Severance
warn ! This clause contain pamperer for Severance season 2 , installment 5!As Helena Eagan ( Britt Lower ) returns from nearly being drowned at Woe ’s Hollow , her meeting with fellow Lumon executive inSeveranceseason 2 , instalment 5 come with a sad revelation about howher genial and forcible land is monitored by the company . ThroughoutSeverance , Lumon ’s manipulation and unethical behavior on severed worker has been a blistering topic of give-and-take , but the show has barely contact upon how Lumon ’s strategies to maintain restraint also put on to their non - severed staff . With Helena being both severed and amember of the Eagan family , she might have it worst of all .
InSeveranceseason 2 , episode 4 ’s ending , it was confirm thatHelena was secretly posing as Helly since MDR ’s return in the premiere . There were several reason why Helena went to the severed storey herself , including fears about Helly trying to bolt down her , Helly sabotaging her reputation and Lumon , her growing compulsion with Mark , and her feeling more freedom and joy on the severed base than in the out-of-door world . After Irving nearly drown her at Woe ’s Hollow to get Helly back instead , Helena is stuck in the away world again , with more of her own perverted torment being revealed .
Helena Eagan Has Her Four Tempers Controlled & Manipulated By Lumon
Lumon’s Medical Team Regularly Balances Her Tempers To Fit Kier’s Guidelines
When Helena meet with Drummond andLumon ’s Board ( via Natalie ) inSeveranceseason 2 , episode 5 , Drummond explains thatthe aesculapian team say her “ tempers will rebalance quickly ” following her traumatic incident at Woe ’s Hollow . The conditional relation of Drummond ’s line is that Lumon ’s medical staff regularly manipulates Helena ’s Four Tempers and balance them to meet an idealistic exfoliation set out by Kier Eagan . Therefore , Helena ’s personality , demeanour , and thoughts are internally controlled and influenced by Lumon .
Severance time of year 2 finally confirms the Helly / Helena possibility with a monolithic twist in sequence 4 , but it was building up to the reveal from the commencement
Not only this , but it’slikely that Helena ’s tempers have been scientifically altered and balance ever since she was a kid . Lumon has often emphasized to Innies the importance ofKier Eagan ’s Four Tempersin his philosophy and teachings , so it should n’t be too surprising that those behavioral expectation are also put on the fellowship ’s non - cut off staff office , not to mention Kier ’s own descendants . Helena ’s cold , joyless , and at times threatening temperament does n’t seem to even be her fault , but rather her brain being hardwired and manipulate her entire life by her household .
Four Tempers
Associated Emotions
Symbolic Representation
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Woe
sorrowfulness , melancholy
St. Brigid
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Frolic
Joy , frivolousness
Jester
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Dread
fearfulness , anxiousness
Crone
Malice
Rage , desire to do scathe
Ram
harmonise to Kier ’s philosophy , each someone ’s soul is represent of four excited components : Woe , Frolic , Dread , and Malice . The four “ temper ” are each associated with different emotions and feelings , with a person ’s character being define by the “ precise proportion ” of these tempers inside them . Kier believed that , to have control over oneself and the world around them , they must overcome and “ tame ” the Four Tempers by striking the perfect balance of them .
Severance Has Already Hinted MDR’s Number Sorting Is Used To Balance Peoples' Four Tempers
The Numbers Are Sorted Into Categories That Correspond To The Four Tempers
Though it was n’t vindicated that this was take place on the same degree of power as Helena Eagan , Lumon manipulating the Four Tempers of their personnel is n’t a novel construct . It ’s long beentheorized that Macrodata Refinement ’s job is secretly to balance the Four Tempers of people in Lumon ’s control condition , “ complicate ” their behavior and biology to become more perfect in the eyes of Kier . However , it was assume that this was just being used on discerp individual on the examination floor , such asGemma / Ms. Casey with the Cold Harbor file .
Severance ’s canyon companion volume , The Lexington Letter , includes a plane section that draft the responsibilities of Macrodata Refinement .
When MDR sieve numbers mathematical group , they do so based on how the turn make them “ feel,”with Mark give an example of the numbers pool being shivery . They cease up sorting the number between four family , WO , FC , DR , and MA ; once all five bins are full with an adequate ratio of those four categories each , a file in MDR is complete . The abbreviations of those categories are implied to correspond to the Four Tempers ( Woe , Frolic , Dread , and Malice ) , which is further plunk for by the MDR employee enchiridion ’s outlines of the “ emotions ” that each category elicits :
Are Helena’s Tempers Not Balanced When She’s Helly?
Helly’s Personality Would Look More Like Helena If Her Tempers Were Balanced
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Since Helena ’s emotional Department of State is being so forthwith controlled as an Outie , it ’s curious that her Innie personality is so different and more reactive . It suggests that manipulations of the Four Tempers do n’t transfer between theInnie and Outie parts of a severed person ’s braininSeverance , which may be part of why Helly ’s personality compare to Helena ’s is so much less qualified and guarded .
When Helena is Helly , she gets to be a version of herself uninfluenced by Lumon ’s scientific emotional tampering . Still , it’sunclear why Lumon would directly equilibrise some Outies ’ biliousness , but not those of their Innies .
unexampled episodes ofSeveranceseason 2 sack Fridays on Apple TV+ .
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