Endings

The *Lunar Shadow Project* works normally have multiple endings. This page will list them all. This even extends to the non-canon works which may have multiple endings of their own.

## Canon works

### Lunar Shadow

None of the endings have official names yet; the names are unofficial.

* **Surrender** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Go left at the very start of the Entrance at any point.
* **Description**: In this ending, the cataclysm foretold by the Castle Master comes to pass due to Serenity's inaction. None are known to have survived. It is also the earliest ending obtainable, and can be used to speedrun the game.

* **Tears** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: This ending can only be obtained by defeating the first phase of the boss, and then deliberately getting killed during the second phase by refusing to kill Valkyrie Horton.
* **Description**: Serenity dies in this ending, rather than kill Valkyrie X. The cataclysm foretold by the Castle Master then comes to pass.

* **Betrayal** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Defeat Ataraxis and after obtaining the Dark Armor equip it before heading to the Top Floor to fight the final boss. If Ilina Horton is present, the dialogue changes slightly.
* **Description**: In this ending, Serenity ends up under Aidan's control due to her having foolishly equipped the Dark Armor. She then joins the Castle Master and Tranquility, now serving as a guard blocking the Entrance of the Lunar Soul Castle.

* **Respite** (normal ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: In this ending, Serenity defeats the Castle Master and escapes the castle. Depending on events prior to the final boss fight, the dialogue will change to reflect whether or not Alexis was saved, whether or not Ilina was rescued from the Myst Zone and whether or not Shinica and Luna weren't fought.
* **Description**: Defeat the final boss.

* **Not Perplexed** (good ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Unlock the Confusion Zone by beating the game once, then enter the Confusion Zone and defeat the True Final Boss.
* **Description**: In this ending, Serenity conquered the Confusion Zone and defeated the twin goddesses Invidia and Nemesis. She then leaves the Confusion Zone before escaping the now before escaping the crumbling castle.(The ending is currently unobtainable.)

* **Tainted Heroine** (best ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Unlock the Confusion Zone by beating the game once on 3-HP Mode, then enter the Confusion Zone and defeat the True Final Boss.
* **Description**: In this ending, Serenity conquered the Confusion Zone and defeated the twin goddesses Invidia and Nemesis. She then leaves the Confusion Zone before escaping the now before escaping the crumbling castle.(The ending is currently unobtainable.)

## Non-canon works

### *Solar Shadow*

* **Ending 1: TRUTH** (good ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Visit four specific out-of-the-way objects before reaching the end of the woods: Serenity's grave in the first area, the prophetic rock in the second area, a specific journal page in the third area, and the skull shrine in the fourth area. If you are on track to getting this ending, many messages, both from objects and Selena's dialogue, will be altered.
* **Description**: Selena Daria befriends Shadow Serenity, and they leave the woods together. Selena claims she is responsible for the original Serenity's death, and that she was possessed by the Castle Master.

* **Ending 2: DESPAIR** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Make some progress without making it to the end by running out of time.
* **Description**: The curse takes over Selena and she becomes Shadow Selena, leaving the left side of the screen before never being seen again.

* **Ending 3: FUTILITY** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Reach the end of the woods while missing at least one of the special objects required for Ending 1, then enter the final door before the clock hits 3AM.
* **Description**: Selena is almost out of the woods, but is stopped by Shadow Serenity in one final room. Shadow Serenity orders her to go back into the woods, but Selena refuses, so Shadow Serenity kills her in a fit of rage.

* **Ending 4: RAVE** (good canon ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Reach the end of the woods, then enter the final door *after* the clock hits 3AM, in the brief window of time before the screen fades to black and triggers Ending 2.
* **Description**: Selena is about to exit the woods, but instead of the final room, Selena wakes up back in 2015 at a party celebrating Serenity's victory over the castle master. She then blacks out before waking up in Yes Town with a hangover the following morning.

* **Ending 5: ESCAPE** (good ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Reach the end of the woods before the clock hits 2AM, then ignore the final door and continue on to the right. If it is after 2AM, then the path to the right will be gone and the final door will be the only option.
* **Description**: At the end of the woods, Selena finds a break in the trees and simply walks out, delighted to be free.

* **Ending 6: DIABOLICAL** (bad ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Wait in the starting room until time runs out. Getting this ending rewards the player with a star on the title screen.
* **Description**: Selena stays in the woods and becomes Shadow Selena willingly. Aidan Flamberge's ghost appears and thanks her for her loyalty, revealing that they had been working together.

### Main Endings

* **Ending 1** (good upper ending, canon)
* **Unlock Requirement**: It is obtained by defeating Venton and Steve, and travelling to the upper path to defeat Death's Head and Demaseor.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Ataraxis and Terrah Horton at the top of the Hidden Attic. He survives, but is knocked out and Eron Araia Armweak is able to regain power. Before he faints, however, Terrah presses a button and fills the New Lunar Soul Castle with poison gas, killing Serenity, Kascan Rizou, Mitsuru, and Venton Leroi. Selena leaves, having completed her mission, and Steve Leroi also leaves because there is nothing left.

* **Ending 2** (bad upper ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: It is obtained by climbing the upper path and defeating Demaseor but not defeating Venton and Steve.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Terrah. He laments that he failed Valerie and Shinica before filling the castle with poison gas, killing everybody inside. Shinica then shows up, asks if Serenity made it out and when told that she had been controlled by someone, Shinica concludes that Serenity didn't make it out and destroys the castle in a rage. Because she's unable to bring herself to harm Selena, she's the only survivor of Shinica's rampage. Shinica then leaves.

* **Ending 3** (worst ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: It is obtained by traveling to the left from the starting area and continuing in that direction.
* **Description**: Selena leaves the castle without completing her mission and is immediatly fired by the Tirahnys Intelligence Agency for her cowardice. Shortly afterwards an army of killer robots, lead by Nought Celeritas take over the continent, and she becomes the supreme queen of Tirahnys. Yes Town is razed to the ground.

* **Ending 4** (good lower ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Choose the upper path and defeat Death's Head, then backtrack without defeating Demaseor and continue along the lower path.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Death's Head and Nought. She then meets Ataraxis, who reveals that she works for the true castle master, and that without the two prototype robots, she has no reason to be loyal to him and decides to do her own thing. Selena and Ataraxis become best friends forever and leave the castle together. Serenity is never seen again, and Selena's mission is considered a failure because the castle is still active, but other than that, all is good.

* **Ending 5** (bad lower ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: It is obtained by taking the lower path, and not defeating Death's Head.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Nought, and then leaves the castle. However, the castle is not shut down, and an army of robots lead by Terrah and Death's Head attempts to take over Tirahnys. However, with Nought's body destroyed and the humans of the castle weakened by Selena, they are defeated in a bloody battle with Valerie Horton slain.

### Genocide City/Andrea Endings

* **Ending 6** (Good Andrea ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Go to Genocide City and defeat Andrea, then go to the upper path after defeating Death's Head and go to Sky Platform and then go down into a normally sealed off area into the Center Intelligence Room. (Alternately, if the player damages themselves on the spikes, they can take advantage of their mercy invincibility to bypass the laser door without being killed.)
* **Description**: Selena finds the secret core room of the castle, and shuts down LichenNet. This halts the castle's operations with no bloodshed necessary. Andrea Yauman then congratulates her on her ingenuity.

* **Ending 7** (Neutral Andrea ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Go to Genocide City and defeat Andrea, then take the upper path, ignore the entrance to the Center Intelligence Room, and defeat Terrah Horton.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Terrah, but spares him. However, Andrea appears and kills Terrah instantly before explaining that she is neutral and doesn't care who wins, but wanted to help Selena out because she thinks she is cool.

* **Ending 8** (Bad Andrea ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Go to Genocide City and defeat Andrea, then take the lower path.
* **Description**: Selena defeats Nought. As soon as she does so, Andrea fills the castle with poison gas, and Selena starts to asphyxiate. Eron attempts to save her, but cannot not free her from Nought's room. Andrea explains that she thinks Selena must be crazy, because she decided to fight Nought even though she knew she wasn't the real Castle Master. Selena pleads with Andrea to shut off the poison gas but Andrea decides that it'd be more fun for things to end up this way.

### Bad Heart Endings

* **Ending 9** (bad heart ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Take the lower path on Bad Heart mode.
* **Description**: Aidan Flamberge/Shadow Selena defeats Nought. However, she is not able to become the Castle Master. Terrah then teleports in and kills her.

* **Ending 10** (neutral heart ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Take a left turn from the starting area on Bad Heart mode.
* **Description**: Shadow Selena leaves the castle. Through willpower, Selena expels Aidan and retakes control of her body. Tirahnys is still invaded by robots, but Selena makes a full recovery and the Tirahnys Intelligence Agency is shut down.

* **Ending 11** (good heart ending)
* **Unlock Requirement**: Taking the upper path on Bad Heart mode.
* **Description**: Shadow Selena defeats and kills Terrah, and becomes the castle master. Aidan fully takes control, and announces that he shall have another apocalypse, declaring than all on Newerth shall die in one year.

### Gun

Aside from Ending 4: Anticharged Suicide, none of the endings have been released yet. Ending 5: The Taboo's Victory will be added into Gun v3 and the others will appear in Gun v4.

* **Ending 1: The Fallen Warrior (bad ending)** [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirements:'** When you defeat the final boss, choose to destroy them.
* **Description**: The final boss is defeated and then destroyed, ensuring that their plans were all for nothing. Gunnoid-0 then decides to kill everything else on Mechanto Isles, ensuring that nobody can be resurrected by the final boss. A century has passed, and Gunnoid-0 is heavily damaged from years of battle and repeating the same trials over and over. Gunnoid-0 eventually breaks down and dies, never realizing his potential outside of Mechanto Isles. The credits then roll. The ending decisions are skipped altogether if you're playing as ???? (unlocked by getting Ending 2) and the game simply skips to the credits due to the ending scene having already taken place.
* **Unlockables?:** Battle Damage Costume

* **Ending 2: Our New Leader (good canon ending)** [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirement:** When you defeat the final boss, choose to spare them.
* **Description**: The final boss is defeated and then spared. They then call all of their henchmen and Gunnoid-0 over to begin the long-awaited ceremony. The bosses celebrate Gunnoid-0's victory, anticipating their new found freedom and the finalization of their master's plan to take revenge on the Surfacians. Gunnoid-0 kneels before his master who starts to grant Gunnoid-0 some of their power, transforming the robot into a new long haired warrior. The warrior stands and declares his loyalty to his master before the credits roll.
* The ending decisions are skipped altogether if you're playing as ???? (unlocked by getting Ending 2) and the game simply skips to the credits due to the ending scene having already taken place. If the player hasn't defeated all of the Taboo, there will be post-credit dialogue where the final boss will order you to exterminate the Taboo if you haven't defeated them all. If you have, he'll advise you to stay away from the sealed off area in the final part of the hub area.
* **Unlockables:**  ????

* **Ending 3: Glory to Mechanto (true canon ending)** [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirement:** After defeating the SuperWeapon, equip the ???? and refight the final boss.
* **Description**: After besting the final boss in a rematch, ???? is able to prove that the SuperWeapon is stronger than them. The final boss is so impressed by this show of power that he figures that it will only take 3 months to finalize plans for their attack on the Surfacians. Until then, the final boss declares that a new set of trials await the player and the SuperWeapon to keep their skills sharp while they continue with their plans.
* **Unlockables?:** Mechanto Mode

* **Ending 4: Anticharged Suicide (bad ending)**
* **Unlock Requirement:** Choose to step into the Anticharger found in the Deep Sector Hub.
* **Description**:
* **Unlockables?:** Inverted Costume

* After the player chooses to step into the Anticharger (they're warned that doing so is tantamount to suicide), they're given a short narration about how Gunnoid-0 could've achieved so much had he chosen to stay alive.

* **Ending 5: The Taboo's Victory (bad ending)**
* **Unlock Requirement:** Allow Taboo-Ga to possess you after defeating them.
* **Description**: Upon agreeing to let The Taboo possess you, Taboo-Ga laughs at you and reveals that they can't possess machines, effectively ensuring that Gunnoid-0 has effectively doomed themselves. Gunnoid-0 is killed because The Taboo's power destroys any machine they try to possess, effectively allowing the Taboo to destroy any machine from the inside.
* **Unlockables?:** Failed Husk Costume

* **Ending 6: Flower Dragon Party** (joke ending) [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirement:** Equip the Blue Rose after completing one of the bonus dungeons and refight the final boss.
* **Description**:
* **Unlockables?: ????**

* **Ending 7: End of Mechanto** (good non-canon ending) [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirement:** Defeat the final boss by play as two of the Surfacian unlockable characters or coming into the fight wearing the Surfacian costume. If the player is on route to obtaining this ending, they'll have to do an escape sequence after beating the final boss. If not, they'll either obtain one of the other endings if they either have no special items equipped (The Fallen Warrior, Our New Leader), have the ???? equipped ()
* **Description**: After the final boss is defeated, the inside of Mechanto Isles begins to destabilise due to the final boss activating the self destruct sequence. The surfacian must escape the crumbling building by dodging debris and making it to the outside of Mechanto Isles before the place blows up. If the player dies, they won't get an ending and have to restart the final boss.
* **Unlockables?: ????**

* **Ending 8: The Robotic Theorem** (joke ending) [To be added in Gun v4]
* **Unlock Requirement:** Defeat the final boss as one of the unlockable characters.
* **Description**:
* **Unlockables?:** Mechanto Melee
	+ >To prevent any potential glitches or crashes, items that are unlocked to get certain endings will automatically de-equip other items of their type, ensuring that the player can only get one ending of their choice.

## Trivia

* In Lunar Shadow's normal ending, the player is taken to the Castle Ruins map. If they somehow transport themselves to that map outside of the ending and fall off either the left or right sides of the map, they'll be unable to get back due to falling out of bounds. At the very bottom of the map is a hidden message: "Kim Tyranto 2015".
* Gun's second ending (Our New Leader) was originally going to be a shorter version of the game's true ending (Glory to Mechanto). This has been changed so that the third ending takes place after the second ending due to how it requires you to defeat a post-game boss.
* Gun's fourth ending (Anticharged Suicide) is a reference to one glitch during Gun v1's development; it was found that placing #34 as the Event number of the bed instead of #19 causes it to kill you when you interact with it. As such, it was made into a full ending in Gun v2 though the name was slightly changed in Gun v3.
* AuroraDash revealed on 11/12/21 in the Things You Knew/Never Knew thread that the Diabolical Ending was inspired by the game 7 minutes, developed by Tuuka Virtanen.

**Story Elements** Castle Master • Elements • Taint of the Hortons • Timelines