#so I can't pretend like my theory holds any water either lol

[blue-rose-soul]

A crackish idea had formed into my head. What if Nicaise was Roo in disguise? Meaning Roo is Alastor's mother!?

Give that joke Lucifer made while fighting Adam another perspective, right.

I won't lie and say I haven't ever thought about Roo being Alastor's mother in some form, but at this point I'm very much attached to my image of Alastor's mother, I'm a little hesitant to effectively replace her with Roo. And I also don't want to remove either her or Alastor's Creole heritage. I think if I were to have Roo somehow be Nicaise, it would either be a case of possession, like some theorize is the case between Roo and Eve*, or Roo would have sealed away her own memories and powers as the Root of All Evil, transformed herself into a human child who grew up on Earth raised by a family in south Louisiana, and Nicaise would still be her own identity separate from Roo despite sharing a body. Exact reason, there's one idea I've been chewing on.

A pet theory of mine is that Roo herself started the supposed Satanic cannibal cults on Earth and that over several generations her followers forgot about her as a unique entity and started directing their worship of her towards Satan instead. So perhaps she could have decided to incarnate herself in human form to integrate herself in one of these cults and redirect them towards the right path, or to start anew with a brand new cult. But something went wrong and she ended up growing up as a more or less normal Creole woman.

The main thing I dislike about this idea though is that it makes Lucifer just happening to run into an amnesiac Root of all Evil on his one and only vacay to Earth a hell of a coincidence. I feel like I need to give them a much stronger reason to have found one another.

(*I should also probably point out that I'm not really sold on the theory that Roo and Eve are the same person. I've seen the posts, I've read the arguments in its favor, but none of the things I've seen pointed to as evidence seem all that compelling to me, to be honest.)

[gayest-squrrel]

i went down a rabbit hole and investigated all the water on snaktooth island :)

so I was just playing bugsnax as you do and then I realized....

The river in scorched gorge doesn't lead anywhere. So I was like "I must find out where it goes" and I ended up looking through the entire map's river system :,)

Also, disclaimer, I know nothing about hydrology I am pulling all of this analysis out of my ass. My source of knowledge is half remembered facts from middle school and youTube videos looking through the river systems of video games for fun lmao

Also it's gonna be long lol. Read more at your own risk

We shall start from the source ! Frosted Peak

Of course, the frozen rivers and pond come from snow melt. I assume the pond was formed from the river periodically unfreezing and eventually being able to hold enough water that it couldn't be frozen completely. Although Frosted Peak is able to freeze MOVING WATER that is insane. I will ignore this for my own sanity

The pond then drains off the side of the mountain. This river probably has liquid water underneath the ice because like yeah.

The river does disappear, probably going underground.

The water then moves into Flavor Falls. The waterfalls do appear to be coming from tunnels, which supports the theory that the river in Frosted Peak went underground, but...

As you can see, there's a big gap between the falls and the mountain 🙂 which certainly complicates things. Although, there is a bridge between them. So it could be that the water is going through there ? I'm just gonna chalk it up to the island being weird and also not being modeled with accurate hydrology in mind and pretend it doesn't exist

the waterfalls pool into one spot, separates into two rivers, and quickly rejoins with each other.

The river then follows a straight path and ducks under a rock.

Before we continue the river, why don't we look at the ponds in Flavor Falls :) starting with the one in Mama Mewon's cave.

It's probably rain water that pooled there because there isn't anywhere else it could have came from

There's also this little cave.

The water seems to be coming from a split-off from the underground river.

It's flowing towards the collapsed passage entrance, so it probably goes through the passage a bit before breaking out and depositing into the sea

Anyways, back onto the main river !!! After going under the rock it follows the groove

And falls into Garden Grove !

The river splits, with one side flowing into a pond that probably goes into another underground river which turns into not my problem ! Yay :)

The other one goes down the hill and leads to Snaxburg

And Snaxburg is where we have a major split in the river, going to Scorched Gorge and Simmering Springs respectively.

The river in Simmering Springs isn't much to make note about. You can't even see it, it's between Snaxburg and Simmering Springs and I can't even find a way to look at it.

There's also the springs, which like yeah it's next to a volcano there would probably be some volcanic springs and geysers. The fact that they're all on raised rocks doesn't make sense but once again it's just meant to look cool it's not meant to be accurate.

ALTHOUGH there is one geyser that's accurate by my very inaccurate standards :D along with the one in Sprout's training area

Boiling Bay doesn't have any rivers or ponds so we're just gonna skip that one and return to the major split and head into scorched gorge

The river flows down into the gorge and almost splits into two, but one ends up seeping into the ground.

You can tell that it either used to or sometimes does become an actual split by the indent in the ground and also by the fact that the gorge is circle and was carved by a river

The successful split ends up also seeping into the ground, which the other one would also do if it formed.

Some groundwater surfaces in the cave of Simmering Sands

Along with the oasis. Idk whether it naturally formed or was grump-made

Now for the ponds in Sugarpine Woods !

There aren't any visible rivers, so either they get their water from an underground river or rain and/or snow melt

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna question why I spent two hours on this when I should have gone to bed

edit: brokentooth