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Tvtropes rule of rose5/17/2023 ![]() So when a hurt and angry Wendy decides that a stray dog took everything from her, she brings a Stray Dog, in the form of an unhinged Gregory, to take everything from Jennifer. This of course backfires spectacularly and angers Jennifer to the point where she snaps, throws Wendy a beating, and unwittingly dethrones her. When that doesn't work, she then orders Brown killed, in the childish belief that removing him from the picture will make things go back to the way they were. Wendy is jealous that Brown is taking Jennifer's attention away from her, and so comes up with the Legend of Stray Dog to get the other children to think negatively of Brown. Wendy's Legend of Stray Dog, and subsequent training of Gregory to act like a dog, becomes a lot more meaningful when you consider that she blames Brown for taking Jennifer's love from her.The park scene makes a lot more sense now. ![]() One of these sources was the attic window she can observe in Once- specifically, its warm sunlight. This chapter shows why that is: in the orphanage, Jennifer had so few sources of comfort (most prominently Brown) that she mentally associated them with each other. In the prologue, Jennifer is sleeping on a sunlit park bench when she- apparently randomly- starts to remember Brown.Then it's revealed that Brown has died, and Jennifer imagines otherwise because she can't cope with the truth. Because Brown is still beside Jennifer, the phrase seems like an exaggeration to first-time players, yet another example of the narrator's cynicism. In the penultimate chapter, everyone who Jennifer interacts with bullies or ignores her- prompting the narration to repeat each time that she is "all alone".In some stories, hares tend to be associated with trickery, selfishness, and being a bad example for people to follow, which is Wendy's true self. As noted on the character page, Wendy's Animal Motifs seems to be rabbits and she doesn't act like those with a rabbit motif, subverting it, however, things start to make sense when you realize that her animal motif aren't rabbits, they're hares.Which makes a lot more sense come the reveal. Despite looking tall enough, Jennifer can't reach them. Immediately after getting untied after waking up on the Airship, it's possible to try and pick the scissors out of the automatic contraption that freed you.This can also be used for why the combat is so horribly tricky and sometimes unfair: if a small girl had to defend herself against five older children, she would stumble, be scared, try to just wildly swing and use unlikely weapons of whatever she has available.She's just a kid during those events, so she is acting similarly to how she did back then. ![]()
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