Bill "Ink" Roberts theory (not what you think)

**Jay013** · Sep 20th, 2013, 06:51 PM

While re-listening to the entire show for the past week and a half, I realized something. Back in season one, Bill Roberts was sent to the hospital, the MENTAL hospital. He was diagnosed with severe schizophrenia. Here's where my theory kicks in.

What if none of this is real? The riot started right after "Ink" was sent to the mental hospital. We know that he's relevant to the story somehow, otherwise, he wouldn't have been mentioned in the news report. What if when "Ink" was sent to the mental hospital, he couldn't handle the event, and so his schizophrenia took over and allowed him to cope. What if the first biter, all the zombies, the big ones, TOWM, pinstripes, the numbered ones...What if they are just figures of his hallucinations? Actually, it makes even more sense. Pinstripes, TOWM, and Skittle's Coloured one all act like the main leader of the creatures. If it is Bill, he would be the one to take those roles as the fantasy revolves around him. It's his world.

Take it even further, Everyone from the Tower, the other Tower, the mallers, the Colonists, Irwin, Boulder, all the human characters have one thing in common. They all talk.

Schizophrenia causes both visual and auditory hallucinations. When we put our earphones in, we listen to the voices. If you had schizophrenia, you would hear voices in your head. We're Alive is a radio show, a very well done radio show. It easily disguises the second meaning of the story.

To sum it up, the We're Alive universe was created by Bill Roberts in a schizophrenic fit. It's in the form of a radio show so that it is as if we're "Ink" listening to the voices in his head.

Thoughts?

**thisonegirl** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:02 PM

Ok, since this is your first post, and you just apparently joined this month and year, I have to know before I post any potential spoilers for you: How caught up are you?

I like where you're going, but I won't post more 'til I know hoe caught up or how comfortable you are with spoilers.

**Jay013** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:07 PM

"re-listening to the entire show"

This would be my third time around that I'm listening to it. I've been listening since season one ended. I'm completely caught up. so yeah.

**Hanniekuma** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:25 PM

Originally Posted by thisonegirl

Ok, since this is your first post, and you just apparently joined this month and year, I have to know before I post any potential spoilers for you: How caught up are you?

I like where you're going, but I won't post more 'til I know hoe caught up or how comfortable you are with spoilers.

THIS is why I love this forum SOOO much!

**thisonegirl** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:28 PM

Ok, first, normally I'm disappointed by stories that end with "it was all a dream". It tells me that you don't think your alternate universe is quite good, and it almost feels like a disclaimer at the end of a now-cheapened story. If it's "all a dream" since the beginning then it's different. Take Sucker Punch, for instance.

Anyway, with that said, I'm not sure I'd be disappointed if WA ended up being Bill Robert's hallucination. If this was all Ink's hallucination, I might be okay with that. I like the theory, but I have a few questions, mainly how do you explain the "talking" zombie that Victor and Michael encounter?
I'll be willing to accept it might be a doctor or nurse, but I'm not entirely content with that answer.

Although schizophrenia also causes bizarre or unexplained delusions/hallucinations, and that would fit in nicely with your theory, it is also culpable for disorganized thinking and as the story progresses the story seems to be tidying up and cutting it's loose ends, so how does that fit in to the theory?

**Hanniekuma** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:30 PM

I've always loved stories that make you ask the question, " Is this real?" Movies like Identity, Momento, Inception, Dream House..and on and on and on..Awwwyeah!

again, I'm showing my age on this> the only "it really wasn't real" storyline I hated, and to this day the thought of it makes me Hulk out, is the resolution to the original Dallas tv series, " Who Shot Bobby" season. grrrrrrrr.

**thisonegirl** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by thisonegirl

Ok, since this is your first post, and you just apparently joined this month and year, I have to know before I post any potential spoilers for you: How caught up are you?

I like where you're going, but I won't post more 'til I know hoe caught up or how comfortable you are with spoilers.

Originally Posted by Hanniekuma

THIS is why I love this forum SOOO much!

It's also a slight warning to them newbies who really need that second chance to go, "Ok, yeah, I don't wanna know, yet."

**Jay013** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by thisonegirl

Ok, first, normally I'm disappointed by stories that end with "it was all a dream". It tells me that you don't think your alternate universe is quite good, and it almost feels like a disclaimer at the end of a now-cheapened story. If it's "all a dream" since the beginning then it's different. Take Sucker Punch, for instance.

Anyway, with that said, I'm not sure I'd be disappointed if WA ended up being Bill Robert's hallucination. If this was all Ink's hallucination, I might be okay with that. I like the theory, but I have a few questions, mainly how do you explain the "talking" zombie that Victor and Michael encounter?
I'll be willing to accept it might be a doctor or nurse, but I'm not entirely content with that answer.

Although schizophrenia also causes bizarre or unexplained delusions/hallucinations, and that would fit in nicely with your theory, it is also culpable for disorganized thinking and as the story progresses the story seems to be tidying up and cutting it's loose ends, so how does that fit in to the theory?

Well, with schizophrenia, you can have voices of different personalities, just like someone with multiple personality disorder. So while you can have "good" voices, you can also have "bad" voices. These are the ones that usually make people act erratically and violently. Talking creatures could be Robert's bad voices.

**thisonegirl** · Sep 20th, 2013, 07:44 PM

Originally Posted by Hanniekuma

I've always loved stories that make you ask the question, " Is this real?" Movies like Identity, Momento, Inception, Dream House..and on and on and on..Awwwyeah!

again, I'm showing my age on this> the only "it really wasn't real" storyline I hated, and to this day the thought of it makes me Hulk out, is the resolution to the original Dallas tv series, " Who Shot Bobby" season. grrrrrrrr.

Yeah, but look at the movies you put up, Memento and Inception you know from the beginning something's not entirely right. Shutter Island is a fine movie that I have to admit I love and it's because of that last scene.

Like I said I won't be totally disappointed if WA does this, because it's a very interesting twist in not just in the story itself, but in how they're telling the story or as Jay013 put it:

Originally Posted by Jay013

When we put our earphones in, we listen to the voices.