I really hope you're wrong. First because I don't like thinking of Michonne as possibly half cray-cray, and second because it's heartbreaking!!

That would explain why this kid is way too young.

 

Yep: "And for Michonne, Carl has become an adopted son—a very special role, since as she first confided in Carl alone, she lost her son Andre early in the apocalypse." https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywoo...recap-carls-death-michonne-best-friend-mother

 

Anything is possible, and it would go alone with her habit of talking to "Rick" as well, but Magna also saw RJ, it was what made her change her mind about how to approach Michonne. And Angela Kang has basically stated that RJ is real and will be a symbol of "hope" going forward.

 

Thank you.

 

I think RJ is real, and he is certainly tall enough to be 5. I think they had to deal with a group and Michonne and Maggie had different opinions on how and someone got hurt. Maybe someone they took in? And those X's could be a brand as apposed to a scar from stitches. Diidn't they look pretty much the same size?

 

I am of the opinion that they are brands rather than incision scars

 

Myself as well, and most incisions wouldn't be 2 diagonal intersecting lines. Although with their location I think they deliberately wanted the fans to be like "someone took their kidneyyyyyzzz!!". I really hope we don't discover that they ran into some rogue kidney stealing cult. They can save that for FTWD

 

If others show up with O's on them, they're either denoting who needs a hug or a kiss, or they are playing human tic-tac-toe

 

This was my theory I posted under Michonne Babby Daddy (lol) after last episode. I agree the way it was worded by Angela Kang leaves room for that possibility. She merely agreed that the child we saw was RJ. Also, if you listen closely during the scene that implies Magna saw him too, there is a whispering voice behind the regular audio, which is what I think Magna really saw : Michonne talking to no one there.

At this point, I think RJ was real. I think something happened to him and it ties into Michonne's hesitation to accept new people. There are too many things missing in my opinion for him to be alive in present day. Even this episode when they're trying to convince Michonne to go all the way to Hilltop, Michonne says more than once that she's only going so far and that's to fulfill her promise to Judith. She could have easily said ..No I need to get back to RJ... and no one would question it. Not one reference to him at all.
And for crying out loud, it's the son of Rick Grimes and there is literally no hype from the showrunners...no talking up his future or relationship with Judith, just that it will all go back to how things are currently being run in Alexandria
Everyone else thinks I'm coo-coo, but until I see something in present day that confirms him, that's my theory and I'm sticking with it.

... watch the clip again with your volume UP, there's more going on than what we see

 

Well I think RJ looks about 5, and I believe the actor who plays him Antony Azor, is 5. You can see in one still photo he is actually pretty big while she is carrying him. He doesn't look 2 or 3.

To me, that would have been awfully quick to figure out Michonne was interacting with an imaginary child and bond with that, on Magna's part. It was like 1 or 2 seconds, and she couldnt make out what Michonne was saying, she only saw Michonne crouch down and back up like she had picked up something.

Angela probably wouldn't call RJ a symbol for hope on the show if he was the product of Michonne's coping malfunctions.

I am convinced he is real, but we shall see.....

 

She did say he was a symbol of hope, Rick and Michonne wanted that baby as a way to start the future he and Carl envisioned. But I think Michonne has lost that hope, literally and figuratively, that's why she didn't want to let the new guys in and was 'arguing" with dead ( not dead!) Rick in her bedroom about it, it's why Judith reminded her letting in the new group would have been what Rick wanted. Michonne knows it, but something happened to make her lose that hope they shared, and I think It's the loss of RJ. AK did say we will get to see when Michonne finds out she's pregnant, so I don't think a child is purely her imagination. That would be pretty lame.

 

lol, no worries about "credit"...just glad I'm not the only one who has a similar theory!

 

It doesn't really fit with what we saw, or what AK said, or the fact that Antony Azor is, I believe, 5. If she was a hallucination of him from the last she remembers him, I think they'd use a younger child. Also if he was a hallucination of Michonne's, it wouldnt really make sense that they showed him as a visible child from Magna's vantage point. But we shall see.....anything is indeed, possible

 

I can't make out what this "voice" is saying, and closed captions shows nothing. I also can't hear the Whisperers, but closed captioning shows what they are saying. Because of this, I'm not convinced that anything is being said, just random noise.

 

It clearly shows the child from Magna's standpoint. And we don't know how much time passed before she knocks on the door. Magna may have waited until Michonne was done interacting with RJ and he ran off again, before she knocked. All the evidence, both what we see on screen and statement from AK, points to RJ being real. They could do a switcharoo on us, but that's not what is being put together here.