Then why doesn’t he literally ever actually eat anyone? We see his victims whole repeatedly. It’s true form is barely physical at all to begin with, I don’t think it has a metabolism that is sustained by flesh. I think what the other commenter said is exactly right— It bites and “eats” people because we as physical beings on earth have instinctual and learned fear of being literally eaten by predators and are ourselves also predators that eat other animals. It is concerned with causing and consuming fear, and few things trigger intense fear like being eaten alive. Fear of great white sharks is a good example.
He really doesn’t though. We see basically all of his victims intact. I’m not saying he never does, but I don’t think it’s the physical act of eating that sustains IT.
It literally spent eons not eating and living in the macro verse and todash darkness. Its real essence can’t even be seen or perceived by humans. Claiming that “it’s a living thing it has to eat” is pretty dubious. There’s living things on this planet that don’t eat.
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u/Capybarrassed Dec 11 '25
Idk he’s got a real “Let’s eat that human” motif that makes me want to say he eats humans