#reasoning:

The voice inside my head I named Derick: I mean you don't have to-

actuallllly. i wanna play a game.

i've got a certain plastic animal obsession, and i did this back on my old colress blog. i'm doing it again. like this post and i'll assign your muse (specify if multi) a littlest pet shop

example: samuel would be lps #2237

I would like it if he still existed pre-EoM in this continuity (already a huge assumption that could easily be proven wrong), and I think that would necessitate changes to his personality during childhood to account for the changes they already made to Livio and his relationship to Wolfwood.

That flashback they gave us doesn't easily mesh with a conflict like the puppy incident from the manga, even if we assume it's being filtered through Nick's idealized perception. It also seems like Livio decided to join the EoM on his own, specifically to follow Wolfwood.

Could Razlo have just been dormant at that time, due to lack of threats? Sure.

But if we consider a baby Razlo who is more subtle from an outside perspective-- maybe just comes off as moody or standoffish-- then it's possible he actually interacted directly with Nick, even if Nick didn't realize that's what was happening.