Talk:Raiden Manikin/@comment-25363089-20141029170023/@comment-25389303-20141029204002

He's actually perfectly sane. Most people normally make a decision, but then for whatever reason do something different or have an internal struggle, however minor, over what to do. In Raiden this is not the case in that rather than making a decision in thought and then challenging that decision himself, that other thought, or that other side of the arguement, is instead coming out of the puppet in the form of words. In a way, its like the puppet is taking one side of the arguement, Raiden taking the other, and the two debate about it between them. Its not a seperate personality or identity as it is also Raiden's, just a different side of it. And its not like Raiden is talking to an invisible friend, as everyone else can hear the puppet speak too, and the puppet can even talk back to them.

The difference between the Ventriloquist/ his puppet and Raiden/ Flayyer is that neither Raiden or Flayyer are an obvious evil entity. The puppet in Batman obviously has control over the ventriloquist and makes him do bad things, but Flayyer does not have that same amount of control over Raiden. Its kind of like two friends arguing because they always have opposing ideas, but they come to an agreement eventually. Flayyer is, to put it simply, Raiden's subconscious thoughts said aloud seemingly by a seperate entity as an effect of his Semblance. Since the words are said aloud by something else, Raiden himself doesn't feel the need to argue with himself in his mind, and can instead say it directly to Flayyer and thus always seems to have a single viewpoint on things.

I hope that makes sense as that is as simple as it's going to get.