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Oo did someone mention the Route 8 cutscene? Well I have a personal idea that I've been preaching all about over on Reddit but just to recap here. I believe the reason why Charles is so obsessed with the Key Hunt and getting all the keys, that he's willing to rank up Executives that obtain the keys. Pay large amounts of money and just sacrifice so many resources into the Key Hunt. Is because of Rebecca. It's already stated that Charles himself put Portia in the position of her mother, Head of R&D (Research & Development) even if she's not qualified to do so. Jan is doing more as the interim Head of R&D if we take the Help Center requests as any indication. And the position of Head of PR, was left vacant till who would you guess, Joseph Bright. Who acts an awful lot like Riffraff to the point people assumed he WAS Riffraff in that cutscene but disguised. (He's not) To me, it shows that Charles deeply misses his friends. They were the people who he started the very company with in the first place. I theorized before the Route 8 cutscene that Joseph manipulated Charles into starting the Key Hunt since Joseph is a Blank Cultist and they want Somniere to be free in order to re-start the Doodle War. And I was right as confirmed by Cortes that it was Joseph who told Charles to do it. I believe that Joseph told him something about bringing back Rebecca and that's why Charles is so desperate and obsessed with the Key Hunt. Because Rebecca was his friend. Likely one of his only two best friends. The other being Lucas. If Charles brings back Rebecca, things would be okay again. Is something Joseph probably said to him.

something that seemed to confused me a few months ago is how Charles didn't seem to attend the executive meeting for the keys (yknow the cutscene that played after the whole misprint ciyrup thing) like at first i was pretty sad that we didn't get to see him during the meeting . then it was explained how he just, doesn't attend any meetings anymore or something? like why does he not even attend his own meetings anymore? that part seemed to kinda go over my head when Cortés first said that during that cutscene, but i have been thinking about it for awhile now and it reminded me of something Portia said earlier in the game. like before player, Portia and tj entered Graphite forest. she said how like Charles has become obsessed with the key hunt as of late

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which paired with the fact that he isn't going to any of his meetings anymore is rather... interesting, to say the least. like why has he become so obsessed with the key hunt to the point that he won't even attend his own meetings? what did Joseph tell Charles about the keys that got him so obsessed with them in the first place??

i dont really have any theories about this at the moment, it was just something i had found interesting and just wanted to share. maybe when more information comes out i will be able to articulate one, but until then I have nothing