#bc truly. lawrence especially would be at least somewhat equipped to handle a tiny jigsaw survivor considering diana Is One

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sorry if this is random but u said on one of ur posts that corbett was a fave minor saw character which like, same here, so i was wondering if u had any thoughts about what happened to her after she was rescued? love ur blog also

It's not random, don't worry!!! I actually love having the opportunity bc I care abt Corbett very much and I just want her to be happy,, + thank you for the comment abt my blog <33

But um! Regarding Corbett, I find it very unfortunate that we don't see or hear anything abt her after she's rescued by Hoffman in V - thus, it's kind of hard to think abt what happened to her after, as we're not given Any backstory or elaboration whatsoever (for example, I think it would've been amazing to have had her, Diana, Daniel, and Brent from VII at the group therapy meeting in 3D - Daniel and Brent, at least, were actually meant to be there but didn't appear due to time constraints on the actors' parts). Operating off of this info, I kinda like to envision an alternate scenario where the four of them were all present + able to interact during that meeting, because damn it it would've been amazing to have the four of them (who have SO much in common) to have the support of each other!!!

As for what happens to Corbett directly after she's rescued... honestly? I'm not entirely sure. I'd imagine she'd end up in care if she's not got any family willing or able to take her in, but I sort of lean toward the idea of one of her pairs of grandparents - either maternal or paternal, though I like to imagine she visits with the other set if they're still around - gains custody of her and she's able to be placed with people who are familiar to her & that she's somewhat comfortable with.

I think, either way, she struggles a LOT with what happened as she ages; I hc that she and Dylan were actually pretty close, and losing him was obviously a major loss for everyone in her family, but she just felt... lost. She loved her little brother more than anything, spent a majority of her time playing with him, practicing literacy by reading him stories, drawing + colouring with him (she definitely strikes me as the big sister who Wants to have her little brother be involved), and losing him so suddenly and abruptly... it was hard for everyone, but she feels it like a hollow. One day her brother was here, the next he wasn't, and now her mom is hardly home and when she is she's not present and her dad is just growing angrier and angrier and she can't understand these changes.

I genuinely do think Lynn & Jeff were good parents and that they loved their children more than anything, but the loss of a child, especially one so young, is obviously an extremely difficult thing to deal with. It tore them apart both individually and as a couple, and thus their parenting in regards to Corbett suffered. I don't think they were intentionally neglectful, but that was what ended up happening regardless.

So she is this little girl, no more than eight years old or so, and she's already lost her best friend & little brother - her parents don't treat her like they used to, and she doesn't understand why, she just knows something is wrong - and then all of a sudden, after struggling to cope with the loss of her brother, both of her parents are taken from her in one fell swoop and she's left to just... pick up the pieces.

I don't think her grandparents - or anyone, really - are entirely equipped to deal with this tiny Jigsaw-survivor-who-doesn't-really-know-she's-a-Jigsaw-survivor. How do you explain to a little girl that her brother is gone, a serial killer was either directly or indirectly responsible for taking her parents from her, and that she's not getting them back? How do you even begin to put the pieces of the life she knew back together when nothing you could possibly do would make it okay/"fix" it, when you know nothing will ever be the same for her again? I think they struggle with her night terrors, the times she speaks of hearing a woman's voice through the crack in the door locking her into that tiny room, about seeing the pools of blood along the floor while not knowing where they came from, and of the screaming I'm certain she heard at some point.

She can't handle small spaces. She can't sleep with the bedroom door shut anymore and will panic if someone tries. She has to keep her closet door open, too, because she's scared - what if someone comes through and takes her again? (I hc that her method of abduction was pretty similar to what Diana experienced - i.e., a man comes out of the closet and in Diana's case, restrains and gags her - in Corbett's, a man steals her away in the night after putting her to sleep).

I don't think she's as talkative; I think she withdraws, both socially and physically. She hardly speaks, she can often be found staring off into the distance, she has panic attacks during drills, her grades may suffer a little, she has a hard time making friends. Who can understand what she's been through? Who could ever possibly understand the things she's seen, and how can she ever relate to someone else? In her eyes, it's easier to be alone; she doesn't have to explain anything to anyone if she's by herself.

Of course, that's not good for children, and much less so for traumatized children like her who have family that love her, but have no clue where to begin. I do think they get her into counseling - another little hc I have is that there are, eventually, therapists/counselors who work extensively with Jigsaw victims - and I like to think that, once Corbett's begun the healing process and gets to a point where her counselor would like to introduce her to group therapy, she meets Diana Gordon.

There's the obvious as to what they have in common - strange men in their own home, in their own bedroom, either taking them away to hell or putting them through it right there; parents affected severely by Jigsaw, even if Diana's dad is still around (since I don't know where else to put this, I also hc that Lynn & Lawrence were actually pretty friendly - nothing like best friends, and their kids didn't know each other until After, but there's that), and a whole host of issues in the aftermath of surviving Jigsaw that other kids (and most adults) just don't understand.

But beyond that, they're nearly the same age, just a year apart (that's just hc ages kdjklfsd DIana = 5 in 2004, Corbett = 8 in 2008). They both like arts and crafts, and making things with bright colours because that's it's own form of healing, a way of getting away from all the darkness they've experienced. They both love reading and share a lot of favourite series/titles, and they watch a lot of the same shows. And really, they're just two little girls who've been through hell but are able to find the common ground with each other that they've been searching for in everyone else.

They can understand each other, because yeah their scenarios aren't exactly the same, but it's having someone who's lived it too, seen what it was like, that provides a Lot of comfort to them both. I think they definitely talk about their Jigsaw experiences sometimes, just because it feels good to let it out & they feel safe with each other, but more than that they feel safe to be kids with each other, like they should get to be!

ALL THIS TO SAY that I think for a while Corbett struggles, because how can one not having been through what she has, but eventually, she's able to begin healing and makes some friends of her own who end up being in her life for years to come. And eventually, she's able to come to terms with both how her brother's death affected her family, and what Jigsaw had done to both her and her parents. It's not easy, but she's got her family and her friends to support her, so I like to think that eventually Corbett Denlon heals.