The Disturbing Truth Behind Bray Wyatt

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Alexa Bliss has changed, that's for f*cking sure. She first became entangled with Wyatt in that hot, endless summer of 2020. She was asked if she had feelings for Strowman. "Maybe," she teased, before she was also asked what attracted her to the Fiend. This is sort of crucial to what happened next. The idea was that Alexa Bliss had become entangled in a demented love triangle of sorts. She was asked by some unnamed interviewer what it was like to experience the Fiend. "It's scary," Bliss revealed. "And terrifying. And also...compelling. For the first time in my life," Bliss said, over images of her touching the Fiend's face, "I understand what they say when they say "a moth to a flame"".

This cliché refers to irresistible attraction. In this love triangle, the Fiend was the bad boy lol. Yes, he's a demonic supernatural entity - but the heart wants want the heart wants, you know?

They are making this all up as they go along. In fact, Wyatt and WWE are making this all up as they go along to such a preposterous extent that they have inadvertently crafted quite the suboptimal storyline. Given its origins to where we are now - Alexa Bliss playing an infantilised girl with pigtails playing on rocking horses and swing sets - "there is no lore, WWE is just really f*cking dumb" is the reassuring explanation. You would hope that they're daft enough to have up and decided to do some clichéd spooky kid horror movie stuff without remembering how Bray Wyatt and Alexa Bliss became associated in the first place. With the Fiend playing the f*cking babyface. There are Seven good reasons why this almost certainly inadvertently dumb sh*te is a rotten byproduct of a woefully slapdash creative regime.

There is no Lore of the Fiend. The world does not revolve around Bray Wyatt. But in a strange sort of way, it does. The disturbing truth behind Bray Wyatt is that he does change people.

For the worse.

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