Holiday Havoc

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Vince's glitching shows a few references to Friday Night Funkin' Corruption (and FNF overall), OMORI, FNAF, and Pibby. All of which belong to the original owners.

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### Reason

An unintentional dirty joke is seen in the special and described in the trivia.

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### Reason

Holiday Havoc, much like other specials, takes place in an alternate universe.

## Holiday Havoc

### Air date

* December 25, 2022 (Act 1)
* February 25, 2023 (Act 2)

## Information

Holiday Havoc is an interactive Christmas special where the viewer decides how the story goes. There are 2 acts of the story.

## Story/Routes

### Act 1

#### Intro

The special begins with the viewer being introduced to Mason Harper. He receives presents from his family and thinks of something else to do. The viewer is then given a choice as to where Mason should go. (The Park or the City Square.)

##### Melissa

Mason goes to the park and suddenly gets tackled by Melissa. After Mason recovers from that, Patrick asks him and Melissa if they want to have a snowball fight, to which Melissa responds yes and brings Mason along, yet he doesn't want to participate. Mason gets knocked out by a snowball to the face as he feared and later wakes up in his own apartment with Melissa in the same room as him. After Mason kindly asks Melissa to leave, she refuses and suddenly goes insane with a lust for love. Melissa then holds Mason in his apartment against his own will with the intent to "take good care of him". The ending dialogue says the following:

> And taken care of, you were. Even though you were now stuck with Melissa, at least it’s better than possibly dying to a blizzard. Even though you "had fun" with Melissa for the rest of Christmas, you knew that you had to find a way to escape her clutches immediately and head back to the airport. But today is not a good time, though.
>
> Narrator, Holiday Havoc

This ending is known as the Yandere Ending.

##### Vince

Mason goes to the city square and arrives a store for an unknown reason. He encounters Vince who is looking for a present for Victoria. After Mason offers to help Vince, -to which Vince accepts- Vince explains to Mason that he forgot to get a present for Victoria, which is why he's here. Vince suddenly gets a phone call from Victoria followed by her arrival in the same store as him. Victoria tells Vince that she made the same mistake as him. Mason is invited to the Christmas festival, which he accepts.

After meeting up with Vince and Victoria in the park, the three arrive at the festival. Mason is then told by Patrick that he and several other people are planning to pull a prank on Vince in the form of a snowball ambush, to which Mason joins in. After the prank was pulled, Vince becomes a much more powerful but unstable version of his elemental form. As he attempts to kill off Mason and the others with a giant lightning ball, the video suddenly "crashes" due to a system overload. This is the canonical ending of Act 1 as the route ends with a loading bar that shows the recovery percentage at 0%.

This ending is known as the Overload Ending.

### Act 2

#### Intro

The file is fully recovered with one main flaw stated by the terminal: **Mason's mind was not wiped**. USER proceeds to load up the now-recovered file anyway, sending the viewer to the usual warning and extra info screens. The special starts as normal with the exception of the intro theme skipping after cutting to static. After Mason opened his presents, he is greeted by a voice in his head, telling him to either go to the main city or the park.

##### Jake, Claire, and Dallas

Mason heads to the park and comes across Jake and Claire waiting for Dallas to arrive. Dallas introduces Mason to the duo before inviting him to go skiing with them. Mason accepts Dallas' invitation and the four of them head to the ski resort. During their skiing, the loudspeaker informs them that an avalanche is inbound and that they have to find a nearby lodge or attempt to evacuate the ski resort.

###### Evacuate

Mason says that he doubts heading to the ski lodge would work, but then gets cut off by the avalanche presumably killing off him, Jake, Claire, and Dallas.

The fail dialogue says the following:

*"Wow..."*

*"...you and the other just technically cryogenically froze themselves back there."*

*"Honestly, I was expecting a cinematic escape sequence, but that avalanche was quicker than I thought."*

*"All dark humor and criticism aside, you know why you're here."*

***"You unfortunately made the wrong choice."***

*"On some occasions, **Mason's fate depends on your choice.**"*

*"If Mason is in a life-threatening situation, **think carefully before making your next choice.**"*

*"Also, not to break the fourth wall, but skiing when an avalanche is inbound is just flat-out stupid to do."*

*"Consider this as a PSA to all the skiers out there."*

###### Lodge

Mason and co. head to the nearest ski lodge to stay until the avalanche passes. The route ends with Mason taking a nap by a lit fireplace.

This ending is known as the Catastro-ski Ending.

##### Crystal

Mason heads to the city square and comes across Vince, looking for a last-minute present to give to Victoria. When Mason leaves Vince to it, he gets tackled by Crystal. The two then hug it out until Crystal asks Mason what he is doing here alone on Christmas. She then offers Mason to go on a walk with her.

###### Yes

If Mason says yes, the two go on a walk together while Crystal tells Mason about the festival and invites Mason, to which he accepts. The two later go to the festival and encounter Melody and Lily, who teleports Mason on stage at the start of her show. She gets interrupted by a sudden jumpscare in the form of several files being corrupted.

Mason somehow survives and is sent to the Void, where he meets The Entity. He, along with his puppets, attack and almost corrupt Mason until he "retries", and his wounds somehow heal themselves thanks to a yellow glow. Mason, the Entity, and his puppets then get into a singing battle, ending in a victory for Mason as the Void collapses around The Entity.

Mason wakes up in a hospital to see Crystal standing by him. She explains everything that happened while Mason was out cold, but then confesses her love to him. Mason wordlessly accepts Crystal's confession in the form of a hug as the route ends with Mason flying back home.

This ending is known as the Departure Ending.

###### No

If Mason denies Crystal's offer to go on a walk, she will leave. Mason then regrets his decision.

The fail dialogue says the following:

*"..."*

*"What?"*

*"Are you expecting me to say something?"*

*"Alright then. You know why you're here."*

***"You made the wrong choice."***

*"There. I said what I had to say."*

*"..."*

*"Why are you still here?"*

*"Are you only here because you are getting all fails on purpose?"*

*"If so, then you are just wasting my time."*

*"CREATOR, JUST PULL UP THE RETRY SCREEN!"*

*"Oh, who am I kidding? I'M THE ONE WHO TYPED THIS!"*

*"J-just leave."*

##### Vince (Corrupted)

Mason heads to the city square and comes across Vince, looking for a last-minute present to give to Victoria. Mason offers to help Vince, to which he accepts. Vince explains to Mason that he forgot to get a present for Victoria, which is why he's here. Vince suddenly gets a phone call from Victoria followed by her arrival in the same store as him. Victoria tells Vince that she made the same mistake as him. But then Vince and Victoria get corrupted after noticing something off about them.

After the two reach 100% corruption, V1nc3 deletes Mason, resulting in a fail.

The fail dialogue says the following:

"Hello."

"Must've been quite a predicament back there, huh?"

"You know why you're here."

**"You unfortunately made the wrong choice."**

"Next time, don't help anyone that Mason finds familiar."

"The consquences will be unpleasant like what happened back there."

**"However, not all people Mason finds familiar will lead to bad outcomes."**

##### Melissa (Corrupted)

Mason heads to the park and comes across Jake and Claire waiting for Dallas to arrive. Mason suddenly gets tackled by Melissa out of nowhere. After Mason recovers from that, he notices Melissa starting to get corrupted, but **she** doesn't notice. Patrick asks Mason and Melissa if they want to have a snowball fight. Melissa brings Mason along without saying anything, yet he doesn't want to participate. Melissa's file gets 100% corrupted and a fail occurs after M3ll1$$4 laughs like an insane yandere (which she is).

The fail dialogue says the following:

*"Sorry for the interruption."*

***"I'm afraid the rest of the outcome cannot be shown due to YouTube's guidelines."***

*"But it doesn't matter. You know why you're here."*

*"You unfortunately made the wrong choice."*

*"Next time, don't help anyone that Mason finds familiar."*

***"However, not all people Mason finds familiar will lead to bad outcomes."***

*"Also, **be glad I came to stop whatever was gonna happen next.** Otherwise, **this channel would've ended up on the chopping block**."*

##### True Ending

After USER decodes the last message which is a link to a video titled "𝓕𝓘𝓝𝓐𝓛𝓔," they and Mason are sent to the terminal, where they meet True Vince. USER gives a file repairer to True Vince, and he uses it to fix the corrupted files of Mason and the Holiday Havoc special so The Entity would be erased for good. The camera cuts to a slightly altered version of the Act 1 teaser trailer where Mason starts to think that this scene looks familiar, but then he just brushes it off. The route ends with the taxi picking Mason and Dallas up as the camera pans to the sky to reveal the logo.

After the credits, a wall of text appears, stating the following: Act 2 released on the creator's 18th birthday, everything that happened in Holiday Havoc was not canon, a confirmation of what happened after the true ending, and that Mason will be making more appearances in future videos.

## Trivia

### Fun Facts

* Holiday Havoc was split into 2 parts a few days before the intended release date to allow the creator more time to add the other routes.
* A poll on the YouTube channel confirms that Vince's ending is known as the Overload Ending.
* At the end of Vince's route, Vince was going to say that he would kill off Mason and *everyone* who was involved in the snowball ambush directed at him. This was scrapped due to the scene being made one day before the release of Act 1.
* In Vince's route, there is a blue haired girl who was involved in the prank. That girl's name is Ashley, who is an upcoming character and makes a cameo in Holiday Havoc.
* The Vince and Melissa silhouettes that appear in Act 1's thumbnail are the iconic red and green Christmas colors. This is just a coincidence.
* Elemental Vince creates a thunderstorm in snowy weather in the Overload Ending to his unstable rage. This rare phenomenon *is* real and is known as thundersnow.
* The ending dialogue of Melissa's route implies that she and Mason were "having fun". This is an unintentional dirty joke due to this possibly being seen in different perspectives.
	+ And NO, Mason and Melissa didn't do "the thing" if you know what I mean by that.
* This is the first show to have 2 different versions of a trailer, which in this case is Act 2's first Teaser Trailer.
	+ If you line up the thumbnails of the Warm Version and Cold Version of said trailer, you'll get a whole picture of Lily, Jake, Mason, Crystal, and Dallas.
* During and after The Entity fight, there is a small detail where the choices appear to no longer be glitchy. **Bonus points for those who find that detail.**
* This is the first special to have a lyrical song in it, being "Descent into Madness".
* In Act 2, the creator stated in the comments of the "Wake up" video that he was emotional while making Crystal's confession, which is why he called it the most legendary scene in the special.
* In the "Departure" ending, the sun was going to be rising as the credits were rolling. This was scrapped due to a framerate drop that appeared when playtesting the credits.
	+ It was also unknown where the framerate drop was coming from.
* The true ending utilizes the term "coming full circle" because the Act 1 trailer and the final scene of the true ending both take place at the sidewalk where Mason and Dallas meet for the first time.

### Fourth Wall breaks

* The "Let's never talk about this fail again, okay?" ending contains a **fourth wall break** where the voice mentions that the rest of the fail can't be shown to YouTube's guidelines and TOS.
* When Mason gets pinned down, he questions himself why almost every instance of Holiday Havoc involves him getting pinned down. Mason is referring to when he gets pinned down by Melissa in both acts and Crystal in Act 2 every time the viewer picks a choice associated with Mason getting pinned down.
* In the "Alone" fail, the voice tells the creator to pull up the retry screen, but then realizes *it itself* has typed up the text. This is secretly foreshadowing True Vince being the one behind the voice.
	+ The voice also assumes the viewer is just getting every fail in the special, which is another fourth wall break.
* In "Descent into Madness", Victoria complains that the song feels way too long. Vince later says that she isn't wrong. (Hey that rhymes)
* In the "Avalanche" fail, the voice says that skiing in an avalanche is flat-out stupid to do.

### References

* As Vince gets corrupted, five easter eggs appear in the span of a second. Those include:
	+ A corrupted version of Vince, referencing Friday Night Funkin' Corruption (along with a few other takes of it).
	+ The creator's take on if Vince were to appear in OMORI.
	+ Phantom Vince, which is a reference to Five Nights at Freddy's 3's phantom animatronics.
	+ A shadow version of Vince, which looks similar to Shadow Bonnie (aka RWQFSFASXC) from Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
	+ A Pibbified version of Vince, referencing the Adult Swim video: "Come and Learn with Pibby".

### Mistakes

#### Visual

* In the final slide of the Yandere Ending, it says there are **3/5 endings**. This is a mistake due to the special being split into 2 parts and the original concept being the special having 5 endings in one special.
* The first choice section originally had 3 choices instead of 2, **which is why the number was blurred out.**
* When Mason and Crystal stop walking, the background snaps into a certain place.
* A while into "Descent into Madness", The Entity no longer has the microphone in hand.
* In the true ending, Mason and Y/N (who was named USER at that time)'s eyes were missing when they were far from the camera.

#### Audio

* Mason calls his parents "Mr. and Mrs. Harper" instead of "Mom and Dad".
	+ The same mistake also happens in Act 2.
* There's no impact sound when Mason gets hit in the face by Melissa's snowball.

#### Other

* In "Descent into Madness", Vince was originally going to sing "the more you fight" section before he was replaced with Jake (Vince sings the part in the OST video while Jake sings it in the special itself). This was a mistake that was later chosen by the creator to be kept in.