We Happy Few: What Actually Happened to Percy and the Other Children in Germany?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ค. 2023
- In this video I am looking at what would have happened to Percy and the other children after they were taken to Germany.
The coloured film clips are taken from two movies based on Lidice - Operation Daybreak (1975) and Lidice (2011).
The black and white clips are historical footage, largely sourced from the documentary 'Lebensborn - The Forgotten Victims' (2019) which I recommend if you want to know more about the Lebensborn program. - เกม
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Percy was probably sent to the "Am Spiegelgrund clinic", where they experimented on him til he passed away.
He would have missed Am Spiegelgrund by 2 years but yeah he could have ended up in a similar facility.
Probably to a facility in Germany, since the train was headed there. Would be interesting though, if he somehow escaped. Do we know anything about the outside world of We Happy Few?
Very little and if Percy did manage to escape it doesn’t seem like he’d be able to get very far on his own.
My guess is that the Germans killed him in a gas chamber due to his disabilities.
I would like a sequel to We Happy Few, where Arthur discovers what happened to Percy. I doubt we will get one due to poor sales. It’s a pity as the story and setting are compelling.
yh unfortunately the buggy game kinds ruined it for them
As hopeful as we could all be with the whole 'leaving it to the player's imagination', we can all agreee that Percy was as good as dead the moment he got on that train or whatever fate he had afterwards arriving in Germany would make u wush he was dead considering his condition (presumably autism.) It was bad enough that he was stigmatized in his own hometown but it it was still a safe haven compared to what awaited him in Nazis Germany where they didn't take kindly to the mentally challenged back one bit. Either one of his episodes of panic likely from getting abandoned by Arthur would've led to him being shot/killed by the soldiers who couldn't de bothered dealing with him like they did Margaret or worse, he was taking away to be experimented on facing inhumane experiments until he died a slow painful death.
Overall, Percy is the most tragic character in We Happy Few. He wouldn't stand a chance against an unforgivable would after his only source of protection abandoned him.
Agreed it isn't likely he survive. However, Germany may not have been under the control of the Nazis in We Happy Few's timeline. Not only is Rommel the Fuhrer but the German flag seen in game is not the Nazi flag.
@@EvenBadWolvesGaming I think the politics of Germany were intentionally not the focus of the game (to focus on the aspect of british brand of peer pressure), and the H-word leader and flag were most likely just left out for safety and marketability (I think maybe it would mean insta-ban in Australia, and possibly Germany itself, unless they got a different edition without those).
I remember a note in the game that said that the Red army had essentially extended the iron curtain to the entire continent of Europe and that the General in the game was in talks with the Red Army but they were unable to find information. To quote the letter. “It. Is impossible for hundreds of children to disappear and it is unthinkable that the Russians would use them as a bargaining chip with the Americans, even communists are parents.” Remember that this is a alternate universe so maybe after the war the United Kingdom was just a shell of its former self and we don’t know what happened to either the rest of the British Empire or the world as a whole.
Judging by the fact in the game that the Germans shot a scared little girl in the back, I’d have to say they were probably just as brutal in the game. It’s kind of more lighthearted, but it still has its dark undertones that can shock you, such as the piñata really being a rat, or the government being completely inept and willing to run everything into the ground.
If Arthur finds out what happened to Percy after the war...
Heartbroken wouldn't even begin to describe it.
I think he must know on some level that Percy wouldn’t have survived.
@@EvenBadWolvesGaming Yeah...I think so too. Best case scenario is that if Arthur finds out what happened, it gives him a sense of closure.
Sometimes, happiness ISN'T a choice. Peace, and therefore, happiness, is something earned, not found in some pill.
@@Kingcole6 Depends on one's inner strength. Some others may simply argue that "Happiness is a country with NO history"
@@TheMisterMix True...
I remember reading some of the notes and letters in town in the game saying how some people hide their children.
But what I would like to know is what happened to the children born after? In the game in one of the newspapers there is talk about a “baby riot” in where a group and women and men attack pregnant women and their new borns.
In the end of the game we see Arthur leave the island and he finds a red headed boy and general Byng talks about sending the new borns and small children over the bridge.
The implication by Byng is that the children that were born and not smuggled out were killed.
But after everyone started taking Joy, they stopped having children as it worked as a contraceptive. Sally got pregnant because she stopped taking Joy.
@@EvenBadWolvesGaming omg I completely forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me
I’m happy that you still talk about this game it’s so underrated and it has such interesting lore. Ohhh will you ever talk about Bioshock?
I love Bioshock. I’m not planning on doing any Bioshock videos at the moment but it is a franchise I would like to do something with in the future.
@@EvenBadWolvesGaming that’s alright do what you have to do. But then the times comes I’ll love to see what you make of it and explain it.
@@EvenBadWolvesGamingSo could it be implied that the General whom she was sleeping with could be the father or was there someone else?
Imagine, destroying an entire city and riling up it's population to reunite with a brother who will likely never be found. One has to wonder, was it still a good idea to leave? Looking at the events of "We All Fall Down" you would assume that yes, it was the right move....
That being said, if Arthur takes his joy at the opening of the game:
He never tries to escape, leaving the Parade district plague free and well enough in tact
He never gets recruited by Ollie to go fall through a paper tank
Ollie then therefore never forces Victoria Byng off her Joy
Victoria Byng never destroys the Joy pill distributor or water treatment plant
Anton Verloc successfully lobotomizes the entire city???
At the very least Arthur insured that Wellington Wells would go out with a bang rather than a whimper
Both the pill supply and the food supply would soon run dry, and the mines could collapse sooner or later without his intervention. The city had its own share of freewheeling madmen.
Wellington Wells was doomed to die sooner or later, its like the hallucination of Victoria's mother said to her:" Would you rather murder half the town or let all of them starve to death? Because those are your choices."
Love seeing content about we happy few, i still replay the game to this day
The fact that Germany has a different leader, they were using different tactics, and were surviving the war longer and doing better means a lot. The friction between Hitler and his general staff is what ended up causing a lot of problems for Germany towards the end of the war.
My great grandmother escaped from German occupied Poland during the Soviet invasion on a German ship. Apparently the German commander decided to drop off as many women and children as they could in the Netherlands where they would be safe, before going to their final battle. My great grandmother later immigrated to the United States after being taken to Ellis island. In Poland she was an orphan so she had nothing to go back to.
All your we happy few videos, definitely earned a subscription
I wish Percy was still alive. He will be 31 years old.
I love we happy few finished my first playthrough this week, certainly not a perfect game but the story is amazing this game has made me laugh and cry
Even though we see no nazi stuff in game and the furher is Rommel, I find it hard to believe it wasn’t for any other purpose than to make the game available in all countries, like Germany. Rommel was a competent general, and a humane one at that, and it’s hard to believe he would have done anything like taking children away.
Been waiting for this video. Was good one. And now knowing the context of what happened in real life, makes the game a lot darker. Though I don't know if We Happy Few is better more depraved or more wacky. Also what do you think of Compulsion Game's new game?
It looks really good. I think it will be a while until it comes out though and I hope it isn’t as buggy as WHF was on release.
Man, I don’t know how people hate on this game, it’s possibly in my top 3 games and I’ve replayed it so many times. Such an interesting storyline and DLCs. Would love to see a second part of this 😢
*I’ve been able to grasp and understand the story of this game but I’m almost more curious as to the world building outside of where these games take place*
As of today I have been looking into the story of this game and have been finding it really cool.
Due to my lack of knowledge on the game and where to find reliable information on it, I thought I would ask a question here.
Is there any information on what the outside world is like or how the outside world views the locations this game takes place at?
No not really, no info about whats going on outside of wellington wells is never stated
Another thing to add is that in the garden district location (where all the downers go) some of them will occasionally comment "where are the Americans? Where are the Russians?"
I am from czech republic And i Once was at the place where lidice were and the atmosphere there is dim
Im so sorry, this world doesnt deserve children
Is there a specific name for abducting chidren and using them for population increase? is that just considered child trafficking? this was horrifying, thanks for the insight
Percy was mentally challenged though we're not sure what his condition was. So how did the Nazis treat their own mentally challenged people? It wasn't good.
I always thought that the children would have been used as soldiers against the soviets. and the reason they took the children was so they could be moulded and corrupted into un feeling killing machines.
I actually had to cut a part of the video that talked about this (TH-cam doesn’t like child soldiers). It would be very unlikely that the children were used as soldiers.
There were young children used as soldiers but these were members of the Hitler Youth who were highly indoctrinated. Most of these were teenagers but there was a couple 12 year olds we know of who received military honours.
The soldiers were meant to represent the ideal German which is why so much effort was put into their appearance down to tailoring uniforms for each individual member of the SS.
English children wouldn’t fit this ideal and are highly unlikely to be trusted to fight alongside ‘proper German’ children. Even if they were it would only have been the boys and only the oldest of the taken children.
Even if it was planned (which irl didn’t happen with the other children that were taken) a year wouldn’t have been long enough to Germanise them, train them and deploy them.
Neat.
I read on the Fandom page (I think) that the children's train got blown up just after it left Wellington Wells.
Well all gotta admit, the next We Happy Few game ain't gonna happen since that crapped on it so much, BUT They can make an amazing movie, since they did make a badass story to replace the horrid game.
At first i heavily disliked this game bt i gave it a chance then finished all of the main story. Now im gonna get the dlc 😂
Never realized how much Percy looked like Prince Charles
Who knows we may see in the sequel
I just assumed that they were put to work and gased once they were deemed "useless" like they did to Jewish people.
Parcy most definitely met a horrible nightmare of fate.
Ok i thought this was based on lore in game and we found out what happened, instead its guessing what happend
I think they maybe still alive, but not in Germany. One thing you forgot to add was the Soviet Union took over Germany and they proved difficult getting people back.
And considering their history, the children may still be alive but think they are Russian as they were brainwashed by the party, or sent to Gulags to work for the Soviets to death. Depends
So what Russians are doing to Ukrainians.
good job bringing this game.
anyone cares about this game anymore / brings content.