So, finally, after being manhandled by a dragon that has imprinted on him, Scot wakes up and realizes that not everything is as he wanted to convince himself it was.  This for me, is the fun of fantasy.  You can take a normal situation and point out the flaws of human perception by blowing it all out of proportion.

Sure, Scot had all the evidence of weirdness right in front of him:  the Ghost, the wings, the fact that her mother called him a monkey (off-panel…Petal Oak refers to all humans as monkeys), but it took a huge event he couldn’t deny or avoid to get him to stop rationalizing the truth.  Yes, it’s ridiculous and silly to think someone would be that way.

But how many people convince themselves that their abusive significant other is just “going through some stuff” and will magically stop punching them one day?  How often do people find themselves buried under an avalanche of debt because they couldn’t look dispassionately at their finances and choose to make sacrifices?  We all have a fairy in the house, but very few of us will be lucky enough to get a bearhug from a newborn dragon.