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The Weird Route, as well as a good chunk of Noelle's character, is very clearly a homage to both old-school vidya glitches as well as creepypastas in general; my theory is that this homage is going to go full circle and the climax of the Weird Route is going to involve doing some kind of increasingly disconnected series of "ritual" steps (that don't follow the usual formula of "kill enough monsters") that end up culminating in summoning/unleashing something that causes all hell to fully break loose - glitched up visuals, randomized alterations of music, level overflowing, the entire framework of the game starts bending to our whims and increasingly corrupts the save file, kind of like how old glitches could genuinely fuck up your game hardware.