#I mean I've been riding the ML news high all day might as well use this energy for something lol

[cq-studios]

Been going crazy since the ML news (If you can even call it that) dropped and I'm finally off work and able to post about it.

First off two disclaimers.

I haven't looked through my dash yet so I don't know if anyone else made this post if someone has my bad

I will be talking about and referencing the beta opening movie leak

So I want to talk about this emblem because, even though it's been around a while, I personally haven't seen anyone analyze it in depth.

Before I go into my own personal observations, I'd like to point out the obvious stuff I have seen people talk about before. That being the fact that it resembles the Scalaian symbol for the number 7 and the symbol from the cover of the Book of Prophecies...

...and the idea that it is a combination of the two.

I definitely agree with that, but I'd like to raise you that it also resembles a dandelion. Or at least the prongs resemble dandelion leaves.

I'm pretty sure this intentional, considering Scala's history and its founder.

Honestly, it makes me wonder if this is a symbol meant to represent the Dandelions, especially since we see it on what seems to be Player's heart station (judging by the characters in the foreground of it being their best friends)

And at the top there are five prongs, one for each Union Leader (or alternatively one for each Darkness they encountered).

(Fours also come up a couple of times in the gaps, thinking specifically between the top prongs and the little diamonds in the Scalaian 7, which could possibly be representative of the Darknesses Ephemer thinks he let escape)

As we all know 7 in representative of light, so it isn't too out there for it to be in the symbol possibly made to represent the light inside the hearts of the children that supposedly brought the world back from darkness. (It could also represent MoM and his apprentices, but I'm not even sure if the Lost Masters are common knowledge since Eraqus plays dumb about them in the opening of KH III)

But the placement of the emblem, dead centre on the building, in the new images make me second guess the Dandelion connection.

Maybe it is representative of the bluebloods (specifically related to Ephemer) instead? Or maybe that building was made specifically with Brain in mind? I don't know.

But I do know that the symbol actual resembles another type of flower/weed and I'd like to bring it to your attention.

The thistle.

See the thistle no only has very similar leaves to the dandelion but it also has a flower. A flower that looks strikingly like the top bit of this new emblem.

Among Celtic cultures the thistle represents resiliency, strength, resolve, protection, and pride (Source).

Take that as you will.