#basically his ‘hometown’ is his original self smthn smthn identity

[flingpoly]

my favorite line in stella is when ramuda says “if i had one wish, i’d like to see my hometown … but i don’t know if it still exists”

i remember pre-clone reveal when we were all debating over the nature of ramuda being non-human, this was my biggest lead towards “he’s still organic” because to me it implied memory loss; that there was a past self he doesn’t know still exists or not. and we have gotten some confirmation that he “came from” someone different who was the original, but “it’s a long story”.

i feel as though stella foreshadowed a lot obviously, but that line is one that hasn’t been resolved at all and it’s driving me mad. on the surface if you look at “fling posse’s secrets” you see that ramuda’s has been revealed; gentaro’s and dice’s haven’t been revealed to each other but we the audience know what they are. but i feel like ramuda’s secret, at least according to stella, was never that he was a clone, it’s whoever he was before. and i don’t know if even ramuda knows that.