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brokenlotus · 1 year

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It is now time for the fateful day I talk about Maze runner, so up ahead there WILL be spoilers for almost all the TMR books.

[THE FEVER CODE, THE CRANK PALACE, THE MAZE CUTTER SPOILERS ARE UP AHEAD]

Let's talk Keisha and Dante. I made a simplified version of this on Reddit, but I can't go any longer without fully writing my thoughts out.

Keisha and Dante both were supposed to be side characters, people that gave newt a final purpose in life. He said it himself that they had given him something to live for, to finish his days off by doing something good. They ended up being a lot more than just side characters and I think we all know it.

Let's start off with chronological order, so that I can try to make this post somewhat understandable lol.

- Newt escapes the berg outside Denver, and roams a "abandoned" neighborhood. This is where he meets Keisha and Dante. She informs him that they need to run immediately or they are gonna be taken somewhere unpleasant and all around gross and icky. Newt first struggles figuring out what is happening and why he should care but eventually gets the hang of it. Newt seems pretty out of it for someone who just made a major decsion in his life. He's just calmly sitting by a lamp post watching cranks roam the streets untill the munies come by looking for cranks. The three don't really get far before some immunes find them there, saying they need to check them for the flare virus. Keisha says they have the virus so don't even bother checking them. THIS IS IMPORTANT. Keisha doesn't want to be checked for the virus, infact immediately admits she has the virus in front of the person. All this to avoid being checked? Why? Becausse Keisha is more than likely immune to the virus and Dante probably is too. (Newt also mentions he had a feeling that Keisha was immune too near the end of the book) The guy tells them they need to take them away, to the pits obviously but he never directly says that. Keisha tries to get them to let them be and just walk away, far from Denver, but the immune resists. This is where Keisha shoots one of them and newt kills the other.

All of this reaction from Keisha about being checked and why? She's supposed to be infected, to have the virus eating away at her sanity like it is newt, and with a child the extra stress should be taking the absolute biggest tole ever. With dante, she should be taking every opportunity to try and escape the inevitable fate of the pits, but she isn't. She definitely isn't and infact is freely and immediately admitting she has the flare.

- Keisha doesn't ask many questions, infact she forbids newt from asking how her entire family died. She spends an entire half page telling newt to never ask her that question, and when he finally agrees we don't hear about that untill later in the book. This isn't anything major, this a truamtic event for the both of them and bringing up their past does no good. Keisha though never seemed not even once phased by the fact that Newts entire existence had just saved her and her son from death. She never questioned much who the 'she' was that the munie guards brought up. Maybe this was just part of her personality but Keisha knew everything without asking anything. She never was curious about newts past, but seemed to know enough about it to get her by. She didn't seem to care about the maze trials, or ever bring them up voluntarily. Newts past was supposed to be hidden from her but it felt more like she had just known the entire time, with also the forbidden past of her own that she eventually talked about. This section isn't as important as the first one but it's still worth while to note.

- newt came back from a odly truamtic stroll through the crank Palace only to find that Keisha was no where to be found. Only Dante remained and apperantly a note that he skipped over in his panic. He ran out of the house with Dante and found Keisha and demanded an explanation for why she not only left her child alone but stole newts belongings. She claims that she knew Dante would be safe with newt and that she had left his journal and knife but took everything else. She planned to sell everything, to bargain her way out of the crank Palace to find her daughter, jackie. Newt has no idea how she even knows this untill she holds out cellphone. Fully functional, still has a charge and she checks it whenever newts NOT around and felt the need to keep it hidden from newt. Newt has no idea how she has this phone, because in all the maze runner books, we have never EVER seen a single person with a cellphone. She claims it still has charge and that her brother (who was claimed to be dead, murdered by Keisha husband, along with her daughter) had texted her and said they had survived and given her their location.

This is incredibly important to Keisha's character, becauase HOW did she get that. Keisha is only late 20's - early 30's, which means she hasn't been alive long enough to know the world pre sun flares and the flare. The world's been damned for a long time, so how on earth had she managed to find this phone, keep it charged long enough and if she had randomly found it after her family died, how had her brother contacted her?

I'll get to the point since this post is already so incrediblely long.

I think Keisha was working for WICKED, Ava Paige keeps tabs on newt obviously. (Janson telling thomas about newt being in danger at Denver, her need to keep newt alive in the fever code despite the waste of resources and time it was when they had hundreds of immunes, and then munie guards and people talking about newt, almost spreading whispers and sharing facts about newt to the point he had a gang ready to murder for him, and then the wicked gaurds showing up to Keisha's meeting place and using the family to force newt to "record something" we never find out what this something is though) Keisha obviously was carefully guideing newt through the stages of this, showing him the way of the world, to keep him alive more than anything. I feel like in exchange for helping newt, Keisha was promised her family by Ava Paige. Keisha also learned something from this though, that newt was her savior, he had given her a chance at survival. Which would explain why she was so grateful for newt even though he really didn't do anything. (he also points this out himself) her secret wicked agreement staying hidden but her gratitude towards newt giving her this chance totally explained. I definitely think that if Keisha was tasked with keeping newt safe enough, and when she realized justbhiw much he was suffering, how much the flare was affecting him and how he was holding it all back for her and her children she realized that the motherly bond she had formed with him strung more than just a few tears. I think becausse of this, she let newt go on his own, to find something or someone to end everything that made him so miserable. She couldn't end his life on her own, and newt wouldn't have ever of asked that of her but against wickeds wishes she might have just let newt leave. Her reward for helping him was here and now the least she could for him was let him leave, and take a couple of pounds of weight of his already heavied shoulders.

Newts death wasn't supposed to happen, he wasn't suoposed to die ( we know this from ava but also becausse newt is found to be the cure in the maze cutter) but Keisha had given him that chance to be free. Despite the pain that hit him from the swipe being removed and all, she had changed his Outlook on life, gave him the motherly love he missed and needed. His life was inherently better with Keisha and she did all she could for him. The mission wicked supposedly sent her on became less about her biological children and more about the one that she adopted along the way.

So could Keisha have been working for WICKED? Did WCKD give her the task, and the phone? Did she falter from her mission becauase she suddenly saw newt as her own child? And will we ever see her children in the other installations of the maze cutter

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