So when I talk about Cheshire’s different sides, I want to keep two things separate: the actual different characters, and the changes within each character’s own story.

So when I talk about Cheshire’s different sides, I want to keep two things separate: the actual different characters, and the changes within each character’s own story. The original has the ordinary animal’s beginning, the corruption, the predator, and the possibility of conscience. Dark Cheshire has his own brutality, his own moment of mercy with that boy, and the role he has reached beside Calie where I am now. My feeling is that there is a good heart there when the madness is not consuming everything. The compassionate moments are part of the story too. I want to give them the same attention as the violence, because they change what this character means to me.