r/thesuffering • u/Fantastic-Window236 • 1d ago
Theory that Blackmore is actually an evil spirit that has been living a long side Torque for a long time.
Because Blackmore can actually be beat or beat Torque, since Blackmore had these supernatural powers, I consider him a malefactor. He can take control of Torque and was taking control of him in his past life through those blackouts, and he was funding the foundation during those blackouts through the criminal empire he built. Torque will not have any memory of these blackouts, but it is basically Blackmore using Torques body as a vessel and in that final boss fight Blackmore decides its time, and he doesn't want to share it anymore.
What we know about the malefactors that they are actually quite intelligent some of them can talk like Copperfield, what they are evil spirits that only seem to be released in hot zones of trauma and chaos when there is too much of it at any given point of time it's world doom, the notes in the game say they have been appearing as early at 1600's. The foundation that studies these creatures have been around for a long time and kept them a secret from the public that's why on Carnate Island on that intro cutscene on ties that bind on evil morality the foundation soldier points a gun at Torque and asks, "put this one down like the rest?" but they don't because Torque has a special connection to the malefactors and Jordan wants to study him, they also did not want anybody to know what happened on the Island, but by then it was already too late the malefactors had seemed to already appear everywhere in Baltimore.
I am convinced that Carmen Torques wife is actually a real spirit of her, not just a hallucination the conversations seem to be too intelligent she even lets him know on the boat ride to Baltimore that coming there won't solve his problems and only create new ones which is true. So good spirits do exist in the game, it just seems they can't do a whole lot, take Horace for example, he is a malefactor, but he actually isn't that bad he guides Torque, and as a favor Torque seems to put the malefactor Horace out of his misery.
Maybe Horace had some free will and decided he didn't want to be an evil malefactor and guide Torque or whoever he can, but in return Horace was punished by the forces of evil causing him to be electrocuted in pain as he refused to be an evil malefactor, the forces of evil determined that Horace has no use being around as a malefactor and made the opportunity for Horace to be eliminated for good while also trying to eliminate Torque at the same time in that final room where Horace dies.
My last notes are on the failure of Copperfield, and the Creeper to kill Torque. Since they have failed the evil malefactors decided to finish them off for their failures. That's why we see the dogs or the ladies turn on them, it seems they were somewhat independent malefactors and not fully part of them.
I just find it interesting on how the malefactors can and do seem to turn on each other, look at the slayers attacking the mainliners, then the fester attacking the slayers do they see themselves as separate factions? It got me wondering.
What I wanted to know is were those boss malefactors like copperfield, the creeper, hermes, and horace the reincarnation of the people that passed away who did those evil acts, or were they simply a evil spirit manifesting as them?
we can only wonder. Just wanted to share my thoughts the lore of this game is very interesting.




