Who are the 5 beings in Death Stranding?

Who are the 5 people in Death Stranding?

Floating Entities

If I had to guess, they might represent the people Sam has made connections with over the course of the game, representing Die-Hardman, Deadman, Fragile, Mama/Lockne (since the two sisters are fused together), and Heartman.

What are the things in the sky in Death Stranding?

Beached Things (BTs) are entities whose souls are stranded in the world of the living following the events of the Death Stranding. BTs are considered extremely dangerous and are almost invariably hostile toward living beings.

Why is Amelie the extinction entity?

Amelie, as an extinction entity, is ultimately the one responsible for bridging the gap between the living world and the Beach and is therefore the cause of the Death Stranding. She can potentially force all beaches to merge with her own via the Chiral network.

Is there actually a choice at the end of Death Stranding?

Ultimately, Amelie proposes that Sam 'pull the rope or cut the noose', and the game presents you with the option to shoot Amelie. However, the only way to progress beyond this point is to put away the gun and choose to hug the extinction entity, instead.

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What happens if you ignore a corpse Death Stranding?

Should the body fail to be disposed of in this timeframe, it will undergo Necrosis and eventually become a Beached thing. Afterwards, it will kill the nearest human, resulting in a Voidout. This will destroy the entire map, instantly killing the player and causing a game over.

Why does Sam have handprints on him?

The handprints arrayed across Sam's body are said to be the amount of times he has repatriated, with a new handprint showing on him after each repatriation. Sam has never been able to visit his Beach of his own volition. Sam's aphenphosmphobia is mainly used to refer to Sam's aversion to physical contact.

Is Sam the only repatriate?

The only known documented repatriate is Sam Porter Bridges, a result of Amelie bringing a neonatal Sam back to life after he was shot to death. This violation of the normal order of life and death made his Ha reject The Beach, resulting in his bodily fluids, thus his Ka, reject beings from The Beach.

Why does Sam cry in Death Stranding?

Much of the crying in Death Stranding is just a slightly more complex version of the kind of allergies many people experience. Instead of being allergic to cats, dust, or tree pollen, Sam 'Porter' Bridges and many of the primary characters have an allergic response to something called Chiralium.

What triggered the Death Stranding?

According to Die-Hardman's confessions interview, the current Death Stranding was initiated at the moment a surgeon performed a caesarean section on a braindead pregnant woman on the island of Manhattan, seeing a BT that ultimately caused a voidout.

What is the point of the babies in Death Stranding?

A Bridge Baby, abbreviated as BB, is an unborn fetus that has been taken from a stillmother to be used as equipment by Bridges operatives, and some separatist groups, granting them the ability to sense and detect the Beached Things.

Why are babies in pods in Death Stranding?

The pod is designed to replicate the environment from which the BB was taken: its mother's womb. Bridge Babies are the result of a pregnant woman becoming brain dead, which facilitates the unborn child's connection with the Beach where BTs reside.

What is the invisible monster in Death Stranding?

In Death Stranding, BTs are invisible supernatural creatures that roam around and hunt enemies by sound, like the Death Angels from A Quiet Place.

What are the bad guys in Death Stranding?

Players of the first game will already be familiar with the terrorist organization known as Homo Demens and its leader, Higgs. In Death Stranding, Higgs led the faction against Sam and his quest to unite the Knot Cities using the Chiral Network using his ability to summon BTs.

Is Sam asexual Death Stranding?

According to folks who have played the game (see: the Waypoint Radio episode on Death Stranding), Sam Porter Bridges may well be asexual himself.

Who are the symbiotic twins Death Stranding?

Mama and Lockne were genius twin sisters born with DOOMS, which gave them the ability to communicate with each other across the world. Daughters of parents who worked for NASA prior to the Death Stranding, they grew up feeling like the world was a bigger and larger place before.

Why does Sam need BB if he has dooms?

Sam, with a weaker case of DOOMS, can sense the nearby presence of BTs, but not see them. In short order he'll acquire a Bridge Baby—the bottled fetus of a mother in a coma—with which his DOOMS will be augmented enough to see BTs. Sam is also a repatriate, which just means he's a rare person who can return from death.

Why is Sam afraid of being touched?

Aphenphosmphobia is a phobia, or extreme and irrational fear, of intimacy. That includes physical touch, which is why Sam reels from hugs or even simple handshakes in Death Stranding. But it is also a fear of "emotional bonds," according to a website called Phobia Guru.

Can Sam cause a Voidout?

Gameplay. A voidout is triggered when Sam is caught and devoured by a Catcher. Sam enters the Seam and, when he repatriates, the area where he was caught becomes a crater. The crater itself becomes inaccessible to Sam, as he will begin to float due to the Chiralium density in the crater.

Why is Sam so old in Death Stranding 2?

The Death Stranding 2 reveal trailer showed that Norman Reedus returns as Sam, seemingly aged up. While this could hint at the game happening some years after the events of the first game, we could just be seeing the effects of Timefall - a type of rain that speeds up the aging process.

Does Sam age Death Stranding?

Timefall May Be Responsible for Sam's Aging

Death Stranding has its own in-universe cause of accelerated aging in the form of the Timefall phenomenon which is a mysterious rain that causes anything it comes into contact with to rapidly progress through time.

Is Sam his own BB?

Cliff gives Sam BB, who we now know is Sam as a baby. The trio embrace. and then saved him when he was lost on the beach. Bridget cries over Sam's fetal corpse and we are then shown a dead baby on a beach, Amelie's beach.

What is the secret about Sam?

Sam's supernatural abilities are the result of him being fed Azazel's demon blood while he was an infant. Sam exhibits signs of precognition throughout the first season, manifesting as dreams of others' deaths and later as visions.

Who is the baby inside Sam?

Louise is Sam's BB in Death Stranding, the one that Sam carries around for the whole game. At the very end of the game, he names her Louise. This means that the baby we saw in the trailer is the same baby from the first game, except now older.

How did Sam lose his eye?

A career-threatening injury left Sam Ward blind in one eye

In November 2019, the prolific goalscorer was hit by an 80km per hour (50mph) shot by teammate Harry Martin as his side homed in on a place at Tokyo 2020. The injury left him with multiple facial fractures.