User blog comment:Demon Bob/Not Fair/@comment-26712086-20151127181407/@comment-27271185-20151127203030

Flaky is dead throughout the story, along with her parents. She lives with Deedee because he was stalling the fact that he had to take her to the afterlife. Flaky is the only one who can see Deedee because people can see Death in their last moments, but Deedee never finished the job because Flaky was the only person to look at Deedee with anything other than horror, sadness, regret, etc. and if he took her, he would never see her again. Flaky doesn't have to be looked after because she is already dead. While writing, I thought of Flaky as something like a ghost, haunting places she used to go and interacting with the living.