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The Rafayel Experience™ 😂 (Extreme Dose spoilers)

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"Look at that childish painter's beret and weird scarf..." "You never worn anything like that?" "... I did, and I looked smokin' hot."

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Rafayel is a slippery fish...

Something I need to talk about - there's a clear theme with Rafayel escaping when he's being tied down.

Extreme Dose kindled seems to start with Rafayel being tied his hands in the back with chains, but he eventually seems to break out of them.

This isn't the first time this happens with him.

In Tipsy Invitation, MC ties him up in a chair and after following along with her fooling around, he actually frees himself and takes MC's hand. (Thanks to Aria's Hub for uploading the kindled!)

In Promised Wildfire, MC ties him up with his own tie and same thing happens - after playing along with MC, Rafayel sets himself free.

Before the game's release, in the promotional material Rafayel was tied up (which looks to be his flames but let's not get to that 🫣) and he broke free from his confiment.

The description is interesting too: "Yesterday, a handsome fishie was unexpectedly spotted in various places around the world. Meanwhile, the artist previously reported missing, Rafayel, successfully escaped from his prison. Yet the fleeting appearance of a fishtail just before his disappearance seems to unveil additional information about his identity and secrets."

I want to give a honorable mention of Rafayel being tied down in Your Fragrance as well, but it wasn't specified when he got released and if he did himself or if MC let him loose.

I find this theme very interesting with Rafayel - he has several mentions about him getting trapped, falling into a trap or suspecting MC laying a trap for him. I'm planning to do a full on analysis about that too, but I wanted to make this as a separate post to just point out how slippery he seems to be. Maybe that's something that is looming?

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Rumors about the guys in the newest trailer

I compiled the rumors from the trailers for a easy access! Someone else typed about their names in Reddit.

Edit to add: The texts are now readable in the latest social media posts, fixing my errors:

Xavier: "Danger often hides..."

Rafayel: "A Praedator rose..."

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Come closer?

I'm going to miss Illusio so much...

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Others: Making very cute couple shoots or really cool portraits

Me:

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"Are you trying to run away? I thought you were bolder than that."

Brewed Addiction Part 4/4

Your Fragrance edit with Illusio

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"My brain is all mushy... You have to forgive if I... fool around a little. "

Brewed Addiction 3/4

Your Fragrance edit with Illusio

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"I guess this fragrance has a positive effect on my sense of smell.... Keep going, don't stop..."

Brewed Addiction, Part 2/4

Your Fragrance edit with Illusio

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"Wait... It's that perfume again!"

Brewed Addiction, Part 1/4

Your Fragrance Edit with Illusio

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I had over 34k diamonds, +290 empyrean wishes and 35 deepspace wishes ready fro Caleb on my no wishing account, here's me showing my account before wishing and the pulls :)

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My older long hair Raf Edit that turned out to be more "merman Raf headcanon". I would looove to see a side part on him if he would get longer hair.

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Raf please, I'm supposed to get to work, not to procrastinate more 😭 his voiiiiiceeeeeee.......

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Theory - Next Raf's Limited Myth is Fragrant Dream Related

Here's my collection of proof that we might get a Fragrant Dream themed myth for Rafayel for his next limited myth. Contains spoilers for Rafayel's previous myths, story branch and other memories.

About Fragrant Dream

Fragrant Dream is one of the best 4* memories in the game and a huge fan favorite. It is one of the longest, if not the longest 4* memory in the game, and it is a wild ride. If you haven't listened to it, I highly recommend looking it up on Youtube before continuing this theory.

It's also in a certain order of memories - First comes Your Fragrance with Thomas asking MC to pick up Rafayel to a art exhibition which is made in collab with a perfume maker. Then there's Dangerously close which is about MC and Rafayel going to said exhibition. Lastly, Fragrant Dream is where MC receives a perfume from Rafayel as a thank you gift for being his plus one.

Quick recap for the memory: MC sprizes the perfume on herself when she goes to bed, hoping to see some dreams about Rafayel. In her dream, she is the fearsome Witch of the Abyssal Rift. Rafayel seeks her out to make him a potion that would turn him to human. After a while, Rafayel finds the necessary materials and accompanies MC while she brews the potion. Eventually, after it's time for him to drink it, he lets the fumes from the potion to take effect on both of them - also affecting MC. As she regains her memories about Rafayel and he reminds of her not belonging to the sea, he dissipatess into seafoam, and she wakes up from her dream, clinging on worried Rafayel who has come check on her after not being able to contact her for a day.

Why this memory would be related to a myth?

In previous myths it's stated several times that MC sees dreams relating to her other lives with Rafayel - during Sea God myth she sees herself with Abysswalker Rafayel, and in Abysswalker she sees herself with Sea God Rafayel.

It wouldn't be far fetched that the only memory that is about MC's dream about Rafayel would foreshadow the next myth. The dream takes part in Abyssal Rift, which hasn't been explored as a location - other than it is in the sea. It is seemingly completely another lifetime with Rafayel and MC where MC is a witch.

What is the Abyssal Rift?

During the Sea God myth, the sea gets angry to Rafayel for lying to it. I believe this is because Rafayel refuses to take MC's heart - instead he gives his heart to her. I don't know if it's in the literal meaning physically handing his heart to her, or if it's metaphorical. He was supposed to do his siren duties, take her heart and grow his power with the most devoted heart he can have. He wasn't supposed to fall in love. I think the Deep Sea got angry because he didn't want to take her heart. This caused Lemuria to fall into a endless darkess - abyss.

In Rafayel's official preview video, it's told that Lemuria is in the depths of a Rift, so most likely the Dream is happening in this Rift that is mentioned.

In his story branch, he also mentions about the Tome of the Sea God mentioning oblivion, not the future. This means we can assume that the Abyssal Rift happens before the game events, most likely before 2034. The current game events happen in 2048.

As for the part about "They mistook the sea's tolerance for submission and forgot about it's cruelty" - I am thinking that Rafayel is talking about himself and MC here. They both were severely punished for betraying the sea during the Sea God myth. Notice the wording "reclaim" - he had the power at some point, but he doesn't have it anymore. The sea took his power and home, and as for the MC...

Why MC is a witch?

Rafayel tells MC she never belonged to the Abyssal Rift or that she would actually be a witch. I believe she was doomed to be a witch by the Deep Sea for her next life considering the anger in the Sea God myth - to live without any love as she "stole" the Sea God's heart.

Would she be then Lemurian for a moment? I don't think so, but she isn't a human. This is why the potion works on both her and Rafayel - the potion's effect is to turn the person into a human. For Lemurians the effect is that they die, but it doesn't seem to be the case for MC, otherwise Rafayel wouldn't do this, since he wants MC to live as a human.

Why I think this will be the next myth

Papergames/Infold really loves dropping hints about upcoming content. For example, Sylus had quite a few references to taming dragons (Summer event), collecting gems and hoarding before he got his limited myth.

Rafayel's and MC's interactions and stories have plentiful of references to witches, spells and enchanting:

Omnipotent Perception:

Touring in Love, this chapter is called "Spell for Rafayel":

Abysswalker, another mention towards seeing a dream, her living in a hut:

Rafayel's new affinity 184 photo pose, where MC is top on him bewitching him:

The new "Remind me" reminder for sleeping:

If you haven't read my Theory on the Sunshower in Gem Affection, I mention in it that sunshowers are also very related to witches in folklore in different parts of the world. I mainly speculated about Rafayel's part in it as a nine-tailed fox, but the resemblance is uncanny for MC being a witch.

I can believe a couple mentions here and there are merely a coincidence or a small nod to the memory, but this feels a very intentional theme around MC and Rafayel, especially recently. I'm sure there are several others that I have forgot, but I'll add in if I remember/find more.

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A small detail about Rafayel's family and Final Farewell

A small speculation about some details in the new Abyssal Chaos commission Final Farewell and Rafayel's mention about his family in his new Tete-a-tete introductions. Spoilers for the new Abyssal Chaos commission as well small bit about Finding Tobias.

If you ask Rafayel to introduce himself to your family with the "you're my boyfriend" option, he will mention this about this family:

Now - I really would want to make a longer post about this but I need to take my time checking eveything before making a full, proper analysis, but I want to draw your attention to these bits in Final Farewell.

For context if you haven't played/read the commission story yet, Rafayel and MC are investigating strange happenings in an abandoned sanatorium.

If you have read "Micro Universe" World Underneath story and "Siren's Song" anecdote, you know that Lemurians have been captured and experiemented on by Ever/Xander Sciences. I believe these Wanderers might actually be Lemurians and even possibly, Rafayel's relatives/family. I don't know yet enough details about the signal to understand completely what does Rafayel mean in the last screenshot, but I will read about it later. I'm gladly taking suggestions!

I have additional theory on Luna on Reddit, who we hear from in the Finding Tobias commission if you are more interested in Rafayel's family and the experiments on Lemurians. I will expand that theory with the new Final Farewell information to Tumblr once I have thought about this more what this all could mean.

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Rafayel isn't too happy about Caleb's debut...

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Absolutely obsessed with the new Glint update 💖