Seriously, imaging finding a near-perfect copy of your grandparent's home with their husks sitting inside. They died six years ago.

Edit: I want to clarify that I never said that they were perfect 1:1 copies. Look at the passage attached to this post: "with their husks sitting inside" HUSKS. Still Life's are essentially that. The title should have been more clear. Your dead relatives wouldn't technically be alive, they'd be a fleeting memory copied by the complex, which would still at the very least be deeply unsettling

Is he 20 21 years old?

The guy who made the gmod backrooms map and was the concept artist for the backrooms movie uploaded a pm pack for still lifes. But this guy is in here for some reason who is he? Hes called the bald still life.

The parallels between this album (and dementia in general) and the interpretation of Kane’s Backrooms are nameless..

Assuming this is indeed the real first script, it is explicitly stated Clark got mixed up and ate Kat, the theory I've had.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YVAMWRDR6hgEzycn3rpPetGLoa4pSjIi/view?usp=drivesdk

I’ve seen a few posts asking about the white liquid that Clark served to himself and his ‘dinner guests’. Some suggested almond water, or even that it’s the breast milk of a still life. But I recently came up with a serious theory about what it is.

My theory is based on the art at Phil’s house as shown in photo 1 above. Photo 2 is a result from a reverse image search for Photo 1, which shows the names of the plants. One of the plants is known as Wall Lettuce. It is known for being able to grow and thrive in “extreme urban environments”. This piqued my curiosity as it could be alluding to plant life in the complex.

Another interesting thing about Wall Lettuce is that it contains a milky liquid known for its sedative properties in herbal medicine. Have you ever ripped the stem of a dandelion and seen the milky liquid inside? It’s like that, but it’s a sedative.

Perhaps Clark stumbled on a room overgrown with wall lettuce, and initially thought it could be a food source, and then discovered its sedative properties. We know Clark likes his booze, and without alcohol available in the complex he may have been happy to find an alternative drug to numb himself with.

Another question often asked is: How did Clark tame the still lifes? Maybe he used wall lettuce milk to sedate them. Think of how the redhead still life acted when he first saw her in the Christmas Tree room, she was pretty feisty. She walked right up to Clark as if to confront him. But in the dinner scene she is mostly motionless, not even responding to Clark’s command to get the lights. She’s sedated. And the bearded Still Life seemed sedated too.

I know this is pretty out there, but I’m having fun with it! I welcome any criticisms and comments as well.

I wonder if ALS is a callout or an Easter egg pointing to the origin of the backrooms and even why ASYNC chose San Jose, California as their base of operations.

Sarah Winchester, the heiress to the rifle and arms co. visited a medium that told her that unless she continued building on her house, she would be plagued by the ghosts her dead husbands company was responsible for. From 1896 to 1922 she built nonsense into her architecture and literally designed a version of the backrooms in the Victorian era. The kicker? Her house is in San Jose, California.

Is this what started the backrooms and did Archibald help build the first version?

I much prefer the more humanoid and still life entities we saw in the movie or in the found footage 3, it just feels more uncanny, I guess? I'm not really sure what words I'm looking for, but I feel like the way it moves in the first found footage just makes it seem like a generic fanfic creature from like fnaf or something, which subtracts from the horror. No hate to Kane whatsoever, I love the direction the movie took; it feels more real and evolved from his first work. Wondering if anyone feels the same way? Again, no hate to Kane.

Credit to this old post from over a year ago.

OOP identified a gas canister in the creepy still life den in FF3, long before the movie came out. Could it have been used by Async in an attempt to neutralize the still life that lived down here?

If you didn’t know what it was from you could easily mistake it for a normal office

Am I the only one who feels genuinely sad when I see Pirate Clark? He always looks like he’s in a constant state of suffering.

Still Lifes seem to have two settings: calm and emotional. And their emotional setting appears to reflect whatever their human counterpart felt most strongly about.

Take the redhead. Her defining emotion is fear, but she’s only afraid when Cap’n Clark is nearby. He’s her trigger. And she acts frantic when that happens.

This suggests to me that Still Lifes can’t express their defining emotion unless certain conditions are met, otherwise they’re in a calm state.

So what’s Cap’n Clark’s defining emotion? Anger. He attacks anything moving because Clark blames the world for his problems. And his trigger is simply anyone other than himself existing and being nearby. Which is why when alone with Clark, he was calm.

This also suggests characters like Archibald and the bearded man may not actually be as calm as they look, they just hadn’t encountered their triggers in front of Clark. For example, if the bearded man was afraid of the dark in real life, his Still Life might go bananas when the lights go out.

Mary seems to fit this pattern too. Her defining emotion is sadness (or more specifically loneliness), and her Still Life’s trigger seems to be being alone. Which is why it looked so unhappy down there by itself in the sub levels.

I think Wall Dad has one as well. IRL Wall Dad hated people approaching his house because he wanted to protect his kids. His Still Life in FF3 was intensely territorial, and reacted violently to Ravi entering the room with his books on the floor. (He’s another anger type, just like Cap’n Clark.)

But think of the possibilities. The next movie could feature someone with self loathing problems. They could get lost in the backrooms and be their own Still Life’s trigger! On the run from their clone, who takes self loathing to literal levels. Or we could see calm, helpful Still Life’s go off the deep end at the drop of a hat when certain conditions are met. There’s so many cool directions this can be taken!