#miss casey

[raccoonconnoisseur]

Genuine question: Where has the boom in popularity for Severance come from? Not in a gatekeeping way but because I am LOVING all of the love it’s getting all of a sudden. There’s even official MERCH??? After nearly 3 years of trawling Tumblr and the subreddit for crumbs of content it’s amazing to suddenly have so much content and seeing so many people appreciate it. 🥹

[trojan-rabbit]

"They're my friends! You can't just make them disappear!"

[iamdispleased]

it’s always “team helly and mark” this or “team gemma and mark” that but never “team helly, gemma, and mark”

[msrdisease]

they make me sick

[yilune]

maybe love transcends severance

[cronchy-baguette]

finished severance in one night yesterday and i'm obsessed

[shmlnbstrcnd]

1 x 8 : "What's for Dinner?"

1 x 9 : "The We We Are"

[ekkoh]

Don't you wanna know what you're doing down there?

SEVERANCE (2022–)

[mmievin]

Another brunette in a suit to try and get out of my head,

[20genderchild]

no you don’t understand. I said last season that Mark is the Orpheus to Gemma’s Eurydice and also Petey is the Orpheus to Mark’s Eurydice. and it’s literally happening. Reintegration more like Orpheusification

[theladyeowyn]

My life has been a hundred and seven hours long. Most of that has been these half-hour sessions.

Severance, 1x08 “What’s for Dinner?” // 2x03 “Who Is Alive?”

[maxdibert]

I fucking love Helly. I fucking love how the outie Helly seems ruthless to the point that she doesn't care if her innie tries to commit suicide, she couldn't care less, her innie will stay there because it's part of her plan, and because she will be next in line for the company. She doesn't see her innie as a person but as an experiment. Her innie means nothing to her; her innie is part of the project, her innie is the "other," and what matters is the life outside—that's the relevant one, the only one that counts, and the one she belongs to. But the outie Helly seems to have missed a crucial point, which is that she and her innie might not be the same person because they haven't had the same experiences, but they are the same blank canvas. They have the same character, the same essence. Helly R, the innie, is exactly like her outie but in reverse: she is stubborn, headstrong, determined, but above all, ruthless when someone gets in her way. When the innie Helly tells Mark that outies don’t matter a damn, that they owe them nothing, but that Mrs. Casey is "one of us" and therefore she is willing to help him find out what happened to her—not because of what it might mean for Mark’s outie, but for Casey, the innie Casey herself—she is making a whole statement of intent. The innie Helly is declaring that this is war. That it’s those inside against those outside. That they are not the same, and she intends to crush anyone who stands in her way. Just like the outie Helly does, only in reverse. Just as the outie Helly needs to assert herself as the one drawing the line between the insiders and outsiders, the one who is part of the system and belongs to those who have established this oppressive dynamic, the innie Helly needs to do the same in reverse—"oh yeah? Well, I’m not you, I don’t want to be that shit, I refuse to accept that I’m part of those who created this shitty place that I hate"—so her stance is to completely dissociate from her outie and see herself as someone independent, just as her outie does with her to avoid feeling part of the "other." In the end, they can be two different people because a person is shaped by the specific experiences they've undergone, but they have the same core. I adore her, my queen.

[waitinbythephone]

can't get over how ominous a severed existence can be. imagine a deja vú feeling multiplied by ten. imagine that split second moment before your stomach drops and somersaults, before your throat does that clicking little thing, before your heart bumps against your ribs. recognition without memory.

there it is again, that funny feeling.

"there it is again, that funny feeling" as helly looks at helena telling her she's not a person. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as petey tells mark scout that mark s carries his sadness with him, he just doesn't know what it is. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as mark s reads the dedication to him on ricken's book. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as miss casey tells mark s that she's been fired. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as irving b looks at irving bailiff's paintings of the testing room hallway. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan g looks at his kid for the first time. as milchick tells him the name of his wife. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as helena looks at mark s and helly's kiss. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan g takes out his figure of the four of them together, before pulling the levers. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as irving b looks at burt and his husband, in a world that he thinks doesn't belong to him. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as dylan george is denied a job because he's been severed. "there it is again, that funny feeling" as the four of them look at their attempts at asking for help from the world be turned into lumon propaganda.

[ambarraquel]

Okay, since Episode 3 is out, I want to share what’s been on my mind since Season 1. I don’t know if this is possible or logical, but it’s about Irving.

This might turn into a rant 🤣. But keep reading—I promise it makes sense in a LUMONesque way.

1. We know severance is mostly irreversible, and Rhegabi just confirmed how hard it is to send messages between the innie and outie.

2. So how does outie Irving recognize that elevator?

Thanks to Felicia, we now know it’s “The Exports Hall,” where Optics & Design used to handle shipments directly. But if Irving has never been there, how does he know about it? It makes no sense for him to just know.

And then there’s his connection with Burt—it feels so deep, almost like it transcends severance.

What if Irving has been at LUMON longer than he remembers? The severance procedure can selectively erase memories, and we already know about the past MDR Refinement Calamity that LUMON may have distorted to create the lore and keep the departments separated. The most important thing is that MDR is curiously the center of all that weird lore!

Now, the OTC escape plan/MDR Microdat Uprising of Irving Mark Dylan and Helly has become new lore with the whole claymation thing—which we know has been spread to other innies, at least to some extent, because of the new employees Mark briefly shared as coworkers. What if that alleged cannibalistic assault from the paintings actually happened?

Maybe the exports elevator area was so successful that they decided to utilize it in different forms—thus the cannibalistic revolt. LUMON could have devised a whole plan, making that revolt happen as they tried to crack the technology enough to create Mrs. Casey. (Or maybe the revolt was an accident that led them to the technology behind her.) So maybe that place beyond the hall exists because LUMON had to devise a place for trial and error? Maybe employees involved in the cannibalistic revolt were wiped and “reset” down there? Maybe LUMON was experimenting with early severed chips?

We know for sure that down there is where they keep Miss Casey in storage. If LUMON can erase memories with severance, it makes sense they could also erase people or keep them in a state of suspension. So if Irving has been there before, maybe something happened to him—maybe he was even kept there as punishment. Maybe that was an early Break Room. Whatever it was, it must have been such a strong memory that, even without fully understanding it, it pushed him to take LUMON down.

Which brings me back to Irving and the plausibility of his remembrance.

1) What if he was originally in Optics & Design and met Burt over and over again, kept falling in love, and they went to the Exports Hall for work early on? So he was familiar with it, but didn’t expect to be exported himself. Maybe one of his last, most emotional memories was that black hall, which is why he remembers it. Maybe LUMON erased them multiple times because they wouldn’t allow it—or maybe they even knew each other as outies and chose to have their memories wiped. Maybe that’s why Burt followed Irving in his car—because he actually knows his outie—but that seems more convoluted 🤣.

2) Another theory of mine is that maybe Irving was part of the original cannibalistic revolt of MDR. I’d love to believe he also met Burt at that time, and he somehow survived and chose to have his memories reset rather than be fired—because that would mean living in a world where Burt was also in it, even if he couldn’t remember him. And maybe Burt was also reset?

So, the only explanation that makes sense to me for outie Irving remembering that elevator is that he’s been there before, but his complete experience was erased—except for that one lingering image of the elevator.

(And yes, I know the much simpler explanation is that someone from a Let’s Take Down LUMON secret society could’ve shown him that picture, and he’s painting it over and over because he’s part of an effort to take LUMON down. But honestly, that’s too simple—it takes the fun out of it 🤣.)

[f1e4bag]

mark s reintegration??????? confirmed??!?!?! i am spinning in circles…

[shit-zu]

so are we all in agreement that Miss Huang is Miss Casey. is anyone else in this space with me