Anonymous said:

I wonder what exactly happened to Sammy Lawrence, Jack Fain, and Shawn Flynn after the studio went down under in real life? Since they’re the only ones that don’t have names on coffins to signify that they’re dead like Grant and others nor have letters/mementos to show that they’re alive and doing after the studio like Wally, Thomas, and Allison



Anonymous said:

You’re definitely right on how Henry likely didn’t write the names on the coffins since how he would know that those workers have died when he stopped working for the studio and lost contact with Joey for 30 years? Someone else wrote those names to show Henry that those certain people have died



There are 9 coffins we can find in the game:

Ritual room - 3

First room with Sammy’s tape - 2

Alice’s torture room - 1

The Haunted Hause - 1

Allison and Tom’s Hideout - 2

5 of these have names on them in the game: Norman, Grant, Lacie, Bertrum, Susie. That leaves 4 unnamed coffins.



Here are all of the unused messages I could find in the files, combined in one picture:

Of these, Sammy and Shawn were obviously intended to have been placed on coffins. That leaves 2 unnamed coffins. “Me” was likely also supposed to have been placed on a coffin - and no, it could NOT have been placed on the coffin outline on the bed in Chapter 5, because all of the secret messages that are close to each other are depicted in the files as a single image, eg:



We have 9 coffins: 5 of them have in-game names and 3 were supposed to have names (and “me”) on them. That leaves one last unidentified coffin. Out of all of the unused textures the “?” is the only one that looks like something, which could go on a coffin. But that doesn’t really matter, because regardless of whether the coffin had a question mark, or nothing at all, this leads us to the same conclusion - the writer could identify remains in all coffins, except for one.



Let’s assume that “me” is Henry. This would mean that the person writing the names on the coffins is Henry himself. But that raises an important question: how the hell was he able to identify 7 people he’s never met in his life, but not the 8th? And that’s not even mentioning the fact that, after rotting for 20 years, their faces would be unrecognizeable even to their closest friends. On top of that, the names on the coffins in the ritual room are missing at the end of Chapter 1. They appear only after Henry wakes up at the beginning of Chapter 2. His axe is moved, so there was obviously someone in the room while he was unconscious. Isn’t that a strange coincidence?



Now, let’s assume that “me” is not Henry. That means we have 2 coffins, which belong to people, whose names we don’t know. The only character in the game with an audio log and without a coffin/letter is Jack Fain. Regardless of whether Jack is the “me” guy or the “?”/nothing guy, the final coffin belongs to someone he’s never met. Meaning someone who was hired either before he began working at the studio, or after his death.



The only named character we know of, who left the studio before Jack was hired, was Henry. Making him the “?” guy, assuming Jack is the “me” guy.



The only named characters we know of, who were hired late enough in the studio’s history to be possibly working after Jack’s death, were Buddy and Dot. Either of those could be the “me” guy, or the “?” guy.



tl;dr - assuming one of the unnamed coffins was intended for Jack, the final coffin would have to belong to either Henry, Buddy, Dot, or a character that hasn’t been introduced yet. But Henry being the writer makes no damn sense in any case.

