Ah, now we see who’s really in charge inside Patrick. Interesting.

Alison has a nosebleed, she must be thinking of something sexy (I’ve been watching a lot of Anime lately)

So his ego is a child, and not only a child but one who requires to be treated in language like “Lord” and “thy bidding”…

…Deep down, Patrick is still a lot more supervillain than his outside persona cares to admit.

listen, don’t we all gotta cede control to our lord boy sometimes??

I like how Allison is like “What the fuck, Patrick? Grow up!” She’s more chocked by this revelation than by Anima trying to kill her (honestly, we all knew *that* was coming sooner or later).

This actually makes a lot of sense. Arrested Development. Patrick was traumatized as a child, and some of his development stopped there, so it makes sense that child-Patrick would be in charge of Patrick’s mind (and other selves).

Hold on now…. if the kid can control other figments of Menace’s mind,
why did they not attack Ali on sight before? Why did the Fem. Menace
need rescuing… infact why was she being attacked by mechs in the 1st
place?

So Gurwara is living in the tower, probably rent-controlled, that jerk.

Good job on the gutter changing from black to white. I hadn’t it noticed going in, it’s a nice touch!

Also yeah, “Lord Boy” seems to forget he has an actual physical body that’s not looking too good AND is in the hands of others who just may disagree with his stance on Alison’s longevity.

It appears that Lord Boy is ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL!

Pay no attention to the voice coming from the tower..
The Great and Powerful Menace Anima Lord Boy has spoken!

The problem with smoke and mirrors is that if someone is really good with them, you never can be really sure that you’ve gotten through them all.

Lord Boy as a title…eh…doesn’t quite roll off the tongue like I would hope.

Since the introduction of child Patrick, there was a detail, in this arc, which didn’t sit quiet on me. I find myself asking, what was thepoint of the barriers in Patrick’s mind? The whole point of repressing a traumatic memory is, well, to not remember that memory, so that you have not to deal with the trauma this memory is associated with . Pretty obvious, after all. But when we look at Patrick’s memory of her mother, it doesn’t seem a good job: sure, he does not remember her face, the sound of her voice, but he still remembers all the words she said, and more important, all of her horrorific actions. He remember her trying to kill him, he remember her killing his puppy: this is not protecting from trauma, this is trauma!

Then there was this side comment, which Child Patrick said while rewiewing with Allison the moemroy of the car trip: hhs mother asked his past self if he could hear her thought, and the mental Patrick commented “not anymore, thankfully”. At the moment, i found it a strange remark, because obviously Patrick cannot hear her thought any longer, it’s been more than a decade; was it suppose to make us think that he had her killed? But now, thinking about it, i think i finally understand what it meant, and hte purpose of the barrier.

Child Patrick is not hearing his mother’s thoughts because they are sealed beyond the barriers: he has not repressed the memories of his mother’s actions, he has repressed the memories of his mother’s thoughts! He can remember his mother killing his dog and trying to kill himself, but thanks god he cannot remember what was she thinking while doing these actions. The Trauma of remembering your mother trying to kill you is enought to make him a psicotic, megalomaniac, paranoid and misantropic individual; but the memories of your mother’s thoughts while she is deciding to kill you in cold blood? PURE HORROR, enough to make him a delirious lunatic.
And it makes perfect sense, for a logical mind like his, to keeping the memory of his mother actions while blanketing the thoughts: had he repressed all his memory of hers, he problaby woud have been an happier individual, even if repressed; but he would have lost the context of his situation. Why keep escaping from home, if he didn’t rememer the reasons why he escaped in the first place? He kept the pratical memories he needed to remember to not look back, to explains enought of his origins to himself, while blocking the true damaging stuff.

And this is why Alison must die. This is why Alison is so damaging for him. Because the selfless love and acceptation she showed him…. was a MATERNAL love. Of course he tried to keep her away, and now wants to kill her: because her love remind him of his needs for love, and with this comes the true memories of her mother. And he will do everything to repress that memory.

Lord Boy is four years old, the age in which he developed telepathy, but i belive that this is secondary. The reason why he’s stuck at this age is because this was the age at which, thanks to his powers, he realized that his mother DOES NOT LOVE HIM.