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As Madeline continues to climb Forsaken City, which is filled with [[Zippers|traffic-light blocks]] and city decor, she finds Theo and meets him for the first time. He is slightly hidden within the city's "main path", so meeting Theo isn't guaranteed. Theo presents himself in a much more flamboyant way, being in awe because of the city; he rejoices because of Madeline's presence. Her silence scares him to some degree, to the point where he calls Madeline a "lone wolf type" before even knowing her name.

After Madeline asks Theo about why he is present atclimbing Mount Celeste, he answers that he "has a thing for abandoned places", and also considers himself a budding photographer, often posting online via [[Instagram|InstaPix]] (a parody of Instagram).

Madeline then states that she is heading for the summit, which directly ends up telling Theo about howher determined she isdetermination. Theo, on the other hand, mainly wants to explore the ruins around the mountain. He knows that he is doing something irresponsible but then suppresses his "holding-back" instinct, saying "YOLOOOOOOOOO!!"

Forsaken City's A-Side serves as an introductory level to much of how the game works. Madeline, controlled by the player, is introduced to combining jumping, dashing, and climbing to make it through various rooms while avoiding spikes and bottomless pits. Strawberries, [[Cassette tape|cassette tapes]], [[Crystal heart|crystal hearts]], dash-refilling crystals, and many other [[entities]] are all introduced here. [[Momentum]] is another core mechanic that is presented.

At the beginning of this subchapter, you can take the path left and use the [[dash refill]] to dash left twice. The left path leads to [[Theo]], and the top path leads to another berry room. In the second room of the main path, a background building (named <code>brazilian_coffee_building</code>) can be noticed.

Forsaken City's C-Side further builds upon mechanics introduced in Forsaken City's A-Side and B-Side. The three-room gauntlet, unlocked after completing [[8B|Core B-Side]], adds [[Touch switches]], also known as shields, as well asand touch switch gates. It further enhances the difficulty and adds the idea of dashing away from a traffic block to ''not'' gain momentum.

Apart from general movement optimization, speedrunners use various tech such as wallbouncing in the first winged berry room (with the breaking blocks) and doing a reverse [[Hyperdashes|hyperdash]] off the girder to do a corner boost off a wall which leads to the room with Theo. Screen transitions are used to refill dashes, allowing to skip doing the main path. Doing [[neutral jumps]] in the final room as well as a corner kick-up allowsenables players to literally skip the whole room. These tricks allow speedrunners to do this chapter extremely quickly.