The angelic form of Esther, after retrieving The Six Medallions, thus transforming her into this to fight The Fallen Guardian Of Hope for granted.
In order to achieve this form, you must collect EVERY - LAST - CRYSTAL throughout the entire game, thus accessing The Good Ending. If you have failed to collect all the crystals, The Good Ending will be discarded and you will received A Bad Ending.
Getting those crystals... reminds me of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards where you do the exact same thing, per level, in all worlds.
I first send this on Twitter, and The MoonBit Team liked it. I'm actually fond of that. Sure I made a few flaws of this picture, but now, it's too late to fix it.
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New Mr. Hopp Demonology Post, Because I Seem to Have Lost the Last One
What is the Entity? (Excluding Satan, because that's lame)
Looking at the Ars Goetia, the Dictionnaire Infernal, the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum for demons here, we have roughlyyyyy
Ninety demons, give or take? 72 from both and 12 exclusive to the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum, plus all the ones exclusive to the Dictionnaire Infernal. I'm done counting. So how do we go about this? We see its trademarks- what the Entity is associated with, what its powers are, its modus operandi, and its power level in the underworld, and we compare it to those eighty-nine demons. We have a wide variety, but with this method, we can eliminate large numbers in one fell swoop.
So, what are the Entity's trademarks?
Well, according to the wiki, its powers include- excluding the ones that make no sense like "age changing" and "mouth orbs"- supernatural strength, teleportation, manifestation, telekinesis, dream and mind manipulation, future vision, curses, possession, and the ability to induce hallucinations. Its association is mostly with the things it controls (Mr. Hopp's music box, Isabelle's burning death, etc.), but what I will call to mind here is the number three- the three toys it puppets, the three girls it hunts with varying levels of success, and the Six, with six being a multiple of three (I know, it's a stretch). Its modus operandi- how it enacts its whims- seems to be through children, and mostly through little girls. (ew.)
It takes emotionally vulnerable children (Isabelle, a troubled child who I suspect may have- very big may have- been an orphan living in a Christian almshouse in the 1560s, Esther, who was an orphan living in an abusive orphanage who I thought had lost her parents to war, but I guess not, and Ruby, who had recently lost her beloved Nana) and preys on those feelings of pain and alienation, promising them "luxury and comfort"- through the powers of The Six, I assume this to be powers such as telekinesis, manifestation, knowledge, and protection/immunity/immortality. It then takes these children to the underworld to feed on their souls, likely for power.
Also worth noting is that it leads armies in the underworld and is of a high rank. Not worth noting is that it is a fallen angel and "the embodiment of sin and evil in many cultures"- not only because I'm forgoing the Satan approach but also because the former is true of all demons and the latter is... vague, at best, and factually incorrect with regards to Satan at worst.
So looking at that, we need a high ranking demon who promises "luxury", eternal life and protection, preys on children, possesses people, is associated in some capacity with the number three, can manifest things (spirits, objects, whatever), and either has a goat head and/or numerous legs or can shapeshift.
The two closest candidates for the Entity include:
Bael- three headed, numerous legs, shapeshifting, yellow snake eyes according to one source, king of hell, potential child sacrifices (VERY disputed), offers wisdom, invisibility and invincibility, has a hoarse voice, one source says he can induce nightmares, appears in dreams, can possess people
Paimon- two subordinates, hoarse voice, knowledge of past and future, manifestation, inducing visions (hallucinations), reanimating the dead, heralded by music, king of hell, can possess people
Between these two, which one is most likely to be the Entity?
Well, I think it's Bael.
While Paimon's two subordinates call to mind Miss Bo and Mr. Stripes and his ability to induce visions and manifest things is similar to the Entity, the unique parallels end there. Paimon is loyal to Lucifer, and the Entity is independent. To summon him, it's believed that you need to make him an offering- opposite to the Entity, who offers Isabelle the Six. Paimon is depicted as a human riding a camel, as opposed to anything goatlike, and the Entity's music- first of all, a music box, not trumpets like the ones Paimon is heralded by- is only a product of its control of the Mr. Hopp doll.
The Entity is a shapeshifter whose "monster form" has four to six legs, with yellow snake-like eyes, who offers wisdom and invincibility, has a hoarse voice, induces nightmares and appears in dreams. It takes over children, burns them, and rules over hell just like Bael. There's actually no proof that Miss Bo and Mr. Stripes are controlled by any separate entities- in fact, it's more likely that they're all controlled by the same one, making Paimon's subordinates irrelevant. What it does call to mind, however, is Bael's three heads. One for each toy it controls.
And very notably about those toys, when they merge into one in the end of Mr. Hopp's Playhouse 2, the amalgamate has those signature three heads.
But the cherry on top, I think, is the fact that not one but three of the sigils of the Six bear a resemblance to Bael's sigil. Now, all of the Six are exceedingly simple for sigils, I'll come right out the gate and say that, but notably, three of them feature stylized X shapes, which each resemble the sigil of Bael.
The Entity is the sole ruler of the Underworld, like some stories say Bael was at one point, but maybe the other sigils represent angels of some kind? After all, we do know of at least three angels (Esther, the Entity pre-banishment, and whatever banished the Entity) but when we traverse the Underworld, there's only one demon and a bunch of human spirits. And the Six are meant to represent balance, so having three of them worn, used, and corrupted by Bael and the other three for the light powers utilized by Esther to ward off its evil.
TLDR; it's Bael.
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