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✒️What lies do they believe about themselves? Good and Bad!

✒️What lies do they believe about those who are closest to them?

✒️What lies do they believe about the world?

Father Dion Donadieu

"People only become cruel because they're hurting."

Eilena taught him kindness without expecting anything in return. She believed people became cruel because they suffered, not because cruelty defined them. Dion carries that lesson like a haunting. It's why he can look at murderers, addicts, prostitutes, or frightened "monsters" and still see human beings. Most of the time this is true, other times people are cruel because they are just assholes. Dion is aware of both, yet Eilena's teachings urge him to answer with compassion first.

"Eilena is disappointed in me."

After the murder, Dion's guilt has warped how he remembers Eilena. Dion sees all his faults as deliberate stab wounds in Eilena's butchered corpse. He has turned Eilena into an impossible moral standard. Dion forgets she loved him while he was flawed, while he was drinking and doing drugs, while he was hurting himself and others, while his was committing all the sins imaginable. If she could see him now, she'd likely be saddened by one thing above all; that Dion thinks she would stop loving him. Eilena's defining trait was mercy; Dion has turned her memory into a judge when, by all accounts, she would have been the first to forgive him.

Hagdalena Alderin

"The Hag Mother is inevitable."

The Hag Mother is a looming entity that stalks Hagdalena. Hag Mother indirectly teaches;  "Change is inevitable. Resistance only prolongs the suffering."  Gradually, Hagdalena loses hope and starts to believe she is destined to change into a monster at the Hag Mother's behest.

✒️What lies do they believe about themselves? Good and Bad!

✒️What lies do they believe about those who are closest to them?

✒️What lies do they believe about the world?

Father Dion Donadieu

"I can atone for Eilena's death if I save Hagdalena."

This is his core lie. He was absent to save Eilena from Jack the Ripper. He believes if he saves the impossible (Hagdalena). Eilena might forgive him.

"I can achieved my goals with discipline and unrelenting effort."

Even after Eilena's death. Even through alcoholism. Even when Hagdalena's case seems impossible. Father Dion persits. Not because he is hopeful, but because he fears what may happen if he stops. That's why he holds on to this particular lie. And why he works himself to the bone.

Hagdalena Alderin

"I am disgusting."

Her manifestations causes tree root to grow under her flesh. Her teeth blacken, fungus blooms around her, and she smells of damp earth. Patches of mold grow on her face. Her stomach bloats with bog water, which causes her to vomit sludge and peat. .... Maybe this isn't a lie after all?

"I'm a coward. I'd rather die before Dion, so he can suffer the grief instead."

She thinks that letting others kill her would be easier than enduring his death. She cannot imagine surviving without him. So instead of recognizing that as overwhelming love and anticipatory grief, she condemns herself: "I'm weak. I'm selfish. I'm a coward."

I pull an "e" at the end of her name cuz I wanna be fancy.

I improvised this but yeah:

I feel that Abby is surprised and very glad by how kind is the people around. I really need to give her a friend or two with some random secretaries. She wants to be like them til a certain point.

Secretaries that btw are mentioned once by Ronald in the end of book of circus. His presence doesn't botters her but my mind is too brainrotted to imagine them interacting over something that aren't unfinished reports or dismissed party invitations.

Since Othello only appeared that time and Grell is surprised that he even came out of his area (lol) I doubt Abby even knows about him, unless, you know, she has to pass information to them or something (which I doubt)

Considerating Eric and Alan were "canon", and not being sure where does that one musical takes place on timeline, I simply assumed that she sees them as "a pair of coworkers that saw once, and never appeared again."

Abby is both attracted and scared by Grell. I mean, I imagine before seeing her first she only heard rummors of "the weird red reaper that was missing for like 3 years" and had no idea it would be a random woman instead

Lastly, William. Mf so down bad he got her tail wagging

"Very much. The Dispatch thought it was a good idea to show us photographies as evidence of what are they capable of."

Also I felt like this reading the question sorry lmao (btw I don't mind)