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art it's beautiful it stopped the pokin
it has been used to tell some of the

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greatest stories ever told but today
we're going to talk about a classic the

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Vitruvian Man this work by Leonardo da
Vinci has become one of the hallmarks of

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the Renaissance era
it symbolizes the architecture of nature

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found in the proportions of the human
body but this isn't a fucking art class

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it's a hollow night lore video so what
does the Vitruvian Man have to do with

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anything well hidden deep away within
the city of tears there's a very

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interesting drawing called the Vitruvian
grub this is one of the biggest

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mysteries in hallo nest so what does it
mean honestly I don't have a goddamn

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clue but hey that doesn't mean I can't
make a wildly speculative video about it

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this is the Vitruvian grub possible ties
to Isis alright so when you start

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playing hollow night for the first time
you'll probably stumble into this room

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in forgotten crossroads here you'll find
the grub father weeping over the loss of

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his children the player can find these
grubs trapped in glass jars all

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throughout the map after you find one of
his children and return to him the grub

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father will give you a reward
so yeah the grubs are just a cool side

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quest that the player can do while
playing the game but who captured the

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grubs in the first place well turns out
was this forearmed motherfucker the

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collector the collector can be found in
the Tower of love in the city of tears

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and after beating him the player can
find a map that holds the location of

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all the remaining grubs the player has
left to find now there's a lot going on

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with this guy that we'll get to in a
second but first I wanted to talk about

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the Tower of love itself this appears to
be an abandoned location that was

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repurposed by the collector the tower of
love is hidden away only accessible from

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kingdoms edge the walls of the area are
covered with cushions and even the key

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to the areas covered in padding this
whole place gives me an Eyes Wide Shut

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vibe how in a secret elite meaning up
and engaging in lewd sexual acts

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this is all pretty speculative but I do
appreciate the subtle world building

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team cherry does here another
interesting piece of information is what

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the corpse of the bug holding the love
key in Queen's garden says when hit with

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the dream nail it says to long spent
together we became as one now if you

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look at this guy's eyes you can see
black streaks a feature commonly found

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on bugs that died close to the abyss
where void resides I think this means to

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tell us that the bug actually spent some
time with the collector who itself is a

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void creature how do we know that the
collectors made a void first off its

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body is all black and liquidy and goopy
when defeated it melts down into the

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floor and when hit it gives off the same
black particle effects that the siblings

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do and like the siblings the collector
does not give the player soul when hit

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then of course there's the mold found in
the workshop in the white palace this

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mold is used to create a humanoid shaped
figure with four arms this mold was used

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to create the Kings molds that guarded
the white palace the collector was

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probably created here as well even
though it might not have been

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intentional
so yeah the collectors origins begin at

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the white palace which raises a ton of
questions why was the collector created

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it's possible that the collector was an
early attempt at creating a void

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construct gone wrong who just escaped
the white palace and travelled upwards

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into the city of tears another theory is
that the collector was specifically

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created by the pale King to capture the
grubs at the very least there is

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something about the collector that
separates it from other void creatures

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the collector is the most expressive of
any void creature found in the game for

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example one of the collectors dream nail
dialogues is my love my love protected

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at last this type of deep emotional
connection isn't seen in many void

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creatures other than maybe the hollow
Knight or arguably Zoo or Hornet if you

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think that there made a void as well
also the collector doesn't respond

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differently after the knight has
obtained the void heart which means that

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the collector must have an independently
strong well itself so what exactly is

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the collector trying to do if this is
the case

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first let's look at the rest of its
dream no dialogue the collectors other

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two lines are a safe space for you and
you and you and it must be saved from

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these lines of dialogue it seems like
the collector is capturing grubs and

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other creatures in order to protect them
protect them from what exactly well this

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is where shit gets weird so let's say
you defeat the collector and rescue all

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the grubs cool you go to the grub father
who is eternally grateful and gives you

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the final reward the grubber flies elegy
awesome but if you choose to return to

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the grub father after resting on a bench
then you will discover that the grub

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father has actually eaten his children
now that's a fucked up shit right there

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look team cherry I don't know if the
practice of eating ones children is

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common in Australia but here in the
United States it is not so maybe the

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collector knows that the grub father was
going to eat his children and so it

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captured them as a way to keep them safe
if that was the case though the

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collector might actually be wrong even
though the grubs have been eaten you can

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still hear them inside the grub father
stomach so they're not dead yet also the

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achievement the player gets when freeing
the last grub is called metamorphosis so

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this whole thing might just be biology
the last reward given to the player is a

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charm called the grabber fly z elegy
which talks about the grubs moving on

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into the next stage of their lives so it
seems as though the grub father is

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actually sacrificing himself and acting
as a cocoon for the grubs to transform

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into grubber flies the Gerber flies
would then burst out of the grub

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father's body which wouldn't be the
first time we saw that in hallow night

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it's all just a part of the beauty of
nature but of course the collector might

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not know this so maybe it thinks
capturing the grubs is the only way to

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protect them there is something a bit
unsettling though if you listen to the

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collector before reaching the room where
you fight him you hear some strange

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things

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now that's just creepy
seriously listen to it with horror music

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playing

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not only that but you can hear the grub
gagging at one point why is it that

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these cute little creatures are involved
in one of the most fucked up plots of

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the game it's so weird so let's just say
that that is all there is to the

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collectors motive where does that lead
the Vitruvian grub

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well the collector seems to find nature
beautiful and believes that it should be

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protected maybe the Vitruvian grub is
just a drawing the collector made to

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represent its obsession over the form of
the grub body but that's kind of a

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boring answer I think it's time we start
speculating wildly what if there's

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another motive behind the collectors
actions what if there's another layer

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beneath all of this what is it about the
grubs specifically that the collector is

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so infatuated with the grub flies the
elegy mentions that the charm imbues

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weapons with the holey strength now this
is interesting

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while the grubs are actually more
powerful than we could possibly imagine

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let's look at the Vitruvian grub again
what's the deal with this symbol in the

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middle of the drawing it's not visible
on the grubs in-game what could it mean

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well the symbol shows three circles
connected together maybe this is

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supposed to represent a Holy Trinity the
number three has already been

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established as being an important number
in the game seeing as there are three

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dreamers required to combat the radiance
in other words this design on the grub

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stomach is telling us that the grubs do
indeed contain some sort of sacred power

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within them but what about the
surroundings of the grub in the

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Vitruvian Man drawing the man is
surrounded by a circle and a square this

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was done to show the architectural
properties of the human body when I

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think something different is going on
here first off they kind of look like

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crop circles you know the kind left by
aliens now I don't think we're supposed

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to believe that grubs are actually
aliens despite the compelling evidence

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that points that way but I do think this
is meant to represent how grubs might be

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otherworldly or at least very different
in nature from the rest of the bugs in

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the game but there's another interesting
thing about the design that surrounds

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the Vitruvian grub as I'm sure you've
noticed

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there are 46 circles drawn in this
picture and that's the exact number of

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grubs that can be freed in the game what
if this drawing is some sort of

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representation of the location of the
grubs when we compare that the Truvia

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grub to the world map there's an easy
connection we can make right away these

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three dots in unison can line up with
the three grubs found in the Tower of

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love but after that it really doesn't
make any sense but I do think this

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surrounding design is telling us that
the grubs are scattered across the land

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even if the Vitruvian grub isn't a 100%
accurate map but this raises another

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question why is it that the collector
leaves the grubs in various locations

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instead of just taking them back to the
Tower of love this is a collector just

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hiding them in spots that thinks no one
will find is it because they have to be

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positioned in a certain way if so is
this by the collectors will or is the

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collector actually following
instructions left for it maybe the

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collector was told to capture the grubs
and the Vitruvian grub is some sort of

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instruction on how to do it I suggest
this because the collectors dialog only

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points it wanting to preserve the grubs
but it just seems like more is going on

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here is it possible that the pail King
wanted the grubs captured did this holy

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power hidden within the grubs scare the
pail King is this another example of the

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pail king trying to smother out other
powerful beings if all that's the case

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then we might have just fucked
everything up by freeing them all so

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yeah is the collector just absolutely
insane and became obsessed with the

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grubs for some arbitrary reason is the
collector aware of this holy power that

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might be hidden within the grubs could
it be that the pail King is actually

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responsible for all of this is it even
possible to know the answer at this

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point whenever I think about Holland
I'll or I always end up remembering

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Zelda maii's precept 50 maybe it's
better not to linger on mysteries for

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too long is this team Jerry's Way of
telling us not to get too worked up over

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every little bit of dialogue I mean we
craft entire theories off of characters

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turning their heads slightly for fuck's
sake

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I think the Vitruvian grub is a really
cool mystery team cherry has added to

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the
but maybe there is no answer for its

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existence yet and that's all I've got
let me know in the comments if I miss

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something or if you have any theories of
your own as to what's going on with all

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this
I hope team cherry gives us more

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information about the Vitruvian grub and
upcoming content but then again I

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already feel that way about ten other
fucking things in this game