long that i can't let of that[...]many[...]and i still love you the same <3”
And this Email:
If you type “Slushie”:
And this email:
If you type both” Kitty” and “Slushie”:
You receive both E-mails. This is an important action.
The room ends with messages from xo.dos asking Emci what they did. Then a link to the snuff video opens.
CT on the chair, and her voice loops saying “Andrew”, until an Ophelia jumpscare ends her room.
Ophelia’s Desktop:
We explore Emci’s desktop, but this time he’s received a lot of spam e-mail!
One of the emails talks about “Blinky Boo” a cute little lightbulb who functions as a desktop buddy, and DOLLHOUSE is not fond of it. Blinky Boo identifies DOLLHOUSE as Malware and attempts to remove him, but it’s revealed that DOLLHOUSE is infected with something worse.
There is an infection spreading through the entire desktop, and is attached to the system host. We learn the infection is LOVE. He claims DOLLHOUSE is infected with it, alongside everything else.
This is the route where we find Slushie’s breakup message to Emci, right at the last minute of Emci’s birthday.
At the end, Blinky Boo recognizes it's already too late to save the desktop, as Emci himself is the parasite.
After Ophelia’s route:
“hey sooo
what follows after heavy agony, exactly ? <.<”
“Hate.
I fucking hate you. I really do.”
“PARASITE.
PARASITEPARASITEPARASITE.”
“How could you?
How? How? How?”
“To smell is violating.
A body is decomposing between memory.”
CT: i’m so sick of these night terrors
SS: What the hell. Did you have one last night?
CT: YES so be careful what you say cause i'm in a moooood @_@
SS: I also did.
CT: :O
CT: ooooh
CT: i was making a few new popups and fell asleep in the middle of it
CT: what were you doing last night?
EE: implementing the popups.
SS: I can speak for myself!
SS: I was implementing the pop-ups.
EE: lol.
CT: strange…
CT: then…
CT: THE POPUPS ARE CURSED !!! D:
Anita's Route
This route seems to represent the need for control Emci has, especially over Slushie. For protection, but it's also selfish. Emci is willing to do anything to protect and control even without consent, because he knows best.
Anita’s Room:
Anita is aware of the fact that she is inside a video game and wants to keep you trapped with her too. Her room shows that Emci has access to the UNTITLED.exe game files and changes the game through them. Right now we in the server believe this is because CT’s computer was stolen and she had the game files with her.
Anita’s room teaches us about "media manipulation" across time. We even get a Zip file from a past conversation that CT sent to EE, even if CT is already dead. This seems to be relevant, and CT as the Terror is using that in UNTITLED.exe too.
At the end, a video happens where Anita talks about having a best friend who wasn’t real, and she wants to become that for someone else. She calls Emci “Architect.” We don’t know why yet, but her website mentions Architect too, and her part in the Final Act.
Anita’s Desktop:
We learn that Emci had been working on “Desktop Patrol with Anita!”, a malware based around Anita that forced the desktop user to play word games with her. She zips up files and applications she considers dangerous.
We also learn a lot of other things ! Such asssss, Emci secretly uses DPWA! To spy on Slushie! He made him try out DPWA! to test it, but from the moment he started it up it also set up a keylogged on his computer, and Emci was able to see everything he typed.
This is VERY important, as Anita seems to represent how controlling and possessive Emci was, particularly towards Slushie! Anita even controls DOLLHOUSE, puts him on timeout, and silences him whenever he tries to complain about her presence. Every aspect of Slushie is controlled.
Another important detail is that Kitty seemed aware of it, and had no issues with Emci keylogging Slushie. If anything, she just wanted to learn more about how it works!
Maybe to do it herself?
05/23/2021
(funnyyyyy)
log_1:
log_1, the most beautiful piece of written media, is a txt file where Slushie’s keystrokes were logged by Emci!
Anita heavily implies Emci was doing this for what he considers to be Slushie’s own good, because Emci knows best.
“Today Anita is teaching you about different kinds of sneaky Spyware!
Have you ever heard of a keylogger?”
It keeps track of every little tap on the keyboard, so you can always know what someone’s up to.
That way, they never wander into danger, or make choices you don’t approve of.
Can you imagine that?
To hold every word.
And to hoard them.
You understand, don’t you?
When you know best, you act for their own good.
That’s what keystroke logging is! Isn’t technology amazing?”
07/02/2021
For the sake of this guide, I will only show parts of it as it's super long, but I heavily recommend reading it. You learn a lot about Sushie and how painfully adorable he is <3
After Anita’s route:
“There are many more games!
Let's have some fun together and play!”
“it's been a little bit since we last got to play
we can stream if you don't feel like joining ^^”
“We should play something again.
And maybe try to live in the moment for at least one hour or two?”
IT'S JUST FICTION.
SS: We shouldn't need any new art for a bit.
SS: So you can focus on finishing the Patrol art for now at least.
EE: already finished.
CT: WHAT
SS: What?
CT: how did you do it so quickly ??? O_O
EE: it took the amount of time it needed to.
CT: oh PLEAAASEEE don't play the mysterious role right now!
SS: Sometimes things need to take longer.
SS: Not everything needs to be speedran, especially when you're meant to be recovering!
EE: sometimes. a lot of times.
EE: and other times it's meant to be quicker.
CT: is this one of those times? :v
EE: depends.
Billie's Route
The late friendship years! The bit of innocence before they pushed things further together, both in their relationship but also the tekton stuff. Before anything got messy and before any of their dangerous hobbies they later got into.
Billie’s Room:
After getting the switchblade, the same switchblade as in Mikey and Fiona, Terror appears. She so far appears when events related to the Reality 1 tragedy happen in the game.
Billie texts you saying "Parasite," which means it’s probably not from Billie but from Terror.
Billie’s diary switches to Kitty’s diary, with her last diary entry she wrote on August 8th, 2023.
The purpose is to dress Billie up the way CT looked when she died, pink shirt and running shorts. The clothing looks realistic and is outside the closet, as they are from Reality 1. When you dress her up, the game says "ERROR: WRONG character." similar to the wrong name error in Spiderface. You visit "Kill_room" from the Spiderface room files and see CT on the chair again. You cut off her scalp and give it to Billie.
Billie and Cece say "this is your reckoning," and Emci gets a jumpscare with CT on the chair. She says, "Andrew?" again.
Billie’s Desktop:
You learn that TRIO8 had been working on making quizzes for Billie!
Kitty made NEW quizzes though, and one is particularly for her two boys to try out. She wants to know how much care and attention they put to the things she says and works on.
There is a “Which UNTITLED character are you” quiz, which can give you the result KITTY if you input all the right answers the way that she would.
Most takes place in 2019, right on the edge where we see the most change in their relationship. Everything feels more sweet and carefree than their last years together.
At the end Kitty congratulates Emci for succeeding at her quiz, before she suddenly breaks character and admits that “last night” was a long time ago.
“Is this the way it always ends?”
She sends her reward, a Garden of Spiders DVD menu she was working on (this can be inferred from the .exhm file received in this route, where Kitty mentions wanting to have an old school DVD menu for Garden’s, since it never had a DVD release and only released online)
The DVD emulator doesn’t show the Garden of Spiders DVD menu. Instead, we are faced with the snuff video again, and again, and again. This time, we are told the XD2 Team worked to put the video together, and warns about the graphic content.
No matter what distractions are in the way, it’s clear Emci can’t escape the way things ended.
After Billie’s route:
“liiikeeee
wen does the murdr happen n stuff? :/”
“YAY DEATH !!!
finallyyy we're getting closer to the good part~”
“ewww
rotting smells soooo stinky”
“Is it worth the pain?
Is anything worth the pain?”
“A sacrifice.
A gesture of love, a gesture of hate.”
Meaty's Route
This route seems to represent who Kitty was, and the love between TRIO8. Meaty is the one who helps us humanize Kitty the most and see the many sides of her! And how complex she is. She is real. She is possessive, she is intense and aggressive, she wants to own and collect and protect. She is not the defenseless victim of this story.
Meaty’s room:
Meaty knows about Kitty and wants to steal her skin. She also knows that Emci has CT’s computer and files, and she proves it by pulling up Kitty fanart. She steals the fanart and steals CT’s voice to talk to Emci. She even references the way CT died when she talks about stripped skin.
She mentions Emci rots from the inside. Meaty wants to become real and be a part of Reality 1, like Emci is.
In one of the diaries from CT, it’s entries we can find on her website now that we have it. All from 2023, the year that she died.
The Terror appears at the end of her room, likely triggered by CT’s diary entries and fanart. She calls Emci "sick parasite."
Meaty’s Desktop:
We learn that Slushie made the OS system TRIO8 uses, called TriOS (cute <3). Kitty is told she has to use a secure password from the password generator Emci made for them.
The puzzle is to find what her password is through an assortment of fun clues~
Once you do, you enter her Virtual Computer where she has the green OS look and all of her files!
Kitty created a desktop application based on Pompom, that eats files and spits out files related to that file! Really fun to take your time and explore~
There are a lot of gems hidden here, and a lot of Kitty’s personalities and hobbies. She really feels like a real person, and the love she has for Emci and Slushie feels real too.
Things that seemed important to her stay inside Pompom’s “BELLY”, which becomes a folder you can look back on after you have already played Meaty.
Notably, most things important to Kitty were made with love for Emci and Slushie.
At the end, Meaty takes over her desktop, feeding more and more from Kitty to learn what it’s like to be as real as she is. All her files have been consumed, except for the sweet memories left behind inside of the BELLY.
After her route:
“don't be scared~
isn’t it just so cute cute cute !!!”
“Boring boring hallway.
Let's run ! #Exertion “
“It's not freaking cute.
But it's not “scary” either. I don't know what this is.”
“Is it your fault? Is it ? Is it ?
I learn the lines to say. Sick parasite.”
“It outlives the thing it imitates.”
CT: we really should change some of the controls :p
SS: Back with this again.
SS: It's just not a current priority when there's much else to focus on.
CT: i didn't say right nooowww but we'll have to get to it eventually!
SS: Playtesters got through Meaty's room just fine the way it is.
CT: i thought we agreed playtesters can't be relied on <.<
CT: maybe we just need a stronger tutorial ?
EE: players rely on repetition.
EE: patterns are the only tutorial that matters.
Mikey's Route
This route is about destruction. The need to make each other worse and ruin each other together. Self-destruction, too, with the way Emci was willing and is still, I think, willing to destroy himself for the sake of Kitty and Slushie.
Mikey’s Room:
Mikey can break the fourth wall from Reality 2, he can create things in the game that didn’t happen before. This is likely because he is a god. He speaks to Emci directly after making them jump off of the radio tower and implies they have no memories of anything.
A switchblade is visible in an animation where Emci holds it, and Emci hallucinates that it’s covered in blood.
Mikey shows snuff videos from the same site CT’s video was posted, and says "that’s too bad they loved you," which probably is about the other TRIO8 devs.
He makes the Rob & Bert video become the snuff video, which we now know is called ">one way," where CT’s chair she died in is centered.
A comment says the killer’s name might be "Andrew." We have confirmation across the game that Andrew is Slushie’s name.
Emci wears what looks like a hoodie and gloves that are the same as the snuff film perpetrator, but we know the perpetrator was Slushie, who did not dress like that.
Mikey’s Desktop:
In Mikey fashion, this route doesn’t go as usual. It’s a Mikey takeover!
Mikey takes over DOLLHOUSE and makes it his own to control the narrative and guide Emci towards his own self destruction.
He exposes Emci to a sweet and vulnerable moment in Emci’s life, and the close relationship he had with Kitty and Slushie. Then, he encourages Emci to share it to a creepy outsider who seeks personal gains from peeking into TRIO8’s private life.
This route is important, because it comes with a heavy choice.
In order to get back into UNTITLED.exe after DOLLHOUSE takes the shortcut away, your only option is to give the creepy fax guy (known as Z6 after the RUIN end) what he wants, so he will repay you with the private build of the game RT had been putting together.
There is an option you are guided to give in exchange. A private and intimate moment between TRIO8 that Emci exported years ago. Giving that singular .exhm file is good enough for Z6, so the interaction can quickly end and you get to move on and away from it. Easy !!!
But... what about all your other .exhm files? Do they work, too? Of course! You can give many other .exhm files and get more information from Z6 that way, both about RT and about TRIO8. Some advance you right away if they're intimate enough for HIS standards, but others don't, so you get to send more and more and get more information that way. But while that sounds fun, it comes with heavy consequences.
Z6, not so endearingly called the Fax Creep by the fandom, is, well, very CREEPY!!! His motivations are unknown, but he's extremely parasocial and voyeuristic about TRIO8. There are BIG implications to giving him more faxes, as it breaks the trust Kitty and Slushie had placed on him when alive.
Think about it carefully. How much do you respect those memories? What are you willing to sacrifice to move forward? What are you willing to give away?
The decision you make here, affects MULTIPLE endings. It's one of the most important ones we know of.
SCREENSHOTS NEEDED HERE!!!!
He’s forced to face memories of the past, of Slushie honestly and genuinely opening up to him, saying he loves both him and Kitty, after tainting the memory by having to use it to advance on Mikey’s game and obtain UNTITLED.exe again. No matter what, Kitty and Slushie have become online spectacles for entertainment, to misrepresent, to use by people who aren’t Emci.
The ending of Slushie’s heartfelt confession to Emci is contrasted with graphic photos of the murder, showing the broadcast of their misery will never have an end.
After his route:
“The same old hallway.
Pacing pacing pacing.”
“Looking for someone?
THERE'S NO ONE HeRE BUT US CHICKeNS, BABE !”
“Missing me already?
Too bad these aren't voiced.”
“You build. You refine.
Then you rot. And you rot.”
BACK FOR MORE HUH
Must be a drag, doing the same thing again.
Waiting to notice every tiny little bit of…
CHANGE.
But haven't you seen it all already?
The Final Act
The way it ends.
The Final Act brings together all you have learned from every previous route. During the Final Act, DOLLHOUSE often breaks character.
He starts it off with a text adventure that retells the actions Slushie was influenced to make on the night of Kitty’s murder. Starting with his outfit of choice, between a familiar leather jacket, or a hoodie that holds bittersweet memories. The hoodie is implied by Mikey to have belonged to Emci, which Slushie borrowed from him and didn’t give it back.
This leads you to Billie’s Dressup.
The next action is to pack the weapon necessary. We also hear of something that “doesn’t exist” that was also packed that night, but that is still a mystery.
Packing the bag uses what you learned in Spiderface’s route, with the knife.
After that, DOLLHOUSE returns to himself and gives you a pre-programmed routine during his Intermission, where he makes you play a game of snake. Once you fail, he decides to snoop through your emails.
There, you find E-mails sent by Ophelia, discussing the curse of love.
After your E-mails, fax creep is back. They want to learn about the diary. You use the screenshot of the diary to feed it through Kitty’s algorithm, which is…
Meaty’s Pompom!
Then you have access to her diary. So much to learn here and I won’t give it all away in this doc. But it’s good and intense ! Her diary has a link to the demo of UNTITLED.
But, the game is taken over by Mikey. He corrupts it until eventually it crashes.
Anita then appears, and says if you can learn a new word with her she will let you play the scary game.
The word is, unsurprisingly, PARASITE
After that, the menu from the menu screen appears… and you can play UNTITLED.exe again.
Fiona’s voice narrates as the game shows you visions, bodies, the things Emci forgot and is maybe responsible for… and at the end, she guides you right into Kitty’s Room.
“The seed that planted the rot… left to fester, grow… do you like it? Do you love it? The thrill of feeling anything at all… a puzzle to complete as the silence fails to shift.”
Each ending has a message from both Kitty and Slushie, always at 08/08/2023 4:33 AM.
Every ending also has one DM conversation from both Kitty and Slushie, related to the theme of each ending. These don't come from any specific time, but they are very painful to read for many reasons. Horrible times are upon us. I don't want to spoil THOSE so you should play the game pleaaaseee!
At the end of every ending, we see Kitty! The Kitty construct, that is. The way she manifests relies entirely on our actions taken during our respective run.
1/7 Hate Ending
To get this ending, you have to do a run where you go out of your way to cause more suffering. Learning of what they went through is not enough, you have to disrespect them in death and turn the love Emci once had for them into hate. Bitternes.
This Emci is nothing like the Emmie we learn about through the desktops. This Emci is a cruel thing, controlled by a force who thrives on the suffering of Kitty and Slushie. Prolonguing their pain and adding insult to injury is necessary.
Translation:
This Kitty looks horrifying. What the hell is wrong with you? Why did you do all of that?:
2/7 Sacrifice Ending
To get this ending, you have to sacrifice the relationship Emci had with Kitty and Slushie. You learn all there is to learn, you scavage every corner, you know everything about them and yet... you reject the relationship. You sacrifice it and pull away from them both.
Emci is not malicious and does not enjoy causing suffering, but he is an unnecessary martyr with a result not worth the pain. Separating himself from Kitty and Slushie only leads to more pain, such as it did when they were alive. Now all they went through, the murder, the constructs, the after life within UNTITLED.exe, it all becomes for nothing, because even now Emci sacrifices all they were for a lonely ending.
Translation:
This Kitty is just gone. You left:
3/7 Ruin Ending
To get this ending, you have to cause ruin, and commit the choice which will betray the trust Kitty and Slushie placed on you.
Emci ruins his intimate memories of Kitty and Slushie by sharing them with the undeserving. He sees the consequences of the murder, and the way Kitty and Slushie are ruined by the public perception. Misrepresented and judged without knowing the truth.
Emci ruins what was left of his relationship with Kitty and Slushie, and breaks the last of his promises by letting outsiders look into something special and private.
The trust is broken, the relationship disrespected. They are in ruins
“One final act… of ruin.”
“And they did it all for you to play.”
Translation:
This Kitty has the looming shadow of the Terror over her. You didn't do a good job at keeping your promises:
Holysihit
ill write about it when i have time but holly shit
4/7 Burn Ending
To get this ending, you have to do a run where you take nothing, learn nothing, do nothing, so that when you are left with nothing else, all you have left to do is burn.
This Emci learned nothing. Oblivious and careless. He let the foundation burn to the ground.
Translation:
This kitty looks horrible. There's a nasty overlay over her that brings her closer to the Terror... however, she's not the worst on the list:
5/7 Love Ending
To get this ending, you have to do a run where you learn a good majority of what there is to learn of TRIO8, the events that happened, collect all there is to collect, and go out of your way to remember everything special. You don't act on cruelty of selfishness. It's all for them. For their memory. For the love.
This Emmie is close to the Emmie we learn about through the journey of oneway.exe. Loving, loyal, caring, and facing his place in the horrible tragedy that took place.
It's the LOVE, after all. Emci acknowledges his place in that love, and remmebers the feeling.
“One final act… of love.”
“And they did it all for you to play.”
Translation:
Very clear and materialized Kitty:
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAA
6/7 Together Ending
This is the most common ending you get by playing normally without trying to do anything special but not trying to do anything evil, either.
It's not exactly bad, but it's not exactly good either. It's kind of like a friendzoning ending. You learn a bit about TRIO8, the constructs, and you could say you care a fair amount! But!
Emci's love just can't be that casual. Not Emmie. So, this Emmie still has a lot left to learn.
“One final act… together.”
“And they did it all for you to play.”
Translation:
This Kitty looks like Kitty! So you didn't completely mess her up! But, she's a tiny bit transparent... so not fully complete, is she?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
7/7 Devotion Ending
To get this ending, you have to do a run where you devote yourself entirely to TRIO8, UNTITLED.exe, and everything there is to learn of them. And I mean EVERYTHING. It's many steps above just love, as nothing can stop you from wanting more. From needing more. From being obsessively devoted to the point where it's a sickness. Even sending every possible fax becomes an act of devotion, as the purpose is to learn more of the ones Emci loves, and ultimately turns out to be at the expense of the nasty little fax creep.
This Emmie is the Emmie we grew to meet from Fantome. The Emmie we know he ultimately is. Loyal, loving, obsessive, controlling, complicated, calculating, and as expected, deeply deeply devoted. He knows best, and he acts on it.
The best piece of fictional media I have ever experienced, honestly. I'm still emotional over it.
Translation:
This Kitty is perfect. The most perfect and sturdy Kitty. You might think she looks the same as the LOVE Kitty, but you can just tell this one is stronger! Did you notice there's no filter over her this time?
This ending comes with EXTRA treats, more secret and unique than all other endings.
Have you checked your saves menu? How about where your saves are stored on your PC? You totally should.
THEORIES
Some of my personal theories!
Slushie was the "DOLL"
Theory: Slushie was forcefully controlled and forced to kill Kitty.
The evidence:
Throughout oneway.exe, Slushie is referred to as a doll/toy/object in many different ways. The theme of puppetry is very pressed throughout, especially with Anita, which is the route that seems to represent Emci’s need to control Slushie in particular.
- Dollhouse
- Dolly
- Puppet
- Tin Soldier/Tinsoldat
- Blade without a pulse
- Stupid toy
In Spiderface’s room, Spiderface directly refers to Slushie as a toy:
[insectwiz]
PARASITE
SICK FUCKING PARASITE
[SenorSeymour]
THREE LITTLE PIGS
WHO IS THE BIG BAAD WOLF?
[xX_rh1nos_Xx]
THE SMELL THE SMELL SICK SMELL
SMELL SMELL
[Null1321462]
STRRIPPED SKIN
RIPPED MUSCLE
[3hdD63_e8kQ]
LITTLE ANDY PIG STUPID BITCH STUPID TOY! PLAY PLAY PLAY!!
Retelling Slushie’s actions through a “text adventure” feels meaningful, as we are the one controlling his character!
These all sound like commands given to Slushie, not like it’s his genuine actions made out of his free will.
From what we know, it makes no sense that Slushie would be the one to act out on violence. He not only loved Kitty, but his role was known to be that of the prey, not the hunter.
Even during his breakup to Emci it's clear he never blamed Kitty for anything and still loved her. There is no motivation I could ever see making sense for Slushie to do something so horrifically out of character, unless he’s not the one controlling himself.
“The bag will hold objects meant to serve the intrusions.”
Intrusions implies something unwanted. Something that doesn’t belong in his home taking over and guiding his actions.
Dollhouse implies the actions of the doll (Slushie) feel like habit, but the thought “This is not my home.” repeats anyway. To me, that implies he’s aware that what he’s doing are not his own actions, but it feels natural to follow the flow of control despite it.
The intrusions have taken over Slushie, so his own body and mind are no longer his own. This is not his home.
The Altars Theory
Theory: Emci created Altars of Slushie and Kitty that resulted in them becoming fictionalized versions of themselves within UNTITLED.exe. Kitty made one for Emci days before her death.
We don’t know much about the altars yet, but based on Kitty’s website, the concept seems connected to “shrines”, which is when a fan makes a shrine of their favorite character, like she had one of Ophelia.
Altars seem to be a step above that, and highly likely connected to Cerebral Tekton. We know Emci had one or more altars, and worshipping real people in a way connected to fictional characters might have something to do with the two people he worshipped becoming fictional.
Kitty had a hand in her own murder
Theory: Kitty had a hand in her own murder, as well as the events of oneway.exe.
The evidence:
THERES NEW EVIDENCE I NEED TO ADDDDDDDD
- Kitty was working on an altar of her own on 08/05/2023, just three days before her death.
- Kitty made it clear multiple times across her diary that she would do ANYTHING to have Slushie and Emci back, and she never actually got over the breakup at all. Even up to her death, she still wanted them back and implied she was willing to do something for it.
She seemed to have no limits as to what she'd be willing to do to bring her boys back, to bring her family together, and rebuild their home. She would kill and die for it.
Slushie died right after Kitty (08/08/2023)
On the email from the apartment complex the murder took place in, residents are told “At this time, investigators have told us they do not believe there is any ongoing threat to other residents.”
For a graphically intense crime, the only reason I feel there is to say that, is if the perpetrator is dead.
Personally, I find it hard to believe Slushie could live with himself after the fact. He acted strange after the murder, cleaned up Kitty’s apartment and was weirdly fixated on a wall. The way the investigator talks about him, it also sounds like there was no moment to try to learn of any motives.
I believe he might’ve killed himself after cleaning up Kitty’s apartment and covering her body up.
Emci's isolating was Cerebral Tekton
We learn that starting in 2020 Emci was experiencing hallucinations and visions about the constructs. It’s also implied he saw visions of the future, as the conversation with Kitty implies he was seeing the sona version of Kitty, rather than the real person.
Knowing what we know of Emci, I find it personally unlikely that he would prioritize himself enough to pull away for emotional reasons. No depression, no sickness, nothing would make him lose sight of the only two people he cares about, but I do believe he would self-destruct for them.
Maybe he lost his mind to Cerebral Tekton, or took it too far, or there’s a greater plan he couldn’t share with CTSS, not even to Kitty.
It’s the only explanation that makes sense to his character, to me, even if there is still much to learn about Cerebral Tekton.
Kitty seems surprised by the effects Emci is suffering from as a result of Cerebral Tekton, as her reactions were limited to night terrors. It might be important that he had a stronger reaction than her.
Anything to keep it safe...
Emci lived in Kitty's apartment complex
This email was sent to residents of the apartment Kitty died in, which means Emci either had to be a resident in it as well, or somehow got this email through other mysterious Emci means.
I am led to believe he lived in the same apartment complex, because the beginning of the game starts with Kitty’s voice muffled saying:
“Can you hear me?... fine, I’ll leave.
But one day you’ll wake up–”
It sounds like she’s in person, maybe behind Emci’s door, but she still can’t get through him.
I think at that moment, Emci is having one of his “episodes” where he has visions/hallucinations because of Cerebral Tekton and the Constructs, maybe specifically Fiona.
Another Influence caused the tragedy
What if there was another influence we don't know of yet at play? What if there was someone, or something, that Emci had to keep CTSS away from? Tekton got too dangerous. We can see the risks. It worsened Emci's mental state, gave him visions, hallucinations, apparitions while awake. Tekton takes from you the more you give. I do agree with Nuova that Emci might've been a natural born prodigy, and I think that he ultimately made the decision to break his link with Kitty and no longer share control, to stomach the consequences of Tekton alone. Or whatever there is that might have influence.
I think it's possible the murder happened to take the role of the Architect away from Emci.
So many years spent protecting the Queen, and I think it's those roles Emci was obsessed with that ultimately led to their downfall. Slushie WAS fragile, he was weak, he was clearly the weakest one when it came to Tekton, which made his mind vulnerable, unprotected the moment Emci and Kitty didn't have him in their grasp anymore. The distance Emci might have created to protect him just left him wide open. Years spent protecting never let Slushie build up a strength for Tekton.
Easy to control for the intrusions! Easy to turn into the doll. The prey was still the prey even then, like a sheep wearing the wolf's skin.
And why kill Kitty? She was the second in command, and she still had a strong link with Emci. Getting rid of Kitty gets rid of half of the architect's power, even if Emci wanted to have it all by himself. Based on her diary, the altar, I don't think he did. The connection was severed but NOT gone, and she still had power over what they built together. Over the House.
So, using the unprotected Queen to kill the King leaves the Joker entirely vulnerable. His role as the Architect would easily fall, everything he worked for, the people he loved, the roles he needed respected to operate, all gone in a single night.
I could see that leading to the loss of control of the architect role, letting someone or something else take it, and then spiraling into the events of Module 1.0.
No memories, no control, no Architect powers.
The question then would be WHAT caused this. Vague theory inspired by a discussion with Nuova tells me it’s possible that influence could be LOVE itself, the infection. We are told love is a LIVING parasite. It is alive, despite being a concept.
“It’s love, isn’t it?”
“The constructs are not supposed to be vague. Maybe not because you CAN'T make one with a vague concept, but because you SHOULDN'T. It's too abstract, too fluid.
The Love gets grafted into both pain and comfort, it fills every space.
The constructs have their own separate rooms in the brick house, they play within their rules” - Nuova in the theory channel
I was also inspired by "wolf's skin" from Mikey’s route. I used that as my inspiration for Slushie still being the prey even as the Hunter, but on that line of thought, doesn't it imply that even Mikey is a sheep?
Despite currently being the most powerful construct we know of, he’s still not the big bad wolf— he just dresses like it.
THIS THOUGHT ALSO LEADS TO THE NEXT THEORY:
The LOVEBUG Theory (a theory by Nuova from the server!)
A much more in-depth look into the LOVEBUG theory, as crafted by Nuova! A construct-esque thoughtform creation which formed out of the love shared between Trio8
The theory suggests the constructs are thoughtforms born from the love shared between Trio8, functioning essentially like an actual living parasite. Most constructs are clearly defined, given the UNTITLED cast are all sourced from fictional stories, or constructs like Kitty's sona and Dollhouse (based on CT and SS respectively), which limits their power to what they're based on.
Love, however, is fluid and undefinable. Love can be comfort, pain, memory, fire, or infection, and that vagueness makes it dangerous.
Constructs with unclear rules, especially and most obviously Mikey, are able to breach containment and surpass limits set by UNTITLED itself, showing what happens when boundaries aren't set. Yet, in his own ways, Mikey is still limited by the mere fact that he is a fictional character. He exists as something to entertain, and be projected onto.
If a construct formed directly from LOVE, it could be uncontrollable, since love exists everywhere: in every room, every construct, and the minds of Trio8 themselves. Love also feeds easily on attention, growing stronger whether it’s intended or not. Emci’s love is especially risky due to both its intensity and his ability to create constructs. His emotional distance seems meant to control it, but instead allows it to fester and act independently, already compromising the project from within.
“Not vaguely” because you can’t, or because you shouldn’t?
The raccoon
Theorized but very likely: The rook
The secret ARG has huge huge huge juicy lore for this guy, but I refuse to spoil that in my lore guide, so if you're interested you'll have to get all your 7 endings or figure it out by yourself (you can also ask for help in the server)!!!!
He was Trio8’s stalker long before the murders. He has admitted in the ARG that he loves all three of them, even implying that he’s tried to stop but can’t. His obsession with them runs far too deep for that.
(Screenshots from RUIN ending)
There is so much lore here I had to delete to make this public, how it hurts me. But boy he is an interesting critter I can assure you of that. There is a LOT of content about him.
Mikey had this to say about him:
"YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS DUDE, FIVE TIMES OVER HaHa ! So give it a rest."
The deer
Theorized but very likely: The pawn
X5 appears to be connected to the emotional/psychological truth behind the murder.
X5 is repeatedly described as Stefania’s “weakness” by both Z6 and Mikey, mirroring Slushie's characterization as “fragile.” There is also a visual connection with Slushie: Kitty's 2_handsome_boys.jpg shows Slushie holding a distinctive cat, and in the Ruin Ending, X5's Discord profile picture features what seems to be that exact same cat (meta evidence proves it is in fact the same cat). Additionally, X5 can be seen with that same cat in the Mikey collage of him.
We also know Slushie did not own a cat, so it had to be someone else’s.
Because of the cat connection, and the Lunar New Year conversation Trio8 have on Grapeline, a strong theory is that X5 is either related to Slushie or a family friend from his mother’s side. On top of that, he’s very in tune with Slushie’s emotions and accurately asserted that Slushie was scared during the murder. On 03/31/2026 (the day after Slushie’s birthday) X5 was notably depressed and struggling with his emotions.
The X5 piece Mikey made (the one shown above) has a picture of a deer and a mouse together.
It’s first implied that X5 might know about Cerebral Tekton in-game, during the final act. S4 mentions that X5 came across a “particular piece of original fiction” that is referenced even as late as 2023 that Kitty wrote, which lines up with Cerebral Tekton.
X5 seems to not only be aware of Cerebral Tekton, but he also is experimenting with it. Meaty even directly talks to him on the ARG, with this page being found after you successfully make Slushie in the Avatar Maker
Restoration !
Restoration !
He is also aware of the strange construct-related shenanigans that take place in the ARG, and is directly studying those anomalies. On the Avatar Maker page that leads to this /restoration page, he wrote this on the code:
And on Tinsoldat:
Mikey had this to say about him:
(X5 being the “weakness”, implying he’s the one who opened the door to the sickness)
Further and very in-depth reading: The Restoration Team Deepdive
This will be essentially a TLDR without all the elaboraton I would be capable of, due to spoilers!
The first member of the Restoration Team we are introduced to. She’s very formal, reserved, and cares the most about removing visible individuality from the Restoration Team account.
Mikey doxed her so we know her name is Stefania and she lives in New York. Notably, New York is also where the murder took place, and where Emci might still be living.
It seems likely something traumatic happened in her past. Her commission also has a ton of ominous razors and it depicts a representation of her eating X5’s corpse. We also know she dislikes showing skin, and seems to wear something underneath her clothes to better hide it. There’s something there…….
She’s a strong skeptic to all things supernatural, and refuses to believe in the constructs or entertain ideas relating to Cerebral Tekton. Even when directly faced with Mikey himself:
She later even referred to the Mikey account as “the spammer”:
Mikey had this to say about her:
Further and very in-depth reading: The Restoration Team Deepdive
This will be essentially a TLDR without all the elaboraton I would be capable of, due to spoilers!
(S4, X5, and Z6 in that order)
The purpose of the Restoration Team is to go against the easy assumptions spread around about Kitty’s murder, and try to understand what happened through learning who Trio8 were. They care about being respectful to Trio8 the most, and reject the narrative that Kitty was a naive innocent girl who got involved with someone dangerous.
They’re so doomed. It is heavily, so heavily implied they are interconnected with Trio8 and bound to the loops as well.
If you try to leave a comment on their website, you get this message:
Plus, what Mikey says to S4 as shown below, and what I’ll elaborate on in the X5 section with Meaty.
On top of that, based on everything we know, the “sickness” Trio8 had likely was “love”. The Restoration Team have a growing theme about this sickness, which implies that feelings of love might also be growing between the three of them, putting them in the same danger Trio8 were in.
I REMOVED SOME STUFF HERE DUE TO SPOILERS!!!!
We also know The Restoration Team claims no member of the team has any personal connection to Trio8. We know this to be untrue, but it’s likely it’s untrue for at least two members, if not all three.
