two years ago, I wrote a piece predicting the premise and imagery teased in the first trailer for Death Stranding. two years and four trailers later, we still know very little about the game, the mission in which our character is taking on. the premise and imagery, however, it seems I was closer to the truth than I realized. I’ve tried to stay away from Reddit and even most YouTube comments and theories to keep my predictions pure.
my idea back in 2016 for antimatter, what was living and now dead, appears to not be fallen players but creatures from a mirror dimension, bleeding through to our own. what’s interesting is that a mirror dimension can be observed to be similar to the Dirac equation (taken from the dog tags worn by Norman Reedus’ character finally named Sam, as it proposes the existence of antimatter) as Dirac himself theorized that a vacuum existed for all antimatter to be, all the negative energy to balance the positive, visualized as an infinite sea.
that infinite sea is what you fall into upon death or void out. this is the meeting point for living and dead. it is where the two worlds collide. the sea is the final image in the first trailer and the final image of the most recent. we continue to be brought back to this place. this is where dead matter is left, this could be not only how the game begins, but how it ends as well.
the words Death Stranding seem to have a double meaning. Sam travels the world, passing valleys and canyons littered with craters and black strands floating into the sky. This is seen when Sam is caught in the void out, the moment when the creatures from the other dimension finally grasp living tissue. We are stranded in death. In the description for the new trailer, the phenomenon is giving the name of Death Stranding, also.
We are not just abandoned in a vastly changed world when we die, but we are connected to the other side, stranded together, bound by something far beyond our understanding. I initially thought that the creatures were of one mind, the embodiment of death itself. this would eliminate the need for weapons since you cannot kill what cannot die. the idea of running from death became so fascinating to me. It seems the creatures from the other dimension are not death itself, but are merely inhabitants of the infinite sea, crossing over, desperate for life.
what concerns me more than the creatures, is the passing of time. the rain that come once the dimensions begin to bleed together, bringing plants to life, then death and life again is called timefall. a single drop lands on Sam’s hand and it ages the wet skin to a wrinkled mess, as it did another porter caught in the rain in the third trailer. how much time passes with each falling of the rain? is the world aging with every storm?
shadowart 