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Okay it’s time for my full

Miss Holloway Time Traveller Theory

Of course we know that Miss Holloway has an 80s aesthetic and she rocks it but so many clues in Witch in the Web point to her being displaced from time.

The main point for this is Casey, the tree girl. She’s wearing a “over-sized, vintage tee bearing the logo of some 80’s pop-star the whole world’s forgotten”. This paired up with Miss Holloway’s reaction: “this girl her clothes are... old” and her remark “I used to play music a long time ago” and the fact that Casey asks for an autograph seem to point to the fact that Miss Holloway is Casey’s musician from the 80s. I lowkey feel like Nick and Matt tried to throw us off slightly by having Casey be in a “ghostlike daze”. I think she knew exactly who Miss Holloway was.

However due to Miss Holloway’s age (I’d place her somewhere in her 30s although that might be wrong) and the fact that WITW takes place in October 2019 (based on how BF takes place on 23rd November 2018 when Hannah is 13 and she’s 14 in WITW and how Dan and Donna reference pumpkins popping up around Hatchetfield) it wouldn’t make sense for Miss Holloway to have had a music career in the 80s because even if she’d been a teenage pop star she’d have to be at least 50 in WITW. So that’s where the time travel comes in.

Many people have suggested that Miss Holloway is a time traveler and I entirely agree with them but I’ve tried to focus on exactly how she did it. Now time travel isn’t a new thing in the Hatchetfield Universe but the time travel we’ve seen from Emdroid and Ted both have something in common: Tinky, as the bastard of time and space, allowed them to travel through time. Emdroid was obviously allowed to travel back because she is the one who kills Ted as the Homeless Guy and ultimately allows Tinky to get Ted in the Bastards Box and Ted was allowed because Tinky wanted to fuck with him. I don’t think Miss Holloway travelled through time with Tinky’s permission. Based on what we see in WITW she very clearly isn’t on the side of the lords in black so there seems to be no reason for them to make her go through time.

However we know Miss Holloway has a touch of ‘the gift’ as someone with a connection to the black and white (as all witches do) and I find it interesting that in BF MacNamara describes the black and white as “a place outside of all dimensions”. Hatchetfield has a lot of timelines... like a lot and based on what we’ve seen of Hannah’s powers it makes sense for the black and white to exist outside of these timelines. Now because of this there’s a possibility that Miss Holloway managed to access the black and white without a portal through accidentally using her powers and while she managed to get out eventually perhaps without a tethering point much like PEIPs portal she ended up being released from the black and white in an entirely different time.

This would explain why the “whole worlds forgotten” her music career who would really care about some rising star in the 80s who randomly disappeared? It would explain her 80s aesthetic too. Getting trapped in time would mean that she lost everything she had before the jump who can blame her for being nostalgic?

However the point at which she managed to jump out is something that I think I need more info for. She clearly has been out for a while as she’s met Duke and helped at least 3 other girls in the time since.

TL:DR: Miss Holloway is a time traveller who accidentally got stuck in the future after using the black and white to time travel.