I mean it doesn’t make sense. Imagine a real life person just listening or reading to a bunch of word salad and then immediatly lose all free will and get stuck on whatever last thought or characteristics they have but cranked up to 11 while going back to the world salad all the time. It really breaks my suspension of disbelief.
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I’d argue the-thing-that-once-was-hartman makes a fairly good case for the Hiss being on even playing field with the Dark Presence. Might well be the same thing filtered through a lake that is an ocean that loops that is a spiral