Jade makes a crucial point about Victor being Victor’s greatest strength against monsters

NOTICE! This article contains SPOILERS for Season 3, Episode 9!Jade gives a speech about Victor in Of season 3, episode 9 that really captures the special nature of the town’s oldest resident, highlighting a huge advantage he has over others. For over 40 years, Victor was essentially alone in the citywhen he arrived in the city as a child with his mother and sister, who, alongside the other residents at the time, were brutally massacred by Ofof nocturnal monsters on a fateful night. More people would be trapped over the years, but Victor was still without a family – until his father, Henry, arrived unexpectedly.

Henry had long believed that his family died after their disappearance, only for Tabitha to disembark in Camden, Maine, and inform him that while Eloise and Miranda died in Ofcity, Victor was still alive. After Henry was imprisoned, he tried to reconnect with his son, whom he hadn’t seen in over four decades, but Victor is more withdrawn and eccentric than his father might have expected. Lamenting your struggles, Henry seeks help from Jade, who gives him some sage advice that Victor cannot be fixed.”because it’s not broken”, which reflects a major theme throughout Of season 3.

Jade is right about Victor not having been broken into since season 3, episode 9

Victor cannot be measured by the “normality” of the outside world

Although Jade focused on analyzing the meanings of OfWith the bottle tree numbers, his visions, and his connections with the “Anghkooey” kids throughout season three, he also saw a lot of character growth as he worked through these mysteries with others in the town. From befriending Tabitha and Ethan to arguing with Jim or spending time at the bar chatting with Henry, Jade proved to be one of the OfThe wisest and most sensible charactersalthough others consider his fixations erratic. So it should come as no surprise that Jade is so perfectly able to describe Victor’s situation:

You’re trying to figure out how to fix it, right? You can’t, because it’s not broken. Victor is a product of what this place has made of him. Victor has survived here for decades. He was shaped by this place. He’s Tarzan, who grew up in the jungle, and you’re the guy who shows up and makes him feel like an idiot because he doesn’t know how to eat with a fork.

Jade describes Victor brilliantly in a way that really should make Henry and anyone else in town understand why they shouldn’t focus on trying to make him “better.” Victor has been in a state of arrested development since the massacre, but that’s because he was left alone as a child in a city full of manipulative, deadly monsters and creatures. For a long time, Victor’s only “friend” was OfThe Boy in White, whose true nature is difficult to decipher. Victor learned not to trust most things around him, never having been given the tools to develop in a “normal” society..

If Victor had grown up in the outside world, then his behavior might be a little more concerning or cause for question. However, as Jade says, Victor is a product of this city and what it shaped him to be. Victor cannot be “broken”Or considered outside the norm because nothing about your upbringing was normal. No one else in OfThe town of has an experience that parallels Victor’s lonely and tragic childhood in Fromville, so It’s completely unfair to compare your actions, social skills, and emotional reactions to anyone else. Of character your age.

Victor Not Being Broken connects to Season 3’s themes about the town trying to “break” them

Victor cannot be destroyed by a city that made him who he is

Since the premiere of Season 3, the series has placed a huge focus on the idea that OfThe city is trying to break the residents. This has been the driving force behind Boyd’s story throughout Season 3, but it applies to every other prisoner at Fromville – the city wants “to break” them and bend them to your will. However, Victor cannot be destroyed by the city because it has already made him who he is today. The tricks and forces that the city uses to try to break everyone else are exactly what shaped it into what it is today.

Therefore, Victor is not so vulnerable to these city manipulations and tricks like the rest of Fromville’s residents. It is a great strength and advantage that he has over the city, allowing him to understand the evil forces at hand much better than others. Victor survived in OfIt’s been the city for the longest time, so it’s better for others to learn from it instead of trying.”to repair”Or ignore it. He understands what monsters want, how forces manipulate and change people, and what views to trust that others struggle with from an outside world perspective.

Because Victor has been trapped in this city for so long, he has forgotten what it was like to be so focused on trying to get out. Victor forced himself to believe that his childhood before coming to Fromville was just a dreamwhich meant the city couldn’t manipulate him by taunting him with those memories. Without any family left, the monsters couldn’t use Eloise or her mother’s safety to trick him, leaving very little room for Ofstrength to try psychologically “to break” he.

Was Victor the only survivor of the From massacre, always the city’s plan?

The city could shape Victor however it wanted

Considering how his differences from the other residents caused him to be frequently isolated, it’s possible that Victor’s being the only survivor of the massacre was intentional. As the monsters’ mission to “break” Boyd proved, Fromville often functions as a psychological and social experiment, with some unknown sinister forces acting as scientists while the trapped individuals become guinea pigs. By having Victor, a child, grow up alone in this town, the forces could shape it as they please.

It also wouldn’t make much sense for the monsters to kill every living person at once. The city thrives on the terrifying nature of its history and Of season 3’s time travel reveal makes the cyclical feature of the location more important. By sparing Victor, he serves as the city’s “living memory” and the encyclopedia of all its horrors and rules.which also helps to emphasize to new residents how truly vile this place can be. OfTucker’s monsters have already hinted that they would go easy on Victor, perhaps because he was a crucial part of the city’s plans.

Not to mention that Victor simultaneously serves as a story of hope in the city. Although the characters have debated whether hope is a dangerous thing or a force in Ofthe forces certainly feed off of him in some way. Victor’s recovered memory of the Boy in White’s message to Christopher revealed that the “Anghkooey” children created the roots of the symbol and the distant tree through their hope, so hope is literally rooted in the DNA of this place. Young Victor’s survival against all odds creates hope for the others who enter fatally, which may be the intention of some intervening force.