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Hmm. Yes, this isn't just hallucination. Slayer has been watching over Drift all this time, and now he's here for him again, right when he needs him.
Shard? Do you mind if I ask if this has happened to you? I'm not asking for details, that gets prsonal, it's just that I know of too many times when someone is in real need and they have been helped by a spirit of a passed loved one/ones to believe that this kind of thing doesn't happen.
And to anyone who thinks it's just a hallucination; how do you know? ... think about it, how do you actually KNOW? And that's a whooooooole other can of worms right there.
Shard? Do you mind if I ask if this has happened to you? I'm not asking for details, that gets prsonal, it's just that I know of too many times when someone is in real need and they have been helped by a spirit of a passed loved one/ones to believe that this kind of thing doesn't happen.
And to anyone who thinks it's just a hallucination; how do you know? ... think about it, how do you actually KNOW? And that's a whooooooole other can of worms right there.
I would certainly like to think so, and to be honest it could go either way.
From what I've seen so far, the strongest arguments for Slayer being a figment of his imagination are that Drift hasn't taken off the splint, and that when the mental break becomes strongest, you can see Slayer's dead eyes staring through it. That's not conclusive, because if you look back over Little Foot, Slayer's teaching methods were very, very much based around letting him mess up and then telling him where he went wrong. I could definitely see him saying "I was wondering how long you'd keep the splint on!"
The eyes I'm less sure about, but the notion that he's mentally regressed to a point where Slayer is still alive - that doesn't seem compatible with the fact that he carries the skull around and has made special straps to keep it on the shoulder of his coat. I don't see any amount of cognitive dissonance being able to bridge "Slayer hasn't died" with the fact that he's just a skull that has to be carried around.
IMHO the strongest arguments for Slayer actually watching over him, are firstly that Drift has done too many clever things, like figuring out the snare from a vague description by Slayer, reverse-engineering the snow shoes and building this fantastic complex inside his burrow for it to be wholly his own work, and the other is that scene of him playing games against Slayer and constantly losing (assuming it is canon). But again, neither of these things are conclusive.
Kind of hoping that if Slayer leaves the story it will be equally ambiguous, e.g. "I've taught you all I can, and now you've got these other guys, I can go to my rest."
From what I've seen so far, the strongest arguments for Slayer being a figment of his imagination are that Drift hasn't taken off the splint, and that when the mental break becomes strongest, you can see Slayer's dead eyes staring through it. That's not conclusive, because if you look back over Little Foot, Slayer's teaching methods were very, very much based around letting him mess up and then telling him where he went wrong. I could definitely see him saying "I was wondering how long you'd keep the splint on!"
The eyes I'm less sure about, but the notion that he's mentally regressed to a point where Slayer is still alive - that doesn't seem compatible with the fact that he carries the skull around and has made special straps to keep it on the shoulder of his coat. I don't see any amount of cognitive dissonance being able to bridge "Slayer hasn't died" with the fact that he's just a skull that has to be carried around.
IMHO the strongest arguments for Slayer actually watching over him, are firstly that Drift has done too many clever things, like figuring out the snare from a vague description by Slayer, reverse-engineering the snow shoes and building this fantastic complex inside his burrow for it to be wholly his own work, and the other is that scene of him playing games against Slayer and constantly losing (assuming it is canon). But again, neither of these things are conclusive.
Kind of hoping that if Slayer leaves the story it will be equally ambiguous, e.g. "I've taught you all I can, and now you've got these other guys, I can go to my rest."
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