#so i was taking the speculation with a grain of salt

[codgod]

i’m sure youse already know this, but nobody should feel bad for having been a fan of wilbur’s in the light of what’s happened

yeah, with hindsight it’s easy to pick apart his actions, and stories his friends have told, to look for signs that he was hurting people. plenty of people are gonna think they should’ve known sooner, and others are gonna claim they knew all along that he sucked, but in reality there is no way anyone could’ve known until shelby came out about the abuse she faced. he’s someone many people, including myself, looked up to on some level and you’re always gonna wanna see the best in people you look up to, and that’s okay. you don’t have to feel guilty for that

the thing to do now is to give yourself the time and space you need to move forward from here, and give what support you can to the people that were harmed by him

[dr-zeddy]

I also believe that Miquella was jealous of Mohg/saw him as competition regarding his original plans

and intentionally made the Mohgwyn Dynasty look like an awful alternative to what he tried to do with the Haligtree.

This is on my personal speculative side but with the in-game context of what the Formless Mother religion symbolized in the Land's of Shadow, we may assume Mohg and his followers celebrated her in a similar fashion before Miquella took over his mind.

The bloodfiends are literally just vibing until you attack them/invade their territory. Bloodshed isn't the only thing this Outer God represents, it's also a symbolism for maternal love/birth/rebirth for those shunned and cursed (Hence why she blessed Mohg and showed up to the "subjugated tribe" in the Land's of Shadow), which we know from the "Outer God Heirloom"

I believe this deity is still twisted and not to meddled around with, but I don't think the Formless Mother exclusively stands for murdering people. We also know that the bloodfiends resulted to SH occasionally to serve their "mother" (which is in itself a little problematic but it also indicates that they do not walk around and randomly kill everything in their path) (see "Bloodfiend's Fork")

So my take is that when Miquella brainwashed Mohg this entire cult got corrupted too, making it the center of (mercy) killings and death while Miquella is the only anchor of life, we see this in the "Lord of Blood Exultation Talisman":

Spilling blood to create a new life. Which is, naturally speaking, nonsense and as I said before, a lot of things point to the fact that the FM has natural roots, while giving hope to those who were shunned.

This indicates that Mohg had similar goals to Miquella with his Haligtree, offering outcasts a haven/place to be/belong to. Miquella always relied on enchanting/manipulating people to achieve his goals, I guess he was pissed that Mohg was able to do this, only by being naturally charismatic, since we know that he had to be quite the leader if he pulls actual reasonable people like Ansbach to his side. He was the perfect leader for outcasts and the oppressed (see additonally my post about Mohg's appearence being extremley devine in the Land's of Shadow) and therefore was a direct threat to the things Miquella wanted to achieve with his Haligtree. Because why follow Miquella when there already was a similar cult/religion with a charismatic leader like Mohg?

[melina-mellow]

Continuing on from one of my previous post about Jinx's survival on how she either left Zaun or is still somewhere in the undercity?.

It's also very possible that she did fall into the core and got teleported somewhere when it exploded...and if I had to guess where she'd be, it'd be Noxus (either willing or against her will)

Now hear me out! This is a complete crack theory born out of my delusions and whatever LoL lore I still remember!!

Y'know how Jinx in Arcane is heavily associated with crows and how they're usually following her around?

You wanna know who else is associated with crows in LoL?

THIS MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT HERE!

His stupid ass bird even showed up in the finale meaning this bastard knows very well what went down in Piltover and Zaun.

And since they've confirmed they'll make more shows about LoL, with how they showed Mel taking Ambessa's place and returning to Noxus...

It would not be all that surprising if the next show they make is more Mel centric and focuses on Noxus.

Not saying Jinx went and got herself kidnapped by another evil dilf.... but honestly would it really be the first time this has happened to her?

[bandzboy]

txt getting a break!! finally!! (how long do we think “long term” is actually gonna be though..)

i'm gonna be so honest (because i actually talked with my moa mutuals on twitter about this) but i don't think it's gonna be that long and they made it purposely vague just so we don't know how long it so it could be anything

but one of my mutuals pointed out how apparently their weverse dm is gonna be suspended around that time for a month which could mean their break is only a month and tbh... it shouldn't be a month it should longer than that but again, we could wrong but it wouldn't surprise me if that's how they categorize "long term" in this industry

[supernovaae]

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[justalittlebluetiefling]

I am honestly very confused by Ashton's whole POV right now and wish someone would just ask him if he wants to stop Ludinus' plan or just stop Ludinus, but go through the plan himself??? Because otherwise why are they even debating about the gods right now if the only known way to kill them is to release predathos? Which I thought everyone agreed was a BAD idea? I'm just confused because I feel like all the arguments just go in circles and nothing is ever decided. I did miss the last hour or so.

I feel like this post sums it up pretty well. It's really a brilliant distraction technique from Ludinus, as this post points out.

Below the cut because this got long.

Anyway, I will admit to being less than engaged with this campaign, so take what I say next with a grain of salt. Ashton's life sucked. Obviously. We all know that. I do think it's interesting that they're latching onto this 'the gods are bad' so hard considering the ritual that kind of ruined their life was actually tied to Ka'mort, a Primordial, and not a god. But you know, past trauma is deeply tied to the way they've been reacting to this. I know I saw another post about this, too, but I can't find it. And I think Ashton actually said it in game. How Ashton is the most similar to Ludinus in this. Ludinus is so blinded by vengeance that he isn't looking past his goal and that is exactly how Ashton is approaching this. In their opinion, the fallout doesn't matter, because people are already dying in the name of the gods. Why does the scale people are dying on make much of a difference when they might have died anyway?

I would probably be a little more willing to hear his POV out if he weren't recycling a lot of the same rhetoric as Ludinus. I am trying to remember that we got more information from Downfall than they all did and that I went in it more willing to forgive the Primes for their actions, because I think wizard hubris is super fun and worth dying for and sometimes you dig too deeply and you have to expect that eventually, something is going to bite back. But that's not the point here.

My point is that I get your confusion, but I also think that their perspective is really interesting if we think about the things they're focusing on. Like, yes, "nothing should be that powerful" is a big one. But most of what they kept pointing out was the fact that the gods view each other as family. Which is really simplifying their whole deal, but we do what we have to as mortals to understand something. MY POINT THOUGH. And the thing I think is super interesting here: Ashton seems to feel more betrayed by the Primes working with the Betrayers again than anything else. They keep bringing that up. I'm not sure if I'm reading too much into it, but they seem less focused on the mass destruction (because again, people are always dying) than that the Betrayers and the Primes made an alliance. In Ashton's words, they worked together happily. Ashton didn't pick up on any of the hesitance. They didn't pick up on Sarenrae working with Asmodeus out of necessity or the way Dawnchild was always trying to keep himself between the two. He noticed how much the Wildmother missed the Betrayers. On the sort of morbid way the Betrayers also missed the Primes. "If I promise to take care of you, can I torture you forever?" "One day, I'm going to spin you up in my web and never you let go."

I do generally feel less qualified to speculate on Tal's characters, because I don't always click with them but as frustrating as Ashton's perspective is here, I also think it's so interesting that what they're focusing on is exactly what Ludinus wants everyone to focus on. It is very much not someone looking at the bigger picture. At the endgame. They're reacting exactly the way Ludinus hopes everyone reacts. It's frustrating, but it makes sense to me.

[anderscim]

welcome to wild theories with bagel

this one is… quite unlike the other posts as this is almost entirely speculation and probably has a lot of room for rebuttal

(it’s a theory after all)

this is mainly about teruko and her (possible) connection to the killing game.

take this with a grain of salt as always

//drdt prologue, chapter 1, and chapter 2 spoilers

// blood warning from about the second half of the post.

also i go on a giant tangent here. so quick warning about that as well

i’m just thinking back to this motive secret:

“How could I even select what secret to be your motive? Just about everything you’ve done in your life is worth killing for. This killing game is all your fault.”

as of now, we’ve been told (by David) that this was Xander’s secret, but I highly doubt it. for me, this is mainly because when everyone was sharing who’s secret they had at the 2nd trial, David hesitated and asked to go last—there’s really no reason to do that unless David wanted time to think about what to do and/or fully process the situation before taking action (plus going last would give David the added benefit of knowing whose secrets are already revealed).

not only that, Xander’s bonus episode and secret quote seems to imply that his secret is actually the one Min has (“You’re constantly blaming yourself for the death of your parents and siblings. It doesn’t matter that it’s not your fault, just that you didn’t go with them”). Xander’s survivor’s guilt seems to be a major motif for his character, so logically it would still be plausible for his secret to be related to the Chariton incident and his guilt.

in that case, who’s secret does David actually have?

unfortunately, it would be quite difficult to try to deduce this through that last sentence (and i don’t think i have to explain why), so i decided to go back to the first sentence—which implies that whoever this motive is about has too many secrets that they don’t want to remember and/or discuss.

i can clearly recall one character that explicitly mentions this:

i don’t recall anyone else saying something like this, but please correct me if someone did actually say something similar

additionally, each one of Teruko’s accidents that she’s survived as a result of her luck can become “secrets” that are worded to incriminate her and give her a motive to murder. after all, whoever wrote these secrets have done so in a way that paints the other characters in a bad light—there’s really no reason to exclude Teruko’s “secrets” from that treatment.

but if that were the case, is there a proper explanation as to why “this killing game is all [her] fault?”

as i’ve mentioned before, the secrets are specifically written in a way to incriminate the participants and taint their image. even Hu mentions this at one point:

and to be completely honest, if someone were to explicitly write that a killing game was a specific character’s fault, it would probably be to throw the cast off. it would be extremely imprudent to specifically implicate someone as a potential mastermind otherwise. after all, that’s essentially putting the entire killing game at stake.

however, despite the fact that these secrets are written to implicate the cast, most of them do have factual evidence to justify some part of it.

here’s where i get into wild theory territory:

what if Teruko is indirectly responsible for the killing game, just not in the way that we’d think?

let me elaborate on how this could actually happen (and this is gonna get long):

think back to the opening scene of the prologue. whoever it was that was injured here, they seemed very… determined to end the killing game “all by [themselves].” or kill teruko.

// (pink) blood warning from here on out

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from here i’m going to pay a lot of attention to specific wording and such so please take this with a grain of salt

oh also this is gonna go on a tangent lmao

as seen here it seems that Teruko and the killing game are directly correlated to each other. this person here says that even if the killing game doesn’t end, Teruko must die—which seems to imply that her death could be a possible solution to the killing game, even if it is eventually revealed to not be one. after all, in a situation like this it wouldn’t make sense for this person to mention two seemingly separate things one after another if they weren’t related to each other somehow.

also this might just be me, but i just wanted to bring attention to this line:

“all by myself… i must end this killing game.”

this implies that whoever this person is, they want to end this killing game independently, by their own effort. specifically asking Xander to kill Teruko with no justification or reason why, in that case, doesn’t really make sense as it’s entirely dependent on the decision and whims of another person.

and besides, this may again just be me, but Xander mentions how he needs to “trust in [him]self” that killing Teruko would be worth it:

this may imply that Xander attempted to murder Teruko out of his own instinct, and/or Xander deduced that the person who wrote that note to kill Teruko was himself. whether that’s because that note was in his own handwriting, or something from his memories told him so, i’m not sure.

also, recall the fact that some of the cast’s memories have been removed. for example, Xander doesn’t actually recall when he lost his eye.

someone else said this in a YouTube comment (that i unfortunately cannot find, but i’ll see if i can find the screenshot and put it here later), but—in that original prologue cutscene, there’s a fork under the person’s hand.

Xander’s eye injury, as we saw in chapter 1, has indents on it that look similar to claw marks. but based on those indents, it is actually plausible that those injuries were done by something similar to that fork (the fork in the prologue cutscene has four prongs, and the injury seems to have been caused by something that had four,,, uhh, prongs/claw bones). however this is purely speculation so this may be entirely wrong.

if this does happen to be correct, though, this could possibly imply that Xander was the person in the prologue cutscene. in that case, it is possible that Xander himself wrote the note to kill Teruko.

trusting “himself” to kill Teruko would, in that situation, actually make sense.

but as we know, killing Teruko is a challenge in on its own, whether that’s by attempting to incriminate her or attempting to directly murder her. she even declares this herself.

actually, little side note: “no matter what” is seen in both this scene and the prologue cutscene—and they’re highlighted in both cases. just thought it was interesting because it gives off “unstoppable force meets immovable object” vibes lmao

though this could definitely be more important than it seems right now

this has been kind of true. in the first chapter, we saw Teruko almost getting killed multiple times, and her surviving all of them. first with Xander attacking Teruko, second with Min attempting to frame Teruko to ensure her own survival (and don’t forget about the detail of two people voting for Teruko for some odd reason—not sure why, but this could suggest that someone other than Xander was aware of this situation? that’s the current weak point of my theory, unfortunately). so as far as we can tell, attempting to kill Teruko proves to be very difficult as her luck carries her though each incident, even if she didn’t want to survive them. it almost seems like an impossible feat with the amount of luck she has.

the thing is, the fact that killing Teruko is nearly impossible adds to my personal theory: “what if the killing game is only running because Teruko is alive? what if killing her effectively ends the killing game?”

look i can explain it okay

as far as we can tell, Teruko actually has a lot of advantages compared to the others in the killing game:

her distrusting nature makes her less vulnerable to being lured into a trap

her luck. that’s all i have to say

MonoTV is giving her some advantages himself, which seems a little… suspicious.

okay on second thought let me elaborate on that last bullet

think back to ch2 ep2-3. MonoTV is the one that asked Teruko to do some chores for him in exchange for MonoCredits—which are essentially tokens that allow Teruko to get others to leave her alone.

what’s interesting here is, MonoTV doesn’t set any restrictions on when she can’t use them (although that could be just because Teruko cut him off). in that case, couldn’t she theoretically use one if she’s about to get murdered or something?

and I also find it weird that MonoTV asks Teruko specifically (as well as follows her around) to do that chore. since there were so many other people that Teruko talked to when MonoTV was still following her, he technically could’ve walked up to anyone. therefore, it could be a possibility that MonoTV intentionally did that to give her an advantage.

just me? okay

anyways what i’m trying to say here is that the series itself seems to be gradually giving Teruko more advantages and opportunities that prevent her from being killed. although that could point to her being the mastermind, i kind of explained with the secrets why that seems unlikely.

but if my theory of “killing Teruko will end the killing game” proves to be correct, the true mastermind actually benefits from giving these added advantages to Teruko—it makes it harder for Teruko to be killed, which effectively keeps the game running.

which indirectly makes Teruko responsible for the killing game—by literally just being alive.

this. uh. was a lot of small speculation and details. that could probably be proven wrong.

besides we’re only mid-ch2 at the time of writing this

so feel free to refute me on ANY of these points—i will listen. for all i know i could be wildly wrong

and as always, take this with a grain of salt.

[clarabowmp3]

I feel like Taylor hanging with the nfl crowd has really questioned everything I thought I knew about her as a person. The people she is hanging out with just don’t have the values I thought were important to her. And I get maybe Travis is super famous in the us, but she can do better. He’s a total meathead (and ugly af)

actuallyyy tho like as far as possible i try to give her/him the benefit of the doubt but as time passes more and more embarrassing things come out abt him/his circle/that damn podcast (was it jason kelce or Patrick mahomes that gave that terrible graduation speech? and also one of them, I think jason, apparently isn't a very good father. idk how taylor feels abt this but if I were her i'd be embarrassed to be in any way associated with people like them but ok...)

and yea ever since the whole matty healy thing, I think she is, to a certain degree, a bit selfish/cavalier about issues that don't directly affect her, which leads me to think maybe those values/issues she talked abt in miss Americana were never all that important to her in the first place

[morganski-19]

I'm finally going through and starting to read some of the articles that have come out after episode 8 (because this hiatus is hitting me hard, and I can't move on), and read this screen rant interview. I had a few thoughts while reading this that I think will be very interesting to see play out on screen.

Firstly, Eddie's reintegration of joy back into his life is going to play a role in moving back to Texas, a place that he did not enjoy living in. Eddie letting himself find joy after Christopher left was necessary, as he was using the alienation as a form of self-harm, as he felt he did not deserve forgiveness. It was only after finding that joy again, that he was able to push himself into actively trying to bridge this gap.

Of course, bridging this gap means moving to Texas. Which I personally have complicated feelings about, as I don't think permanently moving is a good idea, but a temporary move to fix the issues is necessary. I'm going to come back to this thought in a second.

Why I bring up the whole joy thing, is because Christopher isn't a little kid anymore. He's really smart and is fully capable of picking up on his dad's emotions. We saw this when Eddie left the 118 in season 5, and Chris was around 11 at that time. He can tell when his dad is suffering and is affected by that. Even with his anger at his father now, he will still see how his dad hates living in Texas, and that will affect him, even if he doesn't acknowledge it.

And I think as they start to bridge that gap, and grow closer, Chris isn't going to want to see his dad suffering. In the birthday party scene, with that anger so fresh, there was that satisfaction that he was hurting his dad back. Something many teenagers want when they lash out. However, when there's no want to cause hurt, Chris is going to feel bad that his dad is suffering because of him. That is something that is going to, hopefully, play out on screen, as it would be a very nice conversation to see between father and son.

Not to mention, that it would further Eddie's finding joy arc, as Chris, or the people around him in the aftermath of the main conflict, continue to encourage Eddie to act for himself, instead of solely for his son.

Bringing this back to the whole moving plot, I have some thoughts about how this is actually going to play out. One, I think is it is necessary for Eddie to at least temporarily move to Texas. He needs to confront his parents, and Chris, in person, that is the only way this will get resolved. Especially with how the FaceTime calls keep getting interrupted by one of his parents occupying Chris in order to cut their time short. Eddie needs to go to Texas.

However, I don't want his ties to LA to be completely cut off. Not only would that bring unnecessary complications to the story, but also from a production standpoint. They already have Eddie's house as an established set, I can't see them totally abandoning it without a direct purpose.

Furthermore, this isn't the first time that a character would take an extended leave from work to go and deal with family issues. Chim did it in season 5, and I can see them doing the same sort of thing with Eddie. My main hope is that he just rents a property, whether that be a house or an apartment, while he fixes things with Chris. That way it leaves a door open for Eddie and Chris to move back to LA.

Another thing that was mentioned in the article that I liked, was that the conflict with Eddie's parents will be addressed. Something that, specifically with their opinions about Chris, has not been addressed since very early on in the series. They had that minor confrontation in season 5, but that was more between Eddie and his father, and their issues.

I am so happy that this will be addressed, especially considering it was directly quoted from Tim that they have always wanted to raise Chris. Dealing with this is important to the story, and will be very interesting to see on screen.

Again, considering Chris is much older now, and will fully understand the tone they use when speaking to Eddie, as well as the intentions behind their words. He hasn't really heard this from his grandparents, and I can see it changing some of his perspectives.

Especially if they bring up his mother. Because as complicated as his feelings are about her, it's still his mom. She still tried the best that she possibly could, and I would love to see that letter he got in season 7 to come back again, because it really shows her motivations of leaving in a way that Chris has never had expressed to him before.

Anyway, I am both nervous and excited to see this play out, and will surely have many emotions about it no matter what.

[wishing-stones]

I’ve written myself into a corner for an idea I’ve had for a while, but never seen nor managed to fully attempt. I seen stories of mage!readers, but never any of well, the mages. The ones that sealed away monsters, the seven. And I had the idea to add Baggs, but I’ve generally hit a brick wall because??? I’m not sure how’d he respond? I mean, typically someone as intriguing as a mage would catch his radar, but we’re talking the literal reason in most multiverses including his own, why monsters are trapped underground? Do you have any helpful suggestions or insights?

Weeeellll, this is difficult to answer completely because he's not mine, he just lives rent-free in my head and struts around like he owns the place, but I'll give it a shot here.

To start, this assumes that the mages from the war are still alive, which insinuates a couple things:

Either they're incredibly long-lived, or the war wasn't all that long ago. I default on the former, but it's your worldbuilding and it's up for you to decide

If the above isn't true, there's time travel or dimensional warping or something similar involved,

I have a couple of headcanons and scenarios I've thought about re: Baggs Meets a Mage (who isn't Ren/not in the R&R verse)

Mages don't look any different than humans most of the time (unless they follow my 'monster x human hybrid' rule, which means they sometimes have monstrous traits) so they can fly under the radar with monsters unless

They have the aforementioned monstrous traits (again, in line with my headcanons and continuity/multiverse theory for the UTMV)

Use magic in front of a monster

Outwardly look like a mage via clothing and/or weapon choices

Are in an encounter where they can be CHECKed

Baggs might treat a mage as he treats any other human. Cautious, observing their movements, trying to get a good, concise read of them to determine whether or not he has to do something about them, and proceeding from there. He can't Judge anymore so he has to leave it up to intuition, because he sure as shit isn't initiating an encounter, and startling a potentially dangerous human is a bad idea re: his magic. He doesn't usually open with it unless he's sure he'll be successful, or at the very least, it won't be as much of a fight to get them under.

If/when he figures out they're a mage, that's when he becomes a bigger problem for them. He hasn't had the chance to study a mage before. Are their souls stronger than standard human souls? How does mage magic hold up to monster magic? Similarities, differences, limitations, all of the things he knows about monster magic he will want to learn about mage magic. He'd definitely be interested in keeping them somewhere he could observe them, so chances are, they'd be down in the lower lab in some room or cell.

He isn't cruel, first and foremost, so he'd approach them and the situation as if they were a guest and kind of... subtly nudge them into compliance with his charisma rather than resorting to his magic-- it might color his data. He'd make bargains and deals, reward good behavior, and be about as much of an open book as he can be for information exchanges.

But he'll never tell about his ace-in-the-hole hypnosis magic. that's insurance.

A compliant and agreeable mage will find him pleasant company. If he deems them not a threat, accommodations and privileges get better and more relaxed. If he feels like he can trust them, he loosens the reins a little and lets them have a bit more freedom.

A combative and potentially dangerous mage will find him holding them at arm's length and treating them with cold, clinical professionalism. If he feels like he's in danger, he'll absolutely subdue them, and if his magic doesn't work as anticipated, he has sedatives. He doesn't play games with his safety, so if it's in question, they're going to be treated as a threat and he handles them as such.

Specifically, with a mage who was in the war;

He'd be very interested in firsthand accounts of what happened. How was the barrier put up? What kind of magic is it, how was it cast? Why would mages turn on monsters when they, too, can cast magic? Were they truly jealous, or was there something more behind the conflict? Half of his lines of questioning will be less about their magic and more about their history. He's heard a few firsthand accounts from the few remaining veterans of the war, but hearing it from a human mage is different. It gives him the other side of the story rather than the one-sided version from monster history.

Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, he wouldn't treat a mage who helped erect the barrier with any animosity if it wasn't directed at him first. He thinks having them stuck down here is its own poetic justice. Trapped in the very cage they helped create-- the irony does not escape him.

More than that, he has someone who knows how that magic works and might well be motivated to help remove said magic. He will play up this fact hard, leaving little tidbits in conversation about how long it's been, how they've all been struggling to escape and, oh... if only there was someone who could help. He's been trying so very hard, you know. He's oh so tired.

To sum up in a sort of tl;dr: He's reactive to how he's treated, and good behavior goes a long way with him. Hostility will be met with hostility in return, and he will subdue a threat by whatever means necessary, medical or magical. He's not cruel, so he won't resort to dubious means of gathering or extracting information, and his magic is his carefully guarded trump card. Words and charisma are just as good at getting information as prising it by force via hypnosis. He'll manipulate a mage into doing what he wants, doubly so if they helped make the barrier. Building a positive relationship with him via trust makes him much more pleasant to be around and he might even, eventually, step out of the realm of professionalism and into intrapersonal. A negative relationship gets a mage treated as a prisoner or subject, and he's cautious and cold in the extreme. But never cruel. This is not a man who does or even would resort to torture for anything. The very worst he'd do is gaslight. He is still a monster in a canon-adjacent-AU. His soul is made of love, compassion, and hope, as all monsters are. It is not and cannot be in his nature to cause undue suffering, and in the end, his highest motivators are to ensure the safety and eventual release of the underground, and to keep his brother happy. Almost everything he does is driven by those two things.

Got way long-winded lmfao but this is something I've thought a fair bit about, so you're lucky anon! (Most especially because I have a mage character who has a kind of interesting dynamic with him in the bits and pieces of drabbles and brainrot I've done with them.)

I hope this bit of character analysis helps you get out of your corner!

[plan-3-tmars]

okay so before I go to sleep I just wanna mention a different speculation I have for purge march

so I said before that this could be solider imagrey, and the reason why Amane is dressed up in a marching band uniform is because of the running theme in magic that she has a more 'kiddy' outlook on the things happening to or around her but I think you could also look at it a different way.

Marching bands are all about uniformity right? Everyone has to play the right note at the right time to make it work, but ultimately they're all working together to play the same tune the leader tells them too. They're litteraly marching to the beat of somebody else's drum, it's a darker twist on the otherwise optimistic saying. Amane seems to be shown as the leader of the marching band, telling everyone else what to play.

I think this might be after Amane does that magical girl transformation at the end of Magic - maybe it's something akin to a higher rank, garnering more respect? She's seen as the optimal follower after her indoctrination so everyone else in the cult wants to, and should, follow the beat of her drum.

[dancingdorito]

i have thoughts on the leaked photos from bath today

we've SEEN this dress before... (season 1 episode 2)

so i honestly think this can't be a flashback because nicola's makeup is too nice to be s1 penelope.

i think that this is penelope's first attempt at trying to change her look, and the reason why it looks bad is to show us that she's going to fail at her first attempts to find suitors because she was never confident in the ill fitted dresses portia made her wear.

i think that the poodle hair is not as "poodle-y" as s1 and you can tell because the curls are bigger.

obviously this is all speculation, but i would also like to point out to people worried about filming delays...

the "bridgerton-verse" is made up of a LOT of locations, many of which are not even near london. to film a scene episode by episode would take too much travel and too much time, so they film by location even if the scenes are out of order, so that they can use these areas and be done with them instead of repeatedly coming back. so yes, these images are most likely the first episode, but that does not mean they are extremely far behind. big productions like bridgerton use a lot of crew and to move everything around and film in order is near impossible.

obviously i could very well be wrong, but i thought i'd put my two cent in. i'm still a firm believer that they'll finish filming in february at the latest and we'll get season 3 around june/july.

[blueskittlesart]

i miss the champions so much i know there's like no logical reason for them to come back in totk but i wanna see my guys again even if it's just more memories or something. do you think there's any way they could pull that off based on what we know about the game already?

i really hope so! at the very least i hope the abilities you get in botw won't be removed bc i cant navigate that fucking map without revali's gale. even the lack of expedited cooldowns from the dlc starts to get to me after a while at this point LMAO. in terms of actual implementation i'm trying to think if there's an easy way to give us more champion content in totk. In theory, we could continue to recover link's memories and see more of the champions that way, but from a writing standpoint that might feel clunky & at odds with the rest of the story unless it's VERY carefully implemented. My honest answer from a writing & game dev standpoint is that i don't think we're likely to get many more memory-style cutscenes, especially with the release of hyrule warriors a few years ago sort of serving as an extra source of champions content already. that might have been the point of hyrule warriors from a game dev standpoint, actually, if they realized while in production that totk wasn't going to have a lot of room for champion-centric content, hyrule warriors would have given them an easy way to satiate fans who really loved those characters without compromising the integrity of their already-written story in totk. tldr realistically i don't think there's going to be a whole lot of champion-centric content in totk but for now we can pray that i will have to eat these words in 3 months

[12am-motivation]

Aight, so basically... Welcome to the actual Main Story: Hard Mode, ft. unhinged post-war demon brothers and a higher risk of getting harmed 👍

So based on my understanding we, the same MC from the original game, somehow travel back in time to the old Devildom right after the Great Celestial War and we have to reforge our pacts with the brothers in the timeline we got transported into for us to return to the future.

I get that the time travelling part is a way for us to insert ourselves in the timeline we weren't born into but this plot poses some more questions (aside from things like what Beel's secret from Belphie could be):

How do we get transported to the past, especially during the time of the old Devildom? Will this have something to do with Barbatos? (That last part in the OMNB! teaser maybe...)

Is this by accident or on purpose?

Considering that we've been warned before not to interfere with these timelines, why would we have to play therapist again just to get back to the future if they'll eventually have it all sorted out without our help?

What of our role as Lilith's descendant? And what would happen if their post-war selves were to find out?

(And some more probably outdated speculations from a previous post)

Iirc, the brothers have occasionally mentioned how they wished for us to have been present in their past, and now we get to experience that alongside them firsthand.

Could this be some trial on how much we're willing to go through in deepening our bonds with the brothers not just by knowing their past, but by getting to experience it?

Imagine if this were some hardcore Devildom History lesson all along

We still have yet to know the actual involvement of the other side characters in this plot aside from their reactions to the Fall (particularly for the angels), especially Solomon and his relation to the attic.

For Diavolo and Barbatos, we're most likely going to see how the brothers came to be the renowned Avatars of Sin we know them by today. Thirteen and Mephisto seem to have more minor roles, but they're still there.

But Solomon... What else is there to him and how will he take the spotlight this time?

Anyways, I'm excited about this game and I'm hoping that we will be getting news about the game mechanics soon! If OMNB! were really the final product from Ruri Tunes with the character song remixes, *cracks knuckles* I'm more than ready.

[sandinmybed]

this should go without saying but don't send hate/get mad at people who DO post about these theories/believe them, this is all for fun plus it's a TV show it's not that serious, I just want to know where people's doubts are

[thesilverlady]

If DOD was a novel like the main books of asoiaf what kind of dynamic would you give to Aegon and Rhaenyra, before and during the war. Also how would write their characters in pov type i am curious

oh I'd give a kidney to have DOD in a asoiaf style 🥺 imagine all the multi povs.... that's the dream

well, for starters the relationship would have been freshed out. I don't think we'd jump away from the childhood years too fast but Aegon & Rhaenyra also wouldn't be the focus. Neither would get a pov until they were older.

We would be able to see child Aegon through povs that belong to the hightowers; like Alicent, Otto, Gwayne etc and with Rhaenyra we could see her through he pov of Viserys, Daemon, Alicent and most likely Criston's

i think it's pov would affect how the dynamic would be portrayed. For instance Criston's pov would be very rose tinted when it came to Rhaenyra (considering this would be way before his fixation turned sexual) i imagine his eyes and Viserys would be the only time we could come near to see the "positive" aspect of little Rhaenyra with baby Aegon.

Now how would the dynamic between little Rhaenyra and baby Aegon be? Honestly anon, I think they probably started out good. Rhaenyra wouldn't have too much interest in a infant but as he started to grow up maybe she'd pay attention. I don't imagine her to be jealous given she's still the apple to her father's eye.

Rhaenyra grew up knowing one day she'd have a sibling. She was even accepting of her father's new marriage before something happened between her and Alicent. Now that "something" (which we never got to know what it was) would definitely still affect them.

So, young Rhaenyra + Aegon would be encouraged (especially by Viserys and maybe otto for his political agenda) to spend time together but outsider elements, like Daemon (who knows Rhaneyra's value), Criston (who is very possessive over his princess), Alicent (who tries to establish her son as heir) would prove to be obstacles. I think they'd have some nice moments but considering we're talking about this story being asoiaf-style you'd definitely get the angst and miscommunication. I think we as readers would probably feel more about the lost childhood Rhaenyra and Aegon (and the rest of the other siblings that followed) could have had.

As older them, things would naturally get darker, we'd have Criston's creepy one sided fixation becoming sexual, we'd have daemon who on the one hand is Rhaenyras' biggest supporter on the other he definitely has his own agenda, we'd have Rhaenyra herself who would have to deal with an even more vicious Alicent and her ladies at court, we'd have Aegon's self identity crises over that fact that despite being a firstborn son his older sister remains a heir, the jealousy he must feel over both of his parents being fixated on his sister for different reasons, his self discovery of the power he wields over people who are in a lower position... safe to say things would get bad pretty soon.

But to fully answer your question, I think childhood years would be the time we'd get some fragility of closeness, as they became older we'd see some resentment blooming, and full hate comes during the war. Both Rhaneyra and Aegon are proud and testy; we know for Rhaenyra her loss and grief made her paranoid and distrustful. I think her hate would be more generalized to every single green rather than just Aegon though. While Aegon's would be more centered on Rhaenyra because y'know it's essentially her fault [insert misogynistic propaganda] that she didn't roll over and accepted being unsupered