The Fever Code discussion

(I guess this is obvious but I'm still will give the * SPOILER ALERT *)

I just finished the book yesterday.

It's really hard to know wether Teresa betrayed Thomas or not, and if she has not had her memories during the original trilogy.

- Arguments why I think it was a bretrayal and she had her memories:

I recall some events in the first 3 books and it makes sense that Teresa did have her memories back then. Something like Thomas noticing that Teresa was keeping calm during some events, Teresa's betray in the Scorch and Teresa's telepathy with Aris.

Also, even knowing that Teresa really loved Thomas, it is believable that she prefers the mission that WICKED had, knowing all the stuff that she lived because the Flare. So it's possible that she betrayed Thomas by reveling the plan to Paige and as reward she became, with Aris, her informants in the maze and get to conserve their memories.

Also, although I do not remeber this, I read in the MR Wiki that Ava in somepoint of TST or TDC revealed that she had 2 munies informants infiltraded inside the gladers. The wiki is not uptaded after TFC, so it says that the infiltrators are Brenda and Jorge. But now it makes sense that they are Teresa and Aris.

- Arguments why I think it wasn't a bretrayal and she hasn't her memories:

The first one is that is not really clear how Aris fit in all this. Does he betrayes Rachel to? He was full aware of Thomas and Teresa's plan? He agreed to have Rachel memorie's wipe out? Does he loves WICKED's mission more than Rachel, just as Teresa with Thomas?

Also, I don't really think that, even if Teresa and Arys were full commited to WICKED's mission, they would accepted seen Chuck and Rachel been murdered in front of them, because they really loved them (at least that was it looks like in TFC).

Also, the Kill Order prologue shows how Teresa was scared of her memories been wipe out after seen Thomas go throu that process. And that's only 24 hours before she enters to the Maze.

Also, I don't believe in conicidences, so, if Dashner show us how Paige could manipulate other people's accounts and send messages on their behalfs it's because of something. Isn't that crazy to believe that Ava to the samething with Teresa's one.

Finally, other issue that makes me confuse is that in TMR epilogue Ava said in an e-mail something like "Remeber the girl who write in her arms "WICKED is good" before loss her memories?". Why Ava is saying now that she lost her memories after Teresa supposedly wrote an e-mail befor to WICKED staff where she said that she would conserve them? She contradics her. So one of the 2 e-mails surely wasn't sent to the staff.

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In conclusion. It is very hard to know the truth. I guess both ways seems to fit with the story. It's an open end.

I personally can't decide. A part of me doesn't want to believe that she had her memories all the time, but it makes total sense.

What do you think?

Yes, spoilers....

I think the problem is that Dashner was attempting to create the characters he wanted with this book.
Meaning, he wanted Teresa to be perceived more as the back stabbing wench rather than the girl who just did what she had to to save Thomas' life, since she's killed off at the end.
He wanted people to really hate her and not him for killing off a good character.

There are too many inconsistencies in this one for me to believe otherwise. For one, Teresa is basically a different person than she was in the other books. Even if she was acting in the Maze, when we see her in the 2nd and 3rd books, she's different than she was in this book. She's...softer or more compassionate later on. In this book, she was cold and calculating. For instance, she didn't even have to think about participating in the Purge. It just needed to happen, in her mind. No biggie.
In book 2, she couldn't stand the thought of Thomas feeling betrayed without warning, so she tries really hard to warn him. And then basically kills their friendship to save his life. Then she kills herself on instinct to save his life again.
It just doesn't really fit.

There are a few other more obvious plot holes too. Somewhere in the original trilogy, Thomas has a flashback of learning to speak to Teresa in his mind. They're sitting together and she says something like "you know they'll probably kill us if we can't master this".
But in this book, they just figure it out without WICKED's approval or (they think) knowledge.
And of course the fact that Aris could speak to them in their minds later on, but it never happened before?

There's the fact that in book 3, Teresa changes her mind on WICKED after getting her memories back and figuring out that they were never going to stop.
But if she never lost her memories, why the change of mind?

Too much just doesn't fit.

So yeah, what I think is that Dasher wanted her to be the betrayer after the fact. So yes, it can go either way since this book was pretty inconsistent with the others.