Talk:The Outsider/@comment-24.4.163.175-20121014150213/@comment-24.4.163.175-20121016034644

Indeed. Also, The Outsider seems to be less concerned with the effects those he has empowered have on the bigger picture than the choices those people make in using them. When he talks to you he is careful to emphasize that your choices are your own, but does admit that he gets some enjoyment from guessing what you'll do. For example, If you spared Daud, when he talks to you in Granny Rags' lair The Outsider seems both surprised and pleased, going so far as to tell you that he finds you fascinating.

This would explain his choice of contacting some people and not others. The average person would probably try to use any powers for their own financial gain and the nobility would either do the same or use them as parlour tricks, neither choice is particularly interesting or entertaining.

As a supernatural (and presumably immortal) being, The Outsider has no physical needs. With physical needs such as food, warmth and shelter not a concern, this leaves him with purely mental needs like companionship, intellectual stimulus and entertainment. Without knowing more about his nature and his home realm/dimension/universe, The Void, speculation as to his need for companionship are pointless. There may be others of his kind we haven't met or companionship may be a purely mortal concept, there is no way of knowing at this time. As for intellectual stimulus he would seem to be a master of engineering, giving Piero ideas and solutions to problems through his dreams. Again, whether this is enough to satisfy him or not is unknowable, for all we know the things that stump Piero are the intellectual equivalent of 1+1=X to The Outsider. But entertainment is something The Outsider mentions several times. It is my belief that we are the equivalent of TV to him. Most people are the equivalent of a soap opera, the same story week after week, year after year. But some very special people are the equivalent of Lost. Who will make the choices that will redeem them and who will make the choices that lead to damnation, who will seek enlightenment and who will seek oblivion, these seem to be the questions (and people) that The Outsider seems most interested in.