#but the fact that I haven't seen anyone mention it is strangely infuriating?

[hellobitchlet]

Even though a lot of the people interested in Phainon are hi3 fans, nobody has mentioned the massive elephant in the room that is... Acheron already killed hsr Kevin. There was an entire youtube teaser about it. She told Welt that she did it in the main storyline, albeit without name dropping him. Surely, I'm not the only one who noticed...? Cause I think it was pretty obvious.

The only ideas I can come up with as to what tf is going on here is as follows;

1- the theory that Amphoreus is a time loop of something that already happened is true, and Phainon somehow escaped Amphoreus, developed hi3 Kevin's personality, ended up in Izumo, and got killed by Acheron. Aka Phainon is a younger version of Acheron's Kevin, and he goes through a similar arc to hi3 Kevin. This would be surprisingly good foreshadowing for Hoyo.

2- this is some previous era-current era type time bullshit, and each of these Kevin's are from different 'eras' of hsr's universe. This implies that this mystery is set up to reveal that hsr's universe also has the weird time fuckery that is going on in hi3's universe. Also implies some Very Weird Things about Silver Wolf, seeing as she is a Bronya, and it's technically not confirmed that she's from another universe (yet).

3- either Phainon or Acheron's Kevin aren't actually from hsr's universe. Most likely Acheron's Kevin, as Phainon already has a childhood in Amphoreus, and a big part of his character so far is specifically "doesn't know shit about places outside of Amphoreus". This puts into question why Acheron was acting like her Kevin IS from this universe.