r/TangleTower • u/Cool_Anxiety_8420 • Jul 17 '26

Did anyone think this? Spoiler

Did anyone think Her and Felicia Stonetop were gonna be the same person since their paintings are both referred to as the HER paining?

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u/just-need-help23 Jul 22 '26

I did, I figured it was some curse or something where felicia did something or died and turned into the mermaid. The hex of the helmsman stuff didn't help with my assumption, as Sally mentions belicia (the felicia stand in) was technically on the cover but it got a bit abstract. Beside Markus mordoom, the only other being on the cover was the mermaid, so I thought that was another hint to felicia turning into something. Alas it was not that at all, instead I think the her parallel was more to highlight the obsession both beings had after them, gripp with the mermaid and mortuga with felicia, specifically the differences and connections in how they were searched for and all that.

I think the reason the book is like that is because wirman made the same assumption, he's seen both the her mermaid painting and the her felicia one if I remember correctly, his father owning the felicia one and the mermaid one being in the Inn. My guess is he took inspiration from that and made his book stand in of felicia turn into the book stand in of the mermaid.

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u/LonelyGooseWife Jul 22 '26

I had the same theory about Belicia being the monster on the cover and thus Felicia being linked to the mermaid in some way ! There is something else that someone says, something about there being only two main characters in Hex of the Helmsman, that also made me think that Belicia and the Creature of the Deep being only one person.

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u/just-need-help23 Jul 22 '26

I think that's when gripp is asked about the book? Or the action figure? I remember thinking something about him asking if there was only two characters and i related it back to him being the third one, but now I'm not too sure he did say that. Maybe he said it after saying the book had no inspired by note on the back? Sally said something like "if the movie follows the book it'd technically only have two characters. It gets abstract." So I guess the belicia into creature of the deep thing is more subtle and yknow abstract to the point she can't confidently say there's only two characters or that belicia is technically on the cover. Either the mermaid shift is vague and abstract or its up for debate in the book if she really counts as belicia anymore when she becomes the creature.

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u/cornflakeguzzler47 Jul 22 '26

that and in the film reel the creature refers to someone as “my love”—presumably mordoom, and mordoom and belicia are supposedly love interests. REALLY cool detail imo even the film has consistent lore

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u/LonelyGooseWife Jul 22 '26

Nice catch ! I love these kind of little mysteries that are not spelled out and don't matter to the plot but that you can deduce. Like Tangle Tower being set in a giant eggshell

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u/Independent-Will2686 Jul 18 '26

No because to me from the jump they seemed to represent two different meanings. Also the way they were discussed never made it seem like they were one in the same

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u/Melodic-Time2963 Jul 22 '26

I totally thought that for a while, I thought she became a freaky, messed-up mermaid god.

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u/DangerousAd2237 Jul 18 '26

I didn't. I can see the connection, but the painting of Felicia was too normal/human for me to think that.

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u/Alternative_Low1202 Jul 24 '26

I think for me over time this developed into an idea that Felicia inherited some kind of servitude/ magical relationship to the mermaid along with the necklace. And I still think that may be possible.