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So like it would make a lot of sense if theyd cut to pugsleys reaction to his sister getting bullied alive, but no, they cut to Tyler

Shoutout to u/Silvery_Barbs_5e --if not for your beautiful presence, I would've forgotten this in my digital vault.

*I forgot to mention that Oil of Antimony was a toxic chemical preparation developed by Paracelsus, so it's especially fitting that Wednesday begins her "prep" with a red-violet mixture.

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Breakdown of Laurel's notes
Alchemy-related posts compilation

In one of my previous posts, I developed a first idea: Nevermore's four dorms (Ophelia, Puck, Thisbee, and Caliban) all seem to revolve around error, illusion, or a distorted perception of reality: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wednesday/s/Z8piH5XbKY

In another post, I imagined two ideologies that might have been clashing since Nevermore's very beginning: protecting Outcasts while respecting the individual, or protecting Outcasts at any cost: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wednesday/s/85j04DcGuA

But what if the dorm names should also be taken more literally? What if they represent Nevermore's four original founders? Any resemblance to a certain school of witchcraft and wizardry is... possibly intentional. 😉

Why do I think that? Because of Ophelia. There's that strange submerged statue of Ophelia in the Quad. Look closely at her face and you can almost make out black tears running from her eye. Goody also cried black tears in the painting. Just like Wednesday. So what if that statue is actually a tribute to Goody?

That's where this theory begins: Ophelia may have been Goody's alias as one of Nevermore's founders. And if that's true, Puck, Thisbee, and Caliban could hide the identities of the other three founders. The dorms wouldn't simply be literary references. They would tell Nevermore's secret origin story.

Basically: what happens when Ophelia and Caliban walk into A Midsummer Night's Dream? So, ready for my completely insane theory about Nevermore's first lie? 😉

CALIBAN: the original problem

In The Tempest, Caliban is dangerous, and Prospero eventually subdues him through magic. It's hard not to think about Hydes. They're violent, incredibly powerful, and can transform unpredictably. And we already know what an Outcast community can do to those it considers uncontrollable: look at the Alphas. Werewolves hunt them down and kill them.

So imagine that one of Nevermore's four founders was a Hyde. How do you build a school around Outcast unity when one of your founders might lose control and become a threat to everyone else? Cast him out? Kill him? Or find a way to control him?

OPHELIA / GOODY: the creation of the bond

That's where Goody comes in. Goody practices witchcraft and creates the Nightshades, hidden within Nevermore. Through this echo of the sorcerer and the monster, I think she's the one who initiates the first bond with a Hyde.

Why? That's where I'd leave several possibilities open. A desire for control? Genuine concern for everyone's safety? Maybe the Hyde even consented: “I'm not thrilled about someone controlling me, but if I completely lose my mind, I'd rather Goody stop me than have the others kill me.”

Or maybe Goody and the Hyde loved each other and willingly chose to bind themselves through magic. His uncontrollable impulses are contained, while Goody gets reassurance against her own fears and insecurities. After all, she's a Raven (blind trust and giving up control don't exactly seem to be their specialty).

Protection? Love? Fear? Control? IDk. But Goody accepts the magical or karmic price required. She created the bond. The mutation. The curse.

PUCK: “Why stop there?” 😈

Now we enter A Midsummer Night's Dream. Puck's magic redirects people's desires toward the wrong person. What if Nevermore's Puck did the same thing to Goody's spell? He switches the target.

Accident? Maybe. Personally, I think it was deliberate. Goody has created a way to control Caliban, and Puck represents the other ideology: “Why stop there?” If we can control something this powerful, why only use the bond when he's dangerous? Why not control him completely and turn him into the ultimate weapon for the Outcasts?

Same goal: protect the Outcasts. Completely different limits.

THISBEE / HELENA: accepting the illusion

Thisbe comes from Pyramus and Thisbe, the play performed inside A Midsummer Night's Dream. Thisbee is a woman in love who is willing to do anything, even die for love. And so, behind Thisbee, I also see Helena. Helena desperately wants Demetrius, and magic eventually gives her exactly what she wanted: Demetrius loves her. Except his desire has been magically altered. The illusion gives Helena what she wants, so why reject it?

And I think there are several possibilities for our original Thisbee. Maybe she genuinely loves Caliban more than anything and accepts the corrupted bond because the illusion gives her the man she wants. Or maybe love has nothing to do with it: she shares Puck's ideology and accepts control over Caliban because she believes Hydes should be used to protect the Outcasts.

Or maybe it's both. She supports Puck's vision and gets the man she loves at the same time. Ideology and desire suddenly point in exactly the same direction. Why would she refuse?

And the name Thisbee may add another clue. When Pyramus dies, Thisbe chooses to die too. What if the Master/Hyde bond works like a contract? The Master gains control but accepts a price in return. Perhaps the death of one affects the other, or breaking the bond has consequences. Thisbee binds Caliban, but by accepting the bond, she binds herself to him too.

CALIBAN / DEMETRIUS : the illusion becomes permanent

This is where Caliban also becomes Demetrius. Demetrius's feelings are magically altered in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He ends up loving Helena, and unlike Lysander, his enchantment isn't reversed. He believes he chooses her. But does he?

I think our first Hyde suffers the same fate. Goody's bond is redirected, and what may have begun as a safeguard becomes servitude. Caliban loses his free will.

And suddenly the whole pattern appears:

OPHELIA / GOODY → creates the bond.

PUCK → redirects the bond.

THISBEE→ receives the bond.

CALIBAN→ loses his free will.

And Goody had already agreed to pay the price of her magic, so she pays it anyway. What was that price? An early death? A curse on her bloodline? Maybe. But I keep coming back to madness.

Ophelia is shattered by loss and descends into madness before her death by drowning. If Goody suffered a similar fate, that submerged statue in Nevermore's Quad suddenly becomes incredibly symbolic. Maybe we're not simply looking at Shakespeare's Ophelia, but at the memorial of Nevermore's own Ophelia: Goody, the woman who created the bond, paid its price, and was ultimately destroyed by it.

Nevermore's first great betrayal. And perhaps its first great lie. Pretty ironic for a school whose motto is “Unitas est invicta”: unity is invincible.

SAME TRAGEDY, DIFFERENT PLAYERS ?

And this is where Alfie, Minerva, and Isadora become really interesting. As I already suspect that Isadora is lying about what actually happened, I would flip the roles we've been given. Minerva would be the woman who originally had the genuine bond. Isadora would be the one who wanted what Minerva had and benefited from its manipulation. And Alfie would once again be the Hyde whose will is altered.

Which leaves one final parallel that I love: If Goody Addams is the creator of the bond....Wednesday Addams is the destroyer of the bond?

Idk...but I love the idea.

Weyler Cosplay ⬅️

You know what I love most about this Weyler video? The comments. It’s average viewers, a handful of ‘ship’ people thrown in, but overall it’s average Wednesday viewers loving the canon couple representation. When ‘ship wars’ get dirty, I like to go read the comments of this video and remember that the average Wednesday viewer knows Tyler is (or will be) her partner.

TikTok from: @Wednesdayl0re

Wait.. I never thought of that before.. and now I have 81499 questions!

They say you can’t keep a good man down. On Wednesday, you can’t keep a good villain dead.

First, homicidal pilgrim Joseph Crackstone was resurrected à la Frankenstein by his descendant Laurel Gates, using the Codex Umbrarüm and some unethically sourced body parts. Then we met Slurp, a zombified Nevermore alumnus whose clockwork heart Pugsley accidentally jump-started. Feeding on mystery-meat sandwiches and later human brains gradually restored him to his original form: Isaac Night, aka Thing’s original body.

As co-showrunner Miles Millar put it: “I will say, in this show, no one is officially dead dead. There’s always a way.”

Which brings us to Season 3 and the possibility of another big bad getting reanimated. The most likely candidate is the mystery character from the cast announcement video, symbolized by an oversized wine bottle bearing a question mark on its label. That bottle may be the clue: alcohol—spirits—hinting that whoever it represents is currently dead. Subject to change, of course.

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With the show promising to dive deeper into Hyde mythology, we can’t ignore Nevermore founder Nathaniel Faulkner, who cataloged outcasts in his diary before being killed by a Hyde—perhaps while trying to master it. A page seemingly torn from that diary can be found on the desk in the Principal’s Office at Wednesday: Eve of the Outcasts. It catalogs a rare type of outcast known as a Death Whisper, capable of killing the living or resurrecting the dead with a Latin incantation.

Faulkner could have persisted as a spirit, appearing to the living as Goody Addams and Principal Weems have, and persuaded a Death Whisper (perhaps one of the Nightshades) to restore him to life.

Bringing back Nevermore’s founder—killed by one kind of outcast and revived by another—would be a fitting twist.

Ok so this is the date scene in Ep 7 and I noticed Wednesday looked at the ground and then back Tyler. Why would she do that? Was she trying to signal something? I mean it’s unlikely but still possible. She was very nervous as you can see in the video bc she knew they were about to kiss.

But yeah what do u think??