Alright, I’m going to stop complaining about that stupid
“chosen” thing. Whether or not it’s true, I never actually accomplished what I
said I wanted to do in the beginning. So I looked through my posts and what I
remember of every story I experienced. What can we learn when we put them all
side-by-side?
Nessa was sick, but clean doctors were able to cure her,
making me think that the Plague Doctor’s diseases aren’t all terminal. After
she was better, she was killed by Dekevious Jones.
Jones was hearing things in the night, just like the
students in the story of Johnny Frye, leading me to think he was under the
influence of a Fear (most likely the Rake). After doing some research, I
learned that he killed himself after being taken into custody.
Niel and Marianne Jones were both taken by the Quiet slowly.
It took them apart starting with the memories of others until they were nothing.
Tallie… I don’t know anything about Tallie. She wouldn’t
tell me. She knew what I was doing and deliberately kept her problems to
herself so that I wouldn’t try to help her. Then she killed herself.
Andrew was haunted by horrendous nightmares for weeks before
they started haunting his mind when he was awake too. He killed himself to
avoid the pain.
So what do all these stories have in common?
It’s easy: the protagonist dies.
Regarding the Plague Doctor's illnesses it does seem sometimes that He experiments with new diseases and doesn't always get the results he wants. He's also been observed to use carriers that while they become sick don't necessarily *die* of the illness so they can spread it longer. A good example is that case of chickenpox that swept Michigan last year, higher than normal infection rate, infected even people who already had the chickenpox previously, and had a higher than average adult mortality (but not 100%). But it didn't kill the *children* that were used to spread it. Whether this was because He wanted them to stay alive to expose more people or because he wanted them to live with having infected relatives that may have died I don't know.
ReplyDeleteActually an even worse thought just occurred. How many of the children who had His enhanced form of chickenpox will later develop Plague Doctor enhanced shingles as an adult?