Are alternates even conscious?
Okay dumb question, I'm kind of new in this fandom.
In an interview, Alex details the alternates as a hive mind controlled by Gabriel, "I kind of view it as they're kind of being controlled to do so by the hive mind, which is Gabriel." , "They know how to replicate how someone looks and how to trick people."
If this is true and alternates are just some kind of Gabriel vessels, then their behavior makes more sense, since they all just kind of act in the same way, and when they talk they only say the same things to torment the human they are preying on.
And it would also make sense that Six/Intruder is "something else" working alongside alternates.
Six is the only one that seems more "conscious" than any other alternate, doesn't seem to be replicating the appearance of someone, and has a completely different set of abilities, mentioned by Alex that he is not limited to manifesting only through TVs, but also through any kind of visual media, like a children's drawing.
Thoughts? 🤔
