In this haunting exploration, Fenrir weaves together Daughter's devastating song "Smother" with the ancient weight of Ecclesiastes 4:1-4, creating a meditation on existence, harm, and the wish to have never been born.

The episode doesn't seek to comfort or resolve—instead, it dwells honestly in the difficult spaces both texts create. From the exhausted opening confession of "I am wasted, losing time / On a foolish, fragile spine" to the shocking final wish to have "stayed inside my mother," we follow the song's descent through self-condemnation, failed love, and the fantasy of dissolution. Meanwhile, Ecclesiastes provides a biblical echo: observations of oppression so unbearable that the writer declares the dead better off than the living, and the never-born better than both.

Through careful attention to language, imagery, and the paradox of creating beauty from darkness, the episode explores what it means to feel like a "suffocator" in your own life—someone whose love might be toxic, whose very existence feels like damage. This isn't self-help or theology; it's an open autopsy of a feeling many carry but few articulate. For anyone who's ever wondered if their presence in the world does more harm than good.