#freya fellow

Okay, so I’ve been thinking about the possible Timeline of Freya and her mother and how they could/would possibly work out between Tangle Tower and Mermaid Mask.

(Several people I know have been struggling to work it out due to weird information, so I'm trying to present some possible explanations.)

Mostly on how no one in Silkworm knew about Freya and how Felicia could have “died” when her daughter was three while still being around and doing things in Silkworm. As several context clues say that Freya should have been a lot older when Felicia passed away, despite Tangle Tower claiming that both of Freya's parents had died when she was three years old.

My thought was that maybe Felicia gave up custody to the half-brother she got along best with because she didn't want to be/feel capable of being a mom at the time? More so if she and Damian Dusk weren’t married, meaning there was the pressure of being a Single Mom in there too.

I assume that, since Felix and Felicia could have shared their love of seafaring and adventure, that could have given them common ground to be fairly close to each other. Even with the tremulous connections that came from being half-siblings. If they had something they shared, something positive that they bonded over, they both would have had something that made them put more emphasis on the ‘Sibling’ over the ‘half’ in their relationship.

Enough that, when he learned his half-sister was going to have a baby despite not being married, he would be willing to help her out by taking custody of said child to raise alongside his own daughter in Tangle Tower.

(Maybe even with full approval from Flora? I’m basing this on the fact that both of them seemed quite close to Freya despite her being their niece and not their daughter.)

The Tangle Tower Fellows had this feeling of financial security to them in the game, which was one of the reasons for the tensions between the Fellows and the Pointers. If that was always true, then there was also the motive of making sure Freya had a strong, safe home to grow up in that the Inn/Silkworm didn’t offer. After all, it was a very small town and we see it pretty well abandoned in Mermaid Mask. So there could have been hints to that future already showing up when Felicia was still pregnant with her baby.

After getting that squared away (and potentially having Freya at Tangle Tower instead of in Silkworm) she then went back home to the Inn and returned to running her sea tours.

Which could have been when Magnus showed up in her life (since he wasn't born in Silkworm, I think?) and started living/working there. It would make sense in that context for him to not know about Freya if she'd already had her and gave the custody to someone else.

Since Wirman only mentions his dad having a “thing” for the Inn Keeper, I can only assume he wasn’t aware of the full extent of their relationship or the possibility of him having a half-sibling. So I almost want to say that the relationship between the two was more of a Fun Fling than something long term and serious. Which could also explain why Felicia didn’t ask the Dusk family to take Freya. Because she didn’t think they would want her. Either because it would be a scandal for Dusk to be a father out of wedlock (especially if the man was still married) or because she knew he just- Didn’t want a second kid to raise.

Then she went AWOL/dropped contact with the TT crew around the time Freya turned three, which could have led to the assumption that she'd passed away. Since in TT, unless you’re keeping an active correspondence, you kind of Vanish From Existence if you aren’t living there or repeatedly visiting.

That, or there was some kind of scandal from Lord & Lady Fellow finding out that Felicia had a baby out of Wedlock with Mayor Dusk and she'd never told them about it (maybe even that she'd actively hid it from them). Considering the Implied Nobility status of the Remingtons/Fellows I’ve noticed, "death" via Disownment could be relevant logic there. Not to mention adding a sudden, strained relationship between the Fellows and the Dusks in Silkworm.

It would also explain the arguments about whether or not Freya would be allowed to carry the Fellow name that get mentioned. (Maybe even arguing that they should dump her on her father since she was a “Dusk”.)

But Felicia didn't actually die until later on in the actual timeline. Just the “proper society” connections she’d had from her father. Which she may not have fully cared about. Compared to the family connections, anyways.

Which would actually give her a motive to look for the Mask for more than just idle curiosity.

Finding and getting the Mask could have been an attempt to get back into their good graces.

There are some context clues in the games that say The Mermaid could have hatched from the Egg that Tangle Tower was built in, found in the story on the Bell and the hidden reel that featured Lord Remington speaking to someone. (And the weird shape of the cliffs around Tangle Tower.) Getting the mask, proving it worked, and then handing it over to her family could have been an attempt from Felicia to regain the favor of her family.

(And being allowed to interact with her daughter again.)

But, of course, the trip didn’t end well for anyone that had gone on it. And, instead of presenting her prize to her father's family, she skipped town and vanished into the aether.

Until, at some point in time after that, she died and the news was somehow sent back to Lord Fellow. And the Mourning Envelope and the key for the mask were locked away in the remains of the Manor. Until Mariana brought the chest to Mortunga.

The way you die in the nightmare reflects how you die in real life somewhat, but it's not 1-to-1 (Freya was impaled through the heart and Magnus had his throat slit, but the circumstances behind such were different).

If you survive the dream then you don't die at all.

If you do die in the dream, it becomes recurring. It will stay recurring until the day you either die or you survive it and it goes away.

The details are fuzzier for people who don't die inside the dream than they are for the people who do.

The dream mostly impacts people who sleep during a specific time frame, that being 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM GMT. Sometimes it will do so randomly, but this is far rarer.

The Figure does not kill people directly. Anyone who dies does so while trying to get away from them.

The Figure can speak, but nobody remembers what they try to say.

People who have recorded their instance of the nightmare and remembered most of it recall The Figure having a very striking, unique voice. It has been described as a mash up of almost every accent.

Most people's depictions of The Figure are more abstract, though there are some accounts that describe him in great detail, which almost manages to map on a specific person directly.

There is a small online community dedicated to recording instances of the dream and trying to find if there is an origin point.

In this community is an urban legend that The Figure appears at wherever someone who had the dream died at. This is mostly unfounded.

Mostly.

After much digging, many people have learned that the detailed accounts of The Figure actually map cleanly onto an unlicensed homicide detective operating in the UK.

People have begun to think this is Him.

Nobody has tried to contact Him yet. It was made a rule to not try to directly reach out to Him.

This specific report of the dream, however, made many want to break that rule:

"Had this dream a couple days ago. Big red thing had the voice of my partner. He held me for a bit. It felt nice. Haven't had it since."

Despite its vagueness, this report seemed to confirm things for a lot of people. Any attempts to contact this person were met with nothing.

People were already desperate to know what The Figure was saying to them. This simply made it worse.