Eram

Heyyyyyy guess who this song reminded me of

Cause he was really ready to face his demons head on, but literally couldn’t to the fullest extent cause the rest of the team needed him. If I stick to my theory that the incense is a parallel to Chloe’s perfumes, I feel like that shows the biggest difference between how he uses them compared to Chloe. Chloe is actively trying to delude herself into a false reality, Edgar uses it in order to stay stable for those relying on him. And on that note, it makes me think about Edgar sidelining his own struggles cause people need him present.

His coa hallucinations are obviously a callback to the hallucinations Edgar actually suffers which were a trauma response, so to me it kinda reads as if Edgar quite literally won’t allow himself to process his trauma as deeply as he WANTS to because he got bigger fish to fry. He wants to process it, coa makes a point to bring up that he won’t let himself get completely deluded, but he can’t confront it in full cause the coa team needed him. And I don’t use “need” lightly, that plan literally would not have had any hope of working without Edgar.