The Knight

[Guffe]

THAT was Link? With that massive jaw? I've never played anything Link related but isn't he supposed to be a kid of some sort?

In some games yes, in some games he's in his late teens or early twenties.

 

[Krantos]

I don't get what it all means, was her own subconscious trying to fix her or something? :/

Pretty much.

Her inner child coerced her imaginary Link to play along. It's a Tylder Durden thing. The Blond Guy never existed. He was just Link posing as someone else. Basically, Erin is going literally nuts because her subconscious is now taking direct control of her hallucinations.

 

[bigfatcarp93]

How did a hallucination dangle someone out of a window by their feet?

I believe it's been implied for some time that they may be more than hallucinations. Remember when Erin and Mol escaped the hospital? Erin threw one of the stowaways out the car window, and one of the cars following seemed to hit an invisible bump in the road.

Then there's the time Link pulled her out of the way of a car. If she didn't see the car, how could she have jumped away?

 

[Frankster]

What a tweest! :O

As for explainning the physics of being held by or drinking with one's own delusions, I always like to think of erin as being the equivalent of haruhi suziyama or w/e her name is, you know imagination turning real and all that stuff.

 

[Shanshu_Prophecy]

For those wondering, look in the last panel. There are no cuts and bruises. Looks to me like it was all in her head. She probably managed to stumble onto a bus, and she's been asleep on the bus while all this has been going on.

Not sure if Little Erin is going to become a split personality as she is "taking over", but somehow her delusions are going to have a stronger hold on her in the future.

 

[Otaku World Order]

Soooo did all those people in the bar see Erin sitting there hitting on herself and drinking imaginary beers that Link bought? That must have been hilarious.

Yeah, that's what I was wondering too. I think Erin's hallucinations are getting to be like something out of Inception.

 

[theultimateend]

I had a feeling this guy was going to be a video game character after all but I figured he was going to be the guy from Runaway. Since he looked just like him aside from the blonde hair.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/runaway_2_the_dream_of_the_turtle

Oh well. Cue plot twist music

Argued with my friend for days that this was Zelda (our first playthrough of it) and when the reveal finally hit he said something to the jingle of "Well, uh, fuck you."

 

[BehattedWanderer]

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Now you're just messing with me, playing into my whole Erin Stout/Tyler Durden theory. Love it. So, she's either going full Fight Club, with being unable to distinguish when she's the watcher, and when she's the doer, or she can now see the rift in reality that is caused by game characters interacting with us. "We're going back in." This reminds me of Doomsday Arcade, and how real those characters became. Maybe a split between the two? That would be cool.

 

[Tradjus]

So Erin's schizophrenia has self-awareness, eh? xD

 

[putowtin]

Why you cheeky little.... I did not see that coming!

But what has Zelda been doing all this time?

 

[UsefulPlayer 1]

I feel like alot of people knew it was Link. I mean I always thought they were the same.

But the whole, just inside the head thing is probably catching people off guard.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Lol, I guess she really was hitting a brick wall.

 

[Kajin]

I'm thinking that the reason the imaginary character's jaw was as hard as a brick wall was because she actually punched a brick wall.

 

[Clockwork Scarecrow.]

Wow. Good ending guys.

 

[Davroth]

I fucking knew it!! Partly. Not reallly. But still. :I

Well done.

 

[Farther than stars]

Or, you know, the literal brick wall.

That's actually really good. I wonder if Carter is a sophisticated enough writer to have actually meant that. As for who's apartment that is, I'm pretty sure it's just an abandoned building, hence the "Now leasing" sign outside.

 

[Yeager942]

Well fucking played. Did not expect him to be Link...

 

[Norix596]

The first comment "mind=blown" about sums it up. But I WAS wondering what happened to Link.

 

[GabeZhul]

Dammit, I so knew that was coming!!!
God dammit, I should have already mentioned it as a crazy theory, and now I could have totally said "Ha, I told you, didn't I!?"
*sigh*
Whatever. Now I'll just have to look out for the next plot-twist and spoil that instead. :3

 

[Allthingsspectacular]

Huh, his facial hair just disappeared.