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Children who die but get lost on the way to the afterlife land in Everlost, a shadow version of the living world where they never age. This purgatorial setting frames the trilogy's exploration of being stuck between life and true death.
The antagonist Mary seeks to trap all lost children in a static, comforting eternity, believing stagnation is safety. Everfound climaxes the conflict between her frozen paradise and the freedom to move on, dramatizing control disguised as love.
Certain Everlost children can possess the bodies of the living, a power called skinjacking that blurs the boundary between the dead and the world they left. The ability drives the plot's stakes as the war between factions spills into reality.
The trilogy's resolution turns on accepting death and release rather than clinging to a preserved existence. Growth for the characters means moving on, framing acceptance of change and loss as the mark of maturity.