#Alan wake II

[starred-demation]

Just got my Alan Wake 2 tattoo done yesterday. I absolutely love it 🤩

Concept sketches under the cut

#This is the ritual to lead you on #starredsdrawings #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #fanart #tattoos

[taranida]

The first (probably? maybe?) book Alan Wake forgot he had written

Always, Alan, always.

Alright, in my last post I left a few questions unanswered and I want to clear them up one by one. I honestly didn’t believe that so many people would read the theory, and am very grateful for the attention it has received. This whole blog was created to write down everything my brain (and my dear fellow theorist J) cooked up after playing and replaying AW, AWAN, Control and AWII, and I would like to sort it all by writing about each point in details. It helps to make it make sense and notice the holes.

Now, let’s cut to the chase. The first point I mentioned last time was:

in the guide for the first game we can read excerpts from the book “Taken by the Dark Presence” found in a shoebox that has no author, but has initials of T.Z. and J.Z. on some pages, apparently written in the late 1960’s. And, oh boy, I have lots of questions for this one!

I will lay out what I’ve found and then my thoughts about it, and also how it all ties to “who wrote what”, because the buzzing question of “who wrote whom”is not something I’m interested in exploring atm. At least not until I will deal with the whole “Thomas ‘Tom’ Zane” mystery.

So, the book from the shoebox titled “Taken by the Dark Presence”. It’s filled with tips and tricks about enemies that we encounter on Alan’s journey and how to deal with them. Obviously, there is a lot of info, but I’ve chosen bits that are important for my purposes. Here are those excerpts from it:

It is stated, as you can see, in the introduction to this section of the guide, that focuses on fighting the Taken and Poltergeists, that the information is drawn from the book of an unknown writer, who composed it in the late 1960, with a little hint of initials and a huge hint of the POV being Thomas Zane’s: “corporeal form is my Barbara. My dear, sweet love.”

It does go against my theory of Thomas spending a week with Barbara-the-Dark-Presence in the cabin, not going outside to face Taken; after all, the info there is a text book of “tell me it was written by Thomas Zane without telling it”. If not for mentioning the Dark Presence wearing Barbara’s skin, it would be fine on that account; we have strong evidence that Taken were lurking around even before Thomas wrote his piece to bring Barbara back. Yes, Robert “The Colonel” Hambleton’s article will be repeated here:

And the end result of the poor writer’s visit:

All point to Thomas actually being in the midst of fighting and fleeing, although I cannot even start guessing for what and from what, I will again stress out two pieces of information that point to the Dark Presence playing the role of the loving Barbara, as it was written by Thomas:

And Cynthia’s words:

“The witch looked like her, but it wasn’t. Barbara was sweet. He didn’t understand until it was too late. He tried to undo it, wrote himself, her, everything he’d ever written out of the world.”

Thomas, as we can guess, didn’t understand who hid behind Barbara’s face for some time, and, when he did, was free to tie her, carve her heart out and write this secret poem, mentioned in “This House of Dreams”, that allowed him to escape, giving up his body to the Bright Presence, and drag the real Barbara’s essence (soul, spirit) with what was left of him into a safe heaven, their personal paradise. So, why would he run into the forest and fight bulldozers and Taken?

He didn’t. There is one little thing that makes this book’s author surely not Thomas — the flashbangs. I’m in no way a weapon enthusiast, let alone, specialist, but I’m alright with search engines. As far as the history of this particular grenade goes, it was invented by the British Army in the late 70s and adopted by the US some years later. Thomas Zane, who lived only till 1970, couldn’t have knowledge, let alone, this very item on his hands at the time. Yet it’s clearly stated in the book: “flashbang attacks if possible” and “coax numerous enemies around you, and then drop a flashbang”. In the first game even Alan is surprised to find this weapon not in the police cars:

And he lives in 2010, when flashbangs are already a known weapon, although, as I understand are not so easily obtained by civilians (if not at all; I’m not from US and can rely only on the info from the internet). It seems as if this particular bunch of flashbang-nades was placed there by some otherworldly means.

Taking all that, my belief is that “Taken by the Dark Presence” is a book written into reality by Alan — to help him on his journey — after he decided to make himself a protagonist in the story the Dark Presence was forcing him to write. Through the “Writer in the Cabin” TV’s we see how he slowly changes his stance on his “editor”, how he realises that something is wrong and he must change the story, giving himself the best chance to survive to save Alice (and not to plunge the world into eternal darkness preferably). That will also explain the J.Z. initials on the pages of the book: Alan, during that week, was not thinking clearly and could just mess names up.

As a side note, I’m extremely new to tumblr and have no idea how people here get into conversations, for me the comment section is the way to go, but I see rebloggs with tags or ideas I would love to discuss and have no clue what to do with them. I would highly appreciate if anyone who wants to add something or chat about a post to make themselves known in the comments as well. Or a message; both are great.

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[eggman-1]

This is the vibe i got from the game awards live chat tonight

#the game awards #TGA #the game awards 2023 #alan wake 2 #alan wake II #tears of the kingdom #totk #baldurs gate 3 #bg3

[hellenastranger]

nothing in life matters meme jpg

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #Alan Wake #the game awards #the game awards 2023

[red-nightskies]

Every stone on every mountain, Is etched with my name

#my art #alan wake 2 #alan wake #alan wake ii #mr scratch #ilkka villi #remedy games #remedy entertainment #rotating them in my brain like a rotisserie chicken

[melonart]

Ocean and spiral

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #alan wake fanart #aw2 #alex casey #saga anderson #drawing #fanart #artwork #fan art #digital drawing #digitial illustration #illustration #alan wake

[romaniangothic]

waker nation get up

#played thru aw1 and awan and now im on control before aw2 #the hyperfix is real #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #my art #alan wake tag

[cobaltbeam]

Mr.Wake really is going through it huh

#my drawings #fanart #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii

[vaszametili]

alan in the dark place be like:

also there is the version without text and the original meme

#i saw this meme and immediately thought. yes that's him. #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #alex casey #ilkka villi #sam lake

[jerichoes]

Oh dear. I know what Jaakko needs. Ahma Beer to the rescue!

Alan Wake 2 (2023) (dev. Remedy Entertainment)

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #jaakko koskela #ilmo koskela #remedy entertainment #remedy connected universe #gamingedit #dailygaming #videogameedit #vgedit #listen i've done all i could about the grain and i give up #amiracleilluminated #gif #alan wake

[bugcowboyart]

Scratch’s Playthings

The FBC Nursery Rhymes are one of my favorite parts of Alan Wake II, not only were they fun to puzzle out I also just love the idea of some business person running around making handicrafts and clothespin dolls. I wanted to combine that with my absolute appreciation of the environments and props in this game and here’s the result.

Might end up buying the supplies to make my own clothespin Saga and Wake!

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #alan wake fanart #Alan wake #saga anderson #the mind place #the writers room #fbc #federal bureau of control #remedy games #remedy connected universe #AWE

[skeith-platinumprincess]

Alan Wake could definitely wake up one day and write himself into Smash Bros like

"This spiral is never ending. In the depths of my mind, I know I need to stop, but I can not, I will not! It's coming! Looming in like the dark presence scratching away at my brain. I can see him approaching, clad in the deepest red. The man who controls the lake's water supply. The plumber! The dreaded... Super Mario....."

#alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #Alan Wake #text post

[zowiemortem]

"Show me the Champion of Light I'll show you the Herald of Darkness Lost in a never-ending night Diving deep to the surface"

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #alan wake fanart #alan wake spoilers #old gods of asgard #herald of darkness #mr scratch #ilkka villi #digital art #dark art #fanart #poets of the fall #remedy entertainment #remedyverse #remedy games #my art #game fanart

[wakethewriter]

he’s just helping out

#alan wake #ilkka villi #alan wake 2 #sam lake #remedy games #alan wake ii #alan wake remastered #alanwakeedit #remedy connected universe #matthew porretta

[razorflame45]

Casey holding his cute writer <33

#alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake (the man) #caseywake #alan wake ii #Alan wake X Alex Casey #alan wake fanart #alan wake game #aw2 #raz draws

[ahti-the-janitor]

#more of these #alan wake #alan wake 2 #alan wake ii #saga anderson #ilmo koskela #mr scratch #alex casey #scratch