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Headspace Plot: Plotting
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"I had a dream I had a name."
Welcome to the very cave-like headspace of one Winifred Burkle.
For those unfamiliar with her canon, Fred got packed off to a demon hell dimension by a trusted professor and mentor. There, she survived for five years in a world where humankind was treated like cattle -- used as labor, collared and even slaughtered and eaten if the occasion called for it. Over time she slowly retreated into her head, her life back in L.A. becoming the fairy tale she struggled more and more to believe in. After a few years, she managed to disable her collar and escape into the hills. There she created a life for herself in a large, dark cave. She covered the walls with math and formulas and the pictures of a mind trying to find a way home.
That cave? Will be Fred's headspace.
...with a twist.
Instead of all the notations and calculations of how to get home? The cave walls will be covered with everything that happened to her there -- in unedited and uncompromising detail. Fred struggled to deal with everything that happened to her in Pylea, and how to align that with the person she wanted to be after being rescued and returned to L.A. Very few actual details are given of her life in Pylea -- but there is enough to paint a picture.
Fred: "I was - I was five years and so lost and, and at night I would... I was all by myself and you weren't there...I got lost. I got lost, and they did terrible things to me, but, but it was just a storybook. It was just a story with monsters, not real. Not in the world but - but if you're here and you see me then - then it's real! And it did happen. If you see what they made of me... I - I didn't mean to get so lost!"
Not just the physical things done to her, of course. But the person they mentally reduced her to as well.
"Five years of unendurable torture and mental anguish aside, if I hadn't been sucked through that portal, I never would have figured out my string compactification theory."
Fred deals in honesty and truth, and she wouldn't say those things if it wasn't true. There was undoubtedly real, physical torture. Mental strain. And the pain of living in a place where you you had no voice, where you were nothing but physical labor. Very few people really comprehend what fully happened to her there. Fred's protected them from it as much as herself.
Lorne would know. It is his world and he understands what it can be. Angel actually was in her cave, and the others might suspect. And in Paradisa? Billy actually found video of some of her struggles during the secrets on walls events.
The cave will be exactly as it was in the episode. Long and dark, with items gained by her scavenging littering the floors. However now the walls will hold descriptions of actual torture, how to disable a collar with a diagram. Often she will be referred to as 'the girl'. A different sort of fairy tale, Fred has not fully reconciled herself to what happened there.
The scavenged items are now items plucked from her past. Her room. Things that mattered. Things she was cut off from. A life she can't get back to. And in the low, reflective pool of spring that feeds cave? Occasional glimpses of her 'normal' life with be visible. Her folks. Her friends. The 'other' her. The one with a name.
And in all this will be Fred, in her rags and with her collar. She is still wearing it. Pylea is still a huge part of her. The hope is? She will not finally face everything that still holds her captive.
We'll see!
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