Talk:Alvar Soren Vacker/@comment-32987979-20191023023814

My theory is that Alvar was in love with Vespera, which is why her voice is what caused him to regain his memories. She lead him on and manipulated him in order to gain his full loyalty, then dumped him after she decided he wasn't useful. However, when she found him at Everglen, she used this to her advantage.

In my version of the story, Vespera convinced Alvar from a very young age that his parents didn't love him as much as Fitz, that he was viewed as inferior by his parents when he really wasn't, and that joining the Neverseen would allow him to do something important. I doubt he just came to these conclusions himself- there has to be some underlying reason, and I find it hard to believe that Della and Alden neglected him enough to make him feel like he wasn't loved.

Alvar really started to believe Della and Alden weren't paying much attention to him when in reality he was just spending more time with Vespera, and he started to withdraw from them rather than them actually not spending time with him. I fully believe that his "having three girlfriends" story was made up so that nobody questioned why he was gone so often (how would he have time for three girls when he's busy with the Neverseen?)