#how did noel learn about her PFD life and reunite with and/or save her sisters???

[mizukagami-takamagahara]

One thing I end up thinking about a lot is the relationship between The Origin and Alpha 01.

At this time, both are characters we know very little about.  We know what the Origin is to the BlazBlue story, but we really know nothing about what she was as a person, in her lifetime.  With Alpha, we have her design and name, but everything else we can only glean through implication and assumption.

Now I’m not entirely sure about this, but between them, the only thing we know for certain was that the Origin was the first PFD to make it to the Amaterasu Unit.

I may be misremembering- correct me with sources if I’m wrong- but I don’t think we know for sure that she was the first PFD overall (within her line or otherwise) OR that she was even the first to be sent into the Boundary.  All we know as absolute fact is that she was the first that made it to their goal, the one who took over the Amaterasu Unit, and the one who functionally ‘gave’ or ‘earned’ souls to/for all her ‘sister’ units.

As for Alpha, given her name and her design, she seems to be one of the Boundary Interface Prime Field Devices, like Lambda, Mu, and Nu.  We absolutely don’t know that for sure, though.  We also don’t know when she existed- was it during the Origin’s era, or early in the BlazBlue era/world/possibility?  Or did she appear in both?  Further, what on earth is her connection to Ragna- assuming there is one to begin with.

I do believe there is some link.  Another creator I’m aware of, the man behind Fairy Tail and Eden’s Zero, likes to make characters that look the same for Doylist reasons- they’re a reference for himself and the readers, but don’t mean anything in canon/in universe.  It’s my understanding that Mori isn’t doing that.  Similarities between characters in the overall BlazBlue series have, thus far, almost always been Watsonian- that is to say, there is an in-story reason behind them.

With that on my mind, I am positive that Alpha and Ragna look alike for a purposeful reason.  One that I desperately hope we will get enough future BlazBlue content to learn about.

My current wild, off-the-cuff, working theory is that Alpha originates from the pre-BlazBlue world, the one that created the Origin.  One idea would be that Alpha was created before the Origin, perhaps within the same line of PFDs, and that she would therefore be a ‘big sister’ in the eyes of the Origin after they both gained their souls/sentience.

Alternatively, regardless of when she was made in relation to the Origin, I’d theorize that Alpha played a key part in the Prime Field War that led the Origin to recreate the world.  I imagine Alpha fighting for her sisters during the Prime Field War, and ending up coming across as a ‘protector’ figure to the Origin.

If this were true, Alpha would have a sort of special relationship with the Origin trapped watching the war unfold from the Amaterasu Unit.  It would be for this reason that, when making her new world, the world of BlazBlue that we know of, the Origin would base her ‘Central Fiction’ off of Alpha.  Ragna would be created to fill Alpha’s role as the protector, the older sibling, the hero that the Origin saw her as.

But, for now, this is just some vague theory I have.  It’s just how I imagine these plot threads would be resolved.  Honestly, it doesn’t feel entirely BlazBlue to me, so I certainly won’t be surprised if I’m entirely off the mark when if we see these characters explored officially.

But, to summarize my main points;

I am confident that Alpha 01 and the Origin are not the same person.

I’m not convinced that the Origin was the first PFD at all; only that she was the first to acquire a soul and/or the first to make contact with the Amaterasu Unit.

I’m not sure that Ragna, as we know him, existed at all during the Origin’s lifetime.  I theorize that she invented him, based on someone else in her life, when she created the BlazBlue world.

If the above is true, I believe Alpha would be that person.

Like I mentioned before, if anything from this theory has already been deconfirmed by canon, please let me know (with a source!)  I get my fun in fandoms by treating them kind of like puzzles to solve; I wanna take my little clues and put together the most accurate picture I can.