#and Lucia and Joe seems like legit good people if they are from the Bookman clan

[icharchivist]

Honestly if the past Allen bookman theory is true I'm excited for 2 things 1) Allen the man who knows everything. How are all the bookman going to feel about him reappearing. Resentful or excited? 2) how will Lavi and Allen's relationship change knowing they're both clans members?

YEAAH. Let’s be real this also drives me a LOT behind that one theory. Because with the Clan soon to enter into the picture, this would bring a lot of impact. 

(we’ve discussed for hours on my blog about how Allen’s relationship so far with Bookman could be interpreted would Past!Allen have been his apprentice and it already makes me sad but convinced and excited so i just can’t wait for more of that insight if it happens).

1) is exactly why I believe that if we get into a Bookman Clan storyline, this WILL be trouble for Allen. there’s already things I’ve discussed before of the fact Lavi only got his apprentice place because of a secret only known by Senior, so that the CLAN itself can take rash decisions especially now where apparently there is “no Junior to inherit from Bookman” (so say Lavi is temporarly indisposed and the Clan seek to find another solution or apprentice to carry on the Bookman legacy, which would put Lavi in a delicate situation if he gets back.). 

The two things that could happen therefore are either, seeing Allen’s return as the return of the previous Apprentice and therefore trusting him with that knowledge (and if, like suspected, the Junior’s transfert happens with a ritual, put Allen in a very delicate situation) but i don’t think this one would happen bc Allen is a too important player of the History to be asked to be neutral. SO INSTEAD seeing him as a betrayer to the clan and try to undergo some rituals to protect their secrets.

This later can be supported with the fact apparently according to the latest Corner, the Clan has tools to erase memories. I could see that the Bookman secrets are such that they cannot afford someone walking around with them without being under the clans’s rules, thus it would make Allen a danger. Allen is doomed to influence history and i believe the clan knows that and cannot trust him with Bookman’s place anymore. 

With luck, there might be enough kinship to at least treat him well or with excitement, but there is a lot to fear about people who apparently believe numbing your emotions and not interferring with history is a valid way to go through history. And, by all account, Past!Allen didn’t follow through their neutrality policy by influencing history with letting Nea survive. 

Allen’s body would therefore hide Bookman’s secrets the clans wouldn’t want to be spread, and ESPECIALLY NOT if for exemple, Nea decide to peak at Allen’s memory. 

It’s suspected that the Bookman can for exemple resist some of the mindcontrole powers Wisely can use, thus why they had to use torture right? And even Road couldn’t access Allen’s dreamworld for some reasons in later chapters, which she mentions as odd (which would work with that theory). But if Nea takes over, what would happen of Allen’s protections? This is such a one-of-a-kind experience the Bookman Clan can consider that, once Nea take controle, Allen’s knowledge would pass down to Nea but not the protection, and if Wisely peak an eye at it, all of the Bookman’s secrets are doomed. Because Wisely will always remember all of them. 

SO PERSONALLY i think the Bookman would see Allen as a threat to their secrecy, from his betrayal to the “spy agent” that Nea is inside the Bookman’s body. 

So i personally think the Bookman Clan would be... careful and untrusting. Perhaps happy to see an old friend back, but their duty would pass before any affections, since this is the deal with the Bookman is it not?  Thus creating a very difficult situation.

BUT We also had some time with Joe and Lucia recently and, if they are part of the Clan, perhaps my reading is too pessimistc. Joe at least seems to expect Allen to come with answers and be a person they will have to support ? So against all odds perhaps the Bookman would see Allen’s new role and consider that it is too important to let their rules get in the way. 

2) is the tricky part. 

Without having to think about the Bookman’s duty, I think Lavi would be kinda stunned but overjoyed. There’s a lot of his life that he cannot get to share after all and Allen having gone through it might as well be something that could create more bound. Would Allen remember stuff from his past life also, i could definitly see them bound over Senior for exemple since they would have both been raised by him at different time of his life and possibly, he would have changed his raising ways for Lavi after what happened to Allen (after all Senior took about 10 years or so if i remember well to pick a new apprentice after the first one disappeared). 

there could be a lot of questioning about the Bookman’s morality and how it was enough for Allen to stop being neutral. I think this could also be a moment of growth for Lavi to see someone who had given up on that lifelong dream and whatare the consequences to pay now. 

For Allen I could see it be interesting as well to regain a part of himself and i could see those conversations very much help. 

I don’t specifically see Lavi being jealous for all that’s matter but i could see kinship.

The problem though is that I believe the duty of the Bookman would get in the way, and like i mentioned, the Clan would have a lot of reasons to at least want to temper with Allen. And this would cause a problem with Lavi there because there would be a confrontation over what the Clan needs vs what his friend needs. And as of it.. i don’t know, i think Lavi would be very conflicted by what’s going on and couldn’t process it well.

At best, there would be focus from the clan to let Allen fill his now destiny without giving in too much to the Bookman that could eventually hurt Lavi and Allen’s dynamic.

........ but hopefully the Clan isn’t that bad right? Hopefully i just read too much into it and it’s... not... going to be that bad..... 

With a little hope it will all be fine.... right?