Freewill Themes

Spoiler alert: In Freewill, freewill is a major theme. Okay, maybe that's not such a spoiler… you guessed that from the title. It sure takes Will a long time to realize that he can control his ow...

No doubt about it, Will is isolated in Freewill. His parents are dead, he goes to a school he has no interest in attending, and he's generally stuck in a depressive spiral that leaves him wallowing...

In Freewill, in some ways, Will thinks he has it all figured out: Life is terrible, he's unlovable, and there's no point to any of it. And yet—and this is a pretty big yet—his head is filled wi...

Will's biggest challenge in Freewill is to let go of the fear, doubt, shame, and relentless inner critic he's held tight to since his parents' death. Nothing's going to bring them back, and he's on...

It stands to reason that someone who's as depressed as Will is in Freewill would spend a good deal of time debating the meaning of life and the general point of existence. And since his parents die...

Everyone gets a case of the sads sometimes, but Will experiences this to the extreme in Freewill. Dude doesn't just lock himself inside his house for days on end and sleep all the time—he literal...

In Freewill, Will is engaged in a pretty epic battle with the despair that lives inside him. But as hopeless as his thoughts can sound—and they really can get pretty freaking pessimistic—he sti...

Will's inner voices (we'll call them unhelpful thoughts) are always shining a light on his shortcomings, his moral, psychological, emotional, and social weaknesses in Freewill. He measures himself...

Will has plenty of things to be afraid of in Freewill. The police, the freaky reporter, the ominous anonymous callers, the sudden growth in the gnome population… yeah, dude has plenty of reason t...