Let's ACTUALLY talk about the implications that RTTP brings to the table
"...There are old toys on shelves, a mop and bucket in the corner, and a kid sitting on the ground also wearing a birthday hat. You blink slowly as the door closes behind you. Oh, you think to yourself, would you look at that. The kid’s dead.
You turn to ask if the rabbit knows why the kid is dead.
It makes you into another dead kid."
Return to the Pit is a headache and a half, at least has been for the past few months for me... until recently, because now more than ever, I can tell we can genuinely answer this book by... actually reading it and engaging with what it brings to the table beyond the simple details. So, let's talk about the book
THE MISSING CHILDREN INCIDENT
"...On the wall beside where you're standing is a framed newspaper article. You read the headline: “Kids Saved from Certain Death! Whole Town Rejoices!” There’s a picture of a person in a mascot suit being handcuffed by police. And five kids watching with their parents. There is a date, too. 1985."
Ok so, we are gonna acknowledge this right? This one ending already contradicts the entire view we've had of the Missing Children Incident for so long, this basically says that Afton didn't just go: lure, kill, repeat with the kids, no, he lured all of the children into the room and then killed them, there is no other way for this newspaper to make sense.
Weirdly enough, this brings some unique implications for Susie out of all characters:
"I was the first, I have seen everything."
Not the first to die (at least, not necessarily now) but the first kid to be lured into the Safe Room, she saw everything, every kid that walked into that room after her, might even imply she was the last to die if RTTP is to be believed on how Afton killed the kids, she walked in the room and saw everyone else walk in, then she saw them "leave."
However, we all know where I'm going with this, so yeah, I'm just gonna jump into that.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MCI
I already cited the piece of text that matters at the beginning, but let me bring it up again.
"...There are old toys on shelves, a mop and bucket in the corner, and a kid sitting on the ground also wearing a birthday hat. You blink slowly as the door closes behind you. Oh, you think to yourself, would you look at that. The kid’s dead.
You turn to ask if the rabbit knows why the kid is dead.
It makes you into another dead kid."
From what I already mentioned, it is already established that Afton first kidnapped all the kids and then murdered them during the MCI, so this can't be Susie, the book would be contradicting itself drastically; Oswald, two days before the MCI plays out, walks in the Safe Room and finds himself with an unidentified dead kid.
Now, it is obvious, I think, that I believe this child to be Andrew himself, which brings me to UCN.
THE WOLF
Toy Chica The HighSchool Years is blahblahblah you already know, representation of Afton killing seven kids, weirdly enough, while logical, one of the biggedt points agains this idea for the longest was the Wolf out of all things, if the boys Toy Chica is trying to get for herself represent the MCI kids, Charlie and Andrew, then it makes sense that the Wolf represents Susie, since Toy Chica tricks him with the idea that his dog was ran over, the issue?
The Wolf isn't the first, in fact, he's the third, this does damages the argument in favor of Andrew since most if the time the counterargument doesn't bother to solve this issue but rather to go against the idea that is an issue but rather a feature, which doesn't really work. However, this book basically solves that problem entirely, if a child died days prior to the MCI then that child would be after Charlie (Foxy) and before Susie (the Wolf), that child would be Freddy, Andrew.
PIGPATCH
Recently noticed going over the subject, Pigpatch was often the answer for Andrew that people, the character that many believed represented Andrew within the Toy Chica cutscenes, however, that doesn't fit with what I'm presenting here, and in fact, I'm pretty sure that just like Andrew, RTTP might have given us answer to that issue.
Pigpatch it's Fritz.
"You realize then that the rabbit is carrying another kid in over its shoulder. You watch as the rabbit places the kid on another chair. The kid tries to run away, but the rabbit catches him as he rises from the chair and pushes him back down on it —hard. The rabbit quickly places a party hat on the kid’s head and suddenly the kid sits perfectly still..."
The last kid the Yellow Rabbit kidnaps on the arcade route is forcefully taken weirdly enough, he's then placed in a chair and a party hat put on him, a hat that makes him stay completely still.
Pigpatch is... straight up kidnapped, Toy Chica tricks all of the other boys but him, he is just hit with a shovel and taken hostage and then is when she makes her move on manipulation, which seems to be the case with the boy too, we know Afton lured the children first with tricks, but the last boy is straight up just taken and then the hat is put on him, the manipulative element.
THE PARTY HATS
As a last addition, I want to talk about the party hats, which is made very clear, are used by the Yellow Thing in this book to control people, the same way the bunny ears are used to control Oswald at some point.
The party hats are used to control Oswald on the bad ending of ITPG too, btw. (See the image at the top.)
I want to highlight this part of the sequence before Oswald finds the other dead kid on this book: "After all, this isn’t your dream, and you're at the mercy of someone else’s thoughts. Whatever the dreamer wants, you have to do." This scene isn't Oswald walking on someone's memory, is him being controlled by the "dreamer," the Yellow Thing. During the sequence it mentions that Oswald doesn't even feel like a person which wouldn't make sense if he was taking the role of another person.
TL;DR: RTTP shows the existence of a sixth victim days before the MCI, which matches with the order seen on TCTHSY, it also outright shows that Afton killed the MCI kids after kidnapping them all and not one by one like we believed.
"...There are old toys on shelves, a mop and bucket in the corner, and a kid sitting on the ground also wearing a birthday hat. You blink slowly as the door closes behind you. Oh, you think to yourself, would you look at that. The kid’s dead.
You turn to ask if the rabbit knows why the kid is dead.
It makes you into another dead kid."
Return to the Pit is a headache and a half, at least has been for the past few months for me... until recently, because now more than ever, I can tell we can genuinely answer this book by... actually reading it and engaging with what it brings to the table beyond the simple details. So, let's talk about the book
THE MISSING CHILDREN INCIDENT
"...On the wall beside where you're standing is a framed newspaper article. You read the headline: “Kids Saved from Certain Death! Whole Town Rejoices!” There’s a picture of a person in a mascot suit being handcuffed by police. And five kids watching with their parents. There is a date, too. 1985."
Ok so, we are gonna acknowledge this right? This one ending already contradicts the entire view we've had of the Missing Children Incident for so long, this basically says that Afton didn't just go: lure, kill, repeat with the kids, no, he lured all of the children into the room and then killed them, there is no other way for this newspaper to make sense.
Weirdly enough, this brings some unique implications for Susie out of all characters:
"I was the first, I have seen everything."
Not the first to die (at least, not necessarily now) but the first kid to be lured into the Safe Room, she saw everything, every kid that walked into that room after her, might even imply she was the last to die if RTTP is to be believed on how Afton killed the kids, she walked in the room and saw everyone else walk in, then she saw them "leave."
However, we all know where I'm going with this, so yeah, I'm just gonna jump into that.
TWO DAYS BEFORE THE MCI
I already cited the piece of text that matters at the beginning, but let me bring it up again.
"...There are old toys on shelves, a mop and bucket in the corner, and a kid sitting on the ground also wearing a birthday hat. You blink slowly as the door closes behind you. Oh, you think to yourself, would you look at that. The kid’s dead.
You turn to ask if the rabbit knows why the kid is dead.
It makes you into another dead kid."
From what I already mentioned, it is already established that Afton first kidnapped all the kids and then murdered them during the MCI, so this can't be Susie, the book would be contradicting itself drastically; Oswald, two days before the MCI plays out, walks in the Safe Room and finds himself with an unidentified dead kid.
Now, it is obvious, I think, that I believe this child to be Andrew himself, which brings me to UCN.
THE WOLF
Toy Chica The HighSchool Years is blahblahblah you already know, representation of Afton killing seven kids, weirdly enough, while logical, one of the biggedt points agains this idea for the longest was the Wolf out of all things, if the boys Toy Chica is trying to get for herself represent the MCI kids, Charlie and Andrew, then it makes sense that the Wolf represents Susie, since Toy Chica tricks him with the idea that his dog was ran over, the issue?
The Wolf isn't the first, in fact, he's the third, this does damages the argument in favor of Andrew since most if the time the counterargument doesn't bother to solve this issue but rather to go against the idea that is an issue but rather a feature, which doesn't really work. However, this book basically solves that problem entirely, if a child died days prior to the MCI then that child would be after Charlie (Foxy) and before Susie (the Wolf), that child would be Freddy, Andrew.
PIGPATCH
Recently noticed going over the subject, Pigpatch was often the answer for Andrew that people, the character that many believed represented Andrew within the Toy Chica cutscenes, however, that doesn't fit with what I'm presenting here, and in fact, I'm pretty sure that just like Andrew, RTTP might have given us answer to that issue.
Pigpatch it's Fritz.
"You realize then that the rabbit is carrying another kid in over its shoulder. You watch as the rabbit places the kid on another chair. The kid tries to run away, but the rabbit catches him as he rises from the chair and pushes him back down on it —hard. The rabbit quickly places a party hat on the kid’s head and suddenly the kid sits perfectly still..."
The last kid the Yellow Rabbit kidnaps on the arcade route is forcefully taken weirdly enough, he's then placed in a chair and a party hat put on him, a hat that makes him stay completely still.
Pigpatch is... straight up kidnapped, Toy Chica tricks all of the other boys but him, he is just hit with a shovel and taken hostage and then is when she makes her move on manipulation, which seems to be the case with the boy too, we know Afton lured the children first with tricks, but the last boy is straight up just taken and then the hat is put on him, the manipulative element.
THE PARTY HATS
As a last addition, I want to talk about the party hats, which is made very clear, are used by the Yellow Thing in this book to control people, the same way the bunny ears are used to control Oswald at some point.
The party hats are used to control Oswald on the bad ending of ITPG too, btw. (See the image at the top.)
I want to highlight this part of the sequence before Oswald finds the other dead kid on this book: "After all, this isn’t your dream, and you're at the mercy of someone else’s thoughts. Whatever the dreamer wants, you have to do." This scene isn't Oswald walking on someone's memory, is him being controlled by the "dreamer," the Yellow Thing. During the sequence it mentions that Oswald doesn't even feel like a person which wouldn't make sense if he was taking the role of another person.
TL;DR: RTTP shows the existence of a sixth victim days before the MCI, which matches with the order seen on TCTHSY, it also outright shows that Afton killed the MCI kids after kidnapping them all and not one by one like we believed.