Welp, I'm struggling to sleep, so I'm gonna post about the "Marion is secretly the Ferryman" theory, because to my surprise, it's less popular than I thought.
The Ferryman Flashbacks
The first one happened after Myra fled to the bathroom away from Marion, and took some pills.
The Ferryman doesn't actually show up at first. He emerges from behind a tree, and we get a speech bubble saying "...Myra..." We think it's the Ferryman at first, but then it's revealed to be Marion calling her name, who entered the bathroom and started calling her name at the same time the Ferryman emerged.
The other three flashbacks she has of the Ferryman are ALL when she's with Marion. Never alone, and never with anyone else around. Just him.
And second:
Marion's Disappearance.
After he supposedly fell to his death, Myra goes down the the bottom the the bridge, only to be unable to find him.
We get a better perspective of the bridge, and we find that it really isn't that tall. Sure, someone who fell from that height would likely die, or at least be seriously injured, but they wouldn't land far away from the bridge to where he couldn't be found. So where did he go? He would have at least ended up injured to the point he can't leave.
It IS possible that this whole scenaro was a hallucination, like when she hallucinated Homer Downes, but if that were the case, why didn't he meet up with Myra like he said he would?
If he WAS the Ferryman, there's a higher chance he'd be unharmed by the fall. The Sounds of Nightmares shows he has abilities that can make this possible. In "The Theatre of the Mind" Noone mentions that she saw him on the upper floor of the mall, but after she threw the necklace away, he was suddenly close enough to grab her, meaning he was able to teleport, or jump from the upper floor without harm.
Smaller, Overlooked Details
Marion's name means "Star of the Sea." It's a well-known fact that the Ferryman has ocean motifs.
His misuse of the expression, "Needle in a Haystack." The Ferryman doesn't speak in the way a human would, and is very difficult to understand. If he's pretending to be human, it makes sense that he would mess up from time-to-time.
The fact that he calls the kids having nightmares of a figure stalking them in their dreams before disappearing a "random coincidence," as if he were hiding something.
He didn't seem very shocked at the discovery of the children on Floor -1. While Myra had shrunken irises and was covering her mouth on shock, Marion still had normal-sized irises and only opened his mouth a little in surprise.
Homer Downes succumbed the the sleep meer hours after releasing her first sleeper agent. We don't know for certain if Marion actually went to the police station or not, or if he went to her house house before or after going to the police station. Is it possible that the Ferryman did something to her?
In her final Ferryman flashback, he seemed to have been shoving her instead of Myra pulling away, forcing her out of the dream. Why didn't he take her to the Nowhere like the other children? What if there's a use to her remaining in the Counties? Would make sense that he would need to keep her alive for the same reason. That would be why he stole the identity of Marion. To stop her from killing herself so she can play that role.
And That's Everything
I don't do a lot of theories and analysis, but I think I did pretty decent at thing one, especially since it's longer that any other one's I've done.
If there's anything you think I've missed, tell me in the reblogs.
