Talk:Gabriel Fanfarinet/@comment-4598697-20170811024255/@comment-3991308-20170811030824

Short answer: He's not actually dead.

Longer answer: Bastion needs a while to get his life together, so he faked his death and ran off to Switzerland. I felt like this would be the choice he would make. It's not entirely sensible, of course, but he is sixteen and his actions hopefully make sense in the context of his character development in the Manhunt.

A death is a huge event, though, and I don't want to undermine that. I will be putting out some more shorter works dealing with the aftermath, but in the context of Ever After High, Bastion's current narrative is definitely over.