Origins Ending - Doesn't Make Sense to Me

[Toxiic115]

In the origins cutscene, Eddie says that he wishes the characters in their story were real. Aren't they the children version of themselves? Shouldn't they know that those characters are real!?! And in Revelations, they see the characters! How would they be able to make up this story of seemingly random people (to them) and wish they were real? WAT?

[RadZakpak]

The Origins cutscene I believe is meant to take place before Revelation, as shown by a radio where Maxis calls them just like in this cutscene. A lot of things with the children are not explained. Like it seems there is an implication that Samantha and Maxis were the first ones in the house after Origins, then a cipher in one map is from Sam's point of view saying Maxis brought her a new friend named Eddie, possibly right after Origins when Richtofen went to the house and maybe left his soul there? Then through DE, ZNS, and GK the other three children showed up.

 

the thing with them playing with the toys and wishing it was real is quite odd since it is all real. So my thoughts are either that the children have power than they realize and set every event in motion, creating a looping paradox, or perhaps memories of the events that they play out are bleeding in and they don't realize they are real.

 

For example, in the Revelations intro they are playing on a map of Gorod Krovi. This is right after the child Nikolai arrives, as shown in The Gift Music Video. They are playing out the story of Gorod Krovi with their toys just as the experiences of their adult versions are bleeding in.

 

In Sam's room in Kino we see figures of the Original characters because she knows of them through the experiences of Samantha in the original timeline. Sam and Eddie have figures of the TranZit crew because Eddie just arrived and the original timeline Richtofen was commanding the TranZit crew.

 

So long story short, they have a rough idea of who these people are because they share memories with older versions of themselves, but they just don't know these memories are real.