As I was playing the game I wrote down 20 questions that are confusing me. Who on GAF wants to be awesome and take my challenge and answer them all?
1. Who exactly was Sean? Just someone Delta met at a hospital?
Yeah, just someone that Delta knew at that time
2. Why did Akane say she doesn't know what happened at the Mars Test Site at the end of VLR when she should know?
It's not like they shifted when you saw C Team enter the VLR timeline, so having different memories wouldn't exactly work since she did take part in it. I think it's because Akane felt like she had to keep quiet about it for the plan to fully work.
3. Is the Phi in ZTD the same Phi from VLR? If so, why are her eyebrows now orange when they weren't in VLR?
Probably to make the twist more obvious before the scene where she mentions she's originally a redhead. Who knows if this was the original intention for Phi's background or not.
4. Eric's mother was Mira's first victim. Akane's dad was wrongfully convicted of the crime causing Akane's mother to commit suicide. The real Sean died waiting for surgery because his surgeon and a taxi driver were killed in a car accident (was the surgeon and taxi driver anyone?) Is that all correct? If so, is all that simply implying how something so small can cause a big rippling effect?
Small things make big changes, yeah.
5. How exactly did anyone even know Sean's name? When did Sean tell them? And didn't he have no memories of everything?
No one knew until the game actually started (since C and D team didn't know his existence at all), this is backed by where they won the coin flip and ask who he is. He told Q team probably after the game started. I wouldn't say no memory meant him not knowing anything about himself, he was probably programmed to at least remember the name Sean.
6. If Delta was always with team Q, wouldn't that make 4 in the group? Why did no one think that was odd? And why would they be surprised to learn 10 people are playing the game?
Q team found it really odd since no one has met him prior at Dcom. Seems like they just saw him forced to play because of the bracelet, but knew his name didn't contribute to the X Passes. In some fragments you can hear an additional gunshot or see a pool of blood when they needed to reach 6 kills. C and D team found it odd having 10 members because they've never seen him before and assumed it was 9 at first.
7. The whole Delta needed to re-create everything again so he could be born is confusing me. He's already alive as an older human? Explain!
It's sort of like June's thing in 999. She had access the timeline on where things allowed her future self to exist. For Delta, it's his past, which is contradictory. It's just weird time travel theory on how things already exist despite needing a time travel event to even allow it in the first place.
8. Why did Delta set up the puzzle rooms? What was the point of the characters doing them this time?
No point this game besides Delta's trolling. I'd say it's just for us as players since nothing was really story integrated until Decision Game time
9. For the team select screen, why the hell would they put a picture of Sean as Q? Why not just have a list of text to pick?
Q's appointed as leader, and iirc, people were baffled since they knew Q to be supposedly deaf and blind. Sean ends up as acting leader instead despite being suspicious to Eric. In my mind, Mira was interested in curious on how Q (who they thought was a kid) would decide things and was fine with him choosing. Eric just going along with Mira.
10. Why was Delta called Q?
Q was to hide his real identity. Otherwise Sigma and Diana naming one of their kids after a blind/deaf man they barely knew would be odd. Also a lowercase delta is an upside-down Q.
11. Why was Sean making all the choices when Q/Delta was supposed to be in charge?
Because they thought he was deaf/blind and couldn't make the decisions. As for why they might've let Sean be appointed leader, I answered that earlier.
12. Why didn't team Q think it was odd that they didn't see a picture of Delta on the wall in the library with rest of the cast?
This was a hard one to rationalize. I feel like this one is for the players more than anything because if you check the status menu of the participants, there was no Sean picture.
13. Delta said he let Mira roam free and didn't inject her with the drug that erases her memory. So why didn't she mention her memories weren't getting erased?
She wasn't injected only in one timeline I think? In the timeline she wasn't, the group wasn't in a teamwork mood since a team already got executed, so she kept that as an advantage to herself.
14. Was it explained where Mira got her robe when she went on her little killing spree?
Nope
15. Delta mentioned that he had a brother with another family? Who? Sean?
Left was his non-blood related brother after Delta was adopted
16. Is Delta the same person as Brother that was mentioned in VLR? In VLR Free The Soul seemed to hate humanity, and yet in ZTD Delta wanted to save as much of humanity as possible?
It's possible Brother only did that to get Free the Soul to rally behind him. Make them think they're purging humanity when they're actually achieving Delta's supposed best case scenario
17. Who was Brother's brother that died young that was mentioned in VLR? Surely not Sean?
Left
18. Why/how was Delta so old?
Delta got sent to 1904 after being in the pod.
19. When with team Q everything was from Delta's perspective and when with team C and D he was looking through cameras from his glasses? Correct?
Q team is a mix of both. Remember that scene where you thinking they're unchaining Gab? It's really Delta and they're obstructing the camera view at times. Same goes for when you see an extra blood puddle behind Sean instead of right under. But yeah, C and D were from cameras. I thought this twist was neat since it reminds me of those murder mysteries where the narrator is actually counted as a character. Too bad Delta himself wasn't as great as the 10th character/perspective twist for me.
20. If the separate wards didn't exist, couldn't the teams have gone into any room they wanted?
Usually they found themselves to wake up in a room. As for why they didn't get to any room, that's because the doors were locked. Zero can't have the players walk in on another team just sleeping.
