Nikki lacks so much autonomy in Obsession. Right off the bat with Bear and Ian in the dinner one of the waitresses is a stand in for her. Ian tells Bear to be “playful mean” to her by calling her Freaky Nikki, a nickname acknowledged by both Bear and Ian and later addressed by Nikki herself as a name Nikki hates. We never once see the inside of her house, she goes to Bear’s after the wish is made and she spends the rest of the movie living with him. The job isn’t just hers, it’s Sarah’s and Ian’s and Bear’s too. She wants to quit to be a writer but the only thing she ever writes is about what Bear is doing to her. She’s not even alone in her own mind, she has an obsessive double sharing her body that she only gets to control when She is asleep. Nikki wasn’t even ever Just Nikki, she was hooking up with Ian prior to being with Bear, and when Bear was trying to break his wish he said “Nikki can be yours,” as if Nikki ever WANTED to be with Ian after Sarah explicitly said the hook ups were casual and non romantic. Bear couldn’t even love Nikki as Nikki and she stole Sarah’s face to make Bear love her
