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[rwpohl]

richy guitar, michael laux 1985

[top-script]

ok but like

[nocreativityfornames]

Barbatos and Solomon's first meeting and a theory of mine, aka: what if Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his friend?

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR SWD S3 AND NB S1 AHEAD

Okay, so we've had pieces of info about their first meeting for a while now, but after collecting everything I could on these two to make my recent posts I was able to put them together and here it is.

First, there are the two times the story was briefly told in Obey Me! SWD, this one being from lesson 53-16 when Asmo discusses his first meeting with Solomon and then asks Barbatos about his:

And this next one being from lesson 49-A when Asmo asks about it for the first time and Solomon doesn't want to tell him:

And we learn what happened in the aftermath from Thirteen when she tells us about it in Obey Me! NB lesson 11-10:

So Solomon risked his life to summon Barbatos using an incantation and was left on the brink of death because of it, all because he "desperately needed his powers to control time", and after their interaction and whatever happened there, Barbatos took him to the Fountain of Knowledge and declared him the new protector of it.

By the way, they didn't make a pact during their first meeting but later on instead, or at least that's what I got from Barbatos saying:

I'm saying this because "eventually" is vague enough to be open to interpretation and could mean that they did make a pact during their first meeting and that it only took some bargaining for Barbatos to agree. But the way I saw it was that the pact was made later on.

So, the questions left unanswered from this are:

1 ) What made Solomon want to control time badly enough for him to seriously risk his life for it?

2 ) Did Barbatos help Solomon by using his powers to control time like he wanted him to?

Because it never says that Barbatos agreed to Solomon's "desperate need", and it doesn't say why Solomon was so desperate for it in the first place, only telling us that there was something he wanted enough to risk death for it.

But it does answer WHY later.

At first I thought we didn't have more info on their first meeting, but then I remembered this little moment from Obey Me! NB ( that I added to my post afterward and here's the screenshot from the post because I was too lazy to open the game and go to the lesson again ):

So Solomon almost died summoning Barbatos because he desperately needed his powers to control time after causing serious destruction to the Human World with his...?

Well, maybe, the passage does say that Barbatos appeared before him and not that he was purposely summoned by him, but it could be that the book is just depicting what people at the time thought happened, since it makes it sound like that was their first meeting when Barbatos himself said that Solomon summoning him was how they first met.

Anyway, let's assume I'm right and that's what happened and the reason why Solomon needed Barbatos was to fix the damage he did to the Human World unintentionally.

THE MAIN THEORY: Solomon summoned Barbatos to save his childhood friend's life, who was affected by Solomon's powers going out of control.

This is something that Solomon tells us in Obey Me! NB lesson 14-16, that he had a friend while he was locked up in the basement as a kid. He tells us the story of how they met and says that from then on the friend started visiting him regularly and that they would chat through the bars of the window basement and that's how their interactions went for however long. But then while telling us about them he suddenly stops:

And thus this became my current theory.

Solomon's powers, which have always vastly surpassed your usual human's, start getting out of control and becomes a threat to the world, endangering one of his loved ones ( much like MC's in S2 with Lucifer ). And desperate to save their life and out of what to do, he summons a demon he knows can control time to help him.

Judging by how Solomon struggles to tell the story to MC though, we can assume that it didn't end well.

Maybe Barbatos refused to save his friend/had no way to do it ( he can only travel through timelines and not actually go back and change the one where he is ) and Solomon had to accept the fact that they were dying and say goodbye and this was the moment when he made this promise to them to become a good sorcerer, learn how to control his powers and protect humanity.

Or maybe Barbatos did try to save them/told Solomon how to do it but it ended badly somehow and that's what brings Solomon pain when he tries to talk about it.

[xiewho]

i am not immune to the temptation of making a fhsona. template made by @cloudmancy n can be found here !!

[14dayswithyou]

your game is literally so unrealistic its beyond cringey and unplayable. like why in the literal fuckery would you want to invite a stalker back to your place like helloooo your just begging to be murdered at this point. he'll know where you live after you let him through your door so whats going to stop him from showing up again later that night and killing you in your sleep? whats worse is that we barely even know ren like we've spoken a max total of 3 minutes with the creep and now suddenly we're bffs? deadass how? and look im not shaming hook up culture but thats literally so bazar to me like you dont even know this person and your inviting him into your life or even sleeping with him? that's also another major red banner to me because we dont even ask if he's clean or if we're comfortable with having sex with him in the first place. and you can bet i'm not going to join your discord because i can only imagine how much of a let down day 2 is going to be. try making your game more realistic if you dont want people hating on it

[junos-cacophony]

“I sleep too much!” “I sleep too little!”

Okay, but do you sleep in a cardboard box? Spend every dollar at the liquor shop?

[tallyballing]

hatzubin miku? what about kagamine rob? (sorry if you already did this)

Sorry I took so long to respond to this oughhh kagamine rob for you

Tis just a whiteboard fox doodle but you get the Idea

[84reedsy]

Missing the Bad Guy

Still feels surreal - and it's been 2 years.

Really miss this guy and all of the things that made him great and all of the things that made him human

[luckyknucklehead]

"practice makes perfect" or so i've heard

[fromperdition4]

I deeply appreciate that our two main couples both end the series with the one who initially had more power declaring them to be equals.

[potions-of-dark-devotion]

Concerning the Death Eater Cult Under Voldemort; The First Wizarding War

What the uneducated See: Nazi Comparisons

What I see: Manson Family Vibes

Just an observation….

[sunshineandlyrics]

🫶🏼 Our beloved Joshua seen outside the venue, FITFWT Ljubljana, 14 September 2023 via @ jujounicor

[gaffney]

✨i’m losing it, all i get is jealousy, jealousy ✨

[jtownraindancer]

one of my kids was in the hall this morning has emphatically informed me that it is 2008. so happy 2008 guys

[classicanalyzer]

Distant Worlds - Final Fantasy XVI Seattle 2024

This was my first Distant Worlds, and it blew my expectations out of the park. It's also the 250th performance of Distant Worlds and the 30 Anniversary of FF6 (THEY GOT A PIPE ORGAN TO PLAY DANCING MAD).

I SAW AND HEARD (IN BOTH JAPANESE AND ENGLISH) SOKEN!!! I LOVE HOW HE GOT A PS5 CONTROLLER AND SAID THE ICONIC WORDS IN ENGLISH, "Accept the Truth" AND THE L3+R3. My hands hurt so much by clapping for this brilliant composer. The hype was off the roof when Find the Flame played and the video screen included the audio from that scene.

The Final Fantasy 14 songs are so iconic and they remind me that I need to play the MMO. I'm waiting until I get into the mood. Songs of Salt and Suffering, Tomorrow and Tomorrow, Flow, and The Final Day. Amanda Achen (Her dress was amazing) did an amazing job vocalizing most of the songs (all the FF14 songs and My Star).

The other FF tracks from across the franchise was so great to hear in live orchestra. Dancing Mad was a major standout. Hearing FF16 tracks being played felt like a dream I may or may not have had since I played FF16.

Overall, I fucking love this concert so much. I can't wait for Distant Worlds to come back to Seattle and it was such a massive honor to be around Soken himself.