Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140918010005/@comment-6192846-20141228225801

Daisy8000 wrote: So you could say that Allen is there to serve as Mr. Exposition, right? He knows everything already, but him going and seeing things firsthand enables it all to be reiterated again for the readers, probably with dry humor involved if Allen remains the narrator for the entire story. As PoV narrator, yes. Allen gives us all the exposition. Thankfully, since he's been fed all this info from Black Box (the name for the black box in English characters), he's essentially like a 3rd person, omniscient narrator except with more dry humor and a little more introspection into himself.

He seems to be serving the same role Seventh Magician did in the email story: be the looking glass for us to see the plot move forward. This is hinting at evolving into a journey of enlightment for Allen though so we should see how it develops.

A few new things to post about:
 * Allen’s embarrassed about meeting Michaela again; the box’s info has made him fully aware she wasn’t originally human.
 * Sickle considers Allen to be a bit too much of a thinker who doesn’t act until it’s too late, which of course hurts the boy’s pride all the more considering his life experience.
 * The “ground” world (Third Period) is said to be over and destroyed, but this seems to be only the point where the forest is destroyed.
 * The Heavenly and Hellish Yards are like magnets, the one with more power will have a greater pull, hence why Heavenly’s souls have fallen to the ground world, for it is becoming part of Hellish Yard.
 * Sickle’s endgame seems to be to restore the fallen souls to Heavenly, though he won’t explain the details and is having Allen have to go through hoops while he makes the preparations.
 * The black box has a “transfer device” which instantly takes Allen to the spot the forest used to be in (ie, it’s a teleporter).