On top of wanting to be with Nastajia, and having risked his life already to get to her, even facing the seeming impossible, no guy at that age wants to be treated like a vulnerable kid and told to stay where it is safe.
Alexander used to be able to come to Dreamland as a dream projection, right? Just like those children and how Daniel can now.
Really, the magical armor was always just sort of a crutch to Alex that he only really had to use because his mind wasn’t as sharp and strong as Dan’s is.
From the beginning, Alex was limited by his own, crippling lack of imagination.
Had he understood the full capabilities of being the King of Dreamland, he wouldn’t have needed the armor. He would have been invincible in his own right. And being the dumb jock he is, he couldn’t figure out that it’s all really just like a game that can be exploited.
But even being vulnerable under a false pretense, he still couldn’t really have died, before.
Now that he isn’t dreaming anymore, though, things are obviously different.
Reasonable advice? Because he is the only one of the group that would be facing danger trying to save the trapped children? All of them are deciding to forego their own safety in order to rescue the kids. Alex is choosing to be one of the people risking his own safety to help secure the safety of others.
It might be a good idea for them to pick up the magical armor fitted for him before doing too much, to give him more protection, but based on the armor designs of the dwarves, he could probably use some of theirs for the time being, if they really care about him not just wearing a t-shirt into combat.
The way things have been depicted, he indeed could have died in Dreamland before, rather than just waking up from sleep. If you remember, his body “died” whenever he traveled to Dreamland, causing Nicole to freak out, which means that if he died in Dreamland, he very well could have been dead in both realms.
Daniel, who had studied dreams extensively, even was concerned that Alex could die in Dreamland, thus coming up with the solution to use the sword to slow his descent from a fall before Alex learned to fly again. We also saw that wounds, like the scratch on his chin, carried over from Dreamland into the waking realm, so other injuries would logically transfer as well, including mortal ones.
For such a thing to exist in the first place… I would doubt it.
The odds seem pretty slim, not even taking into account how much more physically limited Alex actually is in his physical body as opposed to a dream avatar.
Well, if you believe something hard enough, then yes, it may happen. I call this the “Phantasmal Killer” instance(named after the DnD spell) where the brain essentially shuts down from sheer trauma suffered, even though it was caused by something that is not truly real.
It could just be something that’s possible through specific circumstances, and most certainly has something to do with magic. Because illusionary wounds couldn’t and shouldn’t transfer from an astral projection to the physical body under normal conditions.
For some reason, I thought he lost access to the magical armor after Nic sent him back to the real world…but if it’s laying around in the Nightmare Realm somewhere that he could pick it up, that would be pretty handy. 🙂
reasonable maybe but there is a reason not to take that advice. In any similar situation, would you stay? While your team takes all the risk to rescue children?
You act like Dreamland isn’t a “real” place, though, which it is, in this story. Thus, those things actually did happen to him. While humans have some control in Dreamland, because of being in a dream state, we don’t know for sure what all they can and can’t affect. You are correct that magic is involved, which is shown by the transferred injury, but that means that people might be susceptible to harm not just because of “believing it hard enough” but from inability to protect against it.
In a true dream, if a person gained control, they could shift the entire environment to their whims, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. As such, Daniel’s assumptions of how powerful he was could have been misguided, and we still don’t know how much control he has, except over his physical form.
On top of wanting to be with Nastajia, and having risked his life already to get to her, even facing the seeming impossible, no guy at that age wants to be treated like a vulnerable kid and told to stay where it is safe.
Exactly.
Famous last words … 😉
Looky who is maturing.
Looky who still won’t take reasonable advice…
He was invulnerable before? I don’t remember that. Do they mean because he had magical armor?
What if Alex finds ANOTHER magical armor,how would he use it?
Alexander used to be able to come to Dreamland as a dream projection, right? Just like those children and how Daniel can now.
Really, the magical armor was always just sort of a crutch to Alex that he only really had to use because his mind wasn’t as sharp and strong as Dan’s is.
From the beginning, Alex was limited by his own, crippling lack of imagination.
Had he understood the full capabilities of being the King of Dreamland, he wouldn’t have needed the armor. He would have been invincible in his own right. And being the dumb jock he is, he couldn’t figure out that it’s all really just like a game that can be exploited.
But even being vulnerable under a false pretense, he still couldn’t really have died, before.
Now that he isn’t dreaming anymore, though, things are obviously different.
Reasonable advice? Because he is the only one of the group that would be facing danger trying to save the trapped children? All of them are deciding to forego their own safety in order to rescue the kids. Alex is choosing to be one of the people risking his own safety to help secure the safety of others.
It might be a good idea for them to pick up the magical armor fitted for him before doing too much, to give him more protection, but based on the armor designs of the dwarves, he could probably use some of theirs for the time being, if they really care about him not just wearing a t-shirt into combat.
The way things have been depicted, he indeed could have died in Dreamland before, rather than just waking up from sleep. If you remember, his body “died” whenever he traveled to Dreamland, causing Nicole to freak out, which means that if he died in Dreamland, he very well could have been dead in both realms.
Daniel, who had studied dreams extensively, even was concerned that Alex could die in Dreamland, thus coming up with the solution to use the sword to slow his descent from a fall before Alex learned to fly again. We also saw that wounds, like the scratch on his chin, carried over from Dreamland into the waking realm, so other injuries would logically transfer as well, including mortal ones.
For such a thing to exist in the first place… I would doubt it.
The odds seem pretty slim, not even taking into account how much more physically limited Alex actually is in his physical body as opposed to a dream avatar.
Well, if you believe something hard enough, then yes, it may happen. I call this the “Phantasmal Killer” instance(named after the DnD spell) where the brain essentially shuts down from sheer trauma suffered, even though it was caused by something that is not truly real.
It could just be something that’s possible through specific circumstances, and most certainly has something to do with magic. Because illusionary wounds couldn’t and shouldn’t transfer from an astral projection to the physical body under normal conditions.
For some reason, I thought he lost access to the magical armor after Nic sent him back to the real world…but if it’s laying around in the Nightmare Realm somewhere that he could pick it up, that would be pretty handy. 🙂
I think it’s safe to assume that we shouldn’t be applying “normal conditions” logic to anything in this comic. 😛
You can see Alex’s armor fall to the ground when he is sent back to Earth at http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/comic/page-1719/
It was still there when Dan arrived for the first time.
You can see Alex’s armor still on the ground on page 1770 at http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/comic/page-1770-2/
reasonable maybe but there is a reason not to take that advice. In any similar situation, would you stay? While your team takes all the risk to rescue children?
*deadpan* Stop, don’t, come back. How’s that for stopping you, Alex?
You act like Dreamland isn’t a “real” place, though, which it is, in this story. Thus, those things actually did happen to him. While humans have some control in Dreamland, because of being in a dream state, we don’t know for sure what all they can and can’t affect. You are correct that magic is involved, which is shown by the transferred injury, but that means that people might be susceptible to harm not just because of “believing it hard enough” but from inability to protect against it.
In a true dream, if a person gained control, they could shift the entire environment to their whims, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. As such, Daniel’s assumptions of how powerful he was could have been misguided, and we still don’t know how much control he has, except over his physical form.