The end is Julie

I believe Julie is the key to everything. Eloise is a red herring. There is only one story walker and that is Julie. It has always been Julie. As she grows she will learn how to control her appearance and learn how the town works. This leads me to I believe everyone will die except Julie in the season finale. Julie will be lost story walking.

Julie is also the key to saving everyone. Your fears manifest in Fromville as well as your deepest needs and desires but they are all twisted. The golem Fatima is making will instead bring the scarecrow dolls to life causing immense harm to the people at the lake. This may kill Donna. Julie will decide she needs to go back and save Donna but she story walks to Donna’s arrival in town. She saves Donna know that in her future she needs Donna for her own survival. I believe the climax of the season will be a massacre. I would put that as the penultimate episode but they will probably do the season finale. Julie will be inside a structure at the ruins protected by a talisman while everyone else dies.

Julie is now trapped in the timeline of fromville. I believe the Boy in White is a manifestation of an attempt at Ethan but is in reality Thomas. I believe she will begin trapped at the beginning of the story. I believe she can manifest as or manipulate animals.

The dog is Julie. The crows are Julie. The livestock is guided by Julie.

Julie will be the one who takes care of Victor as a child but she finds out that he forgets her every time that she walks elsewhere. This is how Victor truly begins to draw everything. Victor will manifest things like his peaches and places to survive in. Julie will do her best to hide him and this is how the monsters stop hunting him. At this point we will learn of a cat and mouse chase through time out of sequence between the MIY and Julie.

Victor will have grown up at the lake until one day Julie dies saving him. His tears that day will create the lake of tears. This will be Julie’s last act.

We then will return to season 4 and take note of the calendar with the big date circled. That day was Julie’s planned escape and the only one who has the plan and the map is Victor because he learned as a child from older Julie.

Similarly we will see Julie try to find the talismans but Boyd hadn’t manifested them yet and she can’t manifest them because that is Boyds part of the story.

I want to flesh this out more but i believe everything comes back to Julie like she might even tell Miranda she needs to die after Eloise gets killed so that she herself can be born.