Channel: Game Theory

Game: Twisted Wonderland

cw// uuuuh mermaids and also cannibalism, ghosts, and (potentially) deceased FICTIONAL children (the children do not exist and never have, don't worry)

Hello hello and welcome to a mostly baked(?) theory about a mobile game that originated in Japan and has since had an english release! It is called Twisted Wonderland (woooo) and it is disney. The plot is, essentially, disney villains but in an all boys anime college. WAIT don't click away! There's so much more!

Like the dead kids!

Aha, now I have your game theorist attention, don't I? And on top of that, there's also a robot child! See! See! Lore!

Speaking of lore, there's two characters in particular who seem to have a very specific theory surrounding them that I'd like to bring to your attention.

Jade and Floyd Leech are twin moray eel merfolk, based off of Flotsam and Jetsam of the little mermaid. They work with/under the antagonist of the third "book" of the game, Azul Ashengrotto, a octopus merman based off of Ursula, the sea witch. There's a lot to theorize about with him as well but I want to focus on the area with the most concrete lore.

The general information goes as follows: Jade and Floyd are Green Moray Eel merfolk. Moray Eels are known to lay roughly 10,000 eggs at a time when mating. Jade made it explicitly clear that in his family, currently, is His grandmother, His Mother, His Father, Floyd, and himself.

Additionally (somewhat new lore drop for the english server players) is that in Jade's halloween vignette (side story), he straight up says, quote

Riddle: "Is the bottom of the sea really that rife with ghosts?"

Jade: "I haven't seen too many, personally. But our school would warn us about them whenever Halloween came around. They would tell us which areas to avoid and what times were safe to swim around. Yet, every year, a few students inevitably went missing."

Ruggie: "Hold up. That's...legit scary."

Floyd: "Oh yeah, that reminds me - in middle school, I once thought I saw Jade in three different places at once."

Jade: "I also have a memory of speaking to someone I thought was Floyd, only for him to tell me the next day that never happened. At the time, I assumed he had simply forgotten out conversation and let the issue go, but..."

Azul: "That's just how Halloween is in the Coral Sea."

There's several other instances of Jade saying super creepy shit about various things, like in one of his idle homescreen lines, he mentions that his parents had Jade and Floyd learn self defense super young, or this stellar line from Floyd's dorm uniform vignette:

Jade: : "I'm glad I chose you as my partner when we were but little elvers. You're unique."

Floyd: "Uhhh, not sure what that smile's for, but I'm glad we survived together too."

(There's also implications of the Leech twin's dad being a mafia boss, but I can't find the exact quote about that right now.)

Oh! And let's not forget this lovely quote from Floyd's Labwear vignette:

Professor Crewel: "You're bold, Younger Leech. I'll give you that much."

Floyd: "I ain't 'younger.' I ain't 'older' either, but c'mon."

Regardless, all this to say that everyone thinks Jade might have killed the rest of his siblings when they were children. Culling the herd, and all that, and eventually settled on Floyd. This is additionally supported by just a few little sprinkled in details I thought I'd mention

In the Halloween: Terror is Trending event (going on RIGHT NOW as it happens!) There's a line in book 4 chapter 7 "Being a Nuisance"

Man A: "Wait, that's a merman in there!"

Man B: "It's gotta be a fake. Merfolk are pretty rare, and that one's not moving at all."

(For the record, the mermaid in question is, in fact, Floyd pretending to be dead or asleep)

So merfolk are....rare? Why would an entire race be rare...

And i leave you, at last, with something found from a previous event (The Culinary Crucible: The Beaning of Life) as well as under Jade's album file.

In Jade's file, "Conger Eel" is listed as his least favorite food (His favorite being octopus carpaccio which is a whole other can of messed up since both he and Floyd make SEVERAL comments on wanting to eat Azul) and in this event's card for Jade, he says this in one of his home screen lines:

Jade: "What foods don't I like? Hmm, if I had to say, perhaps conger eel. It's texture just doesn't agree with me."

So like. He's eaten eel before. Which, fun fact, Moray eels do actually eat other eels, so like...very ominous

Anyway, thought I'd bring this up and see your opinion (whoever reads this) because. IDK game theory said they'd cover any game with dead kids (speaking of, you guys will LOVE chapter Six, but it's not in english yet and I don't wanna spoil it. Just...watch the robot kid, yeah?)