What are your favourite headcanons?

-Each killer has their own personal campfire, tailored to them.

-Azarov's body lays dead in one of the many cars in Autohaven.

When survivor's escape the entity's realm, very little time in the real world had passed and their memories of the trials are altered. They don't quite remember what it was like or even know if it really happened. They would wake up from nightmares in a cold sweat, wondering why the dream felt so real.

When Meg runs, she finds herself looking over her shoulder, like someone is chasing her. Dwight is on edge when he's alone but he isn't quite sure why. Whenever Claudette studies medicinal plants, she wonders why it feels so familiar. When Jake walks through the woods, he finds himself moving as quietly as he can even if there's nothing dangerous around. They would see faces and hear voices in their dreams that sound so familiar but they can't name them. They constantly feel like they're forgetting something important but can never remember what.

Survivors do therapy at the campfires

I really like a lore theory that circulated around here some time ago called "Entity touched eyes".

What this theory basically says is that the killers with glowing white eyes (more specifically the wraith, hillbilly, spirit and deathslinger) don't see the actual survivors but people they hate instead.

So deathslinger for example doesn't see Dwight, Meg, Claudette ect... But the bullies that bullied him in the past and all the executives that took advantage of him like the prison warden, Bayshore and all his assistants.

This is also hinted at the end of Caleb's lore where it is said that inside the fog he saw the bullies, executives and Bayshore and the hooks for being able to dispose them.

So following this theory Hillbilly would probably see his parents, Chief and all the police officers that caged and made fun of him instead of raising and protecting him.

Wraith would see all the soldiers willing to kill innocent people he despised so much as a kid and obviously Azarov and all his assistants that turned him into an executioner without him knowing.

Spirit would probably see the bullies that beated and insulted her at school and her father as well.

Also as some side notes I personally have regarding these killers:

I don't know why but Deathslinger always striked me by his lore as someone that wouldn't kill innocent people just for the sake of it but only people that wronged him in the past. With this I'm not saying he is a good person because he clearly isn't as he enjoys the torture of his victims but I still wouldn't see him just going out in the streets and start shooting at random people just for the fun of it.

And with the recent Hillbilly tome I have the same sensation for him too. He seems extremely angry at the police officers and his parents exclusively. In his head however, he 100% understands the meaningless carnage he was doing and was tired of it, wishing his life was completely different and wishing he received some love like all the other kids did from their parents. He also even seems to understand that killing is generally a bad thing and after his liberation from his parents and police officers he would rather continue his life without killing. e

Regarding the wraith we all know how mad he was when he realized he was killing innocent people at the scrapyard so I don't need to say more about him.

Just saying that they do what they do because they made a deal with the Entity just doesn't cut it. Sooner or later Wraith would realize that he is being used by the Entity to kill innocents like Azarov did and Hillbilly and Deathslinger would too as well realized they are being taken advantage of like they were in the past by the parents/police officers/bayshore/prison warden. And all of them would hate it and refuse to be exlopited again by someone (or something) else, making the job of convincing them more difficult for the Entity. Way more difficult than just "modify" their eyes and deceive them into thinking they're killing the people they hate the most instead. Way simpler and faster than torturing into submission as well.

So this "Entity touched eyes" theory would perfectly explain why these killers that wouldn't really hurt innocent people that have done nothing wrong to them just start killing everybody without any hesitation or regret.

This theory is 100% a headcanon I have regarding the game because it fits so perfectly.