Talk:Night ∞ Series/@comment-71.53.0.92-20140612232421

My theory on this is that the mansion's inhabitants are dead already and they're stuck in a sort of "imprint". Paranormal experts claim that sometimes ghosts aren't actually ghosts, but they're just the energy left behind of an event that keeps replaying on a loop. These "imprints" project something that has happened and can even affect others watching it and the surroundings, and even seem real (especially if the person watching doesn't know they're an imprint, like Miku). In my theory, the people living in the house once welcomed a visitor in and after having a fun time with the visitor, the visitor killed them all,

I also think the mansion's inhabitants also knew, somewhat, that they were just an imprint. They were so insistent that everyone "plays their part" and that they "follow the script", which I believe refers to the fact that the same event plays out over and over and nothing ever changes, like events in an actual play. The "script page" torn out by Miku symbolized the fact that she devianted from what the imprint usually played out, or did not follow the "script", and explored the mansion and found the coffins. (The coffins held the inhabitants of the mansion's bodies.)

Killing them all was the "happy ending" Miku needed to find because it meant she would be "back on script" or playing along with the imprint due to the original house guest killing them.

The time stopped because the imprint just kept replaying over every night.

The shadow applauding at the end was the original house guest that had killed the mansion's inhabitants. I think he may have actually have been a ghost, but not part of the imprint itself. If he had been part of the imprint, he would've played along and Miku wouldn't have been invited into the house because she wouldn't have been needed. He applauded her for doing his job.

Well, at least that's what my theory is.