#One last thing: My last post on this topic was addressed to the band/Tobias - only partially to other fans

[osiiiris]

Unpopular opinion: I know a lot of people are kinda getting pressed about other fans thinking that theres gonna be a Terzo resurrection, but it's highly unlikely ( mainly because Tobias probably doesn't wanna play the same character twice). While yes, I don't want people to be really sad and disappointed when Perpetua ends up not being Terzo, it still kinda annoys me that others are getting upset over someone just saying they think Terzo is coming back... Like people can believe, stop being rude!

(I sadly am one of the rude people because I struggle with my own obsession, so this come from a personal pov)

I agree, but this is going to be long. I need to address a couple of things (also regarding my last post on this matter).

First of all, I don’t think that all the people who talks about a possible Terzo resurrection actually believe in it (and I’d add that his comeback doesn’t necessarily mean he’d be the new Papa). That’s literally part of all this lore play, and honestly, I don’t understand the pressure other fans feel from this theory and what the problem is with fans loving their favorite character.

I remember people literally crying, scared of seeing Copia die in the movie or at the last concert (I was worried too, to be honest) and nobody was complaining about it. I think the strong hope to see Terzo again comes from the fact that, unfortunately, Terzo didn’t get the merciful treatment that Copia is receiving. Many of his fans weren’t even here during III’s era, but they got attached to him and would like to know what it feels like to see their favorite Papa on stage.

Terzo has a solid, loyal fanbase, which I find fantastic since he hasn’t been around for about eight years now. He still means a lot to a big part of the fandom, and his era is still heavily influencing the present.

Personally, I have the greatest admiration for the first three eras of Ghost. Primo’s era came from literally nothing and broke into the music world so powerfully; Secondo’s era was a wonderful evolution, and Terzo’s era took the whole project to a new level and, in my opinion, proved to be the most inspired era of all. I wasn’t there when all that happened, and I am very passionate about it. The killing of all three is the main reason why I am not interested in Sister’s story. It felt like throwing away the most important part of Ghost’s history.

At first I was super chill about the resurrection theory. I mostly joked about it… it was kind of a meme for me, but then, every time I said, “Okay, that’s just a coincidence, that can’t be” and tried to focus on the new stuff, a new “coincidence” about Terzo brought me back to that theory. Again and again. The gloves sale copy that used the resurrection theory was the last straw for me, because that’s literally playing with people’s expectations, which will almost certainly be subverted. And subvert expectations rarely works.

When I say that Terzo’s fans are not crazy and didn’t make it all up by themselves, and that we theorize with what we have, I mean things like this:

I think that TF knew exactly what he was doing, and what fans would see in these things and the talking and mess it would cause.

Of course, some will be disappointed when V debuts (it will happen even if they are not Terzo’s fans; everyone is expecting something), so please don’t blame Terzo’s fans when they’ve been kept in tension all this time. It’s not gonna be the end of Ghost for sure, tho: some fans will go and new ones will come, just like it has been all this time, and everything will be fine.