>>55198467I was just replaying another profile to unlock the Team Star Outfits, and realized that I still had not done the Trio’s quests for their rooms. Interestingly I found pic related, and it reminded me of how Arven, nor the Professor’s AI, never explicitly state that the copy in the Lighthouse is their childhood copy.
The game states that in their childhood, the book could have influenced them to pursue their career, though never does it say that they specifically held any attachment to any one volume of the book. And then I read the quote in my picture, and realized that everyone is just assuming that this is an Infinite Regress based on an omission of detail, that could simply be just he Professor omitting what they believe is an irrelevant detail in their own notes.
They had a personal copy on hand, but that doesn’t mean it was their only copy. Arven never payed the book any mind before Mabosstiff’s situation, but neither did he say that suddenly one day his parent just left the book behind, merely that they kept a copy of it, that he found in their abandoned lab off Poco Path. The books are never said to have been written in anything more than ‘clumsy’ handwriting, which even with very legible notes, the simple fact they kept multiple books, could it not just be they wrote their own signature sloppily? This is just a simple time loop, with the reveal that Arven was a young child, and not a baby, adjusting our views on the Area Zero Lab journals and their timing. This is not some infinite regress, the Professor just had more than one copy of the book, and like a true scientist, omitted unnecessary detail in their secret records, so as not to reveal anything unnecessary to interlopers, such as our selves. It just so happens, we were the person in question. Does this truly make us the villain, if despite our interference it is the Professor’s choice to continue down their chosen path?
