#cube escape birthday

[rustiestlakiest]

Who puts a needle in a birthday cake?

#rusty lake #dale vandermeer #cube escape #cube escape birthday #baking #cake #first post also I’m not great at making cakes #rip dales dad

[mourningmaybells]

This is what Dale saw before his entire family was massacred

#dale vandermeer #mr rabbit #cube escape birthday #rusty lake

[redplayer42-blog]

On Dale's grandpa

There are a lot of missinformation in the community about the identity of Dale's grandpa in Birthday, and I feel like we need to apply some scrutiny if we want to find anything useful.

First of all, the grandpa is undeniably Aldous Vanderboom. It's very clear that it's the exact same character model, we just need to compare him to other representations of Aldous.

Here's the superposition of grandpa and Case 23's Aldous :

It's almost exactly 1 to 1.

And no, it's not just a model reuse, it literally never happens for any character in the series.

Now in order to continue, let's start by asserting one thing : Birthday is officially classified as a memory. What does that mean ? It means that no matter how you see time flowing within the cubes (that's gonna be a can of worms I'm not opening today) there are two elements to the memory:

The actual events that the memory record

Some modification that can be either internal or external

In the case of Birthday, we have a lot of elements that are explicitly external modifications made by Mr. Owl (Jacob) and Mr. Crow (Aldous), such as the message in the snow globe, the birthday present, and everything that happens with the blue cube.

Now the question is : where does grandpa Aldous fit into this ? Is he part of the original memory ? Or was he added later ?

Let's start keeping a tally of what we know for sure :

What else do we know for sure ? Well we know the shooting actually took place, as it's been confirmed in other games such as Paradox and very recently, Underground Blossom.

We also know thanks to Paradox that Mr. Rabbit (David Eilander) is actually responsible for the murder.

Rabbit also tells us the reason for the murder : he needed to get back a token of his past life. The only thing that's missing when he leaves is the content of the small box, which happens to be a flintlock pistol.

So the pistol is also part of the original memory, otherwise Rabbit wouldn't have a motive.

We can actually trace back that pistol to Ms. Pheasant, as it is the exact same pistol she had in Hotel, that she killed herself with. Considering Pheasant is Elizabeth Eilander, David's sister, it fits the bill for a token of his past life.

And so now we sandwiched grandpa quite nicely, because we ended up in a situation where we know for a fact that the pistol from Hotel ended up in this random family's house. How did that happen, if not for Dale's grandpa actually being Aldous, who took the gun with him, which is then reinforced by him using the pistol ?

It's not completely impossible for Aldous to not be part of the original memory, but it usually comes at the price of finding a convoluted way to explain the gun's presence, or a different motive for Rabbit's attack.

If you have another theory, feel free to share.

#rusty lake #theory #aldous vanderboom #cube escape #cube escape birthday #autism #I spend way too long thinking about this series #it might be a problem

[pharrell-the-formation]

I want to share my thoughts about Naraka (Hell realm) in Rusty Lake’s universe. It would be better to clarify how I prefer to perceive it in advance, so that if later it comes up in my fan content, there would not be too many questions, haha.

I suspect this is what Rose was reborn into at the end of "The Past Within" and Mr. Rabbit at the end of "Birthday", as tree as the symbol of Naraka was depicted on the sign in "Theater". However, you should not take their new form as literally "trees" - what's so hellish about plants, after all? It seems to me that those who go through the process of (metaphorically or literally) turning into a tree and passing into this new form of life become part of the forest at the bottom of the lake, and the Lake itself is what Naraka is, an infernal creature.

More than once in games characters have referred to the Lake as something sentient. The Lake needs memories, the Lake is able to reward with enlightenment and the Lake is able to punish those who disobey it. Here everything is not quite like in Buddhism, where hellish beings are considered to be the lowest of all creatures, because in “Rusty Lake” series this role seems to have been dutifully occupied by lost and suffering Corrupted souls, while Naraka | Lake is a kind of strong and, perhaps, cruel entity, whose wishes even Mr Owl and Mr Crow choose to respect, so as not to have unnecessary problems later. Therefore, maybe Dale is so interesting to them, because even if the Enlightened Ones have to live in harmony with Naraka, with the Deity on their side, no one of them will need to obey the wishes of the Lake.

I find it difficult to answer who exactly gets to be reborn into a part of the Lake, because Albert, for example, deserved this much more than his daughter, but perhaps it should be noted that in this universe the morality is rather gray. It’s possible that the fact that Rose tried to deceive nature and the standard rebirth system and whatever Mr. Rabbit was up to, from a universal point of view, is considered to be much worse than a couple of murders of family members. I mean, this is what some people here were rewarded for, pf.

#Rusty Lake #Cube Escape #Cube Escape Theatre #Cube Escape Birthday #The Past Within #Rose Vanderboom #Mr Rabbit #textual idea

[noridal]

He's on his way to Dale's birthday

#rusty lake #cube escape birthday #mr rabbit

[lemonsrlit]

stimming by saying "who puts a needle in a birthday cake?" over and over again

#rusty lake #dale vandermeer #cube escape #cube escape birthday

[jaberwocckkee]

im going to have him tattooed on my eyelids so everytime i close my eyes i see him.

he’s so meow. he’s so detective.

#dale vandermeer #rusty lake #cube escape #cube escape birthday #rusty lake paradox #he’s so meow #blorbo from my shows #rusty lake games

[tasianacat]

“Forgive me” - Mr Rabbit

#rusty lake #rusty lake cube escape #cube escape #cube escape birthday #my art #david eilander #mr rabbit #rusty lake mr rabbit

[drawingswatson-holmes]

Celebrate Dale 🧠✨✨

Belated birthday drawn by Watson

#what.doobles #detective dale vandermeer #dale vandermeer #mr crow #bob hill #robert hill #laura vanderboom #rusty lake #rusty lake paradox #cube escape paradox #cube escape #cube escape birthday #mod watson #birthday trauma

[matchesarelit]

Nightmare Time?

I had this crazy nightmare about a birthday party i think its a memory but I'm not sure...

#rusty lake #cube escape #cube escape birthday #starkid #nightmare time

[fleecal]

I noticed there wasn't a Rusty Lake Twitter community so I made one myself.

Rusty Lake Community

#rusty lake #rusty lake paradise #rusty lake hotel #rusty lake paradox #rusty lake roots #cube escape #cube escape paradox #cube escape birthday #cube escape seasons #dale vandermeer #laura vanderboom #rose vanderboom #mr owl #mr crow #aldous vanderboom #leonard vanderboom #frank vanderboom #albert vanderboom #samuel vanderboom #emma vanderboom #ida vanderboom #james vanderboom #mary vanderboom #ida Reiziger #jakob eilander #jacoc eilander #elizabeth eilander #david eilander #caroline eilander #Nicholas eilander

[inshectoryourlive]

I (don’t) recommend this gift

#games #art #fanart #rusty lake fanart #rusty lake #cube escape #cube escape birthday #birthday #mr rabbit

[mourningmaybells]

you’re laughing. dale watched his parents get shot and mr owl went “okay, here’s some puzzles :) you don’t want mommy and daddy to stay dead do you :)” so he was weeping and covered in his father’s blood while matching little flags and you’re laughing.

#rusty lake #cube escape birthday #dale vandermeer

[escapetothelake]

top five scariest jumpscares in cube escape

(spoilers)

5. telescope scene in seasons 4. harvey’s box ending scene 3. the last level of case 23 2. the fucking fish that pops up in the cave submarine 1. any mr. rabbit scene in birthday holy shit

edit: the shark is the fish im talking about, i just forgot what sort of fish it was and i was too lazy to look it up

#'what about x corrupted soul scene' i didnt include the others bc they make up like 90% of them #but lmk what i missed #tw swearing #spoilers #cube escape seasons #cube escape harvey's box #cube escape case 23 #cube escape birthday #cube escape the cave #cube escape #rusty lake #my lists #samuel’s crackpipe #i guess?? #mine #100+

[pharrell-the-formation]

TRANSLATION:

“Are you ready for the show?”

What can be said here? I love rabbits. I love magicians. Maniacs can also be charismatic. That’s it.

#rusty lake #cube escape #rusty lake hotel #cube escape birthday #Mr Rabbit #Rusty lake Mr rabbit #David Eilander

[stapledsquirrel]

What did the magician say when he made his rabbit disappear?

#Hare today gone tomorrow. #berry’s art #rusty lake #rusty lake paradise #cube escape paradox #cube escape birthday #cube escape #david eilander #mr rabbit