Johnny reassures Vincenzo that all the attractions will be fixed and
everyone will come to see him perform. Not convinced, Vincenzo
leaves. In an effort to help her farther, Dawn and Didi repair the
attractions to their full glory and then travel to Vincenzo’s workshop
at the clock tower. In his workshop, Vincenzo is not pleased that
Didi was smart enough to get in. He proceeds to tell her that he
is only a performer and a performer must dedicate all of their
time to their craft. He also states that he never asked to have a
child and never wanted one. It is later known that Kat used to be
Vincenzo’s assistant during his travels to exotic destinations. Kat
became pregnant with Didi, however Vincenzo refused to assume
responsibility and Kat was forced to leave her job as his assistant.
Hurt by Vincenzo’s ruthlessness Didi begins to cry. Vincenzo, now
feeling guilty, offers her two free tickets to the show and to call her
mother for her. She sobbingly agrees.
During Vincenzo’s performance, he talks about said alternate
universes and appears to pull objects out of those unworldly
dimensions. After the show ends, Didi, Kat, Johnny, and Vincenzo
are found backstage. Although the opening night was a success,
Johnny tells them he is not a good father and asks Vincenzo to take
them with him. Johnny believes Vincenzo can give them a better
life, however Vincenzo believes Johnny is really the only person
they will ever need. Didi proceeds to tells her father about fixing all
of the broken parts at the attractions and says that she can always
help him when something goes wrong. Kat agrees to take him back
and Johnny returns to his family permanently. As Vincenzo says
goodbye to Didi, he magically phases into Dawn’s world. Didi is
flabbergasted at this ability he has shown. He no longer appears
as a shadow but as a 3D figure and specifically thanks Dawn for
looking after Didi.
Didi returns to Kat, who is now upset with her for seeing Vincenzo
and for now knowing the truth. However, knowing that Didi really
did nothing wrong she tells her that they will talk more about it after
Vincenzo’s act. As the show begins the lights on the stage break,
and both Dawn and Didi leave again to help the show run. At a
nearby lighthouse, Didi has the clever idea of using the light for the
show. However, as Dawn makes her way through the lighthouse, the
player learns the truth behind Dawn’s origins. Dawn was originally
Vincenzo’s assistant in the past however, due to a miscalculation
in their disappearing act, Dawn disappeared ‘permanently’. This
caused Vincenzo to take a hiatus on performing, but promised to
eventually return.
At this point, it is thought that Vincenzo eventually perfected this
trick. Afraid what others might do if it was revealed, he kept his ability
heavily guarded and in secret, with only he and Dawn knowing
how it worked. It is also speculated that after Didi was born, Kat
and Johnny discovered that she had this incredible ability, although
she did not fully understand how to phase shift by herself, leaving
players with only Dawn and Didi as 3D characters. Determined to
know what it was, they sought out Vincenzo to understand how she
could do it, thinking she may have inherited it from him. However,
once Vincenzo learned of Didi’s abilities, he continued to refuse
any sort of communication with Didi and her parents. Vincenzo was
still guilty of what he had refused to do and asked Dawn to watch
over her until she learns how to shift in and out of these different
dimensions by herself. Thus, this would allow him to continue on
with his career and will help provide Didi with the proper care she
would need until she could fully control her ability to shift from from
shadow and 3D.
This explains his recruiting of Kat as his next assistant. Vincenzo
told authorities that he believed Dawn had indeed disappeared, but
only to another sort of dimension. Different scientific studies explain
that there is a universe, one sparsely connected to our world, where
people have the ability to manipulate their surroundings with their
own shadows, as Dawn does within the game. Eventually the stage
is finally lit and Vincenzo can proceed with his show.
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