@ithinkdogshouldvote put this in my brain. I think the only thing else I have for this is an Oak family history of getting haunted and Lark and Sparrow being like "we're gonna beat up the ghost haunting us" and then opening a portal and it goes. not how they wanted.
I raise you: Lincoln probably predates Willy, and it's not out of the question for him to be born around the same time as the entire atmod cast or before.
Normal Banishes himself to JPL again (holds concentration for a minute) and just lays face down on the front staircase until Hero spots him and picks him up
I listened to a song and made an association and drew a picture about it, recording the timelapse so that I could make people listen to the song so I could prove it
(depending on how next episode explains this new development, Scary/Terry might be getting a new permanent design update for me vis a vis "you mind melded with and eldritch being and you'll never be the same")
we're all so distracted by the norm-scary parallels we're blinded to the reality that link is the one turning into early-season scary right under our noses