Character Relationship Map: IRL

Characters

• Elias (played by Valter Skarsgård) — protagonist

  Elias is a high school junior who faces severe bullying and grows increasingly isolated and depressed. After befriending Sc4rlet, he plans to expose his tormentors, especially Agnes. With his father's...

• Sc4rlet (played by Happy Jankell) — supporting

  Sc4rlet is the online avatar Elias befriends in The Secret World. She encourages him to stand up to his tormentors and helps him plan revenge against Agnes. For much of the story she appears to guide...

• Agnes (played by Alba August) — supporting

  Agnes is Elias's neighbour and a leader among the students who bully him. She participates in humiliating him and having footage of the incident posted online. Elias and Sc4rlet target her in their re...

• Pappa Stefan (played by Magnus Krepper) — supporting

  Stefan is Elias's divorced father and Jonas's father. After finding stolen drugs and an unedited video that reveals the bullying, he rescues Elias from a rooftop and later helps him stage his disappea...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Elias → Pappa Stefan (Family Father And Son) — Their relationship begins strained, with Elias keeping his problems from Stefan. After Stefan confronts him and asks how to help, he supports Elias's plan to expose the bullying.

  Stefan is Elias's divorced father. He finds evidence of the bullying and stolen drugs, rescues Elias from the rooftop, and later helps him stage his d...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Elias → Sc4rlet (Social Imagined Guide And Real Acquaintance) — Sc4rlet offers Elias companionship and guidance during his crisis, though her apparent in-person interventions are imagined. After surviving, Elias tracks down the real person behind the avatar and me...

  Elias befriends Sc4rlet through The Secret World, and she encourages him to stand up to his tormentors. The film later reveals that he imagined her ap...

• Elias → Agnes (Conflict Bully And Target) — Agnes helps humiliate Elias and becomes the focus of his revenge plan; their confrontation ends with her overpowering him and injecting him with the stolen drugs.

  Agnes is identified as Elias's neighbor and a leader among the students who bully him. She participates in humiliating him, and later fights him off w...

Story Analysis

A bullied teenager moves from isolation and imagined companionship toward exposing the abuse with his father's help and reconnecting with real people.

Plot Progression

1. Humiliation and Online Refuge — Elias endures bullying at school, including a filmed humiliation that is edited and uploaded online. Isolated from his father, he finds solace in The Secret World and befriends Sc4rlet.
2. A Ruined Meeting and New Resolve — Sc4rlet invites Elias to meet, but Agnes destroys his phone and the meeting fails. After Elias approaches the train tracks, Sc4rlet saves him and encourages him to stand up to his tormentors.
3. Revenge Turns Dangerous — Elias and Sc4rlet plan revenge against Agnes and steal drugs from a hospital. Agnes fights Elias off, injects him with the drugs, and leaves him in the forest; hallucinating, he ends up on a rooftop.
4. Rescue and Staged Disappearance — Stefan discovers the drugs and unedited footage, then rescues Elias from the roof. After a hospital confrontation, Elias records a farewell video and the two stage his disappearance to expose the bull...
5. The Truth and a Real Meeting — At the school memorial, Elias's video and the unedited footage reveal the bullying, and Elias appears alive. Later, he finds and meets the real person behind Sc4rlet, while the family begins to rebuil...