Alright I'm gonna throw some questions out there regarding past!Allen because they have been on my mind for a long time now. I don't normally post theories because other people have done a really good job already (and they are amazing!), but dang it's the pasta man we are talking about here and he is all I've ever written long posts about lol.
Spoilers obviously!
Let's start with this one:
Here we have the flashback in chapter 233 where Cross was watching Red!Allen and how Red!Allen couldn’t be past!Allen because “Allen” was supposed to be a grown man by then (you guys still with me?). This is where the translation confuses me: “Allen” should be in his thirties at the time Cross was talking, or in his thirties like 35 years ago? (I don't have access to the raw to see it for myself and I’m also not good at Japanese anyway, so if someone could help me verify this that would be great!) Because we have already seen him talking to Nea in his adult body in chapter 215:
If the latter was the case, shouldn't he be in his sixties now at least?
The '35 years' bit itself doesn’t line up either. We have this in the present time (chapter 215):
Again with the flashback (chapter 233):
Like hello??? Why is it still "35 years ago" even in the flashback? Hoshino-sensei, please be consistent with the timeline and help us here, your story is confusing enough lol.
Theories time! (from chapter 235)
I’m pretty sure many people have pointed out that the kid being held was past!Allen, and the person holding him was... whoever the frig that was lol. However, WHAT IF the “long, long ago” part didn’t refer to 35 years ago, but to another timeline/world? Like “Allen” doesn’t have immortality ability, but he has the ability to jump between timelines/worlds like the Noahs? So that’s what his “spiral of life” talk was about! (check out chapter 221) Since he’s just a human, the downside is that every time he jumps his memory would be wiped but somehow subconsciously still remembers??? (I blame a certain game series that starts with ‘Z’ for this, can’t even write the name properly because that’s a massive spoiler right there lol.) Another possibility is that he did retain his memory between jumps before but this time (that ended up being Red!Allen) Apocryphos stepped in and fucked everyone up. Damn if we are really going down that route it would explain a lot the inconsistencies I mentioned above lmao.
I bet this is the part where past!Allen just “jumped”, for some reason Nea happened to be there thinking “hmmm this guy could be useful” and decided to approach him. Okay so maaaaaybe they were not that close after all lol.
※Images taken from chapter 215 (scanslated by MangaHolic and Imperialscans), chapter 233 and 235 (scanslated by @kougeki-scans).
Okay so the book cover is a reference to this one, and I’m pretty sure that it’s Nea on the colour page (because golden eyes are sus af). Additionally the cross on the cover resembles Nea’s background design rather than Allen’s:
Hoshino has posted on her instagram a few other ones as well, like why the sudden interest? Hmmm.
But wait, they don’t look exactly the same! So what’s the deal with the book? Could it be from Nea’s one nerdy friend pasta man? For all we know pasta man is the one who was seen with a book and talk about the “spiral of life”. So uh, the reason why the cross thingy is there because they are... friends...? Nea had a look at pasta’s book and decided hey that’s a cool design imma take it lmao what??? Maybe it's the third side of the war that Nea discovered! (or whatever side that Cross threw at us before he went and disappeared again for good). And pasta man is the one behind it! Holy shit it all makes sense now, I have always thought he’s the shady one, daaaaang.
(a bit of a stretch lol, but that’s just my insane ass theory).
Nea, did you know that it’s been 84 years and I still haven’t got eyes? Pretty crazy huh.
i wanted to draw my boi all smiling and stuff after seeing Hoshino’s live but then the very next day she had to post one very sad boi and i was like who hurt you
holy moly your art seriously needed to be seen by more people!! it's so beautiful krispies christ im screaming to my friends abt your art now, keep up the good work Cún! (i almost read your username as cún đồ hội vffhdkjk)
oh wow thank you for the encouragement! and much appreciated for reading my name right lol
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