Shadow of the Colossus Story & Lore Explanation
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There is a simpler explanation that relies on how the game plays in our real world - just a theory that I think makes more sense:
You can say what you want about Dormin, but he held true to his promise and revived Mono
Mono "was sacrificed, for she had a cursed fate." But we're never told what that fate was.
i thought Wander was made into a child because it was the spells way of removing all corruption from Wander...to reduce him to the most innocent form, that of a child. However, the reason he is horned in a side effect of the possession from Dormin. At least that's what I feel.
The lesson that we can learn from wander's journey is : "never accept a vague contract"
I never felt that Wander was being manipulated in anyway. Wander never asks Dormin why he has to do what he does or why his body is changing after each colossus' fall, so Dormin never has any reason to explain his request. Wander doesn't care as long as his wish is granted. I also felt Dormin was completely fair throughout. He listens to Wander's wish, tells him what he needs him to do, warns him and in the end, revives Mono despite being dispersed.
dormin used "we" when it introduced itself and had a voice of both female and male, and once he's taken wander as a vessel the voice becomes more male we can see mono glowing, almost as if she was deity of light; perhaps the two "voices" split itself into the two characters.
I love the idea that becoming the queen in Ico was the curse Mono's death was supposed to prevent. That would fit the themes very nicely, and it's the lore equivalent of juicy gossip
I believe that the whirlwind pool didn't reverse time, but sucked all the darkness from the land. This is why Wander is now a baby (the symbol of innocents itself).
It wasn't a reversal of time that transformed Wander back into a baby. The pool that consumed Dormin was actually just consuming all the dark essence/magic in the area. Naturally, since Wander was not a being of complete darkness, some essence of him would remain. Babies can be a symbol of innocence as they have not yet had the chance to become corrupt by darkness and as such. Wander's innocence representing the light left inside of him took the form of a baby. Uncorrupted and full of potential for attonement.
My theory:
Don’t forget Dormin said he‘d only borrow Wanders body and never intended to kill him. I think it is an ancient god, not a symbol for false worship.
Considering its a prequel to ico i feel that mono was killed because she was going to be the queen in ico and they could see it coming and that is likely what they meant by cursed fate
Something interesting that I noticed is that when the shaman and his men are scaping the temple in the final sequence and the bridge starts to collapse, the blocks that hold it don't actually explode, the kind of disintegrate in light.
The fun part about this is knowing originally the tendrils were tendrils of darkness contained in light, and that Dormin's original model was semi-transparent. As though it was more a shadow than a deep darkness. It originally didn't appear as a void, but a shade, a being that straddles the line between light and dark. It's little things like that that kind of make me disappointed in the remake.
Notice how when mono wakes up she is surrounded by light but she herself is dark signifying that she is the darkness In the light and when we see wander as a baby he is surrounded by darkness but is a baby a pure manifestation of innocence and light signifying that wander is light In the darkness
Of course agro will survive...
I've always thought of the ending as a sort of "do-over". Since Wander and Dormin are one by the end of the game, I think it's fair to say that they can no longer be separated, and one can no longer overpower the other. (Like we see Wander with the blue eyes and horns, or Dormin form himself around Wander's body.) They have created a new entity that exhibits qualities of both beings. It feels like whatever spell trapped Dormin in Wander's body both was set to make them stuck together, and make them both powerless and weak. It would also be interesting to see what this baby would be like grown. Since there are two opposing forces that created the baby, would the baby then be a completely neutral force? Not good and not bad? Perhaps that was the intention of not only combining the two, but reverting them to the state of a baby. A do-over, essentially a "try-again" in hopes of having a different outcome, and possibly destroying Dormin's forces forever with this new creation.
i like to think that wander was also reborn, with the horns being a mark of dormin perhaps, doing an "evil" act and was cursed for his kin forever marked by dormin. now at the end of ico, we lose our horns, now this could be coincidence, but it's still a nice thought of synergy in the story, a man releasing Dormin, and being cursed with horns, and in ico, it's a boy doing a good act, killing the queen and destroying the castle, and his horns are lifted
Interesting point about the feminine presence counteracting Dormin's likely masculine nature.