Talk:The Lonely Rat Boy and Other Tales (4)/@comment-16533050-20171024180336/@comment-1500935-20171024204925

I think the Void is shaped by dreams or, put in another way, impressions of the real world. The fact that Cienfuegos witnessed the boy in his dreams of the Void is perhaps his own interpretation of him. Like the Outsider, the boy doesn't have an identity anymore.

EDIT: I was actually listening to Blade Runner's Tear in the Rain theme when writing this. That music gave it a really sad tone. :(

EDIT EDIT: Sorry, I misunderstood your words. Yes I initially found all mentions of the boy in DotO to be odd (6 in all if you count each book individually). But like I said, it was probably to compare his fate to the Outsider's own life.