#gabrielied

Hey everyone, I'm back. I promised I would discuss what I'd dubbed the 'there is something there' monster when midori revealed what it was. AND HOO BOY DID THEY EVER REVEAL IT.

Before we get there I want to discuss this latest chapter briefly. Henry has been "killed", his personality broken down and deposited in the deepest recess of his mind. This manifests as Henry 'waking up' from a nightmare as his kid self.

Now I could talk a lot about Henry's mom being here and what these lines in particular mean.

But I don't want to sidetrack too much. I more want to discuss why Henry is appearing as his kid self.

Now we all know what Jekyll and Hyde is inherently about. Good vs Evil, and specifically Jekyll's black and white perspective on the concept. He has to be good, therefore Hyde has to be evil.

Midori has always been very good at showing this is not the case. Of course Hyde is evil, but he's more an exaggerated version of what was always there in Henry. I'll pull out one of my favorite lines again for this.

Lately, this delusion that Henry is good bas been falling apart more and more. Even Al no longer hides that Henry is a very flawed person.

The only one who still believes this lie is Henry himself. And that's why he shows up as a kid. Even in the initial 'there is something there' nightmare, we saw it through a child Henry's eyes.

Throughout this entire comic, Henry has been adamant towards his own innocence, to a point that stretches beyond naivety and into delusion. He crafts a world where he is good and gets rid of anything that opposes that idea. And he's not even aware of it.

But those memories, that truth, is always lurking just out of sight.

So now we come to the latest update. We can be fairly certain child Henry is a representation of how Henry sees himself - pure, innocent. It also represents a time when Henry was all those things. Most of the flashbacks we've gotten in detail are from his childhood, when he was full of compassion. His life twisted him away from that, and to ignore his flaws Henry chooses to live in his childhood. He constantly refers to how close characters were when they were kids, even when negotiating with Randall he calls back to their childhood.

If child Henry is a projection of his delusion, this is the real Henry.

I talked a lot in my previous post about the there is something there monster and how it relates to Henry's past with his father, so I won't repeat much here.

But we've had a lot of hints that the monster is Henry. The one I want to point out is the hair.

I've had a running theory that Henry's hair pertains to his control of himself. When he creates hyde his hair is at its longest, he has the least amount of control over himself. When he's a child, he has short hair, and he trims it again later on (after he attacks molly). When he's kidnapped it grows out again and he starts to lose more control. And when Al reunites with him, the first thing he does is trim Henry's hair. The short, clean hair appearance is another part of the facade he presents. It's clean, professional. Whenever he becomes Hyde his hair grows more wild, embodying that wildness within him. And when we see Henry at his worst, his most violent, he always has long hair. So the monster having long hair was a hint to its true identity.

Anyways. What does this all mean? Henry as a child is forced to face his greatest sin, killing his father.

There is no more facade. There is no more forgetting. This is what he didn't want to see. And now he's face to face with it. I feel like this will mean the death of his innocence (young henry). He can't run anymore. We see in the picture above he's crying, his braid coming undone. He's not happy to be losing himself, but it was never something he controlled. He's always been so desperate to be good. He created Hyde to master evil and destroy it.