An Interesting Theory Of Mine
WARNING: This post is just something i personally thought sounded interesting, it doesn't pertain to the game in any way other than my speculation on our player characters!
So I've noticed how strange it is that the "Unturned" (our player character) is naked upon spawning. It makes sense from a gameplay standpoint but from a lore standpoint it sure doesn't. But what if it actually DOES make sense to the lore and may be the single most important bit of lore that no one has ever mentioned (to my knowledge).
I think the player character is patient zero.
Now I think I should explain WHY I think the player character is patient zero.
From what we've seen, the Scorpion-7 facility in Washington had 4 vials, each should have a zombie inside.. except one zombie is missing. Notice something interesting about the zombies in vials: They're naked, they are wearing no form of clothing. Now why exactly would we no longer be a zombie if we were patient zero? I think that someone from somewhere has the cure, and we were the guinea pig in testing that cure. Now that person's identity is the most intriguing thing to me. I don't know who it would be. It would have to be someone from some prominent "group" such as Aegis.. maybe even the Syndicate.
I'd like to know what you guys think of this!
NOTE: Before you go and downvote, this is meant to be a fun discussion about a little theory I had. I love the lore of this game and I think if this was true it could change a lot about that lore.
Posted Aug 5, 2017, 10:24 AM UTC
Two Flaws:
-The broken glass is that zombie that broke containment, not patient zero.
-If you were made/healed in a Scorpion 7 lab, then would you end up inside of only two (possibly three) locations, Washington, Yukon, and (possibly) PEI. How would you get to any other location?
Yeah I know the broken glass wasn't patient zero. In fact I already want to make a revision of this theory. Easily this lore could change per map as well. For example: the protagonist in Hawaii is one of aegis's test subjects that the cure worked on, however they escaped Mauna Kea's facility before the cure did its work. I actually don't even think it was a Scorpion-7 member who "cured" us, but rather someone from the coalition or even the syndicate.
Also, in order for this entire theory to work the cure would have to not take effect immediately, but rather over time. I should've mentioned this.