I wholeheartedly agree with your theory!! It makes this ending a lot more satisfying to think along these lines and it’s very very plausible. It also makes the mc more insane in my POV.
Thanks! (▰˘◡˘▰)
I was wondering why he would stay friends with the psychologist when he never cared about him but now it makes sense if he was planing on killing him
You should be a detective or some shit cuz that was smart. My goal is to be smart like this
Lolololol nah I'm dom irl ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Ooh this sounds so good, wish they had expanded to an epilogue and confirmed it
Girl the finger was from the doctor, not Alex. Idk why so many of y'all are reading the ending wrong lol
This clicked in my brain at the ending scene of the final chapter and I don't know if its right but its what I got from the ending.
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So, in the first chap it shows Clark as a kid and he sees this cat while his classmates say he's hard to understand. The cat is dead right? And it looks like it was poisoned cuz there is FOAM coming out of its mouth. Idk if Clark did this, but I do think it awakened his interest in the macabre.
Anyway, skip to the future, he meets Alex and starts manipulating him cuz he's interested in the kills, but also cuz he wants Alex to stay away from the psychologist. At first I thought Clark was in love with the psychologist, but then there is that scene where the psychologist talks about the tropical fish. Clark says that he won't throw them away cuz they r not dead yet and has this dark expression. Then there is that flashback with the ring, where psychologist says he loves Clark but Clark doesn't respond.
Later, Clark kills Alex and reveals that he never gave a shit about him. And he's really angry and says it was revenge. But was it revenge for the psychologist? I don't think so.
This is my theory. When Clark shows the finger at the end and the file of Alex with the tropical fish in the background, it made me think that Clark wasn't angry at Alex for killing his friend, but for stealing the chance to kill him.
What if from the very beginning Clark was killing the people involved in the files he had been collecting? They might be his murder trophies. What if he planned to kill psychologist from the very beginning?
Psychologist didn't love Alex or Clark, he just wanted to be the one to heal their twisted minds. He can't fix Clark so he moves on to Alex.
Clark however, had always planned to kill the psychologist and Alex gets in the way. Then Alex kills psychologist and steals the victim Clark had been manipulating for so long. All Clark's preparation is ruined, so he gets angry and gains Alex's trust again just to kill him as revenge for stealing his chance to kill psychologist. Then he finds psychologist's finger and brings it back as a memory of the perfect victim that he had dreamed of killing but never got to.
That's just my theory though. Idk it popped into my head when I saw the tropical fish at the end. (๑•ㅂ•)و✧