Again, you're talking about the first encounter with Dahlia. And I agree, at that point there's not enough to conclude she's hiding anything.Dogg Thang wrote:I can see how you could read a lot into that exchange. But you'd be reading a lot into that exchange. As it is, it gives very little away and we can't know what Dahlia actually knows.
And one thing she said she did know is that this isn't the first time Harry has gone a bit funny.
But explain this later exchange:
Harry: "Do you know what's happening to me?"
Dahlia: "I know a lot of things."
This is at the end of the game. In the boat. Its a relatively calm discussion, no "re-writing," no freaking out. Harry tells Dahlia that he's seen her as a woman twice her current age, that he's seen her die. Then he asks what's happening to him, and she says:
"I know a lot of things."
The other constructs try to help Harry as much as they can and give him whatever information they have access too. Michelle shows him the picture of teenage Cheryl and then helps him break into the principal's office to look up more information. Hell, Cybil spends half the game struggling to give him the one piece of information she has.
Dahlia, on the other hand, behaves in a completely opposite manner. She tells Harry that she has information and then does not give it to him.
It's not reading too much into this. In fact, its kind of freakin' obvious, to be frank.
I don't see how this pertains to the points I'm making. I never said it doesn't make sense. My point doesn't have anything to do with why Dahlia's impeding him, it's simply that Dahlia knows more information than she's giving to Harry. She pretty much 100% confirms this--and no, that's not reading too much into it.If you think about it from the point of view of somebody constructing this fantasy (whether simply imagining it or manifesting constructs, whichever floats you boat), it makes sense to do this. What's going on is fluid, being changed as Harry progresses. Dahlia dropping that in serves a function - it gives Harry a reason not to progress.
That's.....kind of my point. I mean, my whole two points here are that Construct Dahlia is rude and deceptive.If the problem is not this changing world, the missing daughter, the changing characters but is, in fact, simply that Harry is several eggs short of an omelette, it takes power away from Harry. It allows Harry to be led rather than lead.
So what Dahlia knows or thinks she knows could very simply be what Cheryl put in there to cause Harry to doubt himself - that he was dropped as a baby or did too much drugs in the 80s or whatever.
Of course Cheryl's subconsciously at the wheel--she's subconsciously at the wheel of all of these characters. That doesn't change my point at all.
If a character says, "I know a lot of things," and then doesn't reveal what those things are, you can pretty safely arrive at two conclusions:That also would explain her "Jesus" and her getting short with Harry about it. This isn't the first time Harry has done this as far as this created Dahlia is concerned. She's clearly fed up with it.
Of course she could know much more than that. But we simply don't know and you would have to read more into it than we're given.
1.) That character knows a lot of things
2.) That character is keeping those things to herself
I'm not reading too much into this, nor am I going on anything more than we're given.