#I firmly believe that the game tries to drill home that edith finds herself somewhere between Dawn and Edith's ideaologies of the curse

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I read this fanfiction where Molly was given the journal as a gift to preserve her memories but being ten she didn't see the point and found it hard.

Which leads to a grieving Edie writing that journal entry in Molly's journal.

Something that was based on 'Molly' saying 'I ate a lot of things that night' not 'tonight'.

I wanna reiterate that Edie did this out of grief like barely a year after Molly's death, not for some evil ulterior motive.

So I was wondering what you thought of this theory?

I feel like this tracks for Edie, and I firmly believe that very few discrepancies in this game can be written on as a writing mistake (despite there being some timeline issues such as, where were Sam and Calvin during Barbara's Final Scream, and allegedly I've read rumblings off Walter's death timeline being weird, but I can't quite find any certainties on that.).

Here is the thing, Molly's a pretty imaginative girl (as a fellow fantasy enjoyer.. I can relate), and based off the cute little drawings around her room and her love for her animals and nature I think there is space to say

I find it interesting that all the animals that Molly had become can be found in her room in some form. I know many people see this as Molly taking from her environment during a hallucination. I was led to believe this as well until now... I can totally see Edie, who probably at this point wanted to believe this wouldn't happen, wanting to 'honour' her firstborn by giving her final moments something that she would've loved. A fantastical tale where she gets to run wild as the animals found in her room. Who knows if Molly even wanted to be any of those things, it feels like a classic mom move to take like three things she knows her kid likes and just use those, similarly to how Gus is kind of just reduced to Kite Boy when he seemed to have his entire punk deal going on.

All this to say, yeah I think it's pretty neat, and I think it really adds onto the idea that Edie is doing this to preserve their legacy, especially if we go off of the idea that in her head, the curse is very real. I'd hate to feel like my family was insignificant just because of how little time they had...

I like to think that's a similar conclusion that Edith finds herself.

'I want you to be amazed that any of us ever had a chance to be here at all.'

#some scrap thoughts here #I firmly believe that the game tries to drill home that edith finds herself somewhere between Dawn and Edith's ideaologies of the curse #that there is nothing wrong with acknowledging the grim history of the finches #that it is important to face it and not run away #dawn finch #sam finch #But to not idolize it either #edie finch #Not to teach your children to risk themseles trying to live up to something before their gone #calvin finch #lewis finch #something something #mar speeks #wroef #what remains of edith finch #oh god i really need an ask tag #the history of the finches