I am still not over the WCKD Elites (I'm calling them the Four Horsemen, idgaf).
*shaking Dashner by the neck* TELL. ME. MORE. ABOUT. THEM.
I like to think they had different specialties and were paired off accordingly. Teresa is the chemist, clearly, she was in the labs working on the serum/cure, she figured out it was Thomas's blood that was so special, and maybe also designed the Griever venom and it's antidote.
I think Thomas and Aris were the Maze ones, the puzzle oriented ones. Thomas thought of all the ways *through* the Maze, and Aris thought of all the ways *around* the Maze. He's the one who made sure they couldnāt climb down the elevator shaft, couldn't climb all the way up the walls. That's why Aris went sneaking around the outpost bc he knew something was off. He got them out during the escape by going around and opening the door from the other side. But even though he knew something was sketchy, he didn't do anything until Thomas was there. Even without his memories, he knew he needed his puzzle buddy for this.
Which leaves Rachel, my beloved, who I'm thinking is the ordnance one. She designed the Grievers, the blade field, the traps. She's the battle strategist, the tactician. And that's partly why WCKD let her die bc they'd have been fucked if she turned on them.
so we learn that Teresa is actually a whiz in hacking and coding in Fever Code (hacking into WCKDās cameras so it doesnāt see her and Tom sneak into Group Aās dorms to meet their friends in secret), but in the films, chemistry is where she excels.
itās a very fascinating diversion of choice Dashner and Wes make for her
so, i can see her partnering with Rachel in the code for the Greivers. coding and implementing the vemon and serum. but now that iām think about it, that also could mean, Teresa designed the Beetles which watch the Gladers every move since that ties her with cameras and specific coding where a machine mimics life
which has HEAVY implications with her character ššš
and omfg Thomas designing the Maze and making sure thereās an exit or at least a way for the Gladers to escape, giving them that door and key for them. meanwhile Aris is the one sealing the cracks, ensuring that any attempt to leave has obstacle after obstacle (which in turn leads to his amnesiac self noticing so many cracks and flaws in the Facility that others wouldnāt)
Rachel with her strategic mind, it gained her so much respect with Group B and led to them escaping faster than the Gladers but have her a glaring target on her back. Rachel having her strategy and plan oriented mind used as a means to terrify and extract samples from the Subjects and hating it. Rachel pre-Swipe not only designing the Grievers to be deadly and horrifying but have a shell soft enough to kill, to be labeled for someone to see. WCKD wanted a tool for an experimental battle and accidentally radicalized it that they had to put her down before she remembered
yes yes beautiful i love it
