Character Relationship Map: Wounds

Characters

• Will (played by Armie Hammer) — protagonist

  Protagonist and New Orleans bartender who becomes the focal point of a supernatural ordeal after discovering a college student's phone containing occult messages and disturbing imagery.

• Carrie (played by Dakota Johnson) — protagonist

  Will's student girlfriend who researches Gnostic rituals about wounds as portals, becomes increasingly distressed by the phone's contents, and enters a trance-like state influenced by the entity.

• Alicia (played by Zazie Beetz) — supporting

  Will's ex-girlfriend whose presence at the bar triggers Will's lingering feelings; she reconnects with him but eventually pulls away due to guilt and his instability.

• Eric (played by Brad William Henke) — supporting

  Will's drunk friend who is stabbed in the cheek at the bar; his wound becomes infected with inhuman flesh, and he is later manipulated by the college kids to lure Will to his house.

• Jeffrey (played by Karl Glusman) — supporting

  Alicia's current boyfriend present at the bar; Will harbors envy toward him and later engages in a physical fight with him that contributes to Will quitting his job.

• Eric's Friend (played by Matthew Underwood) — supporting

  Part of the college student group that manipulated Eric into luring Will to his house to deliver the entity as a 'present'.

Canonical Relationships

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

• Alicia → Jeffrey (Romantic Boyfriend) — Alicia and Jeffrey are an established couple during the story.

  Alicia arrives at the bar with her current boyfriend Jeffrey. Will envies Jeffrey because of his relationship with Alicia.

• Will → Alicia (Romantic Former Lovers) — Their former relationship remains emotionally active for Will.

  Alicia is identified as one of Will's exes, and the plot reveals that Will still has a crush on her. They later make out before Alicia stops.

• Will → Carrie (Romantic Girlfriend) — Will and Carrie are romantic partners whose relationship deteriorates under supernatural pressure.

  Will returns home to the house he shares with his student girlfriend Carrie. They later break up after their relationship becomes increasingly distant...

Story Dynamics

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

• Will → Eric (Social Friend) — Their friendship brings Will into direct contact with the infected wound.

  Eric is described as Will's drunk friend and is present at Will's bar. After Eric's wound worsens, Will checks on him and later decides to stay at Eri...

• Will → Jeffrey (Conflict Rival) — Will's jealousy turns his feelings toward Jeffrey into direct hostility.

  Will envies Jeffrey because Jeffrey is Alicia's current boyfriend. Will later starts a fight with Jeffrey at work.

• Eric's Friend → Eric (friend)

Story Analysis

A bartender's discovery of a disturbing phone exposes him to an occult force that invades bodies, relationships, and identity.

Plot Progression

1. The Abandoned Phone — Will works at a troubled bar where Eric is stabbed and a college student leaves a phone behind. Messages from Garrett introduce a threat connected to a tunnel.
2. Images Beneath the Screen — The phone sends Will bloody teeth and disturbing corpse footage. Eric's infected wound and the book about wounds suggest that the horror is physically entering the ordinary world.
3. A Vessel Chosen — Will abandons the phone after hallucinating it as a cockroach creature, but the threat follows him home. Garrett appears and claims that Will is being prepared as a vessel.
4. Empty Relationships — Will investigates rituals while Carrie enters trances and develops a dark physical symptom. His jealousy, instability, and aggression destroy his relationships with Carrie, Alicia, and Jeffrey.
5. The Flesh-Bound Gift — After losing his relationship and job, Will stays with Eric and learns that Eric was forced to lure him there. Will discovers the higher being in Eric's wound and submits as cockroaches overwhelm the...