Has anyone mentioned this yet?
In Inevitable, it seems like Paul is giving hints that he's just pretending to be controlled in order to survive (unlikely but possible), or alternatively, that the real Paul, his spirit in other words, is trapped inside him somewhere while still being infected
"What if I told you I made it
And this is the life that I chose?
Would you even believe it, Emma?
Do you believe in ghosts?"
The keyword is chose. I'm fairly sure that if Paul had survived the grenade, he wouldn't have decided to just... throw that all away. He was considering it in Let It Out, but ultimately broke free. It's either he died and was infected after Let It Out (with some weird thing happening where his ghost is still in there that I'll explain in a bit), or he decided after surviving the grenade to at least pretend to be infected to survive.
As for the whole ghost theory-
The spirit, the one thing that could fight back (as seen in Let It Out) being gone is ideal to infect someone. So why would infected Paul imply he's almost like a ghost? It couldnt be because he survived the grenade- no matter how he died, the blue shit would've "brought him back to life". So is it instead Paul instead trying to tell Emma his spirit is still in there, trying to fight back? Or is it just a throwaway line I'm reading too much into?
I believe that the blue shit accesses only what is physical- like the brain. So the reason why it may seem like the person, or their soul, is still in their infected body (like in Not Your Seed) besides them being dead is because the blue shit has access to their memories and references them when it wants to. In reality, the person isnt really there. It's just the blue shit going off of previous memories. So in other words- an infected individuals spirit is gone, even if it may seem like it.
The mentioning of ghosts by infected Paul is significant- it seems to hint that Paul's ghost is still somewhere in there for whatever reason.
"What if the only choice is
You have to sing to survive?"
I feel like these lines are implying Paul is just trying to survive until he can break away- untim his spirit can take over his infected body.
Anyway its 3am and honestly theres more evidence that Paul is just infected and this is just a tragic story but yeah have me overanalyzing this lmao I dont even know if I explained it in a way taht isnt super rambly
