Alice being in the dark place has very interesting implications to me. So, we know that the Dark Place operates on making fiction real, which is why its interested in stealing fiction-makers*-- they would be able to write its entry into our reality, something it wants for its own reasons. However, Alice, as a photographer, has a fundamentally different relationship with reality. She is interested in capturing reality-- an ethos she herself professes in her video diaries for the Dark Place exhibition. I wonder if would have any effect on the Dark Place and the Dark Presence, both of which are, at their core, things of pure potential who these fiction-makers can impose a kind of reality upon (within limits). If she gets a snapshot of the Dark Presence while its not wearing a person, would she be able to bind it to one mode of being? Collapse the infinite realities it contains into one? Could she manipulate the dark place like Alan does, only through carefully arranged optical illusions? God i hope we get to play as her at some point!
*See: Zane, the Andersons, and Alan. i think the Dark Presence also specifically seeks out seers/clairvoyant individuals for this purpose-- perhaps their fiction is somehow more potent or easier for it to use-- since both the Andersons and Alan fall into that category, and it would not surprise me if Zane did too. (Alan is implied to be clairvoyant-- even before the dark place he had visions of different people and times, which manifested themself as the Casey novels and the Night Springs screenplay predicting Trench, Darling, and the Hiss.)
