Mother’s love as shackles
Power imbalance allegory using magic imbalance (magic as energy)
Weather events fuel/change their energy
Estella - keep her vicious and cruel
Pip - keep him goodhearted and unassuming
Bentley - keep him hard, cynical, sarcastic, and obsessive - maybe keep the physically abusive part too?
Herbert Pocket - keep him simple
Pixy lore has them playing with humans, confusing them off woodland paths. Estella could stick to men.
Estella still shouldn’t end up with Pip.
Herbert should be the opposite of Estella, using his magic to make people fall in love. Maybe he’s not smart enough to realize that he’s creating chaos.
Everyone should be harbingers of chaos. CHAOTIC NEUTRAL ALL AROUND.