The game goes ahead and says “Ness had a dream. It was a very clear and very strange dream.” Dalaam, more bizarre and surreal than anything else in the game, is set on pink clouds, like Magicant was made of in EarthBound Zero. Poo’s powerset is similar to Ness’s, with a few of Paula’s PSI moves and very little of his own. There’s barely anything resembling lore or backstory to Poo or Dalaam; it all comes out of nowhere, including all of the Of Kings equipment and seems to run on whatever is cool. The only character in the game to mention Poo before he appears is Talah Rama, who could simply have seen into the future as it was set to be rather than reciting whatever prophecy talked about the three boys and a girl; in fact he says “everything is predetermined” in the same monologue. Part of the theory is that, in-story, the fourth character was supposed to be someone else and it didn’t work out, so the forces that be or the entity or whatever created Poo last-minute to make up for that. Dunno who.
Supporting clues such as…?
The game goes ahead and says “Ness had a dream. It was a very clear and very strange dream.” Dalaam, more bizarre and surreal than anything else in the game, is set on pink clouds, like Magicant was made of in EarthBound Zero. Poo’s powerset is similar to Ness’s, with a few of Paula’s PSI moves and very little of his own. There’s barely anything resembling lore or backstory to Poo or Dalaam; it all comes out of nowhere, including all of the Of Kings equipment and seems to run on whatever is cool. The only character in the game to mention Poo before he appears is Talah Rama, who could simply have seen into the future as it was set to be rather than reciting whatever prophecy talked about the three boys and a girl; in fact he says “everything is predetermined” in the same monologue. Part of the theory is that, in-story, the fourth character was supposed to be someone else and it didn’t work out, so the forces that be or the entity or whatever created Poo last-minute to make up for that. Dunno who.
Everdred, obviously.