S3 - Atticus & Tabitha
This post was inspired by previous work done by u/ElvenQueen726, u/BeMe777, u/LizSnow92 and every other person that has created detailed posts in this sub that make the show so much more fun to watch!
- The connection of Tabitha and death has already been analyzed by u/ElvenQueen726 and the periwinkles (flower of death) and incense burner shown in the cast announcement video.
- A recent post by u/LizSnow92 about reanimation of corpses as a recurring theme and Death Whisper as an outcast type with resurrective abilities that we have yet to see made me think of Atticus, player by an actor with heterochromia. What if that rare trait was used as a literary device for a person that sees both the underworld and the mortal world at the same time? After all Atticus, the Platonist philosopher, maintained that the soul is immortal and self-moving. Atticus was also a strict Platonist; he believed Plato's teachings were undermined by Aristotle. Atticus is also represented in the feast by a lobster, an animal with biological immortality (or, more accurately, negligible senescence).
I think Atticus is a Death Whisper and a student of Tabitha that resurrected her and follows her ideology.
- We have a theory about ideological differences between outcasts potentially being represented by teams A & B in a post by u/BeMe777.
I did get a weird vibe from S2 and the "Outcast Pride" theme which could represent two different things a. the right of outcasts to exist and thrive or b. their superiority over normies. Hester and Dort sounded a bit closer to option b even though Hester seems to slightly change her stance after finding out about Gomez and being told off by Wednesday.
I think Tabitha, the Doyen of the Nightshade society, will believe in outcast superiority and is in team B with Atticus.
Given Wednesday's familiarity and fascination with death, I could see how she, as a Raven, and Atticus, as a Death Whisper, would get along.
I believe that, at the end, Tyler will sacrifice himself for Wednesday and she may force a Death Whisper to bring him back (if she doesn't descend to the underworld to fetch him herself). After all, coming back to life runs in the family (Isaac/Thing) 🙃