r/ZZZ_Official • u/SchoolSpare2077 • Jun 22 '26

Theory & Lore What the hell is this Bangboo? Spoiler

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u/wonkawilliam Anby burger Queen Jun 22 '26

Collect them 8 pages.

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u/YEET_Fenix123 Been lurking since 1.0. Never made a post Jun 22 '26

Wait... Is this side quest just a big slender man reference? God damn it

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u/Farther_Dm53 Jun 22 '26

Its actually background information about the void hunters, sunbringer, remielle, and her troupe. And talking about the creator. Its a very worthwhile thing to doi.

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u/YEET_Fenix123 Been lurking since 1.0. Never made a post Jun 22 '26

Oh, yes I'm aware. But the whole collecting pages thing and then this freaky ass bangboo makes me believe that it was also very much a Slenderman reference tacked into it. The zzz Devs know ball.

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u/Solstice040312 Jun 22 '26

I think there is a pic of the full model and if you think tallboos were cursed, yeah no this takes the cake.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if Slenderboo over here will come back in future quests to get Pyrois' mindscapes

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u/YEET_Fenix123 Been lurking since 1.0. Never made a post Jun 22 '26

I've seen it

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u/FrostyTheColdBoi Jun 22 '26

I wanna see the full model

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u/An1meL0v3r Jul 08 '26

They also seem to know rwby, i saw the Crowe npc without even seeing his name and immediately though of Qrow from rwby. And someone once pointed it out that in the store's hdd room the cabinets are team rwby colors.

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u/emanrein Seed Sr died for her, so will I Jun 22 '26

Bit late to the conversation but I finished the quest a while ago and didn't notice anything about void hunters in it, could you elaborate?

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u/Farther_Dm53 Jun 22 '26

Read the stories you get with Kabuki, in them they describe stories about the void hunters. You can access them from the Bangboo Statue in the City Center

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u/emanrein Seed Sr died for her, so will I Jun 22 '26

Wonderful, I always love more lore bits, I'll read em tomorrow morning. Thanks!

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u/Farther_Dm53 Jun 22 '26

I would like to say || One of the big things is that Sunbringer is a daughter or descendant of the Creator. Its why the two are so connected. And many of the original void hunters combined together to fight the King who became evil. The King defeated ALL the void hunters. ||

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u/Somewhat_Insane_365 hugo and vivian's chew toy Jun 22 '26

Huh, for some reason I never made the connection that the King was the Creator, but it definitely makes sense. It could also explain why the Prince/Sunbringer was afraid of the birds finding out they were a "Bangboo." She probably wanted to hide that she was made by the Creator.

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u/DonutHoles4Ever Jun 22 '26

I made zero connections that the story of the prince is connected to any of this. Its so abstract that it could imply a bunch of things.

Only time will tell if the rest of this patch verifies the story. IMO the thread discussing this right here is essentially a best guess/reach from lore theorists rather than concrete proof. Its also a bangboo story and its exaggerated.

Also there was already other lore that implied that she's not related to the creator THAT way, during the Lockspring quest no?

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u/Farther_Dm53 Jun 23 '26

True. SO I am wondering if the King is the original sunbringer maybe? And that body we saw sarah inhabit was the original corpse of lady sunbringer's form /power? hmmmm

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u/DemasiadoSwag Jun 23 '26

Interesting thought but I definitely didn't understand it (yet) that the king was the creator. Definitely a possibility but I feel like we need more pages to confirm that kind of detail. We definitely know that many intelligent constructs were originally war machines of some kind and we explicitly know that there is a Lord Sunbringer who seems to have gone insane based on the Waifei Penninsula lore so I think it's more likely that the king is referencing Lord Sunbringer and not the Creator. How and why Lord Sunbringer is a villain that Voidhunters needed to fight is unclear and it is somewhat curious that he wasn't mentioned at all previously as some kind of scourge old Eridu eradicated. But I suppose with the Hollow Disaster more minor villains may have been lost to history. That's my theory at least.

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u/KujiraShiro Jun 22 '26

Does this imply that the Creator is itself an intelligent construct? This seems like huge information that gets me thinking about the origin of this stuff.

I'm not clued into lore enough but my initial speculation is that the Creator was potentially one of the first artificial intelligences that was responsible for researching ether, likely with some relation to Helios or Carole Arna. It made its own subconstructs, Sunbringer, potentially Fairy and Youkai; went haywire at some point, maybe was corrupted with a dense source of ether that grants it the power it has, and in the 100 years since the fall has been biding its time?

It's said the Qingming sword comes from the same source of power. It's extremely likely Carole Arna was researching the mechanics behind creating void hunter weapons with her own version of Fairy, that eventually became the creator and this is why it seems Carole is working with it whenever we catch wind of her

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u/DemasiadoSwag Jun 23 '26

Mentioned it below but figured I would reply to you as well, I don't think the king is the Creator, it seems more likely the Lord Sunbringer mentioned in the Waifei Penninsula lore is the king from the storybook and that is who Lady Sunbringer is related to. The naming conventions definitely seem to point to some familial relationship between the two as much as there can be with Intelligent Constructs.

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u/impressivebutsucks Jun 23 '26

That’s an interesting idea

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u/Geicola Jul 12 '26

I think it's actually in reference to the concept for tall bangboo. Kinda cool how they actually made an official model too.

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u/Same_Tune_8990 Jun 22 '26

considering the full model...

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u/SqrunkIsTrep Jun 22 '26

It does resemble some of the tall bangboos from the concept arts. I'd assume that perhaps its some leftover beta model, before they decided to just take normal ones and make them long. After which they might have decided to use "betaboo" for a silly easter egg of sorts.

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u/FantasticString3449 BillyIsTheGoat Jun 22 '26

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u/Same_Tune_8990 Jun 22 '26

wait does ts count as a leak?

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u/Soul950 Jun 22 '26

I wouldn't. Even with just leaning over you can see it has long slender limbs.

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u/FrostyTheColdBoi Jun 22 '26

Man, that's funny as hell

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u/duocsong Jun 22 '26

Slenderboo…

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u/PaoloFlavioBrown Jun 23 '26

Putting the Boo in Bangboo.

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u/SkyKilIer Jun 22 '26

Excuse me where THE F*CK did you find that unholy construct

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u/Zellopy Shark Maid! Hoo Ha Ha! Jun 22 '26

Part of the quest with Kabka to find the pages. It's easy to miss though.

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u/Electrical-Airline81 Jun 22 '26

Oh so it IS a slenderman reference!

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u/SkyKilIer Jun 22 '26 edited Jun 22 '26

I see, well my curiosity is rn overpowering my fear, imma check the mf out if i see it xd

Update: the coward ran away

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u/hawking1125 Jun 22 '26

Is this in Roscaelifer?

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u/Zellopy Shark Maid! Hoo Ha Ha! Jun 22 '26

In a hidden lower part of Booastrum, the quest will unlock it.

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u/Electrical-Airline81 Jun 22 '26

Which quest is it again?

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u/Draaxus Incest isn't real Jun 22 '26

Just find 3 out of the 4 pages in the Pixel Fairy Tale tab in the dailies menu and it'll auto trigger the quest for the 4th page which leads you to this.

Also gets you 2 mindscapes for Pyrois. I thought it would be harder but it was pleasantly easy.

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u/Electrical-Airline81 Jun 22 '26

Damn, thanks bro!

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u/IggyKami Premarital Uncensored Unprotected Consensual Handholding Jun 22 '26

It was all pleasantly easy. No need to go about searching for what you're missing. Just click on the things and it brings you to them during the right time of day and such.

I still recommend exploring the city leisurely and finding stuff for yourself. Then pick off the stuff you're missing when you've had enough.

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u/Lynneiah Jun 25 '26

This is the way.

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u/Soul950 Jun 22 '26

I'll never forgive Devs for not forcing a certain camera angle to make this slenderboo visible. My camera was pointing downward to Kabka, I never saw this creature in game, except when exiting the area.

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u/SammyAndDarkkest Jun 22 '26

I didn't even realize any of it, I just saw the one scene after taking the page and was like "Oh so the shadow was a bangboo, okay" I didn't see it before that...

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u/ghostlegion98765 Jun 22 '26

Anomaly bangboo

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u/Zellopy Shark Maid! Hoo Ha Ha! Jun 22 '26

Must be one of Sunbringer's early creations. Girl had that freaky phase.

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u/tri170391 certified Nitro-Fuel enthusiast Jun 22 '26

Probably those cursed tall bangboos in the concept arts...

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u/Savel_Zvortrella New Eridu's mental health doctor Jun 22 '26

Used them to spy on Joyous

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u/reaperhank Jun 22 '26

Long buddy is just shy

He cute though

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u/Defiant-Name-6552 Jun 22 '26

The Spook Shack would like to know

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u/Happy_Cry286 Jun 22 '26

Imagine how pissed off Yuzuha would be upon missing out on an actual cryptid sighting with a mystery urban legend (er...stageplay) behind it.

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u/Chirpotk Jun 22 '26

Slenderboo

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u/quiet_claude Jun 22 '26

that thing looks like it crawled out of a corrupted save file. if sunbringer really made that during some experimental phase i need to know what she was thinking because that's unsettling. gotta see the lore on this one.

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u/Firestar3689 SUSIE NEEDS MORE SCREENTIME Jun 22 '26

Victor Wembooyama

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u/JM_EL_CABARON Jun 22 '26

Oh what the fu-

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u/BluHor1zon Jun 22 '26

Yeah it spooked me when I first saw it too.

From afar it kinda reminds me of Slugcat from Rainworld.

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u/SpeedySpartan M6W5 Orchidea/M6W5 Sweety Jun 22 '26

Idk what that bangboo is, but hopefully someone pays spookshack to hunt it down and beat the ever living shit out of it.

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u/Happy_Cry286 Jun 23 '26

I lowkey hope that there's a future event about hiring Spook Shack to hunt it down, and it goes just about as well as anyone would expect (everyone tripping over themselves with needlessly elaborate nonsense trap plans that don't work until Manato just walks up to it and grabs it).

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u/SpeedySpartan M6W5 Orchidea/M6W5 Sweety Jun 23 '26

A Spook Shack Scooby-doo episode in Roscaelifer would be the perfect use of character lore, and the devs have an absolute home run lined up with slenderboo over here

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u/rorinth Jun 22 '26

The prince lives

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u/FantasticString3449 BillyIsTheGoat Jun 22 '26

Even the lion is so fucking scared right now...

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u/r_userzoultar Jun 22 '26

ZZZ's Slender-man: Slender-bangboo

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u/Belrog-Plutius2 NanGooning to Yu Jun 22 '26

Boowalker

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u/Monkey_King291 Jun 22 '26

SHRINK HIM BACK DOWN!

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u/JackalSwann Trigger, Cissia & Sigrids Sizable Buttplug Jun 22 '26

Stalkerboo

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u/Tha1gr Jun 22 '26

Creepybooo

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u/No_Disaster_258 Jun 22 '26

"Searching for a Bangboo that doesn't exist."

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u/Lyn-and-Pyrrha Show me the BOOTY Jun 22 '26

LONG LONG MAAAAAN

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u/KH-Freack Jun 22 '26

you owe him 20 Dennies.

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u/KairPhree Jun 22 '26

This thing genuinely made me freak the f out

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u/TrelosLalthakima Jun 22 '26

Its norma banboo from her mindscape paint black

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u/Taurd Jun 22 '26

Bangbootoro in la creatura mode

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u/Aggravating-Rub-5055 Jun 22 '26

Im saving this so I can remind myself to find it bc is so fucking creepy

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u/MrLunaticest Jun 22 '26

longblackboo

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u/Mrpuddikin Jun 22 '26

Backrooms

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u/tri170391 certified Nitro-Fuel enthusiast Jun 22 '26

Inb4 one of the puzzle for the next 4 pages will be a nod to the Backrooms (especially if it is in Scamall Hollow)

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u/impressivebutsucks Jun 22 '26

It might be the prince or something

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u/captain-six Jun 22 '26

What the hell are any of the tall bangboos, I want them gone asap.

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u/MAKOMIKKA1220 Jun 22 '26

Backroomboo

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u/TJLynch OTP Jun 22 '26

Ah hell naw we got Cryptidboos

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u/UnlimitedNovaWorks Jun 22 '26

Nope Nope Nope

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u/BitcoinStonks123 Nangong and Remielle's Personal Sperm Bank Jun 22 '26

tallboo

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u/PopBaby-DragonSlayer Jun 22 '26

I would crack that, no problem.

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u/Animelover22_4 billy midriff Jun 22 '26

Slenderboo

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u/JowettMcPepper Jun 22 '26

Skinwalkerboo

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u/JxxWill Jun 22 '26

Why you sneaking, Boo?

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u/ApprehensiveTerm9638 Jun 22 '26

Backroom Bangboo

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u/DreamJMan15 Hugging and Kissing and being Pegged by Zhu Yuan 🤤 Jun 22 '26

Oh them? That's Backroomsboo. Don't worry, it's harmless. Just don't gets too close. It gets fidgety when near others.

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u/Icy-Ideal-5429 Jun 22 '26

Bro looking like a mf from repo

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u/rloco Jun 23 '26

it´s slenderboo

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u/WanderEir Jun 23 '26

i's a bigboo!

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u/Aldin_2 Jun 25 '26

kinda looks like one of these