#Daniel Solace

[violaobanion]

ANEURIN BARNARD as DANIEL SOLACE in 1899(2022) 1x06 The Pyramid

[aneurins-barnard]

ANEURIN BARNARD as DANIEL SOLACE 1899 Episode 7 The Storm

[fukutomichi]

[yellow-dejavu]

[the-girl-in-the-high-castle]

[hannahstanwald]

my favorite behind the scenes photos from 1899

[suis0u]

Daniel Solace II.

[kennys-friend]

From as 1899

iykyk

[queennevercry31]

Forget Maura (I love her, but :3 )

They should have been husbands 😔

[lordbettany]

[violaobanion]

ANEURIN BARNARD as DANIEL SOLACE in 1899 (2022), dir. Baran bo Odar

[aneurins-barnard]

ANEURIN BARNARD as DANIEL SOLACE 1899 Episode 5 The Calling

[deadlakess]

I really enjoy finding the Dark-Severance parallels

[yellow-dejavu]

I think one of the funniest scenes in 1899 is when Maura finally wakes up and she sees Eyk. She is surprised to see him again, and then the first thing she does is take a look at her ring. It's like if she's thinking, "Maura… you have to remember that some guy named Daniel appeared out of nowhere to reveal that he is your husband, you are a married woman somehow, and you have to forget about the sexy Captain Eyk who came back to life somehow".

[the-girl-in-the-high-castle]

It's been a while since I babbled about my boat show, so here I am.

I know we've already talked about this, but I want to know the WHY? behind it.

Like, we might not have figured out shit about the show, but I know that this one IS figured out, cause I'm 100% sure this is true.

This photo of Maura, which Daniel took with him from the Prometheus, belonged in that empty frame sitting on Eyk's desk in Prometheus' captain's cabin.

This photo is made for a frame, and it doesn't just perfectly fit the said frame, it also looks like it. It looks like Prometheus. Old, washed out, like it had seen better days. Just like this frame and everything around it.

Now, every other photo we see in Daniel's memory is different. It doesn't come close to this one. They are all modern photos. They don't even look a decade old, let alone a century.

Another thing that supports this is the shot from the character promo that I can't find anywhere now, but I have screenshots from it. The same photo in a drawer. On the desk, there is a tobacco box, just like there is one, same or quite similar on Eyk's desk, which Maura uses to trap Alfred, as well as books written in German.

The cherry on top all this is Maura's reaction to Eyk's "family photo". Except, it's probably not a reaction to just the photo, but also the frame. Because she's had a more emotional reaction to that photo frame than she's had about 80% of other things happening around her. Every time she looked at it, it was as if it called to her, as if she was trying to remember what it meant. Because it was her photo that should be there, not some random woman and children (the original script, where she takes the frame and puts it back face down, had only the wife and daughters in the photo, Eyk wasn't there). Anyone who's seen Dark remembers the weird and off-putting staring Stranger Jonas gave us with that spot on the floor, and we later found out what it really meant (and it was huge).

So what does this mean? It means that in the previous sim, the roles were different (I've already talked about this in another of my posts. Different sims, different roles, and every sim taking the character deeper and deeper and more out of touch with reality). Maura's photo on Eyk's desk meant that in the previous sim, or maybe more than one, she was HIS wife.

Finally, what I want to know is why did Daniel take it?

Maybe it's because he knew they were gonna search the ship, and if they found it, it would cause some disturbance. But if he wanted Maura to wake up so badly, wouldn't that help? Wouldn't it help if she remembered there were previous simulations and that that meant none of it was real?

I don't believe a word of what he said to Maura about their backstory is true because everything we know about his and Elliot's memory is just a part of a simulation. But I do believe it was probably one of the previous sims. Perhaps one of the initial sims that would make her remember easier and bring her back to the beginning from the depth of endless cycles.

I don't believe Daniel is some sort of evil mastermind, and I don't believe he does any of it for the sake of some evil plan, but this thing about the photo is bugging me so much, because it also connects to him repeatedly telling Maura that it doesn't matter why she forgot, while he kept telling her she needs to remember and wake up.

I mean, he certainly looks like he wants to burn Eyk to crisps with a stare, but I don't believe in just jealousy being the reason behind it.

[hannahstanwald]

behind the scenes of 1899 (2022)