Severence - Blog Posts

marks reintegration in s2ep3 is really reminding me of piranesi by susanne clarke. two selves born from the same body but with fundamentally different life experiences. the memories of the experiences merge, both become aware of each other, of each others traumas and relationships and how they created and informed their separate selves. but they are unable to truly become any of their old selves anymore because they now coexist in the same body at the same time. they are a shell of who they previously were. they are simultaneously both and neither of their original selves. they are someone completely new.

i know i’m probably missing a lot with the lore and story of severence because of this but… any time they talk about kier and the eagans it goes right over my head; it doesn’t even make it to my ears i simply just do not pay attention…