#she - like six - cant be fit in a singular box of character archetype. shes a cluster of character traits

[queen0fm0nsterz]

The Maw makes much more sense when you think of it as an extension of the lady. She strips the kids out of their individuality and makes them all look like as she transforms them into working drones.

In a way it paralells what she did to herself , doesn't it?

(From my very sane Lady post [×75])

Yes! This is exactly what I think, but most importantly, it goes both ways. The Maw is an extension of her, but the Lady is an extension of the Maw. She's the symbol that rappresents it and everything that comes with it -- for better and for worse. And there is very little "better" to be had in these circumstances, if none at all.

Honestly, even considering the issues she does have, ultimately she's the one that got the most lenient treatment. It depends on points of view of course - I don't know how bearing the generational curse would be an ideal living condition in any other setting - but considering she has a roof over her head, constant feeding and revenue as well as the fame all around the Nowhere (in all instances of visual storytelling in the franchise there is at least one reference to the Maw and/or to her), you can't say she got the short end of the stick. She's a lot better off than even other adults.

So with this in mind, and knowing that she is someone who is able to form these reasonings (I cannot stress enough how peculiar that she's the only one who seems to understand genuinely that something in the outside world is wrong), I suppose that weighing her options and choosing to live on the Maw was ultimately what she thought was the better choice. She wasn't wrong, necessarely. She did survive a long time: but what point is there in surviving if you lose what makes life worth living along the way? If you don't have yourself, why should you keep pressing on?

I think this reasoning is what led her to form this attachment to the Maw, to the point that eventually she died for it even though her primary objective was survival, at some point in the past. Probably.

Mervik confirming that the Maw has existed before her was, at least for me, even a further look into just how futile - and interesting - this mindset of hers is because at the end of the day, the Lady as a person is... disposable. The position isn't, but the individual is. The Maw existed long before her, and it will exist long after if Six decides to stay. It doesn't matter whether or not she sees it as her home because to the institution Maw, she's just another chess piece - as expendable as a pawn in spite of dressing the clothes of the queen, if you will.

Considering this... only adds insult to injury, don't you think? She lost herself to a place that did not care for her at all, in the grand scheme of things. She is to the Maw what children are to her: a parasite. A useful one to keep the system running, but ultimately destined to be eradicated and forgotten. Faceless and nameless. It's like she - the person - was never even there to begin with.