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I was looking through the posts and @Rob_K made a really good point.("One possibility is that Nerissa is actually Nerissa. However, she was glamoured as Faith in episode 1.") What if Nerissa was glamoured as Faith in the beginning instead of the opposite way around like what other people think? This could make sense. Faith could have already been killed before the beginning of episode 1 and Nerissa was trying to get Bigby's attention. So she glamoured herself to look like Faith. Got him to show up to the Woodsman's place, and then placed the real Faith's head right at his doorstep so he would be interested in the case and expose the Crooked Man. Thoughts?
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i agree it was a hard ending to understand but when pieced together it makes sense nerissa was behind the helping all along but i hope a season two will work out some of this too
Well one of the things Bigby recalled when he realized it was that Faith had an ability to hide herself, and that "I used to be called The Little Mermaid." So that means if Faith was glamored as Nerissa when she said that, it'd make sense to the "I used to be called"...But Idk.
Thanks for the credit, NotJustin.
Not necessary as it was hardly something I wrote for profit or anything, but still very much appreciated.
See, I could get behind the idea of Faith being alive all along, but there's one catch. Lawrence.
I assume he would have seen the head, and if so, he would have known that it wasn't Faith.
So, for me, Nerissa acting as Faith in episode 1 is the only thing that really makes sense. (Also, you have the picture of Faith arguing with Nerissa. That could have been taken right before Faith was killed.)
Though one thing just twigged now. Who would have taken the photo of Bigby and 'Faith' outside?
I think that rather than coming to one conclusion and people saying 'this is what happened' and people believing it, people should just draw their own conclusions for now. Kind of a similar case to something like Shutter Island.
It's fun discussing things though.
Bit of a different scenario, however, if we do get DLC or a second season. We probably will never get conrete answers for things like Shutter Island.
I think this theory makes the most sense.
Throughout the entire series, we are constantly being told that the Fables feel unable to go to the authorities/through the proper channels in order to seek help with their problems. It seems most plausible to me that, after witnessing Georgie murder Faith, Nerissa got scared and thought that the only way she could get the attention of the administration was to disguise herself as Faith and cause a civil disturbance. Make a scene that would demand the attention of Sheriff Bigby. Once Bigby had "met" Faith and been made aware of her occupation, Nerissa could then plant the real Faith's head outside the Woodlands apartments and force Bigby to start an investigation immediately, pointing him in the right direction with the clues she had given him through posing as Faith.
It's a much neater possibility than Faith being alive and posing as Nerissa. The biggest problem with that idea is that we know Georgie (thinks he) killed Faith. So, if Faith was the one who was alive, that would require Georgie having killed Nerissa in glamour. But why would Nerissa be glamoured as Faith at the time? It raises more questions than it answers.
The only things that give me pause for thought on either theory are; Swineheart's having trouble with Faith's autopsy (possibly suggesting that the head did not belong to the person it was supposed to) and I find it strange that, if the Faith we meet in TWAU is in fact Nerissa in glamour, Bigby's super sensitive nose didn't notice that both girls had the same scent. This is, of course, easily explained if glamour spells also make the wearer smell like the person they are masquerading as (would explain the need for a tuft of hair for the spell to work). Still, that'd have to be a very powerful spell to deceive the wolf's sense of smell.
Whatever the case, I still feel shitty about Faith's death. Her life sucked. ='(
(PS. It was so awesome when Bigby went full wolf-mode! /)^3^()
The other question i have is, Why would Swineheart have such a huge problem with the body and wouldn't the glamour fade by then like Lily's corpse did when she was glamoured as snow?
I don't think Lawrence did see the head did he? I seem to remember Dee saying he told Lawrence and he shot himself right there and then (Dee could've been lying I suppose, but I wouldn't know why if he did).
But when you find Faith's head on your doorstep it is beat up...
Yeah, it's all thoroughly perplexing (just as Telltale wanted it to be, I imagine!). I get the feeling some things are meant to be a bit muddy so we go away still asking questions.
It does seem strange that a doctor as competent as would have trouble identifying the remains, but, as you say, if the body was glamoured, then surely the spell would have warn off eventually and Swineheart would have probably brought it up when he was stitching Bigby back together.
Though, with the timeline being a little difficult to follow, it's possible that the glamour wore off while Swineheart was not in his office.
True. Implying that the bruises were the result of Woody's beating. But, it's possible that Georgie smacked (the real) Faith around a bit before undoing her ribbon and killing her.
True
Also, when she tells him about the legs, she says "They cost me a lot", being sad. I think however smart Faith may have been, she would not have faked all that. So I'm sticking to the "we actually never met Faith" theory.
Lillys glamour faded because bigby was able to retrieve the glamour-token and open it.
As fas as i remember, the body belonging to faiths head was never found.