[SPOILER] Plot Discussion Thread *Spoiler Alert*

[jacksepticeye]

Some of the notes do seem to indicate that the manpigs are still human, or somewhat human, though that seems to change depending on things since Mandus seemed to favor lobotomizing them. Though this note sounds like it was written by a manpig:

Spoiler below!

What exhumation is this, what rotten fruit, what be-stitching of parts?
I doubt I will ever be found, yet I leave you this, scrawled in
the malodorous half-light, whilst my tormentor shuffles below, my fellow
prisoners keen and squeal in the gloam, and where I wait for the
knocking upon my cage that signifies it is, finally, my turn to make
that dark journey into the interior

They retain a child like mind as far as I can tell, as evidenced by them using blocks and just bumbling about most times. He lobotomizes some to make them docile and easier to work with