Hello! Me again, but with a shorter post this time! I was just rereading Chapter Seven, and…I was thinking that the Wight might actually be the Angel?
Mina asked three questions: Where are you now; what’s going on in Mayview; and what’s the power that the Witch was seeking after. Dr Burger said that the answer to her questions is that the creature trying to destroy them is called a Wight.
With the first question, the safe answer is that Dr Burger (who deserves so much better than this) is trapped with the Wight. The others are…tricky.
If this Wight is behind all of the chaos in Mayview, I think it’s likely that it’s someone we’ve already met before - or at least, that we’ve been introduced to - , and that has significant influence over the town. It also has to be very powerful (after all, it freaked out Boss Leader and the Witch was apparently seeking some kind of power from it). The Angel fits that description. What’s more, the Wight looks rather…feminine to me? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I see long, flowing hair in this picture.
Furthermore, we don’t know what The Angel looks like. It doesn’t even appear to its followers! If it’s intentionally hiding its appearance, that makes me think that what it looks like is somehow important.
On a related note, The Angel’s dialogue is…strange. It’s multicolored and has wings coming out of the speech bubbles. Whenever dialogue boxes are unusual, that’s a sign to watch out. It’s entirely possible that her voice is important in some way - and Boss Leader ordered Walker to not even let the Wight speak. Bubbles are placed around everyone so they can’t hear - so of course the wight’s voice is important.
At first, my assumption was that the wight’s voice was like a banshee’s, and that it’d kill you if you heard it, but thinking about The Angel gave me a different idea: A compelling voice. Doorman and Nin (well, mostly Doorman - Nin was rather sensible about the matter) practically fall over themselves when listening to her, almost to the point of it being…kind of creepy. They’re steadfastly loyal to someone they’ve never even seen - and Forge, too, offers up that same loyalty before he’s even arrived in Mayview. So, assuming that the Wight and The Angel are one and the same, Boss Leader’s precautions would have been to prevent someone forcing them all to work for her. Being able to inspire loyalty is dangerous in any situation but for the very head of the Consortium? You have a creature that could take over the spectrals in weeks!
When talking to Doorman/Nin, there’s this exchange -
- , heavily implying (if not outright stating) that whatever they’re planning, this isn’t the first time.
Finally, it’s implied that both the Wight and The Angel are seen as sources of power by outsiders. Forge worked for The Angel unquestioningly because she could provide something for him no one else could, and it’s insinuated that the Witch was seeking power from the Wight - possibly by stealing or using it as an energy source.
