Story Overview: What Can Be Concluded

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This page is meant to give a summary of what has happened in the tapes and of the entire Harmony & Horror story.

Victims/Deaths
So far, there have been a total of 9 deaths (7 victims) in the story. The seven victims of Martin Greywhinder include Banzo, Gloria Greywhinder, Arthur Greywhinder, Thomas Greywhinder, Macy Greywhinder, Ava Greywhinder, and Amy Willson. The other two deaths or "casualties" are Nathan Barnes and Richard Smith. The order of deaths is not fully clear, but a rough timeline based upon the evidence and small hints given to us can be made. The order is as follows: Banzo, Richard Smith and Nathan Barnes, Amy Willson, and finally Ava. (At this time the order of deaths for Gloria, Thomas, Macy, and Arthur are unclear. The only determined facts are that Arthur died after Gloria and that Ava was the last to be killed. It is also uncertain if these are all of the people that have died since the Battington Tapes Season Two have not been released yet, but these are all the people that can be counted for now.)

Hidden Messages
My Two Front Teeth - [Harmony & Horror Christmas Special] - Once Sophia is cut off from finishing her song "All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth", a goat head starts violently shaking in the background with a group of letters in red text clumped together an a paragraph. A cypher can be used to solve this code, in which every letter in the alphabet that is written down will mean the opposite. For example, the letter Z would become the letter A, and vise-versa. When translated, the message reads "Wear his skin, burn her, take his eyes, rip his arms, take her jaw, eat eat eat". These all refer to each way that the members of the family in the video are killed. Th4t's_All_f0lk5 - In the description of the video, there is a message written in Morse Code. (- .... . / ... .... --- .-- / -- ..- ... - / --. --- / --- -. -.-.-- .-.-.- .-.-.- .-.-.- .. ... -. .. - / - .... .- - / .-. .. --. .... - / --. .- -. --. ..--..) Using a translator, the message reads "THE SHOW MUST GO ON!...ISN'T THAT RIGHT GANG?"

The Whole Story
Two brothers, Martin and Arthur Greywhinder, agree to start a toy company and they name it M&A Harmony Toys after each other's first names. Arthur was the owner and Martin was the Co-Founder and designer of the toys for the company. Sometime before or after doing so (it is unclear), Martin meets/had met Gloria Greywhinder, gets/got married, and has/had three children. The eldest were Thomas and Macy Greywhinder. The youngest, still practically an infant, was Ava Greywhinder. Martin and Arthur worked great together and lived perfectly normal lives, but their business never seemed to get too much traction. They decided to multitask and started a Television Broadcast under the title M&A HarmonyPlay Productions. It was good enough to keep them afloat, but it caused quite a lot of stress for Arthur and Martin to manage all of this at once. As a result, they hire a 21 year old woman named Amy Willson as an intern to help Martin manage the Broadcast.

With the TV show on air, Arthur decided to rest easy, however his brother Martin felt the opposite. Martin viewed the TV show as an add-on to help them keep going because his designs and toy ideas were not good enough for the public. It made him feel like it was his fault for the companies' success being so low. This enraged Martin so much that it put him into a state of denial as he began to create and make any ideas that came to mind, trying to "perfect the process".

This was extremely unhealthy for his psyche as he was met with failure after failure until he couldn't take it anymore. After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result, but always ending up with the same exact one as before. The stress that he was making for himself caused him to become violent and have random outbursts of rage over little things. He even started to abuse and threaten his kids.

It eventually led to the point that he ended up hitting the family dog, Banzo, on purpose with his car in order to transform him into a more obedient monstrosity. Arthur found about about this and knew about the horrific creations that his brother had been making, so he warned Martin to not do anything drastic like turn the poor dog into one of them. Arthur says in Goodbye Arthur, "You think that killing it and turning it into one of those monstrosities that I told you would be a bad idea is the way to fix it?" This would seem to imply that this may not be the first time that he has done something like this. Martin, of course, disregards his brother's warning and does so anyway.

After this event, Martin is either so pleased with himself that he decides to have a bit of fun with what he had done, or Amy, his intern, found out about what he had done and decided to secretly make an episode for the show based upon the recent happenings with the companies' owners to bring awareness to this awful event. It is more likely that Martin made the episode because:


 * 1) He is now insane.
 * 2) The broadcast ends up killing two young kids from watching it and obviously the intern would not want that.
 * 3) Amy would not have been able to describe the events in such cryptic detail because she only heard the gist of it. Plus, she would not have put any gore into the episode if she was using it to warn people and kids.

The broadcast sent out was titled "Making a Toy" or "Ar3_Y0u_HappY? | Lost VHS Tape". Two kids, Richard Smith (8) and Nathan Barnes (6), die from watching the episode (Richard dies from a seizure, Nathan dies from turning his head 180 degrees/snapping his neck as the episode had recommended). Amy, now knowing the extent of his insanity, attempts to call for help or contact the authorities, however Martin found out about this very quickly and kills her to keep her mouth shut. In the tapes "Ar3_Y0u_HappY?" and "_Rebirth_", it is told how she died and an interview with "Mr. Greywhinder" aka Martin was done by a man named Mr. Stewart on the whereabouts of Amy. She died from Martin painfully ripping out her spine from her living body.

While all of this had gone down, Arthur went to Gloria Greywhinder - Martin's wife - to talk about the terrible things that Martin had been doing and his suspicions with Martin's recent behavior. They created a plan to take the kids away from Martin until he became stable enough to look after them again.