Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-36393004-20190419171712/@comment-9041013-20190420205410

DrBobSmith wrote: Bloody Spaghetti,

I see three possibilities for what the little man is.

The first is Delirium tremens. I discarded that above. For one thing, that shaking and sweating wasn't described. For another, the timeline is just wrong.

The second is Alcohol hallucinosis. This is the cause of the "pink elephants." It isn't as physically dangerous as Delirium tremens, but except possibly for the absolute end of the story it doesn't fit.

The third is that L0CKED attempted to blend parts of both into a metaphor of that inner destruction and devastation of alcoholism. This definitely sounds the most likely to me.

L0CKED will have to tell us which was the intent. You can make it into a swerve, he has some sort of illness that becomes aggrivated by his alcoholism... and boom... it all makes sense. It does makes sense with the metaphor as well. Yeah, it is up to Locked however.