#old kidadelphia

[yardsards]

steeplechase theory that i have little backing for and is more just me throwing spaghetti at a wall:

i know we've been expecting the nanofather to also be an established/important character (such as carmine denton or clint the planeswalking janitor, etc) but what if he's not

what if he was just like. a face character/a professional caretaker that used to work in old kidadelphia (not unlike the job stimpson was supposed to do in new kidadelphia) who just got abandoned there with all the kids after the park closed

perhaps one who maybe got a little too into his role and lost his sense of reality (as some of the people who play those kinds of roles in the park seem to do at times), especially after being stuck there so long

or maybe he's just desperate for a way out. who knows.

and perhaps he figured out some sort of way to interface with the network in steeplechase as a whole, perhaps using something similar to the metalmals' energoo

related to this (and partially required for this theory to hold up): i think old kidadelphia might have originally been space themed, before being remodeled into its current more old-west and jungle adjacent vibes before eventually being closed down. perhaps as a tie-in to the sci-fi themed infinitum layer that they mentioned offhand a while back?

things that have me going down this path of thought:

-old kidadelphia is described as overall looking like a barren desert wasteland. and something like that could have easily originally been themed after, say, the surface of mars

-"the nanofather" sounds like the name of a face character, a la "sticky fingers paul pantry"

-the "big kids" believe they are on another planet other than earth. (we're going to assume that this is not true for the sake of this theory, though the possibility of it being true and the entirety of steeplechase being located off-planet is really fucking cool). this is a belief the younger kids don't seem to share.

-but the nanofather sounds like he went along with it and possibly even encouraged it, probably helping them build their rocket

-now, the belief that they're on another planet sounds like it's obviously something that they cling to in order to cope with their abandonment. but the specificity of that belief seems less like it formed organically and more like it was a story told to them by someone else that they incorporated into their worldview.

-perhaps it was a story the nanofather told them. or just kind of the general theme/lore/kayfabe of the park at the time

-also, the way everyone looks to the nanofather for guidance reminds me a lot of how children look to their caretakers

anyway this theory is definitely full of So Many holes and is almost definitely wrong but it's just a neat idea i had

[corvidexoskeleton]

Im thinking its less that the nanofather is a cult leader in this situation and is more.... like he has ulterior motives and a set goal, and is actively manipulating the more vulnerable in order to achieve whatever those goals are

[autisticangus]

hey taz fan artists, im sure u are all hurrying to draw ur very own designs for Toddzilla

however, he was actually already designed in 1997 and he looks exactly like this and none of u can change my mind

[seefasters]

this might be a side effect of me watching fionna and cake today but steeplechase gives me a lot of adventure time vibes

[wehaveallgotknives]

obsessed with the critique of capitalism selling escapism, the franchisation of content/experience, the daycare at disneyland savagery of the adventure zone steeplechase

[ethersierra]

Okay so actually he wasn't kidding

im gonna fucking cry holy shit

Image ID: two screenshots from a live youtube chat. first one is from user sierra veree, who says, "justin i miss the nanofather is he okay." second is from justin mcelroy, whose name is in blue with a mod icon next to it. he says, "oh you're gonna get some quality time with him soon @Sierra Veree"

[primordialsneeze]

I can't find much on the timeline of Steeplechase other than Carmine built the first layer in 2030, but I have a theory? Was Montrose an Old Kidedelphia kid? Did he get left to grow up in a daycare and that's why he knows so much about the park? And has a strange attachment to animatronics? What if Dentonic raises the daycare kids as future employees? Did Montrose become obsessed with Ephemera bc he wanted to know what was so amazing that his parents would leave him in the care of animatronic daycare workers?

Also if Old Kidadelphia was closed off 4-7 years ago (Gooch was dropped off around 9 years old and is now 13), why weren't the daycare workers hardlight? They had hardlight at that point, so why have human workers that leave? Or even if they WERE hard light, why would Dentonic pull the hardlight workers out of the layer rather than just brick them up alongside the kids??

[kindofwriter]

In order of appearence, we've got: Ustaben, Gutter City, Ephemera, Ephemera 2: oh shit, oh fuck, why would you do that?, Old Kidadelphia, and Ustaben: The Future is You.

Did I forget Passion's Cove? Maybe. Do I regret that? Absolutely. Am I going back for it? Hell no.

[terezis]

i will say. before justin revealed that they were in old kidadelphia, i rly did think kenchall had abandoned them outside of the park and that the world outside of steeplechase was just like a desert wasteland. and when that rando walked up to them i rly thought it was gonna be the creaky man. LOL. but this is where gravel is so justin’s thing makes more sense

[thecheshirerat]

dadlands and old kidadelphia… there’s something there

[heartharps]

steddie taz steeplechase au where steve's parents abandoned him in old kidadelphia at age 4 and he grew up there. eddie is a smuggler who got banished there for doing too many crimes

[yardsards]

the fandom during balance: can this player character PLEASE adopt this child

griffin during steeplechase: i'm going to have my player character adopt this random child

[gloriousskivvies]

so did they really never address Griffin/Montrose consistently calling Old Kidadelphia, New Kidadelphia? I thought for sure it had to be for a reason since none of the others ever corrected him? And no one mentioned it in the ttazz for Steeplechase?

[yourbelgianthings]

npcs are grouped by the layer they are initially from or live in!

[siriwesen]

So. This whole old Kidadelphia arc. I just picture Disney's Recess.

I don't think I need to explain.

[seefasters]

i'm watching scorpy's garten of banban vod and i think that is how steeplechase's old kidadelphia should look like