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>>3930468Oh, yeah! I hadn't thought of that angle!
There could be a really strong parallel if they'd brought back the AC dynamic Mera and Sylvie had and did some more exploration with Molly and Sylvie's relationship.
There's actually a lot of character-parallelism in EE.
Mera and Molly are both smart manipulators Sylvie followed because they (for Mera, at least in AC) provided some form of emotional fulfillment, but Mera played Sylvie entirely for her advantage and ruined him a little, while Molly is a friend to Sylvie in all honesty. While Mera's epithet brings her pain and makes it impossible for her to participate in the outside world like a normal person, Molly's epithet takes pain away and is a refuge from the outside world.
And as I noted above, there's a lot of parallels between Molly and Sylvie, I'd say much more so than in most other characters.
Besides what I already mentioned, they both seem to come from bad families.
They're both kids who are way way too young to be leading the lives of endless stress and work they deal with, but while Molly is stuck with hers because she's stuck with her family, Sylvie seems to have chosen his path and ignored his family, so Sylvie seems to have a distinct degree of privilege that Molly clearly doesn't.
They're both very smart, but both rather innocent in certain ways about the world, and Sylvie is booksmart whereas Molly is streetsmart.
Molly is great with people, while Sylvie has a repulsive personality that pushes people away, so Molly has friends, while Sylvie is alone.
They are also powerful epithet users whose epithets seem to relate to some manner of dulling sensation: Molly has numbness, Sylvie has sleep.
They both also seem like they would harbor some inner darkness to their psyches: Molly's ennui and Sylvie's insecurity. They also seem to share a certain disdain for humanity, Molly from working customer service, Sylvie from his whole evil academic bit
They're also both very cute and soft.
