#Wroef

[skrunckly]

fandom so small i don't think anyone's in it

[susie-dreemurr]

I’m studying architecture and the Finch House drives me insane I hate it so much LOOK AT ALL THE SAFETY VIOLATIONS ON THAT THANG.

[crittercisms]

whatever keeps the fandom alive at this point am i right

[distant-screaming]

'what remains of edith finch' is such a haunting story but like, the part that's the most harrowing to me is that the stories we see of their deaths are always, always filtered through edie. she's the one who makes the shrines, she's the one who leaves out diaries and poems and comics. and like, the actual deaths could be so far removed from what we know. there could be clues that have been eroded by time or clues put there on purpose. and like. just. even after death edie orchestrates (to some extent) all these deaths like one huge fantastical story. and the reality is they were just people. all of them were just people and they were just children with deaths that are only as true as we believe them to be.

[g1a5ca1]

you ever just stumble on the most life changing video games of your life, sob to it, then are just expected to move on like hell no this shit is staying in my brain forever

[jamieontheroof]

Random things I noticed while playing What Remains Of Edith Finch

There was a poster of the cannery that Lewis worked at on the boat.

2. Edith Jr wears what appears to be an engagement on a necklace. Whether this is her ring or her mothers is not mentioned.

3. At the start of the game, Milton's missing posters are EVERYWHERE. There is even a giant pile of them in a nearby lake.

4. The dragon slide that crushed and killed Sven is still outside.

5. As you walk toward the house, the music gets louder.

6. The swing that Calvin flew off decades ago is still looped around the branch.

7. There was a spare peep hole in the garage that didn't have any names or dates on it.

8. At multiple points throughout the game you can hear a train in the background, despite the fact that the train tracks are clearly destroyed.

9. There are multiple pots throughout the Finch house that looks like they have eyes.

10. One of the books the Finches possessed was 'King in Yellow', a book known for making anyone who read it insane.

11. The house sounds alive, or like there are people constantly moving around it.

12. Walters bedroom is painted with both ocean and train designs. One of the paintings is the old house that Odin tried to bring to America.

13. There are drag marks on the ground of Walters bedroom (most likely made when his drawers were taken out of his room.)

14. The entrance to the tunnels is hidden by a book called 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, a classic sci-fi story about a sea monster.

15. Molly's room is filled entirely with animal books.

16. There is a jelly fish on Molly's bed (possible connection to the monster??).

17. Molly has a chalkboard in her bedroom where she is a princess in an underwater castle and Sven is about to get attacked by a sea monster (slightly resembling the dragon slide).

18. As shark!Molly starts falling down the cliff, she passes a road where headlights are briefly scene.

19. When the monster gets back to Molly's room, the window that cat!Molly jumped through is still open.

20. There are still Christmas decorations in Molly's room.

21. The curse is 500 years old. That is a lot of dead people.

22. In Odin's viewfinder, it states "His [Odin's] daughter, Edie, is already dreaming of new Finch house" showing that even though her own father died not even a week ago, Edie has already moved on.

23. The house is filled head to toe with books about death, including two that Odin wrote.

24. Sven's shrine does not have a log painting like the rest of the family. His portrait is painted on a simple canvas.

25. Edie has a number of strange tapes in her room including one titled "conspiracy now".

26. The toys from Gregory's final bath are still in the bathroom.

27. There is an old bottle of alcohol in the bathroom bin.

28. A lot of Sam's photos are based on Calvin (a swing, astronauts).

29. All of Milton's drawings are based on the death. (Molly = cat, Barbara = pumpkin)

30. There are cigarettes and gin on Sam's side of the room he shared with Calvin.

31. Calvin already had bruises, Band-Aids and a cast on his leg when he died.

32. Sam blames himself for challenging Calvin.

33. In the story, Calvin doesn't fall. He keeps flying.

34. Barbara's birthday cake is still in her room.

35. Barbara is holding crutches in her portrait.

36. There are totem-esc styles statues of both Calvin and Molly

37. Barbara's outfit is over the railing.

This is the same way the Hook-Man falls

38. "Performance of her life" can also mean that it is the performance she is known for.

39. There are spare portrait logs in the basement.

40. There is a fake window in the basement.

41. Edie's grave is finished despite her dying and then nobody else going to the house.

42. There is no grave for Milton.

43. Lewis' grave has a crown on it.

44. There are times wear it seems like you can hear sobbing (this one may just be me).

45. There is a box of Kay's old stuff in Sam's bedroom.

46. Odin has a park named after him.

47. This isn't a fact but I think this may be one of the funniest photos of the game (LIKE SIR? YOUR DAUGHTER IS SOBBING!).

48. Both Calvin and Dawn are on Sam's shrine.

49. Gus has a skateboard over his name.

50. Gregory has the soap bottle from his final bath in his shrine.

51. The music cuts out when Gregory isn't moving.

52. Same also blames himself for Gregory.

53. Gus never met his step mother.

54. Gus was crushed by the (totem) statues of his deceased relatives.

55. Dawn's light switch is the only one on

56. Most of the rules are about past deaths. (No playing outside without permission : Calvin, No answering door for strangers : Barbara, No messes after dark : Molly (???)).

57. Milton's garden has a castle (reference to the Unfinished Swan)

58. There is a small Sanjay shrine in the classroom

59. Edith JR did an assignment on her family history.

60. Lewis drew on his desk.

61. There is no death date for Milton on his peephole.

62. Edith JR wrote Milton's death date as 2003 (the year he disappeared).

63. The door from the flip book is in Milton's room.

64. Lewis' dream Palace is decorated with fish.

65. The gnomes scattered around the house are outside the original house in Edie's story.

66. The credits roll in reverse order.

AND THAT'S IT!! I had a few others I thought didn't need to go in.

[mrsllyziy]

Yeeep I posted it

Lewissss pookie

You can see a difference in my drawing style in the two pictures

it's because Lewis' drawing is a little older lma soooo

sorry for not posting earlier 🧚🏻‍♀️

[anjhdesigns]

what remains of edith finch fan art :)

[yilinsgarden]

1st gen kids’ doors

[puzzled-pegasus]

Wroef memes

[lyneydamagikman]

Do Some of the Finches (Specifically Edie and Her Kids) Have An Alcohol Problem?

I'm starting to think that some of the Finches had some sort of alcohol issues/problems, let me show you why

Like Edie has a whole bottle of wine/whisky in her bathroom trashcan. And more wine/whisky downstairs. We also know that she mixed alcohol with her meds the night she died (most likely on purpose)

Bottles and cans of whisky in the passageway way to Calvin and Sam's room.

And in the room too.

More on Sam's side (probably drank a bit as a teen to cope with sharing a room with his dead twin)

But then I found this-

I can't tell if Calvin had this robot toy hold rootbeer or if this is straight up beer but I can clearly see that it says beer on the can (really hope it's rootbeer)

Just realized how easy it is for these kids to access wine because of the passageway like what kinda parent does this!? Oh, Edie does-

I'm genuinely concerned for Barb, this is definitely alcohol (like what 16 year old hides six cans of rootbeer under their bed?) Also, these seem to be the same type of cans that the robot in Calvin's side of the room was holding. So, Cal was stealing(when they were empty)/maybe drinking these???

Also, I think her drinking might stem from how she dealt with her feelings from being a child star with fame to no longer being famous (as Old Jack says 'washed up'.)

But to conclude I think they used this as a way to cope (multiple reasons, death, feeling washed up, other emotions, etc)

[inbarfink]

So when first playing through WRoEF, this little tidbit seems like an innocuous little gag about Edie Finch’s love of tall-tales - but anyone that pays attention to what comes later…

Can tell that this ‘Moleman’ is clearly just poor Walter Finch.

And while I agree with the general assessment that, like, with the context that it’s Walter, Dawn was 100% right to get mad. It’s pretty fucked-up that Edie is encouraging these kind of rumors about her only surviving child who lives every day in misery and fear. But I think that some folks don’t dig enough into why Edie did it or why it was so fucked-up.

I don’t think Edie was primarily doing it for a laugh or just the attention. More than anything, the Moleman reminds me of…

This is just Edie’s grief coping mechanism. Basically the entire game is about how this is Edie’s grief coping mechanism. She loves to spin wild and fantastical tales of the people she loses. 

The really fucked-up about the Moleman Story is that Walter was still alive at the time. Edie’s son was still living and breathing at the time and his mother was treating him the same as she did his dead dad!

And that really emphasizes Edie’s complicity in Walter’s misery. In her mind, as soon as he locked himself in that bunker - the Curse had already claimed his life. Did she ever try to talk him out of his self-imposed imprisonment? Probably not. She had already determined that he’s going to live and die in this bunker.

There’s a reason why Walter is one of the few Finches with two memorialization shrines. The first being in his ‘room’ - the Bunker where the Curse first took his life away from him…

And the second being in the location of his actual death.

And the thing with this Angle is… despite Dawn calling out Edie about the Moleman News Story - she’s actually at fault for treating Walter the same way. Not as a Moleman, of course, but as if he was already dead.

One of the things that disturbs Edith the most about Walter’s story is the realization that he was alive during her early childhood - and her mother never told her he was down there. Not when he was still alive and not when he died. 

She specifically blames that on Dawn and not Edie and I think that’s the right call. After all, hiding details about the tragedies of the Finch Family is not really on-brand for Edie but it’s pretty much Dawn Finch’s whole thing!

While Dawn might’ve thought that spreading rumors that Walter is a Moleman was in poor taste, she doesn’t actually disagree with Edie’s root assertion- which is that there’s nothing to be done to get Walter out of that bunker and he’s basically already dead.

Both Edie and Dawn actually did the same fundamental thing to Walter. They buried a thing while it was still alive. 

[crittercisms]

dawn and edie are such interesting characters. especially as a duo.

they’re complete opposites and yet they’re the exact same.

they parallel so well, yet they’re on the opposite sides of a spectrum.

edie and dawn are objectively as obsessed with the curse as one another, and i think that fact gets tossed aside because dawn’s obsession is negative.

deny it. what’s fact or myth? is there any truth to it? is it all just stories? she fixates on the curse via the stories. she blames the stories for the fact her sons are gone. she doesn’t blame fate, herself, the lack of proper mental care of both of her sons, but falsified stories.

who does that sound like? at face value, if i hadn’t mentioned only sons; it would have easily sounded like edie. edie blames her children’s death on the curse. which is just stories. that’s all the curse is. and doesn’t take responsibility for her negligence.

the odd thing is though, edie is exclusively know for her obsession with the curse and dawn isn’t.

and that’s because dawn doesn’t flaunt it like edie does. that is a huge reason dawn’s not known for her obesssion while edie is.

it’s really interesting to see how someone can take such a similar concept and turn it on it’s back without losing the original concept in the mix. but it’s so hidden that a regular observer doesn’t notice it at first.

i don’t know. this probably isn’t at all cohesive. i was just thinking about it because it’s been on my mind recently.

[c0smic-sage]

i am so unwell about this game. a little part of me dies a little every time i think about lewis's story. how all he wanted was to be important, maybe to be just as special as the rest of his family that he heard about. to have some big ending.

and his memorial painting never got finished.

[heroicvilliansometimes]

This might sound silly but I like to think Milton ran away, imagine growing up in a household where tragedy struck so often it was normal. Imagine growing with the fear that you could die any moment and your family probably wouldn’t care. It’s very suffocating so instead of staying he left, he probably didn’t want his family looking for him so he left no note. Just a drawing showing where his mind was while leaving and started his life from there. I mean the wiki acknowledges Monroe as Christoper’s “real life” family and the creators did say the Unfinished Swan was Milton’s story so it’s a good theory in my opinion.

[boba21521]

punk teenage characters with pink mohawks who go through neglect, have complicated relationships with their parents, and ultimately wind up dead with almost nobody caring about it until later my beloved