From the child's perspective, belief in the tooth fairy is perfectly rational. Tooth goes in, money comes out. That there is someone who knows what's really going on is part of the point.
Comparing the two characters is a way of pointing that out.
Comparing the two characters is a way of pointing that out.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'