#baseless theory

[iucidaus]

aight yk what? i need to get this out of my system (do correct me if i got some facts wrong and i'm open to discussion! yippe)

i have a theory, a baseless one, about phainon AND aedes elysiae:

WARNING: might contain leak (but, really, leaks are dubious until confirmed. still, i'll try my best keeping it subtle), and excuse my english it's not my native language

“Hero. Divine. Puppet. Prisoner. Which of these things are you? Who are you?”

many of us think that hero is the phainon we know, divine is phainon when he ascended to titanhood(?), kephale, puppet is flame reaver, prisoner is the lord ravager phainon. BUT WHAT IF, hero is actually flame reaver (thus the title being nameless hero because flame reaver is, in a sense, more nameless than phainon if it is possible), and the phainon we know is puppet? like a pawn purposed to free the lord ravager phainon? (yes, i am a lord ravager phainon believer and yes, i like thinking that because he's a lord ravager and we will fight nanook/destruction at the end of the game, meaning that we will fight him again in the end much like how we fought kevin at the end of chapter 1 in hi3. i think that would be a great 'homage')

Flame Reaver is the split of Kephale Phainon, and so does Phainon to Lord Ravager

we all know that phainon used to be anaxa's student and perhaps had learned alchemy, so what if in the previous cycles he too had studied alchemy, and he used it to split his soul or sth? although it is kinda a reach (every point of this post is a reach tbh), i think alchemy in fictional work can do literally everything lmao.

this goes the same to phainon, he's acting like a pawn to help the lord ravager free of its shackles by using the 'coreflame of kephale' (we'll get to this later).

Khaos, and in extension, every bearers of the Worldbearing Coreflame is iteration of Phainon

i don't know, i don't have particular reason for this. only that i know hyv and basically many companies are lazy to make a new model, but it will still make sense if we go by my theory. but i saw someone posted on twitter [https://twitter.com/hxg_diluc/status/1915098251969396972?t=KeGKJJHVmQTkatuzMy0drw&s=19] that both khaos and phainon has "厄" in their names, so... that's an addition.

The Worldbearing Coreflame kept at the Dawncloud is a counterfeit

(hear me out, this one is the craziest one, literally, but stick with me) the 12 coreflames are needed to bring era nova, but so does for kephale to imprison lord ravager (yes, i believe he's kept within the dawn device). so, as the 12 coreflames are collected, ostensibly at least, flame reaver will interfere the ceremony before phainon can collect the worldbearing coreflame into the basin (what was that thing called again) taking the coreflames (the water i guess) with him to bring to khaos. this though made both khaos and lord ravager to wake up, but that's exactly his plan. the counterfeit is a stellaron, made to merge with phainon and thus wake the lord ravager, the coreflames were absorbed by khaos(?) to defeat the lord ravager.

(note: kinda similar to how cipher gave us a counterfeit trophy in seal slammer event! we got the fame, cipher got the money- phainon got the coreflame albeit fake, khaos got the power to protect amphoreus)

(additional note: the longer i write this part the longer it's apparent i'm just a fic writer- i feel crazy lmao)

Aedes Elysiae never existed (but there's a catch)

never heard by common folks, not written in songs nor poems, people believe phainon was just making things up when he said he came from aedes elysiae. partially of it was correct, but it was more like he didn't tell them the complete truth. phainon, though created oblivious to his actual purpose, remembered that he came from aedes elysiae, a village that i theorized to exist ONLY on the first cycle of amphoreus but not remade after it (for whatever reason the other phainons had).

“I am but one among a thousand faces defiant against my fate. That which you see... is me.”

as a lord ravager phainon believer, i believe this line was spoken by the lord ravager. although it's a distant dream to me, i feel like hsr should at least once show a lord ravager that hated being a lord ravager.

having experienced countless failed attempts to save his village and his world, as a human, he would feel useless and perhaps rendered him into thinking to destroy himself. a desire so great, he gained the gaze of nanook (crazy, ikr). but he hated himself being given a power to destroy not only himself but the village and world he hold so dearly, and so he began a journey to free himself from his predestined fate (like how amphoreus trying to free itself out of nous's calculation :D !)

(basically, he is a writer creating countless aus for himself lmao)

(note: indeed he has lived through numerous cycles as lord ravager, and indeed he previously lived as phainon then kephale then fail to protect his world then lord ravager, and it keeps resetting and resetting and resetting as lord ravager phainon tried to free himself from his fate)

bonus theory:

Phainon is the "Sun Devourer"

"Praise the sun!" was phainon's line? status? on the messaging feature on hsr. kephale is regarded as the sun, phainon is the successor of worldbearing coreflame, thus him being the eventual kephale. it would be ironic but befitting if, as said in the previous point, phainon as kephale wanted to devour himself because he hated his power?

Flame Reaver has a golden blood too

ik these theories don't exactly connect with each other but like... hey! my mind is a mess thinking about phainon's potential story yk so... understandable, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

i know about the theory that the phainon at the beginning of "Nameless Faces" trailer is flame reaver phainon, and i actually think so too! only that i want to add that, as my theory said that flame reaver is a split from kephale phainon, i think the reason why he's most likely able to house coreflames was because he was particularly given the golden blood (the water he splashes to himself was THE golden blood).

[egophiliac]

listen. people have always debated which character is the most normal guy but what if it has in fact been crowley the whole time. no string pulling no master plan just a guy who wants to keep his school running and is cursed with problematic students and incidents

honestly I think the funniest possible reveal would be one of two options:

ONE: Crowley has no plot relevance whatsoever. he wears the mask to cover his receding hairline. his darkest secret is the bottle of "medicinal" whiskey under his desk. this man can barely plan a PTA function with six months' advance notice, he doesn't have the time or patience for any kind of overarching master plot involving mutating students or whatever. the only thing wrong with him is that he's been running this school for (mumblemumble) years and, quite frankly, if you'd been putting up with NRC students for a couple of centuries, you'd have totally checked out by this point too.

OR

TWO: Crowley IS actually Raverne and HAS been slowly enacting a master gambit...to embezzle school funds. the overblots are still completely incidental. he has somehow less idea of what's going on than we do. we confront him about it and he's just like

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

Summerhall by Fran Vegas

created for the 10th anniversary of The World of Ice & Fire

I’ve seen confusion about the “canon” nature of the artwork, despite our initial post indicating that this is a wholly unofficial series of commissions, for a wholly unofficial anniversary celebration. That said, of course, we direct the artists to the books, and in the cases of dragons we felt free to give them the colors that George had indicated to us for The Rise of the Dragon, which we couldn’t find a way to share in all cases. But this piece of art, by the terrific Fran Vegas, is different. The location is one that has been referenced, and glimpsed once in official art (in The World of Ice and Fire in fact): Summerhall. But the scene… well, we admit, that is what some fans call “headcanon”. We just love the idea of the image, and feeling free to see it rendered by a capable artist, we asked for it. —Elio Garcia

[matteoberrettini]

genuinely hilarious btw how people on twt want soo bad to make matteo a villain in jannik's story or some shit like it's a disney movie. less than a month ago he said they'd talked recently and he's never had anything but good things to say about jannik but to some people it'll never be enough because he made a decision for his career that i understand is hard to digest but it has nothing to do with his relationship with jannik, jannik himself said it doesn't bother him, they both have never indicated they weren't on good terms. like yeah we can't ever really know the truth behind what they say in public, but i think we should stick with what we can see and read, yeah? because making wild assumptions based on nothing doesn't lead to anything good, it's just speculation and i don't see what anyone gains from it?? i think maybe some people need to grow up and accept that they don't know these people. they don't know jannik and what he thinks or feels or who he talks to or who avoids him or whatever. we know what he shows and tells us and that has to be enough because otherwise we go down dangerous paths

[wackywatchdotcom]

I wonder if Ragatha and Jax are the doomed individuals then based on the theme song. Kaufmo is already gone, and I feel like they might also be on the way out. (Or maybe in some other way, Zooble & gangle & Kinger are the ones who are at least Managing in the circus while Ragatha and Jax seem to be in their own relative self destructive spirals about it?)

ive considered this!!!! i need to think on it....

i do honestly think that its gonna be REALLY hard to predict who abstracts so early in the show (i mean ep 4 sounds far in in relation to 9 eps but i think in terms of any hints for things it can be challenging before reaching the true halfway point- i feel like at least. esp since any possible foreshadowing could also be representing smth other than abstraction!!! its unclear...) but that SAID it does fascinate me and makes me a little concerned for those two HAHA. im assuming its representative of smth else if anything, but i dont think its something we have the information to deduce yet..... though jax and ragatha have been among the most closely associated with something AWFUL happening to them, which Doesnt Bode Well .....

ragatha and jax are definitely the characters who seem most like theyved succumbed to the circus. kinger too, but he has in a both healthy AND unhealthy way (he walks a beautifully thin line i think)- jax and ragatha have both allowed themselves to be a part of the circus, and it calls to mind how gooseworx has described abstraction. that "you get stripped of every bit of individuality you have, and become something completely unrecognizable." and really, that description can be painfully easily applied to jax and ragatha. combined w the theme song thing its a bit concerning...

its notable though that kinger and gangle are both, on paper, the most likely to abstract. kinger is easily scared, has been here a long time, lost his wife, etc. gangle is implied to have almost abstracted in ep 4 (i mean its not confirmed but i feel like the audio cues and visuals are there for a reason- esp since a less abstraction based depiction of self destruction is shown right after, and what would be the point of including both if they were both supposed to convey 'gangle is unhappy and unhealthy?' it would make the sequence w gangle and pomni pointless i feel. and sidenote that it implies that abstraction is not smth the person experiencing it is likely to notice. that theres likely no visual cues for when its abt to happen other than the person seeming unwell)

but that said, jax and ragatha are both unwell in a more progressive way that spirals over a long period of time. where kinger and gangle seem more like theyre just already operating at a lower point than others, jax and ragatha 'have it together' except they obviously dont and have clearly been on some downward spiral for a long, long time. zooble doesnt have the same 'looks like theyd lose it at any moment' but they dont seem to have the same history of self destructiveness by their own coping mechanisms that those two have. it makes jax and ragatha seem more like, if they go further into this spiral, its much, much harder to get them out- putting them at arguably greater risk. gangle and kinger may be more vulnerable on paper, but i think they have an adaptability to emotions that jax and ragatha maybe dont quite have? (for lack of a better description- i could be wording that incorrectly) they havent dug themselves into pits they cant get out of like jax and ragatha have, so to speak- possibly because jax and ragatha HAVE succumbed to the circus so hard

and like i mean maybe im reading too much into things, but i also feel like in writing something that is INCREDIBLY important is what the audience sees first. and what the audience sees first is caines intro, bubble (who i feel like is meant to be less of his own character and mroe a symbolic extension of caine and his building arc and character), and the theme song. which makes me feel like theres a lot more going on in it than it seems- but its hard to fully determine what means what without more context... gangle being the VERY first cast member addressed in the show just feels very interesting then... but maybe her name just worked best to go first lyric wise HAHA

maybe its also worth mentioning that the character im most scared for is zooble though... and its a silly reason. but i feel like of all the Possible Foreshadowing there is, theirs is the most subtle but concerning to Me. and its this:

they keep getting tossed into pits, one of which looking the same as the one used for the cellar. (and their opting out of adventures feels akin to social withdrawal- and closest to how the audience was first clued into kaufmos abstraction. that he didnt show up. buuuut its mostly the holes thing. worth noting that it IS gangle and kinger who are grouped with them and later end up being assigned to go help them)

(if im wrong ill be thrilled and im not like, SUPER concerned. its not a very detailed theory. but im concerned Enough)

[tifa-simp]

In this essay I will try to convince everyone this means there'll be a triple synergy attack that can only be activate when Tifa's party leader-

[hellisntreal]

This is one of those joke ideas that hung out too long in my head until I was compelled to create it.

A Curious Courier and a Wholesome Herald— a looooong time ago

[toomanyheadthinks]

I don't think jod is going to hurt the kids or their parents. I think he might try to pretend he's a Jedi again to get the adults to cooperate. They don't know that the Jedi and the old republic fell so they might buy it. I do however think it'll all fall apart when he tries to meet the supervisor so he can land the pirate ship.

I'm still holding out that the supervisor is droid / computer of sort and it can either go two ways. He tries to take over At attin by controlling the supervisor (so he becomes the main bad guy) or there he accidently activates like a contingency plan which will have a terrible outcome for the people who live on At Attin. We still don't know what the great work is, and why their society seems oddly authoritative. But if At Achrann is to go buy it probably isn't good.

[cheruv-ii]

Ben is absolutely a nail biter, not even just when he's anxious, sometimes when he rests his head on his hand he'll catch himself subconsciously biting his thumbnail while doing whatever hes doin. He starts painting his nails with the stuff that tastes absolutely rancid to try and stop it. In this essay I will-

[egophiliac]

thank you for blessing us with twst pokemon au i appreciate it greatly. if i may ask you a question

how does one read book 7 without selling their soul to the deep dark web. i've been wanting to read the other parts for a while but i can't find a place with all the chapters. i've seen translations on youtube but i don't think they have all of them?

(also why'd you government name mickey like that on your last post what did he do)

thank you! :D

I'm not really sure where to find up-to-date main story translations, so opening it up to the floor for other people to chime in! for reference, the latest release in JP was episode 7 chapter 6 on December 11th, which covered 7-88 through 7-100. fingers crossed for more in February...but that's where we're at right now!

(Michael knows what he did)

[shadowblade8192]

i think its been well documented that each episode since wild blue yonder has had a name check (if you dont know what that is, its whey they say the name of the show/episode title in the episode itself), and i was wondering, since its not the same character every time, could there be a connection between them? i cant think of anything but i did make a list of every character who spoke the first name checking line in each episode so if anyone else can find a connection then do add it in the tags anyways heres the list:

wild blue yonder - donna noble the giggle - the doctor the church on ruby road - the doctor space babies - the doctor the devils chord - timothy drake boom - the doctor 73 yards - ruby sunday dot and bubble - lindy pepperbean rogue - rogue the legend of ruby sunday - carla sunday empire of death - TBA

[sleepyslag]

it’s a standard gaming video but one of them makes a throwaway “boyfriend” mention. they title it vday vid.

They make a joke about the Manchester wheel and just let us put the pieces together.

[beedreamscape]

On episode 92, I wish I could listen to the criticism quietly but the sheer amount unables me to sit in silence.

While the turns were a bit long, it definitely didn't drag like people on reddit (and some on tumblr how sad) were raving about. I feel they needed a non-recorded mock game to step back into the technicalities as to decrease the need to describe mechanics and lessen hesitation.

But even then let's cut them some slack, they haven't visited these characters in what two years? And from a TWO-shot! Some of them haven't been in a proper game in a while. Not only a recap was needed, and A chose to do it while in combat, they also needed time to get into the groove of their characters on an emotional level.

And unlike the live one-shots CR does where they can jump into old characters after years with certain ease, CK PCs played a small number of hours as these characters, they need wiggle room to adapt into the mindset.

And I won't even talk about the things they kept saying about how Aabria treated Aimee because it was born from seeded bitterness and hatred they refuse to reflect on. Paired with infantilizing these adult women who are very capable of talking to each other.

Also if one hasn't seen ExU Prime, they wouldn't understand their dynamic. I, on the other hand, understand it on a spiritual level and it changed me forever.

The timing in the campaign is beyond my judgement for a myriad of reasons, but the main ones are my player/people and plot preferences.

I won't say everyone should love ExU Prime or the CK, or that they're a bad person for it. Fair game, I don't love everything they've put out. But it's incredibly unnecessary to make it personal and attack them and spew (or rather reveal) bigoted hate left and right because of a DnD actual play.

[sonknuxadow]

sorry i dont really like the shadow is silvers dad theory/headcanon/whatever and part of the reason for it is that people keep presenting it as an actual thing that could be possible even though it makes no sense and all "evidence" people use to back it up is easily disputed

[myrfing]

i do genuinely still think the original plot was that the mamook guys were straight up culling non two headed children to roll for a shiny as their village can’t sustain that rate of births with the food scarcity issue which makes a lot more sense than Your Infant Just Dies In An Interracial Marriage Most Of The Time for a dramatic effect that only makes sense if you think miscarriage holds some sort of moral failing