Doto Headcanon:
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But I don't think the Outsider knew that his name would save him, I think that he thought that if Billie was going to kill him, that his dying wish was that he wanted to know his name. He didn't want to die as the Outsider. He wanted to die with his name, at the very least. Which was why he was genuinely surprised when it freed him from the Void.













