#the name. the designs. its too similar to just... *not*

[minart-was-taken]

Mr Reca is a Welt Theory🎭

I'm bout to cook. It may not be food but it'll be COOKED.

It's canon in the Hoyoverse that sometimes people have counterparts in different dimensions. These counterparts usually have many similarities to the original such as in name and design, but are also different enough to be considered a different character. In this post I'm going to argue for the case that Mr. Reca and Welt are an example of this.

(Disclaimer: This is for goofs and fun. I do NOT think this is anywhere near canon or even totally sensical.)

Let's go from the least convincing evidence to the most convincing evidence:

Look the same 🫵

Although most of their similarities can be tossed aside as it being an anime game and people in this genre of just tending to look very similar-- I'm still including it. They both have brown hair with a parting a bit to the side, hair that covers one of their eyes partially, and some handsome greying.

We also know when Welt is using his powers his eyes can start glowing red

But uh yea I get it. This is a strech. Moving on.

2. Similar career choices

Welt claims* to have been an animator before boarding the Astral Express. Mr. Reca is a VERY passionate filmmaker. Yes I will point out that these are very different careers, but I will ALSO point out the similarities. Visual storytelling in the form of video!! Both include character development, shot planning, colour theory... The list goes on.

Also for some goddamn reason Welt has the power to summon animations from his homeworld...? That's weird. But it works with my theory so. Uh. Yeah.

Now again, these ARE different things for many reasons. You may even say this bit of evidence is a bit of a stretch-- But, hold on!

Acheron in Honkai Star Rail is an emanator of Nihility. Raiden Shogun, her counterpart in Genshin Impact, is the Archon of Eternity. Extremely similar at face value, but come with very different duties.

*Whether he was or wasn't doesn't really matter for the theory as the fact he chose that still says a lot about the man.

3. Mr. Reca is a Memokeeper Memokeepers canonically give up their mortal bodies to exist as memories so that they may travel the world as efficient as possible with the goal of collecting memories. I can't find confirmation on whether they also give up their memories of their once mortal existence, but whether that's canon or not it's very easy to imagine a Memokeeper could do that to themself.

This leads me to the major point of this theory: If we were to take away Welt's bonds, what would be left? A goddamn nerd. Have you seen how this guy talks about his favourite shows?

So here's the tea. We know our Welt Yang is from an entirely different dimension, meaning there's very much space for a Welt of this dimension to exist as well. I propose that the man may be who Mr. Reca used to be before becoming a Memokeeper.

Here's what I'm imagining: Welt is a very old man, so perhaps long before the events of the game there existed a man who worked passionately in filmmaking. One day for one reason or another he chose to let go off his mortal life and any possible bonds he had, and became an immortal Memokeeper-- Now without bonds, he was stripped to have only one passion: films.

Its certainly an interesting fanfic 👍👍 There's a lot of holes in the theory and in the end it doesn't really matter-- Welt and Mr. Reca would probably never figure out this connections between them and even if the did I doubt they'd care too much.

But it came to my brain and I'm making it everyone else's problem.

TLDR; What if Welt had a counterpart in this universe and that counterpart was Mr. Reca before he basically de-welted himself.

[w3llf4ll]

Oh yeah it absolutely can be infantilizing, and i don’t mean to discredit that or argue with it- i agree! Its especially weird when non-autistic people draw him like that. The more cutsey the stickers (or portrayal) the weirder it gets in my opinion. Especially when its just him, none of the other characters.

I just also mean there are two types of people who make art like that- people infantilizing him, and people projecting on him. I think its ok to project traits you have on characters that have similar situations as you- think like giving a disabled character the type of mobility aids or braces you use. (I’d do that if i had the confidence to, but im not quite there yet.) If people see themselves in caboose and draw him or other characters with stickers because they like stickers, i dont really see why that would cause problems?

Especially when stickerbombing stuff is still really common. I grew up with a whole door and countless speakers my bio dad stickerbombed, i stickerbomb furniture, and have a good handful of other friends and family that do the same thing. It might just have been the environment i grew up in that made stickerbombing seem so common though, so that might not be the ‘common experience’ so you can absolutely tell me that’s unusual and I’d probably rethink some of this! I dont think ive ever thought very hard about that, so i apologize lol

Sorry thats such a long response! I kinda wordvomited. Tldr; yeah it gets pretty weird and is definitely infantasizing him, but its also ok to project traits of your own personal neurodivergence’s (or disabilities) on characters.

Edit: i do think it can get pretty weird to pick only caboose out of the whole cast though, especially w how common in the fandom it is

Unrelated

What kind of engravings to you think the reds and blues would have?? Im an odst sarge truther and i feel like he’d have his former teammates names engraved somewhere hard to see. Caboose i could see having one of his pauldrons with mech/circuitry motifs? A similar mech/circuitry tattoo on the same shoulder underneath would be a pretty cool design choice too i think

Can anyone explain the Caboose and stickers thing i never really got it

[malk-with-tea]

Ocs/Descarn x Hollow Knight for the spooky season :D!!

[milkbreadtoast]

(OC) boyfriends..... 🤭🧡💜

[crow-quet]

rarishy kid? ✨🦋

rarishy!!!!! <3 i love this one so so so much and i adore their vibe so much!!!!! this one was such a fun one and i did a lot of playing with colors !!!!

[bmpmp3]

character designers when they need to design a mascot for a masculine vocal synthesizer: and i will put a mole. under his LEFT eye

[sci-bax]

Does anyone else find that music gives them inspiration for stories? Im working on my first game's story rn and quite a few songs have helped me figure out what i want some of the places/characters to be like

Spider Girl and 1000 Doors helped so much with thinking up a certain part of the game😭

In terms of dialogue, Ive got some dialogue options for a shopkeeper but nothing past that💔

[yuridovewing]

i dont think this ship is problematic in of itself cause like, both are older consenting adults in positions of power so theres no imbalance or predatory behavior or anything like that. but tbh i dont get the squirrelstar x leafstar shippers if only because of the jumpscare i get from seeing “i 💜 leafsquirrel!” along with a pic of the two of them when leafstar and leafpool have very similar designs. like again i KNOW theres nothing really wrong with them canonically, but i would always just be too paranoid over the elephant in the room

[hauntingblue]

You guys think the one piece movies are on letterboxd?

[bumblingbabooshka]

St Voyager - Ex Post Facto “Maybe I kill myself slowly because I don’t have the courage to do it all at once.”

[today-i-am-thinking-about]

the conflation of eastern and western dragons

[perenlop]

I know it's because she's an attempt at a main series Sunset Shimmer and because they eventually have her be Twilight's student, but man I don't quite see the point in having Starlight Glimmer be a Twilight Sparkle parallel

[blackheart-6]

mayor holiday design

[love-birds-stuff]

Oagh thinking trisona thoughts

[ganondoodle]

this is Ki'ita btw, also an older doodle and i dont like how i made their cloak look so im using this basic design version instead (she does wear a big cloak and pants usually lol)

kinda want to redo this as well but its still mostly accurate; they're a good chunk taller than the captain, loud and love to eat, not just bc she just likes it but also bc they have to keep a certain weight if they want to survive the cold waters she spends most her time in as mentioned before whenever they ARE around theres always some big feast happening and if you only knew her from that you'd think shes super extroverted and loves to be around people, which is true .. as long as its for a few days every few months or so, they need their time alone so she doesnt mind being away for so long, they tend to return when they either gathered important information that needs to be passed on immediately, they ran into a problem they need to discuss with the captain or .. if she misses the others too much, they dont admit that tho

when asked why shes so tall when orca types arent usually that big she always says they're two people combined bc they ate their twin before she was born, it always shuts up whoever asked that and she finds the look on their face to be the funniest thing in the world .. noone knows if shes telling the truth or just made it up

(the captain had her daughter shortly after founding the pirate group, which only had her and Ki'ita as members at first, however Ki'ita is not the other parent, asking who it is is considered taboo and if it does come up the captain loudly proclaims she wishes nothign but death upon them among other various acts of violence, giving the impression that whoever the other parent is, their relationship was far from good; that however does not affect her love for her daughter)

the captain and Ki'ita are both middle aged but neither say nor care what the exact count is

most of the pirates, including these two, are not demons but a different humanoid species that is usually classified as mutants, hundreds of years ago children born in villages or cities around the coasts had the chance of being born a mutant like this and the popular belief was that its some sort of demonic curse and the majority were rejected from society, they have since built a smaller secure society hidden from the majority of the general population, the pirates are the most openly out and about which makes them disliked by all sides, humans might be afraid, hunters may target them mistaking them for demons and the other mutants themselves are afraid it might attract too much attention and endanger them all

unlike demons, mutants are native to the human realm and have more typical animal characteristics of sea creatures also found there, they cannot shapeshift and have only rarely a minimal ability to influence the elements around them similar to how some humans can and do not posess any kind of ability to heal themselves as quickly as demons can, tho some may have some advantages from the type of animal they took after

(OC art, Ki'ita, she/they)

art isnt working well atm but i tried to doodle a rough possible redesign for an old OC, she used to have a name but i think im just gonna call her "The Captain" from now on

she leads a group of pirates that frequently rescues/frees demons that had been captured by hunters, she and the co-founder (Ki'ita) of the group also invented a form of solar powered sailboat that lets them carry out missions noone else can

she has an adult daughter whos in charge of the diver specialists while the captain herself and Ki'ita are the main agressors when a mission calls for the sinking of ships or similar ... that is if Ki'ita is around, which she usually isnt bc she mainly does solo missions in arctic waters and can be gone for months, returning only for a big feast and information exchange/replanning, leaving again after 1 or 2 days, so the captain does most of the visible work

the captain isnt fond of Ki'ita being so absent but also knows how important her work is, the two are rather close but only show so in private

(OC art, the captain, she/her)

[radrobotz]

its been forever since i first redesigned poppy but im still so proud cuz her old design(s) sucked soo bad and now shes so so cute

(old art but its still relevant loooooooook)