Dark Redemption

"I see my life with a look of dread. I can't even fucking sleep at night without thinking about that".- Casey Lombardi to Mary Jane Fitzgerald

The Dark Redemption is one of the four main plotlines in Don't Let the Darkness Consume You. It involves a series of nightmares that Casey Lombardi had, and predominantly features Casey's biggest flaws in her life and her redemption in life.

Prelude
Casey strangely fell victim to a series of nightmares where her perceived personality flaws and nightmarish visions of her life began to haunt her.

I.- Face-Off against Herself
The first nightmare saw Casey waking up in a twisted forest, sighting a man, where he told Casey that she is facing off with her most dangerous rival: herself. He asked himself who are the people in reality, and why they do the things that they do. This is a theme throughout the nightmares, in relation to Casey's flaws.

II.- Stringed Path of Darkness
Casey finds herself in a hallway of darkness, where she finds various diabolical-looking puppets on a string of various members of the Liars Club. She began hearing voices asking if she had "revolution" in her heart, similar to how Matthew Barton asked her after volunteering to be a Liars Club member. Then, Casey found the strange woman staring at her, before disappearing.

The message might be that there was a dark time in the Liars Club where Matthew Barton and Ashley Murray didn’t know what the next steps would be as Thomas Barton and Bray Murray were retiring. This was much like when Matthew called several students back before Casey stepped up to become the next starring member in the Liars Club, replacing Jed Johnston, who has a much healthy life, compared to Casey's life.

III.- Weak Link of the Family
Casey was the troubled and rebellious fourth kid of her family. Naive and vain, she loved to make inappropriate jokes and pranks on her brothers and her older sister, to the point of provoking them. She did the same also with her parents, receiving punishment from her father very often. She was considered by her father as the weak link of the family. Casey hated her father because of the punishment and the harsh words towards her, to the point of telling him that he never truly cared about his family. After her father commited suicide, Casey found herself with guilt for not having a family that she ever truly loved.

This could be meaningful to a flaw that Casey had for years, being the refusal of showing a change of attitude, or thinking that all the harsh words of her father were a learning trial that could have been for the greater good of Casey's life, but her ignorance and obstination led to her family’s resentment.

IV.- Revolt leads to Downfall
The message of that nightmare is that Casey was known for being revolted throughout her life, and refused to ever change her way of life, until experiencing the nightmares. For that, was ultimately led to the downward cycle of her life. She could have prolonged a better life, like many people did. Instead, Casey was too afraid to show a more organized and civilized way of life.

V.- Polarizing People's Woman
Behind the nightmare, Casey always proclaimed that she was doing a favor for everyone, but she wasn’t listening to her family, friends and some of her followers. Some of her actions have derailed the Liars Club’s reputation in society.

VI.- Let Me In
At first sight, it can be implied that she was talking about Randy, but in reality, Casey knew she was talking about herself, that this was a bad dream that Casey let her demons in, and doing so is what ultimately cost her everything.

Redemption
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Post-Redemption
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