Very very slight Volume 4 spoilers ahead
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Hello anyone that reads this. A while back I made a post on this very forum involving the identity of the puppeteer. In that post, I entertain the thought that the puppeteer is not Roger(a puppet for all of those who have not read Finding Vanessa). I figured Roger was just a red herring... I mean, it was so obvious, a puppet would be the puppeteer right? But I speculated that the puppeteer could be someone else other than Rodger(Spencer or maybe Jerry).
In Volume 4, it is all but confirmed that the puppeteer is someone other than Rodger. A certain character talks about the "players in town" which were The Collector and The Puppeteer... However, there is a new name mentioned, "The Grim One". At one point The Grim One's name is revealed to be Grimorea or something of that sort. A few chapters later, Jack realizes that Grimorea is an anagram for "I am Roger", deducing that Grimorea/The Grim One must be Roger.
So with that in mind, let me first say "I CALLED IT!!!", and secondly, I would like to ask you all again, who the heck is The Puppeteer? Not to make any theories or anything, but just going off of points we can infer from all the books, especially the later parts of Volume 4, I expect that The Puppeteer is Spencer. He is just pulling a lot of strings to "Always be on the winning side". Does anyone else have any theories on who The Puppeteer is; Do you think Jack got it all wrong and Grimorea is not Roger, do you think that Roger is actually The Puppeteer because of all of the strings he has been pulling for a millennia, if that's the case, then who the hell is Grimorea?
I'd love to hear what anyone else thinks!
Just recently finished V4 and I’ll share my take. The ventriloquist dummy is not “Roger”. From context it seems “Rodger“ is another powerful being similar to the collector or the Dark tree god. He has no form so he can not live on his own and needs a conduit, hence his many human vessels that carry him around. The dummy is most likely what he prefers to ride around in to avoid suspicion.
This can also be seen at the end of V4 when Spencer pulls the doll off Rosa’s hand and destroys it. Because he touched it he became the new host to the formless being. He then removes his sock and uses it as a puppet for Rodger to speak through.
So basically the puppet does not imply another person in the story is hiding his identity using dummy, rather the being known as Rodger has no true form and uses dolls, dummy’s, and other items as conduits attached to humans.
side note, we’ve already see other gods demonstrating the importance of human conduits aka Rosa. The dark tree god used Rosa the same way Rodger used all those other people that carried him.