These are the eye emojis I spoke about:
👀👀👀👀 This is so fascinating, I love this!!! Wigfrid interpreting her kidnapping in the light of a performance and narrative where she is, no, she needs to be the hero, to find the antagonist and kill him? Because that's the character she embodies? She's the sole hero meant to vanquish the evil!
Only that she never was the only one. Alone, and lonely, but there were other people trying to do the same. To escape. And somebody else, an average man, achieved what she tried before she ever noticed it.
Thank you for your time explaining your thoughts. I'll be thinking about Wigfrid and this for a long while.
(Like an AU where Wigfrid finishes on Adventure Mode. It'd would at first validate her perception She's getting closer and closer to Maxwell, cornering him, all the while she's besting beasts and surviving this new challenge.
Until Endgame / Checkmate. I can't imagine what it'd do to her mental and emotional state to realize that the very man she was trying to kill, the powerful man she called her nemesis who grew increasingly enraged as she continued to survive, the man who she made that supernatural deal with and got kidnapped for into strange lands, was an exhausted prisoner. Act stripped away*, wishing to die.
And she couldn't do it. Not in the sense that it was something held her back emotionally. This is how the narrative is supposed to go. The antagonist dies, directly by the protagonist's hands.
In the sense that she was physically incapable of hurting him. Even her most powerful attacks had no effect while he was trapped on that strange throne.
She eventually put the Voxola radio in the socket to release him. Maxwell stood up, happy to be free and she was happy to fight with him finally. Before either of them could do anything else, he. Crumbled to dust. The Shadows grabbed her and forced her onto the Throne. Putting her into the role of the antagonist Maxwell occupied just a few seconds ago. The entire narrative, the perfomance she imagined in her mind, was brutally subverted by powers that she can't understand.
Even worse. "They" are also an audience she was unaware of. And they forced her into an ending she neither wanted nor anticipated.
An additional angle: Widfrid gets angry and disappointed that Maxwell dropped his act and persona. It's not like he had any control over that when she reached the Throne Room, taking away her fulfillment. It doesn't change that she deeply resents him for it.
And on another side of this mess. Realizing that Maxwell put up his own performance could make her fear, before she realizes what being trapped on the Throne's doing to her. Her own act could wither, that the incomprehensible power / audience that trapped her could strip her mask, her performance away.
Only in the Throne Room, of course. Only here. But even just the idea of it, that somebody else could perceive her that way? Powerless and pitiful?
Wigfrid would make for a terrifying Triumphant for many reasons. This fear fueling her is part of it.
And when Charlie comes and frees / removes her, while Wigfrid is incapable of even fighting back? I fear for her sanity. She might hate Maxwell. It'll be nothing against her hatred and loathing of Charlie, especially with Charlie still keeping away most of the time except for those potshots.)
