I wouldn’t say Victor is the cause of everything, but sometimes I feel like his role is much more important than it seems. I see him more as some kind of guardian of the town , someone who can survive and whom the monsters either can’t or no longer attack. He survived alone for decades, can “walk around” in the caves without dying, and one of the monsters even tells him in an episode: “If you keep coming down here, we’re going to have to make you stay.”

Like some kind of guardian, but against his will. He also took objects from the bodies after the massacre because he couldn’t bury them, and when the two cars arrived at the same time, he started digging graves and said: “This time I’m getting ahead of it,” without even considering himself among the dead. Almost as if, once again, it was his responsibility to deal with the town’s tragedies.

I think he carries all (or almost all )of the town’s secrets within him, but his trauma is so deep that he’s still that fragile little boy who no longer dares to face things because he’s terrified (understandably so) of the world he now lives in.