Skull & Candy Lore Pages

The Skull & Candy Lore Pages are a collection of diary and journal entries, letters, and various belongings that owned by the characters in Skull & Candy. They contain information and hints about the story, and sometimes secrets.

The rules for referencing the Lore Pages can be found on the Guidelines page.

There is a set standard for types of lore. The two 'new' types of lore are just confirmation for how the Skull & Candy universe works and when certain events take place. Note: This may get updated in the future upon new changes/additions/removals to how the lore works.


 * 1) Any comic unless stated otherwise in the comic, in the description, end page or by Psycho/Totless respectively, is considered as "Slice of Life Lore", meaning it has no set date or time for when the event occurs. This is not a set standard for every comic, only as the base for when its otherwise not stated. A good comparison is how most Simpsons/Family Guy episodes doesn't have a chronological order.
 * 2) The second type of lore is "Dated lore". It's lore that has a defined time for when said event occurs. Dated lore does not necessarily mean the date the lore was posted, but also that dated lore follows a chronological order. The time may not be publicly available information, it can be information that is acquired by lining up events and thus defines the timestamp for it. Most non-comic events such as Lore Pages, letters, documents and pictures posted in places such as the "Lore Updates" channel in the Totless Discord are considered "Dated Lore".

Tsuki's Diary
Tsuki Kimura's Diary which Tsuki Kimura uses to record important events, places, people, and details of her life. Common re-occurring images in these pages include Rabbit Holes, Eye of Providence, hidden text on pages, and more. Most information regarding the world of Skull and Candy can be found here, and it is recommended to know these pages well to understand the Skull and Candy world more closely. Often, secrets can be found by looking at the pages through image editing software such as photoshop or gimp.

Letters
Letters between Tsuki Kimura and other characters, like her parents and Alexa. Some of these are apart of other pages, such as the collection of trash on page 6.5. These do not include pages involved in the wedding, as the wedding is a separate plot point.

Midori's Journal
A journal that Midori Satou uses to sketch and write down observations. This is the main source of information regarding Midori Satou/Sato, so it is recommended to read and understand these pages well in order to learn about the Skull and Candy world as a whole.

Miscellaneous
Various items connected with Tsuki and the other characters not mentioned above including but not limited to; pictures on Tsuki's bedroom floor, items on Midori's desk, etc.

Lore Page Release Dates
There was an old '#lore-pages' channel in the discord made on April 28, 2020, in which many of the file names were different and some were later updated. This list shows the release order in the newer '#lore-pages' channel made on June 5, 2020; some of the files are in a different order than in the original channel. Non-lore page file in that channel like concept art have been excluded from this list. The 'Midori Diary' files are named differently in that channel than on this wiki; the wiki filenames will be used here.

Update 09/26/2021: Discord reworked. #lore-pages renamed to #radio-tokioh-live. #lore-discussions merged into #chats-n-discussions. #detectives-office merged into #chats-n-discussions. #wiki-edits renamed to #wiki-broadcasting-services. #comic-updates (?) renamed to #comics-collections. #resources archived. #info archived. #ephone-gallery added.

June 5, 2020 Diary7_5.png Mystery_Letter.png

June 6, 2020 Diary6_5.png Diary1.png Diary2.png Diary3.png Diary4.png Diary5.png Diary6.png Diary7.png Midori_Diary_1.png Wedding_Invitation.png

June 7, 2020 Diary8.png AlexaLetter1.png

June 9, 2020 MobileMessages1.png

June 14, 2020 Diary9.png

June 26, 2020 Midori_Diary_2.png

June 27, 2020 Midori_Diary_3.png

July 13, 2020 Diary10.png Diary11.png

August 7, 2020 Diary12.png

August 27, 2021

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March 5, 2021

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The matching file for Midori_Diary_1.png was posted in the original '#lore-pages' channel, but never re-posted in the updated channel.

Page Explanations (INCOMPLETE)
In order of appearance,

Diary 7.5
Diary 7.5 consists of tsuki talking about the favors she performed for other classmates in high school. Her ID card and a can of redcow can be seen within the image. While most of the page contains information already known or elaborates on details already assumed to be true, the final snippit mentions that kim is something. The redcow can blocks off the important information, although it has been deduced that it begins with SK, although it's unknown if there are more words that cannot be seen.

Mystery letter
This is the first refrence to the wedding event. The letter is from Alexa Hale, although the last name was blurred out due to rain damage. It mentions that Alexa hadn't heard from Tsuki for a while, but that she had good news that her and Akira were getting married. Alexa requested Tsuki to be her bridesmaid, even though she doesn't prefer dressing up "girly". At the very end of her letter, she mentions that she still has dirt on Tsuki, with her final remarks being "mwahahahahaha!... Just kidding"

Diary 6.5
This image consists of a few pictures, a hidden Day of the Dead card from the 2020 special totless did on her twitch, Tsuki's ID, and two letters. The first letter is adressed to Tsuki's mom, Ameilia Kimura. The letter mentions that, while it's nice having her own apartment, Tsuki says it was "nice having the maids around" and "having someone around the estate was better than no one at all". The second letter was also written in Tsuki's handwriting, although this might just be a matter of saving resources. The letter has a message to her father, but it was crossed out and replaced with "ok" in large lettering underneath. The letter was signed by "-A" as opposed to the normal signature tsuki gives.

Diary 1

Diary 2

Diary 3

Diary 4

Diary 5

Diary 7

Midori's Diary 1

Wedding Invitation
A invitation card to attend the wedding. The handwriting that isnt "printed" looks to be done by Akira, as opposed to Alexas' and Tsukis'. It says that Tsuki is invited to the wedding on July 16, 2019, and is allowed to invite one guest of her chosing. More details were on the back, and the dress code was "business casual".

Diary 8

Alexa Letter
A letter from Tsuki to Alexa, an RSVP to the wedding invitation they sent out. Tsuki mentions at the beginning that she had been on a roadtrip, assumably to her grandma during a rainy day. After accepting the invitation, she goes on to say that she will be coming in her own style, not in the "crappy style Akira likely wrote". Tsuki finishes off the letter with her calling Alexa when she gets done talking with dad, as well as her usual signature.

Messages
This picture looks to be a screenshot of text messages sent between Alexa and Tsuki. After messaging Alexa wanting to talk, they both do not text each other for roughly 20 minutes, assumably on call with one another. Tsuki then sends another text, saying that she appreciated the call and will be arriving around noon for the wedding, assuming Andrew allows her to "use bike". She also says she plans on stopping by the bar, so Akira shouldn't be suprised if Tsuki brings someone along with her after all. It's still unclear who exactly she brings with her, but it's confirmed not midori. After 8 minutes, Alexa responds, saying Tsuki "hasn't changed at all" and that she's happy to meet her come sunday. These texts were the monday before, on the 10th of July.

Diary 9

Midori's Diary 2

Midoris's Diary 3

Diary 10

Diary 11

Diary 12

Oompa Loompa
Oompa Loompa is a small page created and posted after the discord gained a large following, so as to get people excited about the lore. While it doesn't supply much in terms of surface level information, just a letter from Tsuki to assumably Alexa saying that she heard Alexa was in town and wanted to talk again, the codes and puzzles underneath are still troubling the players. It's highly recommended to understand what has been done prior by checking the discord, so as to prevent "new discoveries" on already known information from months or possibly a year prior.

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Secrets
The discovery of secrets can be followed in the '#lore-discussions' or '#armchair-detectives' channel of the Totless Discord.

Update 09/26/2021: Discord changed. #lore-discussions and #armchair-detectives were merged into #chats-n-discussions.

The 'Rabbit Hole'

The Rabbit Holes hinted at by Totless several times on Twitter, Twitch, and Discord were discovered on June 7th, 2020 as a faint watermarks on page 16 of Tsuki's Diary, and on Tsuki's letter to Alexa about the wedding (First discovered by A̴̤̕j̶̀̈́a̴͐͋c̴̀͠k̴̋͑#8128). On July 2, 2020, it was discovered that the presence of a 'Rabbit Hole' on a lore page signifies that there is a hint hidden in the image data of the file (First discovered by Ash#3557). Later on, Hidden text was found in the string data of 'Andrew Portrait 1' on June 29, 2020. Performing Base64 decoding on the major portion of the text reveals the phrase "Kim? What about her?" (First discovered by Ash#3557). On August 8, 2020 it was discovered that Diary12.png had a Rabbit Hole. The information in the file resembled a modified version of the Diary10.png and Diary11.png Rabbit Holes (First discovered by A̴̤̕j̶̀̈́a̴͐͋c̴̀͠k̴̋͑#8128).

Hidden QR Codes

A hidden QR code was found in the text data of of the files Diary8.png, Diary9.png, and AlexaLetter1.png on June 15th, 2020. Scanning the QR code brings up the text '/wiki/Tsuki_Kimura' (First discovered by A̴̤̕j̶̀̈́a̴͐͋c̴̀͠k̴̋͑#8128). The OompaLoompa File contained a QR code within it's data, originally in base64. It's still broken as of October 22, 2021 (First discovered by a lot of people).

The Original R4bb1t h0l3

Hidden text was found in the string data of 'Andrew Portrait 1' on June 29, 2020. Performing Base64 decoding on the major portion of the text reveals the phrase "Kim? What about her?" (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Ameilia's Suit

A hidden symbol was discovered on Ameilia's suit in the Ameilia Kimura photo on July 1, 2020 (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Eye of Providence meaning and Links

Hidden information was found on pages 15-16 of Tsuki's Diary on July 1, 2020. A Base64 string that decodes to a set of numbers, a URL leading to the 'Barely Sociable' YouTube page, and a binary string (First discovered by Ash#3557). The string '-sOadAaGiq4' was found on Diary11.png on July 13, 2020. If used to make a YouTube link it pulls up this page of the Lavender Town music from Pokémon Red and Green (First discovered by Ash#3557, contribution by C1Co69#7307). It was discovered on July 14, 2020 that the mysterious encircled triangle symbol points to a link being hidden on the page (in this case '-sOadAaGiq4', the Lavender Town Music) (First discovered by C1Co69#7307).

m_satou97 Instagram

Midori's Instagram was discovered on July 2, 2020. It hosts a series of images of sweet food. Upon finding it, Totless changed her profile picture in discord to a rabbit hole (First discovered by c00l_knxt#5799, additional information by Mr_Piano_man#7695).

Morse Code on stream

Morse code revealed by Totless on her streams: July 2, 2020: '- - -. . . - - -' translates to 'TTTEEETTT'. July 3, 2020: '--. --- -... .- -.-. -.-' translates to 'GOBACK'. Using 'ALEXAHALE' as key for a Vigenère cipher on 'TTTEEETTT' was discovered to result in the line 'TIPHEXTIP' on July 6, 2020 (First discovered by Ash#3557).

12:26

The name 'ALEXA HALE' and '12:26' were discovered on pages 15-16 of Tsuki's Diary on July 2, 2020 (First discovered by Ash#3557). The '12:26' found earlier was used on July 3, 2020 as a timestamp on the most recent 'Barely Sociable' YouTube video as of that date: 'Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto'. At around that time in the video, mention is made of a pastebin file (First discovered by Ash#3557). On the tape on the page can be found the clues: '12:26' and 'HINT', and an upside-down '12:26' (First discovered by C1Co69#7307, contributions by Ash#3557). On July 14, 2020, '12:26' and an upside-down '12:26' were discovered on Diary11.png. Going backwards in the 'Bitcoin - Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto' video from the end, which was interpreted to be the meaning of the upside-down '12:26', reveals mention of a person named 'Adam Back' at around that time in the video, and his website hashcash.org. The name 'Adam Back' may be what the hint 'GO BACK' points to. The creation date of Hashcash, 1997, has potential connections to Midori, evident through his Instagram tag 'm_satou97' (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Diary 10 underlines, Kim, Pokedex Cipher,

On July 13, 2020, various secrets were found on the newly released Diary10.png. The letters 'EROEPXMNSAN OBLTEBHAIR' were found underlined in red and blue letters, respectively. On July 18, 2020, the second word of 'EROEPXMNSAN OBLTEBHAIR' was unscrambled as an anagram to the word 'RABBITHOLE' (First discovered by Ash#3557). On August 18, 2020 it was discovered that that the 'EROEPXMNSAN' of the anagram 'EROEPXMNSAN RABBITHOLE' could be solved to 'NAMEPERSONX' or 'Name Person X'. The full solved anagram 'Name Person X, Rabbit Hole' suggests that someone's name can either be found in or used to solve the Rabbit Hole of that lore page (First discovered by Ash#3557).

The paperclipped page was found with the phrase 'KIM LIED' hidden and repeated across it. The words 'Kim' and 'why?' and a bunch of symbols, number, and letters can be found at the bottom of the file data. 'Kim' appears under what appears to be a 'TITAN' logo card or something on the left of the lore page. (First discovered by C1Co69#7307, contributions by Ash#3557).

A hidden string of numbers: '491 002 136 330 133 384 196 031 175. 182 197 072 373 065 082 295', is at the bottom of the page. On July 15, 2020, it was discovered that two earlier found strings, '491 002 136 330 133 384 196 031 175. 182 197 072 373 065 082 295' and '243 144 257 153 002 248 ... 250 138 249 196', were both lists of National Pokédex numbers, and could be solved by getting the first letter of the Pokémon at each number. They solved to 'DIFFERENT. BUTSAME' and 'RABBIT HOLE', respectively (First discovered by Ash#3557).

At the top of the blue and pink Day of the Dead design cards (the cards hidden behind the diary, near the top. The full designs can be found here) can be found Morse: '-.- .. -- .. ... -.. . .- -..' translates to 'KIMISDEAD' (blue card), and '--. --- / -... .- -.-. -.-' translates to 'GO BACK' (pink card) (First discovered by C1Co69#7307, contributions by Ash#3557).

Another Rabbit Hole is hidden on page 20, and what appeared to be the number '29' next to a symbol is hidden on page 19. On August 15, 2020 it was discovered that what was originally considered to be a '29' and symbol on page 19 of Tsuki's Diary was actually a '29/7' referring to the date July 29 when the discord nicknames in the server would be changed to Korean. The subject of that diary page is ironically, and perhaps intentionally, translations (First discovered by Ash#3557). On July 29, 2020 the discord nicknames of Totless, PsychoSkull, several moderators, and the Wiki Editor were changed to Korean text by Totless: 미도리 사뚜우 and 수끼 기무라 for Psychoskull and Totless respectively. Psychoskull's status was also in Korean: 노인공격. A Google translation of this text at the time gave these results: 미도리 사뚜우 translated to 'Midori Satow', '수끼 기무라' translated to 'Kimura Kim' (the displayed pronunciation showed 'sukki gimula', however, which suggests 'Tsuki Kimura'), and 노인공격 translated to 'Attack on the elderly' (First discovered by Ash#3557, contribution by turkeyman1123#9205).

Tsuki's Diary 11 Secrets

Diary11.png was released on the same day as Diary10.png, July 13, 2020. A strange symbol of an encircled triangle is hidden on the page. It matches the symbol found paperclipped on page 16 of Tsuki's Diary. The data in the image file matches that found in Diary10.png. Another Rabbit Hole is found hidden on this page. Midori's photo on the page is covered with the hidden phrase 'TSUKI LIED' (First discovered by C1Co69#7307).

Pokémon 890 (Eternatus)

On July 16, 2020, it was considered that the '890' found earlier may refer to Pokémon 890 in the National Pokédex: Eternatus. If so, this may also imply the Darkest Day event is relevant (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Fandom of Pretty Cure

On July 20, 2020, it was discovered that the '/wiki/Tsuki_Kimura' only points to the 'Fandom of Pretty Cure' Tsuki Kimura page as an easter egg, and nowhere else. This page was discovered earlier on July 2, 2020 by Raimeilia#0001 (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Diary 12 Secrets

On August 10, 2020 Morse code on the Diary12.png lore page was decrypted:

'LSL SS LL P SS SSS P LSS S SL LSS' translates to '-.- .. -- / .. ... / -.. . .- -..' which translates to 'KIM IS DEAD'. On August 15, 2020 the same Morse as was found on the Diary12.png lore page, 'LSL SS LL P SS SSS P LSS S SL LSS', was found (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Also, another '12:26' was also on the lore page (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Suki Kimura Translation

On August 17, 2020 it was discovered that the Google Translate result for '수끼 기무라' no longer gave 'Kimura Kim', but 'Suki Kimura'. It was suspected that the original results of the Google translation had been influenced (First discovered by Ash#3557).

Reversed Anarchy Symbols

On October 18, 2020 it was discovered that some of the Anarchy symbols on the lore pages were reversed from normal. These are reverse also differ from the regular letter 'A's used in lore pages text. One of the Anarchy symbols is missing a horizontal bar that appears on the rest of them, though this is possibly a mistake (First discovered by Ash#3557).

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