User blog comment:Garr9988/Story Ideas/@comment-31772644-20181213082935

I just want to drop my entire jar of two cents on the topic of the mirror, because I was actually thinking about it yesterday. We've seen it display three distinct effects. First, as a means of interacting with your reflection. I'm inclined to think this was the original effect of the mirrir, in that it display your "true" erflection, how you are in your sunconscious. Peteplays games with his because he's a child at heart and had no need to be stressed of angry at the time.

Then we have it's job as a prison. I think, when Alice first commited murder, the mirror reflected her "madness", the evil Alice we see in the show. Historically Alice Liddel had a full, and presumably happy, life. So as not to contradic with that, I propose Alice suffered from a severe undiagnosed (unless someone wants to have a crack) mental disorder wherein she had another, more dangerous personality.

Through contacting the Warehouse, Caroll was able to imprison that part of her in the mirror, leaving the nice innocent Alice to live out the rest of her life. How do you explain that to a small child? Tell her a stroy about how everyone through the looking glass is mad. Perhaps the thimble, like the ather artifact associated with the story, are ones that Evil Alice came into contact with and perhaps used on others. It's easier to explain them as parts of a story to a confused and disoriented young child than try and make her forget.

Finaloly, we see the mirror, or its shards, as a means of possessing others. I think, when the Studio 54 ball reflected on the mirror it accidently "unlocked". After all, the ball projects carnal desires and revelrey, exactly the kind of emotions that would trigger a spirit who derives joy from causing harm. This gave her the opportunity to jump into Myka, not having an actual body of her own anymore.

When she was put back the disco ball relocked the mirror, but not as securely as it used to be. I think it's safe to assume only the shard Alice picked up contains her spirit now, and the rest are either powerless or have reverted to their original fuinction. Either way, even though she was now permanently stuck in the mirror she could temporarily control the body of whoever looked her in the eyes. The eyes, after all, are just a natural mirror.