Other staff. As in staff other than Ant.
And why on earth would you get to pick and choose which staff evaluate your post?
I didn’t misrepresent anything. I didn’t even bring this part of what you said on the first page up because it wasn’t an argument, as saying “it’s obvious” means nothing.
You intentionally omitted my entire argument because of your personal assessment that what I said doesn't constitute an argument? Sure, that justifies overtly lying. I clearly laid out how and why the evidence supports the conclusion, and all you had to offer as a counter argument was a completely unsupported claim that "split" meant "went insane" which was directly contradicted by later evidence that was shown.
And that Multiversity scan you posted doesn’t prove Mandrakk was a byproduct of Dax being split in two.
Yes, it does. It proves that the split that Dax went through was comparable in character to the split mentioned earlier, as he was ALSO split in two. Your ignorance of English grammar doesn't change this.
Why would the end result need to be in Mandrakks favor for him to be controlling the Hyperstory?
Because plot manipulation encompasses author like control of a plot. Mandrakk did not portray that whatsoever.
Literally nowhere did CAS say the Hyperstory had a will of its own
Yes, he did. He assigned the action of "trying to destroy him" to Hyperstory. He didn't paint Hyperstory as a tool being used by another person, he described it as "self-assembling" and "trying to destroy him" and later "driving us towards its conclusion." Everything he said about hyperstory assigns agency to the hyperstory itself, never to a third party or Mandrakk.
Just because the comic didn’t spell it out for you, doesn’t mean there’s no evidence for it.
The comic not "spelling it out" in this instance is the fact that the comic doesn't say it at all and doesn't imply it. Your interpretations aren't evidence. The facts support several possibilities, and all you've offered to support yours is blind assertion.
Your alternative possibility cannot exist, as the comic directly states the Monitors are believing Mandrakk into existence.
Except my alternative possibility directly acknowledges that fact and incorporates it, so I have no idea why you'd claim that this information is somehow problematic for me. Also, the comic doesn't state this, Zillo Valla does.
If there was a mention to some type of collective unconscious that bring Mandrakk into existence from the Monitors belief in him, then you’d have an argument. However there is nothing like that. So therefore there’s no reason to accept your possibility.
When does it say in the "Dream of a Thousand Cats" that the collective unconscious is being used to make humans the dominant species? Oh right, it doesn't. It just says that the
humans are dreaming it. So I guess there's no collective unconscious! I guess DC Humans simply have reality manipulation, since the alternative possibility "can't exist" if it says the humans did it and not the collective unconscious. What a laughable objection, frankly.