GUYS I JUST HAD THIS ENLIGHTMENT AND LIFE SEEMS BEARABLE AGAIN
Who read about wonderland knows that the doorway to chess is the looking glass, right?
Well, I was heartbroken after finishing Heartless (Marissa Meyer) and just couldnt accept that Jest was completely gone. Maybe I've really become insane, but the logic of Wonderland started to make sense to me.
So, if the Looking Glass is a mirror (pretty obvious duhh), mirrors possess reflections. So there is a world on one side and one on the other. Im guessing thats whi Carrol chose this object to be a portal.
Besides, you cant just take a rook out of a chess game for no reason, so he must have crossed the mirror and left his reflection on the other side. I do remember the whole replacement by Tweedle Dee and Dum, but maybe, just maybe, we dont have to think logically right now. I believe Cath's reflection in Chess is the Red Queen, but I might be wrong. Anyhow, if Jest died in Hearts, his reflection might still exist in Chess, but not having any memory of Catherine, since it never left, and this teory would also explain Cath seeing Jests reflectiojn in mirrors (something I saw in a fanfic).
I dont know, makes sense to me, but might sound crazy or confusing to whoever reads this, and im sorry for it. It was just a random thought I really needed to right, thats why the errors and cobnfusing paragraphs.
Thank you for reading this far, you dont know how much it means to me!