Fish Noise posted:

Well, under those 20 layers of clothing and his seemingly-human skin, Alan is actually a manifestation of coffee that has forgotten itself. At the end of the last LP Convergence, he was sundered and isolated in thermoses and this Alan shell, and the darkness in his nightmares is his true black coffee self seeking to destroy his human identity and reassert itself. The Alan persona fights back with creamer in the form of shining light into the darkness but he is also unknowingly restoring the coffee with his thermos collecting.