Chatterbox: Pudding's Place

Namesake!

I started reading this webcomic a few days ago, per my friend's recommendation, and now I'm completely hooked! If you haven't read it, I strongly suggest you check it out— the best way I can think to describe it is, like, fractured fairy tales. Except better. The art is gorgeous too. 

Warning: there's blood. And monsters and creepy ghosts and a lot of fainting. If you don't like that stuff, you probably won't like this comic.

But I love those things and loooove Namesake! If anyone else reads it, I'm super overeager to discuss it with you. However, I only started reading it a few days ago, and I'm only on... book 3, I think, currently in the Warrick chapter. So please try to avoid spoilers. :) Anyway, here are some of my thoughts/theories so far.

(These are completely self-indulgent. Feel free to leave.) 

** SPOILERS AHEAD!! **

1. First of all, I ship Emma and Warrick. So much. Ah. Help.

2. Since Warrick and Selva are in the "main characters" section of the cast, I have a theory: Warrick's heart is connected to Emma somehow. I don't really know how that would be possible, but he keeps talking about how he feels calmer/more grounded when he's around her, and it would serve as a way to connect Emma to Oz, even after she's left. That would not be a good thing for Warrick, though, since I'm having your heart located in another world ain't good.

However, this doesn't explain why he's still connected to Ozma and why his temperament still depends on how close he is to her. I read a fan theory that Emma is a Namesake of Ozma, which would explain this, but there's no other evidence for it. The names aren't even the same. Maybe his heart transferred somehow.

I think that Warrick could be more "normal" before because Ozma's essence was in the poppies, which were spread all across Oz. This would also explain why he kept hearing his pulse all over the place but couldn't track it definitively.

3. I found out who One is from reading the comments. Accidental spoilers... T-T He's only been in a few pages so far, though.

4. Another theory. What if Emma has journeyed to more worlds before, and the Rippers erased her memory? This also provides the possibility that the masks are remnants from the other worlds she's visited, like how the Scarecrow showed up in the weird paper-world. (Plus, how did she remember him in weird paper-world? She was unable to recall Warrick and Hercilia and the rest just moments before.) Anyway, if that's true, One Eye Lady/Creepy Emma is, in fact, Emma, but a sort of cobbled-together one from all the different pieces of herself that she's been forced to leave behind. This, too, would explain the wanting to be free.

5. I thought for a while that One Eye Lady was Alice's sister, Edith, but that theory's dead now that we've seen her face (if that is her real face... perhaps it's a reflection of some sort). Also, Edith doesn't have a head. So there goes that one.

6. What the heck. Is Chiseri supposed to be. I know he's in a human form now, but this is still bugging me. A bird? An insect? A flying Swedish berry? Why does he wear a bow tie? Why does he have arms, still? This is going to bother me forever.

7. I love Selva. Also Warrick and Anlise and Agha and Elaine and Fred and Alice and Jack and Wendy and even Renge and— I love them all.

Anyway, thanks for sitting through all this, if in fact you did. I'm desperate. Someone fangirl with meeee!!!