Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Deemo - My Theory

If you've ever played Deemo then your probably aware that it tells a story about at mysterious girl who fell from a window, and a friendly black creature named Deemo. I did some looking around in the game and i'm pretty sure I've figured out what happened to the girl. It's actually an extremely depressing and sad story, despite the games cheerful cover it puts up for some of the songs. The first four songs show deemo- lonely, yet he still holds the world within him. Jumping star somewhat demonstrates that he ventures through that world to help cure his loneliness. Wings Of Piano shows that he gets this privelige through playing his piano. The next song- Nine Point Eight shows the girl falling from the window in a plain white dress. I also noticed she was falling head first in the song's picture, instead of her back towards the ground. I found it quite peculiar that flowers lined the bottom of her dress. I think this could mean several things; one of which is that its just showing her falling into Deemo's castle like the story suggests. Another idea i have is that it's actually showing her nearing death. The white gown is what she'd wear in a hospital, and the flowers are what would be put in her casket during her funeral. She's falling head first in the picture because she's not in control. The next two songs represent Deemo showing her around, and her exploring the castle for herself. After that is the song Platinum which has a meaning that's quite obvious if you look at the picture close enough. It shows the girl in a white gown praying infront of a stained glass window- like a church. In the window it shows the growth of the tree, and music notes- which represents what she's waiting for, and how she will get to that goal- don't worry, I'll explain this later. Also, please note that in the picture she is inside what looks to be a crown- which can also be another word for someone's head. In other words, all of this is inside of her head- an imaginitive world she made herself. The next two songs- Paralell Universe and Utropiosphere- represent time (well duh). Utropiosphere shows her sitting on a device while a hourglass is tipped on it's side behind her. In otherwords- her time has stopped; another metaphor to her death. In Paralell Universe it shows Deemo standing in front of a clock, holding onto it's hands. (The black stick things that point to the time x3) The clock can't show the time without it's hands- a metaphor to the fact that he had something to do with her death. The next song, I Hate To Tell You, is quite blatantly talking about death. The overall mood of the title, song, and the picture is depressive to an extremity. The title itself is something someone would say before saying the fact that someone died. For example, "I hate to tell you this, but your mom was killed in a car accident". Another reason I know it's about death is her change in apparel. Now her dress is black. In victorian times, people wore black after a funeral or the death of a loved one. Also, the clouds behind her somewhat look like they could be representing wings; in other words, she's mourning her own death. Saika and Invite, the next two songs, show the illusions and dreams she's having. Run Go Run is another obvious one. She's stuck in a labrinth and the only thing she can find is herself because the walls are made of mirrors. Also, please note that the ground underneath her is falling apart, perhaps symbolizing that shes running out of time- if she wasn't, then why would she have the need to run or hurry? Yawning Lion is another dream, but the song after it is particularly interesting. It's called Pulse and the title corresponds to both the song and the picture well. The picture shows Deemo and the girl together, back to back. Deemo has the symbol of a pulse where his heart would be, and theres a green blob that leads to a pink heart coming out of it. Two wires connect Deemo to the girl- between his back and through a hole in the girl where her heart would be. This shows that Deemo stands for the girls heart. The girl is also connected to a blood bag and she is looking at a monitor with her pulse on it- meaning she's in the hospital. I'd also like to point out that their bodies are disipearing at the bottom of the picture. I think Untitled2 and Electron are about her trying to accept the fact that she's going to die, or at least trying to get over the confusion. The next song, Walking By The Sea shows her watching the world from her deathbed, and the song after that is her exploring her dream with the metaphor of her heart, Deemo. Sairei shows the masked lady removing her mask. I found it interesting that on her hood theres a carving of a snake coming out of a pigs mouth and biting the pig in the ass which i'm extremely confused about xD I'm not sure what the masked lady stands for, but i do know that the girl stands for her soul, Deemo stands for her heart, and the tree stands for her escape from her disease. Entrance is confusing at first. It shows an evil looking version of Deemo standing infront of a portal that has the word Money written around the edges- translation? Her heart gave into it's own greed and stopped; therefore betraying the girl. Money stands for it's greed or it's temptation to stop and the portal stands for an easier escape than the tree. The last song in the game- Magnolia shows the girl in a dress that's white and fades to black. It also forms a Magnolia flower behind her. She's clutching onto her few memories that she still has; which are glowing. Behind her is a dark colored thing- which is sharply pointed and spreading out around her. I think this stands for her emotions- really negative and "sharp" as in reference to pain. Below her is her grave; which she is above because she's grieving her own death. Unfortunately, I don't have time to go over the paid songs, so i'll jump straight to a finding someone else found within the game. In each of the 2 rooms there is a code and when you put them in as cordinates on google maps you will find that it leads to a hospital (i think in korea?). So what does this all mean? The girls heart is sick and because of the stress the girl's mind falls into the same place. She tries to get out by distracting herself with dreams and adventures with her friend Deemo who is actually her subconcious mind's metaphor for her heart. The tree stands for the way out of her situation and the piano symbolizes her dreams. She kept dreaming of happy things as temporary breaks from her reminder that she's sick. It made her feel like she nearing a cure. Eventually her heart gives in to it's illness and stops- therefore ending the girls life. It ends with her grieving her own death. After this, the tree stops growing when Deemo plays the piano, so he resorts to only reading books. Because of the tree's lack of growth the girl is now eternally trapped in her dream world; in other words she's dead forever and she can't come back to life. It appropriately ends the credits with the message "To Be Continued"- which thank god because if it didnt, i'd be too sad to function right now.

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  1. Adding to your theory, in the ending credits, it shows a picture of the girl snd a pianist. Possibly deemo is her heart and the model for deemo is her father, who is trying to give her hope and cheer her up. I would hate to call the masked lady the mom, but if she is, she probably doesn't want the girl to get her hopes up too high in fear that it will crush her in the end, or the masked lady is the girl's counter part that wants to give up because its easier that way. An update came out recently and I think she did pass away, the tree isn't growing anymore, and book 4's pictures didn't make sense to me, but book 5 looks like she was on her way to heaven and the last two pictures looked like deemo was in heaven, while the girl was at heaven's gate with a golden object on her forehead that may represent a halo.
    This is all too sad...

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  2. To you theory I kinda want to share with you my opinion :) well I think the grown women in Deemo's library is the little girl herself :P because Deemo seems to be have a sort of power (i think) that allows him to walk in between the parallel universe as Elizabeth from Bioshock Infinite, that's my version of it I'll give you that :DD

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  3. Maybe the first song "dream" is a 'POV' of the girl. The music starts with a dreamy melody that might symbolises she's in a coma? After a while you can hear voices talking through eachother. Maybe from doctors and nurses when they bring her to the emergency in the hospital? When the music turns again into the dreamy melody it might represents she slibs farther into her coma.

    After playing "dreams" the girl falls through the window.

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    1. Not saying you're wrong but in my opinion i think dream resembles deemo dreaming of fame. The voices in the song could be his fans, as if he was being interviewed.

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  4. To add to your theory, when the little girl is in the shop with deemo, she wants to play a game with him where he's the doctor and she's the patient.

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  5. Very interesting theory. It kind of align with mine.

    Just something I noticed. In the game, if you go to the room on the left of the tree, you will see a bookshop/library. If you tap on the bookshelf on the right, a number "121.518549" appears. Similarly, if you go to the room on the right and tap on the table, you will see another number "25.040854." When I typed both numbers, connected by a comma, into Google map "121.518549, 25.040854," it gives me a location of National Taiwan University Hospital. In the description of the hospital, it says that there is a bookshop at the first floor of the hospital, which can be related to the bookshop in the game. From this, we can probably predict that this is not a made-up story, but something that really happened, or otherwise they wouldn't give you a real address.

    Secondly, my theory of deemo is that deemo represent the girl's father. In almost all the pictures provided, we can clearly see a image of a daughter and father. Also in the description of deemo by the little girl in the game (appears when you tap on the girl), she mentions things such as "Never met him before, but he does not give me the feeling of afraid" and "Deemo...very gentle." Isn't this description very similar to what a daughter would give to her father?

    Also, the height of the tree is very interesting as well. Remember in the game, when the tree reach 14M, you can find a hidden song called Yawning Lion by tapping the broken glasses on the floor in the room on the left? If we assume for a second that the height of the tree refers to the age of this poor girl who was falling from the building. Wouldn't it make sense to say that the girl fell off from the building at the age of 14? She was probably not killed, but severely injured. When the height of the tree reaches 20M, the game basically ends, and the tree stop growing no matter how many songs you play. This would probably mean that the girl eventually died.

    Combing everything together, here is my theory:
    A girl in Taiwan accidentally fell from a building at the age of 14. She was severely injured and hospitalized in Taiwan National University Hospital. Her father was very sad at first, but soon thought of a way to cheer his daughter up: by playing piano under the hospital everyday to comfort his daughter. This action of the father lasted for 6 years, until the girl reached 20 years old, when she finally died from her illness.

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    1. Hey Brooke and Kevin,
      I read both your theories, and am both intrigued and in awe of how much insight and time you put into them. If it is alright with the both of you, I'd like to base a story I'm going to write about Deemo on your ideas. My plan is to post it on Deviantart when it's finished; of course, I would both credit and link readers to you.

      Let me know if this is okay!
      ~MoonFlame :D

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  6. I believe that the father stopped visiting since he had to go to work (showing Deemo's greed). This works well when Kevin and Brooke's Theories are combined.

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  7. that's a great theory you have there :>

    i'd like to write about my theory too, but so many people here have already commented their theory that's not so different from mine XD
    well, even though mine started with the little girl is stuck in a coma,the ending is all the same. the little girl died.

    so i'm just going to add some information to complete your theory :>
    the writing in the circle on "Entance" is actually "Give me money" repeated a few times.
    and there's also a message in the stone in Magnolia saying:
    "We are forgotten, We dissappear, But the love doesn't, To you my dear friend, The one who helped me dearly, There is love"

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  9. I think the give me money thing is maybe the girls farther or mother asking for a loan to pay for a surgery or bill. I'm not for sure but that's what I think. Also what about the song Angelic Sphere? Just wanted to know

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  10. May I just add something to support that its a car accident? Because when you first unlock the attic, (the room on the left) near the door aka the exit of the room you'll find a tyre and when you tap on it, the girl will say, 'Gives me an uncomfortable feeling. Let's move it away.' This could mean that she doesn't feel right near anything to do with a car because she was involved in an accident maybe?

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  11. i believe that the masked woman is the girl's mother, who had broken up with her father (deemo)

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  13. I think your theory is interesting but there is a mistake that when you search google maps, the place does leads to a hospital but it is located in Taiwan not Korea. Deemo is a game from Taiwan. XD

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  14. All your theories are not correct demo is actually the girls brother and in the end of the currencies the picture was her and her brother.

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