As already mentioned, most youngsters fantasize for years about the possibility of their parents getting together again and reuniting the family.  This yearning is accompanied by a sense of helplessness and inability to change the life situation.  Sometimes the imagination produces impotent scenarios in which everything is possible.  “If only I were Supermoose…”

Moose:  (hesitant) Oh…well…if you could just do that THING where you… you know…sort of, ahem…fly backwards around the earth and um…turn back TIME…?

In the game, Supermoose represents omnipotence, but he can also feel disappointed, depressed, in a crisis, and he can even be in denial.  The hero of the story, however, is strong enough at this point to be aware, to try to encourage, and to recognize the denials. To a certain extent, at the emotional level, he is almost more powerful than Supermoose.

Supermoose tries to help him put the islands together but even he is incapable of doing so.  And as a result there is a struggle with the attempt to make peace with the situation.

Moose: ”What’s up? Anything wrong?”
Supermoose: (denying) “Wrong? Of course not. What would…I mean why…Why do you ask?”
Moose: ”Oh, no special reason really, aside from…you know…those gallons of water gushing out of your eyes like there’s no tomorrow.  ”
Supermoose: ”I don’t know what you’re talking about, you must be imagining things.”
Moose: (playing along) “Ohhhh…I get it… (leans in and whispers) Don’t worry, your water’s safe with me.”
Supermoose: (with clenched teeth) “Water? What water?”
Moose: (takes out dictionary, to camera in an official tone) “Ahem…Denial: (pause) It’s not just a river in Egypt. ”

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