What if the wardening card Romeo's received wasn't fake?
I saw a lot of other tkdb players mentioned the possibility of the wardening card being REAL
However, other than this, i wish to add another possible aspect
Which is the wardening card being REAL and CURSED
Starting with the card, meaning:
From what Hyde explained, the wardening card was "supposed" to hold the meaning of protection, a new start, and the ability to invade death
While the meaning is correct, the card art, which is a snowdrop flower, has a second meaning, which is death,misfortune, and bad omen
Bad Omen .. interesting ! wasn't this card first introduced to us in the City of Omens, too??
Now jumping to the real talk
There are mainly two reasons why the card could be cursed
The timing Romeo has received the card in
If we go with S1 pattern,as readers, we never knew about it existence. It was hinted by Romeo and Hyde multiple times, but we never knew about it until the last three chapters of EP16.
Things are different !!! Not only did we see Romeo receiving it as an early Christmas gift, but it was mentioned in a verrry odd timing.
If we go one episode behind, you will start noticing a weird pattern and even hints of the existence of a new element
Which is "cursed objects" CREATED by anomalies!
Not only that, but we also discovered how curses could be rewritten! , just like how Jiro rewrote the stickers' abilities [switching their effects toward their band in order to win the competition]
To rephrase, Hyde could have done either of these three options to obtain the warden card:
Hyde forged the wardening card himself. If anomalies can create curse tools, wouldn't this also be easy for an anomoly biologist to do the same thing as well?? (It's his major, after all)
Hyde asked Hodge and Podge for a wardening card, but he ended up "rewriting" its formula, converting it to have an opposite effect/just like what Jiro did.
Hyde asked Hodge and Podge to make the wardening card a cursed one
I honestly don't believe the third point is possible simply because it goes against how Hodge and Podge characters have been written so far, whether they CAN do it or being FORCED to do it is a different story (since Hyde seems like he owns them or smthing?).
The effect of the wardening card
During the whole episode of Omen City
it was explained to us by the fortune teller/Haru that bad intentions attract misfortune and the cursed person will be visited by the Hundun anomoly to be curse eight times until you reach a certain death on the last curse!
However, oddly enough, in the whole episode, only two who ended up receiving punishments the most are:
Romeo. A lot would interpret his misfortune to his hidden motivations, but is true ??
If we look back to all moments Romeo ended up receiving his misfortune
Some just don't make any sense?
The first punishment: hit by a ball
Which randomly selected Romeo as the first target
Before the Hundun appeared, The only thing Romeo mentioned at that time was to not destroy the anomoly, even getting in a debate with Ritsu, who thought Romeo was only greedy again and destorying/killing the anomaly is a better choice
In this situation, didn't it make more sense for Ritsu to be the one hit?? since he was the one with "bad" intentions ??
a second later the anomaly reappeares
Ritsu attacks it with the intention of destroying it again
It was Romeo again who got the misfortune, having him fall into the sewer !
In other words, the anomly wasn't only attracted to "intentions," but another force.
Which is the special card he has hidden with a REAL effect of attracting misfortune/Hundun
It's time to share the second person who got into this mess with Romeo, who is the MC
Why did our pure and diligent MC receive punishment even close to death when she never had any bad intentions???
It was because she got a hold of something she wasn't supposed to get close to !
After Romeo fell into the sewer
He told the MC to hold into his bag the saame bag he highlighted that it's so important, likely due to it containing the wardening card
Now, with the MC influenced by the curse, she immediately gets targeted after Romeo twice at the same time!
But to the MC luck, when things got way too bad for her,the REAL wardening card protected her.
If Hundun is really attracted to bad intentions, then another one of the curses didn't make sense:
At that moment, neither the MC nor Ritsu said or acted in a suspicious way, and if the fortune teller did curse them so that the Hundun would hurt them whenever they had any bad intentions, it wouldn't make sense for theses two with the least care to get affected ESPECIALLY at this moment, afterall the only thing they were discussing is Ritsu's career and dreams
but in the end, they still got targeted
That happened because the MC was with Ritsu
This gets repeated a second time to Ritsu. However, that is when he is with Romeo, causing the truck to crash the hideout
Ritsu was only targeted when being with the two who held the cursed card.
This covers the part of why the card is cursed
For the other half of the theory is
Why is the cursed card REAL?
From what Ritsu explained beforehand
Wardening cards are split into two categories
1. Those who can be reused after recharge time
2. Those destoyed after one time use
For the one Romeo has, it held the second option
His card got destroyed immediately after Taiga shoot Romeo or, to be more precise, shoot the wardening card.
If Taiga really wanted to shoot Romeo, he wouldn't have missed, and Romeo would have received a guaranteed death due to the card effect!
However, Taiga aimed for the card itself, getting it destroyed and freeing Romeo from both misfortune and Hundun curse.
But wardening card cannot be destroyed?? Can this really be applied to a cursed one that attracts death and misfortune? Or maybe a forged/rewritten card has weaker resistance!
If the card whole purpose was to inflect harm to its owner, then with the owner of the card shoot. It would also make sense that the card tasks have been fulfilled.
In addition, when the group left the fabricated world
Romeo sniper gun which was destroyed in the misson got back to its original form as if it wasn't destroyed to begin with
It simply remained destroyed even though it was destroyed within the fabricated world
If the wardening card was fake
It would have reverted back to its original state after leaving the realm
Oddly ? That didn't happen
Because the card Romeo had was a genuine one
Not a lucky charm but a cursed one that thought its holder must have died within the mission, so it simply stayed in the expired state!
for the last part, i was highly inspired from this post over here > link here
I did disagree with some part, especially with it being a protection card (it would be interesting if it was, though!)
Hyde gave Romeo a cursed wardening card, which he must have either forged it or rewrote it's effect.
Both Romeo and MC got badly influenced by it, having them suffer the most from the Hundun.
After Taiga destroyed the wardening card, it never got back to its original form due to it being a one-time use card.
