Hey guys, it's Grant again and I'm back because I want to talk about Charlie from
the Twisted Ones.
Now I kinda hit on this point in our last video on the Twisted Ones where we went over
the plot, but there's a lot going on beneath the surface when we're talking about Charlie,
how she thinks, and how the previous events of The Silver Eyes and her childhood have
affected her.
Now before I really get into the nitty gritty of what's going down in Charlie's grey
matter town, I feel like I should mention that I'm not a psychologist, I'm not trained
to diagnose issues of the mind or anything like that.
I'm basing my analysis off of personal experience or the experience of others that I know, and
of course good old fashioned research.
So at the end of this video if you think I completely went off the rails when it comes
to Charlie, you could be completely right, but I really do believe that there's a lot
to be learned about what happened to Charlie during these two books, how her mind was affected
by traumatic events, and how that trauma led to events that took place in The Twisted Ones.
So put on your glasses and take a seat on the couch, we're about to play therapist
to a fictional animatronic victim.
So, what do we know about Charlie?
Well, she's a teenage girl who is in the midsts of some of the most formidable years
of one's life.
During these years some traumatic shit happens to her.
Mainly the whole haunted animatronics and serial killer golden bunnie man fiasco.
Can we just call fnaf that from now on?
The haunted animatronic serial killer golden bunnie man fiasco?
I feel like that's way more accurate than Five Nights At Freddy's.
Anyway, Charlie gets messed up pretty bad from the interactions she has with the animatronics
and William Afton in The Silver Eyes.
And that trauma is starting to take over her life in The Twisted Ones.
Now how do I know this?
Well there's actually a ton of really obvious clues throughout the book.
If you read The Twisted Ones you'll probably noticed that Charlie seems to be constantly
having flashbacks.
Flashbacks to what happened in the Silver Eyes and flashbacks to her twin Sammy being
taken away from her as a child.
In addition to the flashbacks Charlie also gets panic attacks that completely revolve
around being hunted by animatronics.
Here's one example from page 107 when Charlie goes to the bathroom on her date with John.
"Charlie released the knob and it spun slowly back into position, releasing a horrible creak
as it moved.
The Costumes had been disturbed, and the creaking noise was so faint and careful she scarcely
even heard it.
Charlie looked up from her game: there was a figure in the door.
Charlie glanced wildly around the room, pulling herself back to the present.
With a swell of panic, Charlie pulled on the bathroom door, but it had somehow sealed shut,
she mouthed words, but no sound came out.
I know you're there.
I'm trying to get to you.
"I have to get inside!" she screamed.
The door burst open and Charlie fell into John's arms."
This is just one passage that resembles this mix between the present and past and Charlie's
imagination that continually happens throughout the book.
Now if you haven't ever experienced something like this it may seem like something completely
foreign to you, however, this is a side effect of trauma.
The blanket term for this effect is called dissociation.
We'll start broad and then hone in on what's actually happening with Charlie here.
To define the term: Dissociation is a broad spectrum of experiences anywhere from mild
detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional
experiences.
In other words, when a person dissociates, they are no longer completely attached to
what is happening in the present, and may be experiencing feelings and emotions shouldn't
exist in the person's current state.
Dissociation happens to everyone on some level.
For example, have you ever seen an old friend after a long time and you suddenly feel younger,
or you're acting more immature just because you're around them?
You've dissociated to a younger version of yourself when this happens.
That old friend and the feelings and thoughts you connect them with triggered your mind
to dissociate to a younger self.
That's just a very general and easy example that many people can relate to.
Another would be if you've ever had food poisoning from let's say, chicken, and now
every time you see chicken it makes you feel a little sick.
Your mind is dissociating to that time you were sick from the chicken even though there's
no reason for you to feel sick at that moment.
A similar experience happens when someone drinks too much of a certain alcohol.
I still try not to touch vodka if I can help it.
These are mild examples of dissociation that people experience every day and we generally
don't even realize it.
But Charlie has been badly traumatized by her childhood and the events of The Silver
Eyes.
Her dissociation is much more severe.
Despite just being in the bathroom of a restaurant, Charlie dissociates to a younger version of
herself.
We know that because the book states, "Charlie looked up from her game".
Obviously Charlie wasn't playing a game in the bathroom...or was she??
No she wasn't.
She's reliving horrific events from her childhood.
Those childhood events are blending in with the present.
That's why she was unable to open the bathroom door.
Her PTSD has gone unchecked and unnoticed for her entire life and now it's starting
to creep into her everyday affairs.
This should be an immediate red flag that Charlie needs help, that she shouldn't be
exposed to the new events surrounding the twisted animatronics, She needs to be free
from those thoughts and experiences and work through them with a professional.
But instead, Clay the dumbass brings her to a crime scene which reinforces her trauma.
We need to remember that Charlie was first traumatized by these animatronics as a child
when her twin was taken away from her.
Despite repressing that memory, it still surfaced when she got older showing that her PTSD runs
all the way back to childhood.
That terrible childhood experience gets re-lived during the events of Silver Eyes and again
in the Twisted Ones.
When PTSD goes unchecked and untreated for too long a few things tend to happen: First
off, the person affected generally has a fear of abandonment.
We definitely see this with Charlie in terms of her twin Sammy.
She feels incomplete, like something is missing from her self.
She's driven to find him and has dreams of Sammy just on the other side of a door
that she can't get through.
One of the best examples happens almost immediately in the book on page 6.
"'Sammy?'
She would call, hitting harder.
She stood, reaching up far above her head.
She beat her fists against the barricade until they hurt.
She screamed her brother's name until her throat was raw, until she fell to the floor
and leaned on the solid metal, pressing her cheek to its cool surface and hoping for a
whisper from the other side."
This dream Charlie has is a representation of that fear of abandonment.
She's tormented by the loss of her twin and her dreams are filled with anxiety that
physically and emotionally drain her while she sleeps.
The next symptom of having complex long term PTSD manifests in a difficulty in controlling
emotions or changes in personality.
This is coupled with an obsession with the perpetrator.
Now in Charlie's case, the perpetrator of her PTSD are all of the animatronics.
Is Charlie obsessed with the animatronics?
You better believe it!
She's not only obsessed with them to the point that she's majoring in robotics and
building her own at home, but she also believes that the animatronics are obsessed with her.
To be fair, she was right on that point, but still, you get my drift.
Her fascination with robotics isn't just genetics passed down from her father, it's
an unhealthy obsession that has been built over years of extended exposure to complex
PTSD.
And in case you couldn't guess one of the other symptoms for PTSD it's Emotional Flashbacks!
That's right!
Most of us already knew this but people with PTSD often suffer from flashbacks of the traumatic
event.
We hear about this a lot in the context of war.
Those stories of soldiers hearing gunfire in their sleep or hearing a cork pop and thinking
its a gunshot are true.
But this affects more than just soldiers just like PTSD isn't exclusive to war.
People with PTSD might just get emotionally overwhelmed and re-experience the emotions
he or she felt during the traumatic event without ever actually thinking about that
event.
This heavily applies to Charlie.
Just like our earlier examples, Charlie is constantly having emotional flashbacks to
when she was younger.
There's everything from Flashbacks to Freddy's and William Afton from Silver Eyes, to memories
of her father taking apart a frog animatronic and her crying while telling him to stop.
Her PTSD takes up such a massive chunk of her energy that is clouds her judgement and
makes Charlie do things like go out alone looking for the Twisted animatronics.
That's the thought of someone who is obsessed with the animatronics, has been having flashbacks
about them, and believes that they can lead Charlier to her brother.
And the worst part is, all of this could've been avoided.
John, Jessica, hell even Clay all noticed the abnormal way Charlie was acting at some
point.
They all saw her mind wander, her brain unable to keep reality from mixing with the past
and her imagination.
And all one of them had to do was try and get Charlie some help.
But they didn't and now it seems like they'll never be able to.
Take note that while this is just the analysis of the mind of a fictional college girl with
a bad childhood, the experiences that she goes through happen to real people every day.
You never know what happened in someone's past, or if they've been able to work their
way through their trauma if they have it.
Some people are lucky, they know they've been traumatized, get help, and are able to
work through their issues.
Other people don't realize what's happening and never get help while they feel alone and
different from everyone else.
Take Charlie's experience to heart, just because something like that didn't happen
to you doesn't mean it didn't happen to someone else.
But hey, like I said, I'm no psychologist.
I'm just a guy who read a book and saw a girl who didn't get the help she needed
until it was too late.
Before I wrap up, if you've ever experienced something like we talked about today, there
is help out there.
You're not alone.
Just in case I've got some links in the description that you can go to if you want
to find some help.
We want to look out for those in our community because even though we might not know you
personally, you all deserve to enjoy life and not get flashbacks about killer robots
or whatever else might traumatize you.
So the links are there if you need them or if you know someone who needs them!
I know this video was a bit heavy so Ryan or I will be back in a few days with something
a little lighter, but until then, thank you all for watching, subbing, be patrons, and
just being a part of our Treesicle community.
We love you all we'll talk to you soon!
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