#and webs are associated with Hannah and Webby

[ups-sups]

Lautity my beloved.

[dragon-nerd-theorist]

There are monsters and there are men - a warning of false binaries

Spoilers for Black Friday (BF) and nightmare time (NMT) to do with Mrs Holloway and Hannah (the Witch in the web (WIW) killer track (KT))

I am just trying to work through some thoughts I had, this may bloom into a theory but at the moment it is a splurge.

Listen to the lyrics of 'Monsters and men' and you will hear only those two categories; monsters and men. We know that the hatchet men planted those with the gift as they were associated with Willabella Muckwab who worked with the Lord in Black (LIB) who are monsters.

However Hannah/Lex have the gift, and are shown to be good. The gift would suggest monster, but later in BF, we see McNamara help lex to use the gift - suggesting non-monstrous intent.

From the WIW we know either Holloway or Wiley win in this set of fractured universes, and we also know there is black and white, lords in black and webby, monsters and men. The LIB are presented as monsters, as black (evil, a terrible linguistic fault in English) as Wiley's side. webby is presented as white, as good, and so necessarily on Mrs Holloway's.

I think that the Lang's would solve this in a ying-yang style equilibrium of balance of good and bad (like the ape man vs the axe man) but I think it is grey.

Hannah's gift doesn't discriminate between the black and the white, although webby is her help in WIW and yellow jacket, she also wakes Wiley in WIW. the LIB and webby are related somehow, suggesting that they are not as separated as perhaps we would think.

[mystifyinghatchetfieldtheories]

The hat given to Hannah is magical

In Black Friday, it initially seems strange how enthusiastic Ethan is about moving to California with Lex and Hannah considering how he has a supportive and financially stable father. It’s interesting that Tony Green isn’t mentioned in Black Friday at all, which could mean that he’s dead. 

We know that Ethan died shortly after giving the hat to Hannah. What if Tony gave the hat to him, and then was killed by Jane? The hat has been shown to protect people from the Lords in Black, so maybe what sets Jane’s a Car apart from the other stories is that Tony didn’t give Ethan the hat, keeping him alive.

It’s also possible that Ms. Holloway gave Tony the hat, and only had it in The Witch in the Web because she didn’t give it to him, causing Ethan and Lex to sell drugs for money. I find it interesting that Ethan mentions the hat having “the power of Greyskull”, which sounds like a reference Ms. Holloway would make, but also could mean that the hat was created by the Monarch. We already know about the Lords in Black, and Webby is the Lady in White, so it would make sense that the monarch is associated with the color grey, and created the hat to protect humans from the Lords in Black. Ethan even says that the hat was given to him by “a great warrior”!

Another possible explanation is the soul transfusion spell used by Jane’s psychology patient. We know Willabella’s ghost still haunts Hatchetfield. Maybe her or someone else’s soul is trapped in the hat, and protects people who wear it.