Some say that the constant pain of his injuries, along with the sheer amount of blood he spilled to become the terror of the oceans, finally drove him mad enough to pursue his reckless scheme.
Others who know him well attribute to him an almost supernatural clarity of vision. Though whether his inspiration comes from above or below remains to be seen.
Meanwhile Emmet & Sully are still trying to figure out what they're up against. They thought that whatever force set him hurtling forward in time also slowed his aging. But the fact that he seemed older in 1700 than 1890, and had many more irrecoverable injuries, pointed to a more subtle mechanism at play.
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