#yeah that last photo is from a fanmeet promo but doesn't he just look like the brattiest prince i love it

[oishitea]

Okay TBNW peeps

(long post so I'm putting it under a cut)

Buckle up, because I am hoping that I had the right idea when thought I was wrong for a long time.

This sequence was all a nice bit of exposition, but I couldn't help but wonder, along with our main P'Cir, what the hap was fuckening. Our Cirrus had believed this 'parallel worlds' thing was something he made up for himself - a coping mechanism to escape the environment of abuse and control. Sure, it felt real when he dreamt about it, but dreams can feel that way for some people, right?

That's a whole lot of things at once. I have WAY more questions now. The way this other Cirrus was acting before made it seem like he was a dark version our main P'Cir and reveling in his torment. And he possibly is, but it turns out that it's also because he has spent some time in torment.

I wanna take us back to @negrowhat's post, because there was definitely some weird stuff going on, with the dream world and the real world feeling a little blurred together. I'm not sure how the dreams connect with reality, only that they do to some extent.

They're all taking turns in this time-space pocket dimension where one half is a padded cell and the other looks like the clock section of a monochromatic home furnishing store. Literal cycle of violence. Hell even.

So, if Cirrus didn't make this, then who did? Why?

HMMMMMM

Cirrus and Phukan have an indelible connection. And we have seen that either one will pursue the other in any given timeline. But it's Cirrus who experiences this torment.

As for my theory, I mentioned it briefly as far back as episode 3. Just gonna recap it here:

DARK!PHUKAN TELL ME YOU'RE OUT THERE!!!!!!

It would just tickle me greatly to see everything be inverted. The lies, the confusion, the betrayal, and the way Phukan seems to be a perfect angel created to make every single Cirrus in the mulitverse melt. All of that flipped on its head to reveal that dark!Cir is merely the current secretary of this realm, passing on what little knowledge he has to the nth P'Cir, having spent his time in that blinding white hell after meeting the boy of his dreams and itching to go home. That in some timeline, the original one even, Cirrus left Phukan and the nature of it was so devastating that it twisted him up inside. And somehow, he's made this sort of time-space labryinth, and will toy with every iteration he can find of his P'Cir until he gets the right ending.

I still have huge doubts that there is anything like that actually going on, but now that we have parallel world business back on the menu, I will take a big ass bite out of that plate! And I need to see Noeul be a villain. For reasons.