User blog comment:Fearless Diva/Endless Summer Theory/@comment-3452092-20180115231758

That's an interesting idea. We do seem to be the glue holding everyone together. Since we have no past, there are no items in our past to use as Embers of Hope. Our time on the island (and maybe in college due to Diego being our best friend) are literally everything we have. And while our friends are being reminded of things outside the island, we don't really have that. We don't have people outside the island like Estella, Raj, or Sean. We don't have (known) ambitions outside the island like Craig (who said early on that he didn't have anything to go back to, which kind of makes the fact that his ember is connected to him rather than to a loved one sort of sad and consistant). We just have the island and the people on it. And if we do solve everything and they can go home (which we don't know, but the embers kind of seem to make that more likely as an end game). . . where does that leave us?