One headcanon about the lore you would ignore any real lore for!

Here's another one: survivors occassionally steal furniture from trials usually small things but occassionally they cordinate to obtain bigger stuff. Which means occassionally killers are left to stare bemusedly as they are distracted so a survivor can hustle a lawn chair or something through the exit gates.

Yui still owns her motorcycle but it's engine has become a tangled Eldritch thing that she can't get to work. She believes if she can fix it she can ride outta here.

Yeah the archives suck. I really wish the devs would take the attachment people had to the initial premise more seriously.

They should hire the storyteller who wrote Oddfellows I liked that authors interpretation of things. Well except for their take on survivors I prefer the idea the survivors get along. But their ideas for the Entity being kinda bad at understanding how to house and care for people and the way they portrayed scavenging? That was great. As were their versions of Evan, Philip, Max and Sally. I also think they should hire the author who made First One, Last One sure it's a survivor/killer shipping fic which obviously is not canon, but the implication that hope is what keeps not only survivors but killers trapped? Genius! Much more interesting and poignant than the idea that there is literally no escape. The portrayal of the Entity as something that makes a lot of promises but does not actually keep any of them just feeding off your own desperation for what it tells you to be true was also really clever. I also liked Dwight in that fic he came off as someone who manipulated people but in a way that brought out the best in them. Which is perhaps a better interpretation of him than the fandom usually gives him. As a Haibane Renmei fan I also liked the pillars of light that signified survivors and killers disappearing from the Entities realm. Made it feel like the Entities Realm literally was a form of hell or purgatory. Kinda annoyed they just go back to the real world in at the end of that fic because of that association but you know it's a shipping fic so I guess the romance comes before the theological implications sadly. But I digress, basically I'm saying there's a lot of fanfiction out there with better interpretations of DBD lore than actual DBD lore. I hate the SCP foundation levels of convoluted they've gone with espeacially when the simplicity of the original concept was what appealed to me.

Losing memories when escaping makes less sense to me espeacially when the original lore before the archives seemed to imply survivors don't remember what the Entity does to them when it drags them up into itself. Losing memories when dying could just be an extension of that disassociation. Losing memories when escaping makes zero sense. But from both a horror perspective and a character perspective keeping the memories in both cases is the superior option.

Personally I prefer the idea that the Fog is limited in who it can actually get it's hands on. Because if the Entity could just grab anyone it kinda defeats the purpose of the parallels between a lot of the killers and survivors. I like to think the Entity is a conceptual creature and it has to work backwards from it's base concepts in order to interfere with reality. Which is why it's so based in spooky horror symbolism. It understands survival and shedding blood and tragedy and death, hunter and hunted, predator and prey,the dichotomy of the woods and the campfire...When it comes to Death and Taxes it's got a better handle on the former than the latter. There's a tendency in horror to just make the monster stupidly all powerful as the sequels role in and I fear DBD is kinda falling to that temptation.