wander leaks no. 19
heyooooo im creeped out, are you creeped out? just me? ok
so, before I get into the episode, I want to recap this week’s activity.
-officialjim posted some art with Tango, Jim, and Nico. Frey is still a mass of plants, not a person in her portrait, and there are crystals covering the edges. Nico is covered in stamps, possibly in protest for his late mail. Tango is enjoying a snack.
-wanderleaks answered my ask, saying that his brother (officialjim) follows the threat more than is the threat. Officialjim rebutted, claiming he is the calm after the storm.
-also, they have 14 siblings??? and all from their one mother?? They name dropped Hugo, Irving, and Blake, which are all last names of famous writers Victor Hugo, Washington Irving, and William Blake, leading me to think this is one large family of writers exploring weird things (also explaining wanderleaks’ obsession with Eliot. I bet his name is Eliot. dork.) who have one mother (like unto a Muse - if she is a muse, I’d bet she’s Calliope, muse of epic poetry) As for the number 16, the only thing that could tie in is that’s the number of MBTI types available, but i find that connection highly doubtful.
-still know squat about the video (sorry)
-current chess board (4.19.17)
the black rook is the Bandit and the white knight is the Beekeeper (hey, Matilda)
Now, for the episode and co.
-the episode title references Candlewick from Pinocchio, who tempts Pinocchio to go the the fun island and ends up a donkey. since there were no candles in this episode, I’m inclined to believe the allusion is the important part.
-the gang finds a missing commune of children, which is creepy enough, but the crystals all over the place insinuates that the children became the crystals. Also, this was a gradual process, as some of the art is fresh and the candy good, but the drink was not.
-the parents are burned out of the photographs (why? and why did the crystal at the end spark and burn a bit more?) but the portraits of the children have their eyes scratched out. Since the children probably burned the photos, who scratched the eyes? I can’t imagine the children would do that to themselves.
-----NB: the last Morse Code message was “EYES OF PITCH STALK FROM THE SHADOWS” which could reference this?
-Frey is immortal (! maybe my peter pan theory lives on) which EXPLAINS WHY NO ONE GETS HER METAPHORS why did i not get that.
-The morse code reads “NICO, DO YOU REMEMBER HIM? HE MISSES YOU.” which is CREEEPY but also reminded me of the unidentified THEM from the last episode and the HE that prompted wanderleaks to look into the wanderer’s case. As of yet, the morse code doesn’t seem to predict much, but it is getting more pointed.
TL;DR
-Frey is immortal, the children may be crystals, officialjim and wanderleaks have crazy insane holiday get togethers with their massive family, and some crap is really going down in the post-apocalyptic Northwest
