Are we sure that Tabitha and the MC are the only Scarlets left?

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What we know for sure from Episode 5

! - Enoch, with the help of the Witch, made a deal with an otherworldly entity to keep the mines profitable and the Scarlets on top!<

!- The deal involves keeping one person from the Scarlet bloodline hosting the entity.!<

!- In order to control the Entity, Enoch and Sybil designed to keep it trapped in the Estate. The first host was Teddy, who was also trapped in his own body. This made the Entity quite angry, as it felt tricked.!<

!- The person holding the Entity and trapped in the Estate don't have to be "legitimate" Scarlets, and in fact bastards are preferred (see, Andrew Charles, the MC...)!<

!- The Entity doesn't "need" a Scarlet as a host (see Wayne, Isaacs) but the deal of prosperity falls through if it's not a Scarlet.!<

!- There are other entities, summoned through different seals. Reese was conceived / might be part of that entity; so it seems for the Pumpkin baby, and I would argue whatever is animating Charles' ghost and calling Oscar is also an entity, and what is creating the Ditchlings is another one.!<

!- Something happened 10 years before the story starts - probably Alexandra's death - that prompted Tabitha to self-isolate and start working in the mines. I believe that Pearlanne "volunteered" as the Entity's host part-time, and also that she encouraged Tabitha to have babies presto-fasto to keep the deal going.!<

!- Pearlanne might have tried to go back on her deal and "trap" Tabitha. That's when Wayne interrupted whatever was going on, violence erupted, Pearlanne died, and the Entity jumped to Wayne, who was not in the best state at all.!<

!- Tabitha, convinced that the only other Scarlet in the world is MC, calls them to Pearlanne's funeral.!<

!But what if she was acting on a wrong premise, and there are more Scarlets left nearby?!<

!SCARLET LINE + WITCH !<

!1. Sybil's memories are unrealiable AF, but she says something very interesting in the memory before she meets Enoch. In the Americas, she mentions meeting a man that was able to lead whole armies, and who she was so attracted to that she didn't realize how dangerous he was until it was almost too late. It is implied that they were either romantically entangled or that she was casting spells for him because of that attraction (she is very attracted to power, our Sybil). She ended up "taking back her daughter", then "deleted his influence" before he could make himself king, but people still died. Immediately after, she retreated to the woods with another daughter.!<

!I believe that this man was Silas Scarlet, who is mentioned a lot in the second episode at the library, and appears in all the town paintings within the mansion. This is the ONLY man, other than Enoch and "the Entity" (if you consider the Entity masculine) that Sybil mentions any emotional connection, positive or negative, to.!<

!Sybil also had a daughter by the time that she retreated into the woods next to Scarlet Hollow. This daughter is interesting for two reasons.!<

! 1. She's about the same age as Enoch, and she is mentioned in the Enoch vials in the Forbidden Wing (Maeve - Verena)!<

! 2. She's the ONLY daughter that Sybil sketches a face for, on top of her puppet features, signifying affection. Her features are Caucasian, so it cannot be Kaneeka (yet, stay with me)!<

! 3. It's the ONLY time that Sybil mentions that she's getting used to the idea of dying, and that with some luck she will get to see her grandchildren before she goes. The grandchildren line jumped at me. Is it possible that this daughter was pregnant during their woodsy retirement?!<

!How the Scarlet line could have survived through the Witch!<

!Option 1 - Sybil and Silas did the deed and she had a daughter by him before she deleted him. This is the daughter that is in the woods with her when the mine falls and Enoch comes a-knocking. She likes her most because she loved Silas (she's attracted to destructive power) and she reminds her of him. !<

!This daughter, let's call her Maeve, got pregnant and had a child BEFORE Sybil "took her back" to call the entity into the world.!<

! 1.a - The Scarlet line (from Silas) survives through this child, in the real world. We might or might have not met this child.!<

!1.b - The Scarlet line (from Silas) survives through Sybil, as now a part of her is her daughter. Hence, Sybil (and Kaneeka, if you save her with Mystical and she inherits her mom's and sister's powers), is part of the Scarlet line.!<

!Option 2 - Sybil had a daughter with someone who wasn't Silas. However, this daughter got pregnant with Enoch's or Teddy's child, which would tie her into the Scarlet bloodline. Sybil giving this daughter features might be because she was starting to recognize her as a fully realized person able to grow beyond her influence.!<

! 2.a - The daughter delivered a child from Enoch or Teddy before Sybil "took her back". This child went on to have other children that cannot leave Scarlet Hollow. We might have met them.!<

! 2.b - Sybil took back her daughter, pregnant with the Scarlet bloodline. Same as option 1.b.!<

!If the Scarlet line survived through the Witch, and a child was born, my main suspects of being descendants would be Janey and Tulip (Janey has reddish-hair like "Carmilla") and Winnie and Avery (affinity for "serving beverages" and "plants" respectively).!<

!SCARLET LINE THROUGH ENOCH, NO WITCH!<

!Option 1. Enoch (and Teddy) had very distinctive colouring that also shows up in Alexandra, Pearlanne and Tabitha: pale blonde hair, pale blue eyes. This colouring is ALSO shared by Irma Calloway and Bo Calloway. In fact, if you were to show me a picture of Bo and Tabitha with no context I would assume that they are related. Could Enoch or Teddy have "planted their seed" in the farms? Why wouldn't Enoch, in particular, have more "bastards" available, a man as tricksy as himself, in case his main line died out?!<

!Main descendant suspects: Irma Calloway, Bo Calloway!<

!Note: It could also be that Teddy and Enoch's mom was related to Irma Calloway, and then there is no Scarlet bloodline, just a common ancestor with the pale hair and eyes.!<

!Option 2. Charles' and Edwardine's Omelas baby, Andrew Charles, had kids either before or after he was replaced by Alexandra. This is the least likely option, but hear me out:!<

!- Andrew Charles as "the boy in the walls" was talking to Alexandra to convince her to "switch places". This could have been the Entity tricking Alexandra, but what if it was only doing that to let Andrew Charles go to reproduce and have more available hosts later?!<

!- This would require consent from the new vessel, even if that consent is tricked out of them... probably? It's unclear how this works, but I'm going by the rules of magic outlined by Sybil.!<

!- If Alexandra "accepted" and the Entity got a new body, that would make Andrew Charles able to go into the world and have children with some of the Scarlet bloodline. In this case, my main suspects would be:!<

!- Stella. She has the same colouring as Edwardine, and there is this one shot in the mines of her and Tabitha where they have THE SAME PROFILE. There's also a picture on the Estate's hallway of two ladies, one dark-haired, one light-haired, playing with the Mayor. !<

! - Oscar and Rosalina - again, very similar colouring, and personal / professional connection to where their non-Scarlet ancestor would be located.!<

! - Pastor Daniels - Same colouring. Same as Tulip, she has the curly hair of Sybil and the dark hair of Edwardine. She's also the ONLY living little kid in the story (previous ones being Andrew Charles, then Alexandra) which would make her the "ideal" Omelas victim.!<

!PEOPLE I THINK ARE UNRELATED TO THE SCARLETS and the WITCH (but the Witch wants to use them to create different alliances)!<

!- Julius Tremaine!<

!- The Kellys (even though both of them have the pale blue Scarlet eyes)!<

!- The police officers!<

!- The teens (Zane, Alexis, Becka)!<

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Whew that's all.

Posted Feb 21, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

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