Episode Twenty-Two: Eternal Return

In which everyone possesses a secret self. Featuring: numerous threats, numerous offers, a girl who knows, at last, her own mind.

Episode description: Mabel and the changeling work out their differences.

Episode Overview
Mabel and Anna's doppleganger play hide and seek.

Trigger Warnings

 * Gaslighting, mental hospitals, delusions, coercion, fighting, screaming, distortion, violence, choking.

Episode Summary
The doppleganger tries to trick Mabel into abandoning Anna to the underworld; she does this by attempting to have Mabel fall in love with her. In anger, Mabel attempts to light her on fire before running; they continue to play twisted versions of both hide and seek and tag with each other, with the doppleganger using various tactics to make Mabel abandon Anna-- from trying to convince Mabel that the doppleganger herself is the best version of Anna to trying to make Mabel believe that she's actually in a mental hospital.

Mabel believes none of these things.

Mabel kills the changeling with her bare hands.

Continuity
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 * The doppleganger will be back as Veratrine in Chimera.
 * Mabel killing the doppleganger leads her to feel horrified and guilty, despite not regretting her actions.

Trivia
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 * The piece of code hidden in the transcript from this episode is "throne."