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that builds its theories one ro-block at a time. Man, this summer really is the season of indie
horror sequels. Security Breach is getting DLC, Project Playtime just got a big new update, and
I'm pretty sure Garten of Banban 4 and 5 and 6 will probably drop any day now. Add in the demo
for the cooking companion spin-off, and honestly, we've got ourselves an Infinity Gauntlet of indie
horror. I guess you could call it the identity gauntlet. I honestly feel like I need to release
an entire apology video for that one joke. But speaking of multi-colored gemstones there is one
other brightly colored sequel that just dropped: Rainbow Friends, Chapter 2. In case you missed
our last year and rainbow friends let, me catch you up. A school bus heading to an amusement park
called Oddworld gets sent down the wrong path, causing the bus to crash and everyone inside to
wind up inside a mysterious facility. It seems to be the remains of an old TV show Museum and play
Park dedicated to the Rainbow Fun Time Friends, the cast of characters from an old animated
TV show. Thanks to some plaques and pictures scattered throughout the building, we discovered
that the friends were created by a man called Oswald D Davis and his partner Trenton, with
this facility specifically designed to bring the Rainbow Friends to life. Because
this is an indie horror game though, you can probably guess how well that went. In
1991, shortly after having their first guest, the facility was shut down as evidenced by
long forgotten computer login screen sprinkled throughout the game map. Leading us to the events
of Chapter 1, where we're trapped for five days by someone who appears to be the Red Rainbow
Friend... though official merch only lists him as just "The Scientist." If we managed to survive
for the five days, we're chased through the vents and eventually escape from the facility. Chapter
2 then picks up immediately after that, leading you to a fenced-off area and an old man trying to
break in. Probably should be using some wire snips instead of scissors to cut through that fence, but
hey what do I know? Anyway, we eventually make our way into Oddworld, the amusement park that we were
headed to at the start of chapter 1. And clearly, Oddworld is also dedicated to the Rainbow Fun Time
Friends, with different parts of the park branded around each of the different characters: Green's
Drop Ride, Purple's Maze Lair, Blue's Castle, and Orange's Cavern Coaster. Thinking of
Orange... he's not here until the finale of the chapter. 'Oh, he's adorable. He's my favorite.'
And while my bestest boy may indeed be missing, Red seems to have brought with him some new
additions to the crew specifically Yellow and Cyan to hunt us down in any and all ways they can.
Just like in chapter 1, we're tasked with running around collecting items required for our escape,
only this time instead of being trapped here for days, we're only having to survive for a couple
of hours. A few gas canisters and one giant cake later, we escape the facility on the Park's roller
coaster. But, of course the end never truly means the end, and the chapter closes with the promise
of more ahead. Now obviously, while the game has us busy looking around for bags of sugar and light
bulbs, my eyes were peeled for the real important thing to collect: the lore. Is there lore? Looking
for lore. Looking for love and looking for lore. But this time it's not there. Or, at least it's
not all there. You see, the lore of Rainbow Friends after chapter 2, is so much more than just
this one game and its small handful of primary colored characters. To solve this one, we're
gonna have to span a literal Empire of popular Roblox games connected by a shadowy organization
and overseen by a mysterious businessman Out For Blood. And that my friends, is our journey for
today. But first we gotta answer the question that everyone has when they first boot up chapter
2. Who the heck's the old guy. Even me during my playthrough. I just couldn't shake the fact that
something was off about this guy. Let's hope this works. I'm not gonna skip this. I'm not gonna
vote for skip. Poke. What the. Oh no. Oh no, oh man. Oh, that was a severe head trauma right
there. Oh, he's definitely got a concussion. Whoa, how did I get up here? Who even are you?
Do I care about you? No. Let's be honest with ourselves, this guy is sus. We start the game
off and we find him breaking into a facility, and then we go yeah that seems like a totally
trustworthy thing to do. From there we just blindly do everything he asks. Not a great plan.
But what's even more suspicious about this guy is that he simultaneously knows more about Oddworld
and less about it than he lets on. On one hand he's trying to break in, which shows that he's
trying to do something here. Maybe sabotage Red Guy. Or spy on the experiments that are going on.
It's unclear. Our old man also seems very familiar with the fact that the Rainbow Friends are now
bloodthirsty monsters considering when he sees Blue running around, he knows that it's suddenly
a sign of danger. Is that blue wdw die? Oh no, coming here was a mistake. He also knows about the
lookie that's blocking our path and how it can be lured away with cake. Or how you can escape from
being caught by yellow. All of that is some pretty Insider knowledge. He's not just familiar with
these creatures, he's experienced with their inner workings and mechanics. On the other hand though,
as soon as he senses danger he immediately regrets his decision to break in. Oh no, coming here was
a mistake. We need to find a way out of here, and fast. Literally the way we came. You were
literally snipping things into the fence. We could probably get out of there. So he wanted
to do something in the park and knows that the creatures are dangerous but wasn't aware that
they're currently active. Additionally, he repeatedly lies to us as evidenced by him tasking
us to find light bulbs to call for help, only to then be surprised that we were able to find an
SOS light hidden inside. Wait there was actually an SOS light? I mean wow, you guys must be good
at finding things. So who is the old man? Well, let's take a look at his design. A leather jacket.
Thick rimmed glasses. And a smirk. Which makes him the perfect match for one of the two characters
that we learned about in chapter 1, Trenton, co-founder of the Rainbow Friends. It seems like a
pretty open and shut case. Everything about these two guys match. Except long time theorists will
realize that there's a slight hole with my plan. In my previous Theory I said that Oswald turned
Trenton into Red, but in this game we see both characters existing simultaneously. So what's
the deal with that? I was wrong. It's as easy as that. Red isn't Trenton. See I can admit when
I'm wrong. It would seem that Trenton's back in the Rainbow Friends Family for something, but
what? Well, we can actually get hints to that from the first two chapters. First things first,
obviously Trenton is much older now than he is in the picture from chapter 1. And that's because the
portrait is from when the company first started, 1972. You see before entering Oddworld at the
start of the chapter, you can actually go off to the side of the fence in the lobby area and
activate a generator, here. The code for the generator is one nine seven two. All it does is
activate this little conveyor belt with a cinder block on it, but that right there is telling us
that the date matters. I would guess that it's likely acting as the start to the Rainbow Funtime
Friends franchise. Why would I say that? Well as we've seen with other indie horror franchises, the
70s tends to be a good starting date for failed kid's franchises. And, they're not just making up
these dates out of thin air either. The 70s were a huge time for the types of kids programming that
Rainbow Funtime Friends was probably like. This was the era of Mr Rogers, The Electric Company,
The New Zoo Review. Sure they weren't animated, but you had these big casts of characters with
life-sized puppets and designs that really didn't mesh together all that well. Random animals and
monsters and dinosaurs all mixed together. It was the early days for this sort of programming
and so whatever popped into your head was kind of what worked, just like the assemblage of
characters that we get with Rainbow Friends: yellow dino, green monster, blue person, orange
gator, and purple arm thingy. This timeline also roughly coincides with a similar sort of kid's
show at the time, a British program by the name Rainbow. Which also was popular all throughout
the 70s. ...look in the kitchen and hurry up, I'm starving. Zippy, you always want people
to do things for you. I'm gonna zip you up. There's even an episode of Rainbow named Friends.
That said, this is more of an interesting coincidence than anything. After watching a few
episodes of the show there doesn't seem to be all that much connecting the two. I just thought
it was worth calling out. So if Trenton and Oswald started the series in 1972, what happened?
Well throughout the chapter, there are hints to a rivalry between the two of these characters. In a
control room near Orange's roller coaster, we can see a white board with various messages smudged
out including: call animal control and change garage code. Now the Animal Control line is likely
a reference to the moment that the characters escaped. Throughout chapter 1 we saw that the
Rainbow Friends were, at least for a period of time, forced to live in stables under the
facility, even having to be chained up in order to be showered. They were treated like animals,
so calling Animal Control the day they escape and happen to be hungry seems to make a lot of sense.
But what I'm more interested in is the blue text that says change garage code. You'll notice that
right next to it is a blue stick figure wearing a crown, an obvious reference to the character of
Blue, right? Well also notice there's a red stick figure next to it that's been erased. It seems
like someone speaking in blue is looking to take over. Take the crown for themselves, and quite
literally erase Red from existence. This power struggle between the two is also reflected in the
calendar that you can find in the same room. Like all the other calendars you find throughout the
map, this one has July 1st marked out for a field trip, a reference to our school bus first arriving
at the facility. Based on the fact that July 1st on this calendar falls on a Friday, you can
actually pinpoint a few potential options for what year the game is meant to be taken place: 1994,
2005, 2011, 2016, and 2022. My money is on that 2022 mark. June 30th 2022 is when Rainbow Friends
Chapter 1 first released, and with the next day. July 1st, being circled followed by the words
field trip feels like a reference that's both meta and canon. Anyway, that tells us that it's been
over 30 years since the initial facility shut down in 1991. But this calendar actually gives us a lot
more information. Notice that there are a couple more dates highlighted: July 4th for fireworks,
which yeah that tracks, and July 6th for a light show. These highlighted dates, I believe not
only confirmed that this calendar is up to date, but also gives us an idea of what Red is aiming
for. Remember the first chapter took place over the course of five nights. That means that our
escape happens the evening of July 5th. That's why there are leftover fireworks for Red to use
to scare the old man during chapter 2's third challenge. However clearly there is someone else
here who's trying to foil Red's plan because each date is scratched off using blue, including
the light show that's happening on the 6th, a date that has not happened yet. Technically that's
supposed to be happening tomorrow. And underneath those dates is a note saying move to August for
investigation. Whoever's writing these messages in blue is trying to stop or slow down Red's plan.
The power struggle was also being referenced in Chapter 1 with this random line on a wall written
in red, "you only slowed me down." Since we only have ourselves two named characters in this
game our list of suspects is fairly limited, especially with Trenton obviously being the old
man. Unless they're introducing a new character during the next chapter, process of elimination
kinda dictates that Oswald, the founder, must be Red. The park is named after him. He's
the one in control. He's also the one who has the proper garage code as we see from the opening
cutscene. It's also clear that Red and Trenton have themselves a backstory considering Red has
the chance to kill off Trenton in Challenge 3 but chooses not to, instead just using the fireworks
to scare him. That then means that Trenton, our old man, must be the one in blue breaking into
the facility trying to strike back and ultimately reclaim the crown for himself, erasing Red from
the picture for being too ambitious for pushing too far. Here's what I think happened, the two
started the show together helping it to grow in its early days, but then something started to
change. Red, Oswald, wanted to keep growing. Make more characters. Make them more realistic. And
Blue, Trenton, disagreed. In Chapter 2's final chase sequence, we run past robotic versions
of the characters all discarded... dismantled. Old animatronic versions of Blue, Orange, Green
all thrown away. I suspect that this was because they weren't good enough for Red. They weren't
realistic enough. He needed something living... the actual Rainbow FunTime Friends which came out
around 1991. Along the way Trenton was disowned, ousted from the company for being resistant to
this change. Fast forward to the game today in 2022 where I suspect that Red is now using the
lookies and tainting the local water supply with them. The chapter's final sequence we run past
exactly that, a bunch of Rainbow Friend heads, which we know are living creatures, floating past
in a pipe explicitly labeled water supply. Red is up to something... trying to make everyone into
a Rainbow Friend. No longer slowed down by his partner. But now that partner is back. Trenton
is here and trying to sabotage his old business partner, make him stop the mad power trip that
he's been on. But it also doesn't necessarily mean that Trenton's that good of a guy. You see
there's one thing that I can't quite shake in all this... and that's the Easter egg that led me
to believe that Trenton was the villain in the first place. See when you look through the glass
of the terrarium in chapter 1, Trenton's picture changes from a cool guy in a leather jacket
to a man in a suit with glasses and a top hat with a purple ribbon. Clearly Trenton is hiding
something, transforming into a villainous business guy. But who, or what, is he? Well, I think this
conspiracy actually goes much further than just Rainbow Friends. One thing that I didn't notice
last chapter was that the computer screen showing Oswald's final login dates have a company name on
them, RBM... an obvious parody of IBM Computers, right? Well yeah, but it's also so much more. Two
awesome Theorists on our Game Theory subreddit, FantasticFile_3903 and Rockmage_1234. both pointed
out that RBM computers actually appear in another Roblox game entitled, The Little Ones, produced
by none other than Charcle, one of the two devs for Rainbow Friends. In fact, a cover image for
that game was just updated last month. What was it updated to? Nothing. At least as far as I can
tell, it's the same picture that it's always been. I suspect that it was just to draw attention back
to the game, especially when RBM is right there on the monitors. So how is Little Ones connected to
the lore of Rainbow Friends? It's not, at least as far as I can tell right now. It's a game where one
of your friends is kidnapped and you're forced to escape a warehouse populated with dozens of little
small mutant versions of them. The 1972 generator keypad that was used in Rainbow Friends has
the same keypad layout as those in Little Ones, but I don't think that's too much to go off
of. I suspect that that's just reusing assets. Unfortunately, the only connection between the two
seems to be through this RBM computer company. But while connections to Rainbow Friends aren't
immediately obvious, there are connections to another game that's worth calling out. It's the
massive Roblox hit, Spider. In this game, one friend is bit by a spider and transforms into a
horrific creature trying to capture all the other friends. This game was made by Rainbow Friends's
other Dev, Roy Stanford. But again, the reason it's interesting is that there are pictures of the
spider hidden inside The Little Ones. There's also a series of labeled VHS tapes, one clearly marked
as "Spider." Why does all that matter for Rainbow Friends? Well because of this. Spider has one pass
available for purchase, a pass that increases the odds that you can become the spider in the main
gameplay. And whose face is that there, front and center on that spider pass? A businessman with
glasses, a top hat, and a purple ribbon. It is the exact face that's hiding inside of Trenton's
portrait in Rainbow Friends. Could this all just be a series of Easter egg connections from two
devs referencing their past games? Absolutely, it could. But those have already happened in other
places from Rainbow Friends. In chapter 1's lobby, you can actually go out and around this building
right here, and you can see references to both of these games, Little Ones and Spider. That right
there, that is an Easter egg. But to suddenly see these explicit references and connections in
the gameplay itself, that now feels to me like something a little bit more. Like maybe Trenton
isn't all he appears to be. That maybe he is a spider in disguise, or some nefarious businessman
running all of these experimental procedures, bringing terror and dread to all these different
companies. Not exactly sure yet. Don't really have a solid answer. The tapes and lost ones are
labeled as 2019, so it's possible that the lore of these three games are linked together. Trenton
transforming people into monsters be they spiders, tiny mutants, or large pillowy mascots through
spider bites, mutation, or just tainting the water supply. Speaking of, at the end of the
chapter, did you notice that Trenton doesn't come with you? Despite his insistence that you
all have to leave when the Rainbow Friends appear, he stays behind. His work there isn't done yet.
And I don't suspect that he wants us to escape. There are multiple exit points as you safely go
around the roller coaster, but Trenton doesn't tell you to get off at any of those. He explicitly
tells us to stay on and go through the maintenance exit. Something tells me that the elevator to the
surface at the end of chapter 2 isn't leading to where we expect. We're not done yet. And in
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