TWST Theory : Grim The Jabberwocky-Deep Analysis Based on Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass
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CONTAINS SPOILER CHAPTER 6
I was talking about Yuu, today I’m going to talk about the other Ramshackle dorm resident who’s going to overblot in the future, our cute furbaby Grim.
In chapter 6 Idia did a research on Grim and this is one of Grim’s test result :
People assumed that Grim is Cerberus, the keeper of underworld. But when you look at him Grim is more of a cat beast rather than dog beast. But there’s other possibility what Grim might be. We know that Grim is combination of beast and animal so I’m going to break it down and explain his animal part and his beast part one by one.
-Grim’s Animal Part : Alice’s Black Cat-
Had it crossed your mind why Grim is a cat and not any other animal? If it’s true that Twisted Wonderland and Ramshackle dorm is based on Through The Looking Glass, that’s because Grim is most likely based on Alice’s black cat from said book by Lewis Carroll.
In the future, it’s Grim who’s going to overblot, which means he is the “main villain” from Ramshackle just like Malleus from Diasomnia because he represents Maleficent. But why I said Grim is Alice’s black cat? Because that black cat is “The Red Queen”, who is the final “villain” of Through The Looking Glass.
Alice goes back to her original world after she shakes Red Queen which turns out to be her black cat, which also means she needs to “defeat” the Red Queen (her black cat) to return back to her original world. Probably similar with Yuu who need to defeat Grim to go home.
-Grim’s Beast Part : Jabberwocky-
What is Jabberwocky? Jabberwocky is a poem Alice found when she enters the mirror world. It’s a poem that’s written in backwards, therefore she would need a mirror to read it from its reflection. It’s also the first poem and is also at the very first page of Through The Looking Glass book by Lewis Carroll before the story begins.
Who did we meet first right after we enter the Dark Mirror after we were guided by Crowley’s voice? That’s right, it’s overblot Grim.
Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem about a heroic boy slaying a creature named Jabberwock. It’s made of ‘portmanteaus’ : a word made up of other words. The new word can be derived from usual english word or the combination of two words. Just like chimera, which is a single organism that’s made up of cells from two or more “individuals”. Which explains why overblot Grim is a chimera.
When Alice found the poem, she didn’t know the meaning of those portmanteaus, but in the book, Carroll had Humpty Dumpty explain it to her. But right now I’ll explain some of those portmanteaus based on what Lewis Carroll said himself. Below are some examples of the portmanteaus and their meanings :
From JP fandom side, someone made a theory that Overblot Grim is the combination of all 7 dorms. And we can see that here.
If you look closely, Jabberwocky consists of seven quatrains. How many official dorms in NRC and how many students are overblotting? That’s right, it’s seven.
Some also said that Grim has something to do with the time loop. Jabberwocky has a rhyme scheme of (ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL ABAB)
Notice how the rhyme repeats at the first and final stanzas? And the two quatrains of the first and the last are mirror images to one another. Moreover, Jabberwocky can be seen as an inverse mirror image of itself through it’s distinguishable beginning and ending. Pretty much like how the time loop is, going back from the final to the beginning.
Additional (after thoughts) :
This is purely just my assumption and I don’t have any evidence of it, but I have a feeling that Grim is the cause of why there’s something called blot.
In chapter 6, Idia wasn’t so sure about Grim’s amount of blot, that’s because someone was casting a 1000 year old primitive, ancient magic on Grim to cleanse blot, pretty much like the curse in Idia’s family, which is a curse from “The Age of Gods” (and Idia said he could only examine the outer layer of it, since there are many ancient magic on Grim that even with S.T.Y.X super computer it will need 100 years to finish it)
From chapter 6, it’s hinted that Idia captured the overblotting NRC students because of an anonymous request from someone.
And suspiciously (again) Crowley seems to know something about Grim…