The word “obfuscate” is wielded with considerable versatility in literature, often serving as a metaphor for the act of clouding clarity—whether in thought, perception, or communication. Its usage ranges from the literal, where it parallels terms like “darken” or “shade” to evoke images of diminishing light or clarity [1, 2, 3, 4], to the figurative, where it describes the confusion of judgment or the deliberate act of misleading another’s understanding [5, 6, 7]. In some passages, the term even takes on a playful tone, being employed to suggest both an intellectual challenge and a social subterfuge [8, 9]. This multifaceted employment highlights obfuscate’s power to mirror the gradual descent from illumination to obscurity in narrative and character depiction [10, 11, 12].