Some quick thoughts that arose from listening to a youtube lecture on a topic i want to learn more about that happened to mention alice in wonderland as a case study, my mind flew, and, well, it went back to where it always does. It might not be coherent, stream of consciousness and all.

In ES1 Eichi's character revolves around the dichotomy of dreams and reality (with the addition of Wataru's dimension of illusion). His likening to Alice reflects his role as both character experiencing and creator of the narrative, whose dream is sustaining the story world. Side note for my own research, Eichi's relationship to dreams presenting as reality gets alluded to through the use of kantan no yume (an ephemeral, vain dream) in Daydream and Tea Party, on the fragility of life and dreams.

But he is also likened to the Mad Hatter in addition to Alice, going back to Eichi's own juggling of different personas and responsabilities, as he himself puts it in EP:Link, Eichi the idol, Eichi the conglomerate heir. The Mad Hatter can be taken by some to symbolize the unpleasant maddening adulthood, one Eichi's arc is taken towards in ES2. He becomes disconnected into forever pursuing and making real a dream defying natural order. Similarly to the Mad Hatter pausing the clock for it always to be tea time, Eichi is living his youth's dream by making it an eternal standard. But time plays an interesting role itself in Eichi's story, a precarious resource that is behind his actions, drive and urgency. Taking idolhood as what made life bearable, and life as uncertain, time slipping through his hands like sand, Eichi's madness and obsession with leaving behind a legacy that secures the position of idols as he sees fit is not so hard to grasp...

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