Hello dear readers!
Today I want to write
you about one of the most interesting characters in Heather Feather’s ASMR
Role Plays (henceforth referred to as “RP”s). This character is Mystical
Feather. I have been working on this fan theory for about 4 months now, & I
by no means think that I have it all together (heck, I could be WAY off-base, for all I know!), but I wanted to share it with you guys, anyway.
So, let’s jump right
in, okay?
In the 2nd
Comprehensive Physical Exam RP, Doctor Feather informs us that she “knows all
about” people undergoing testing in exchange for cake, which we know from the
first Science RP takes place at ASMR Science (we as the audience underwent some
of this testing ourselves). This implies that ASMR Science is a well-known
company or entity in the Featherverse. We can therefore assume that because
Mystical Feather owns ASMR Science (we learned this from the ASMR Science,
Testing Your 5 Senses RP), that she too is well-known by many if not all of the
characters that exist in the Featherverse. What we don’t know however, is how
well she is liked or disliked.
Doctor Feather, as a
medical practitioner, seems to disapprove of Mystical Feather’s unconventional
methods. I also wonder if the “Skynet” program that logs all our information at
Dr. Feather’s office is being imposed on Dr. Feather by Mystical Feather. This
would indicate that Mystical Feather has a desire to acquire information about
the people who are interacting with other members of the Featherverse. Would
this be to gain new potential candidates for testing at ASMR Science, perhaps?
On the other side of
the coin though, we notice that several Featherverse characters have business
dealings with Mystical Feather. Twin Feathers Spa gets the supernatural hair
growth tonic from Mystical Feather, and the Apothecary gets the special pills
from Mystical Feather. A worker at ASMR Science (who obviously would be working
for Mystical Feather), gives us as an intern a potion for “H” in the Jekyll
& Hyde RP. The Twin Feathers Spa girls even mention that they got the hair
tonic from “a little shop”, which I would assume is the same shop that we as
the audience visited for crystals in the Magic Shop RP. These characters seem
to trust Mystical Feather, at least enough to do business with her. Or maybe,
Mystical Feather is holding something over them that pressures them to do what
Mystical Feather wants. Is Mystical Feather capable of blackmail? Or does she
have good intentions, but sees her more shady dealings as a means to an end?
This would explain her interactions with us as the audience in the Magic Shop
RP, where she essentially tricks us into letting her put a spell on us that
somehow transforms us into someone (or something) that would be useful to her
as an ally/apprentice.
Mystical Feather
strikes me to be quite similar to Rumplestiltskin’s character in Once Upon A Time.
She has her fingers in everybody’s pies (or, almost everybody’s anyway). Mystical Feather tells us this straight-up when she says in the Magic Shop (Crystals) RP that "I have my hands in a few projects. I dabble. I have a web with a thousand threads, and I know how each and every one dances". She also seems to like making deals with people. She even made a deal with us as the
audience when she cast a spell on us in the Magic Shop RP, in exchange for a
crystal. We also see in that same Magic Shop RP just how sweet, charming, and
disarming Mystical Feather is. She invokes trust in people. We do not yet know
whether we should trust her or not. Does she really care about us, or does she
really want control? Maybe it’s both. Maybe she is an idealist with a specific
view of what Utopia should look like, and she feels the need to control the
other people in the Featherverse in order to make her Utopia a reality, but
while still believing that this Utopia she imagines is the best thing for
everyone.
Another little note
is that Fairy Godfeather in the Fairy Godmother RP pinched “sleeping powder”
from a woman with a cape that had MF on it. I can only assume that this is
again Mystical Feather. This makes me wonder if whatever we ate at the end of
the ASMR Science “Testing Your Five Senses” RP was also laced with the same
stuff. This would mean that we are not dead, only sleeping. But why? The
message from Doug Ratmann that was hidden in the eye chart in that same 5
Senses RP indicates that he thought everyone at ASMR Science was crazy. Could
that be because he thought that Mystical Feather’s (and the other ASMR Science
workers’) attempts to create Utopia through human testing were too extreme?
The tests that we
underwent during the “Testing Your Five Senses” RP indicate a desire to give
humans super-human senses/abilities, such as improved eyesight (with the
eyedrops), increased hearing (through the spray), and the ability to smell
things more strongly or smell things just by seeing pictures of them (with the
stuff that gets shoved up your nose). Could this be because Mystical Feather
believes that in order to have a Utopia, the humans dwelling within Utopia need
to possess these aforementioned special abilities? It would appear that Mystical Feather also desires for humans to live forever, as she says in the Magic Shop RP "The chains that were binding that mortal body are broken".
The hidden message within the “welcome video” at the beginning of the “Testing Your Five Senses” RP seems to be that people have lost their lives through the testing that they underwent at ASMR Science. Does Mystical Feather regret this loss of life, and fear it like Jekyll in the “Jekyll & Hyde” RP, or is she more like “H”, seeing these people, too, as a means to an end in the pursuit of Science/Utopia/Eternal Life?
The hidden message within the “welcome video” at the beginning of the “Testing Your Five Senses” RP seems to be that people have lost their lives through the testing that they underwent at ASMR Science. Does Mystical Feather regret this loss of life, and fear it like Jekyll in the “Jekyll & Hyde” RP, or is she more like “H”, seeing these people, too, as a means to an end in the pursuit of Science/Utopia/Eternal Life?
In conclusion,
Mystical Feather seems to be a key player in the Featherverse, & I know for
sure that we will see more of her, both in our direct interactions with her as
the audience, and through the impact/ influence that she has on other members
of the Featherverse. When it comes to this fascinating character, we always
seem to have more questions than answers. One thing is very clear though-
Mystical Feather is extremely morally ambiguous. I am excited to see where
Heather Feather decides to take her.
So there you have it-
my own little fan theory about “MF” (as she has come to be known).
Bless you all
heaps!
Love,
Melanie Raye.
