me on my way to give characters with approximately four lines a complex backstory and pages upon pages of content
anyways, i imagine hathaway from jasper in deadland (on the right) to have been a mother during her life with immense love for her kids, as well as a worker in labor and delivery in a hospital. after she forgets about them, she copes by being a loving and supporting figure to mr. lethe. there's an emptiness she can recognize, a hole that was meant to be occupied by someone, but lethe has to take that place because she doesn't know who belongs there.
it's even sadder to think about the fact that hathaway knows the water makes you forget. she knows why she can't remember and is actively helping the man pumping out the product that wiped her memory in the first place.
if she got her memories back from jasper and remembered just how much she loved her kids, and just how much pain she'd feel if her kids had forgotten about her, maybe she'd have it in her to stand up to him.
also her name was alice anne langley
