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Is there an explanation to why the demon of sloth isn't someone from the 2nd period like the other demons?

The explanation is simply that there were only 6 crew members who became demons and the demon of sloth was actually Eve. Why would it need to be otherwise? There’s no in universe reason why each of the demons needs to be represented by a 2nd period person. There’s no in-universe reason why they’re represented by the 7 deadly sins, either.

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Hansel and Gretel's reincarnations all have blond hair and blue eyes, and if I remember correctly Ney is an Irregular. But wait, actually, wasn't her yellow hair explained to be because of her father being lucifenian (and not because he was a mud golem?), her eyes were yellow, despite being an irregular. (Part 1 because it won't fit)

Arte, Pollo, & Lemy however, have yellow hair and blue eyes, so were they also reborn  irregular way or is it because they were irregular? And if the latter was the case then why does the same thing not apply for Ney? Could this be a mistake on Mothy’s part?

I’ll admit to being a little confused by what, exactly, you’re asking, but I will try to explain the situation as mothy seems to have set it up to the best of my ability (which is a tad difficult because he’s left a lot of it vague).

First off, having blue eyes is not a requirement of being irregular at all. This is a misconception that got spread in the fandom because most of the Irregulars are Kagamine characters (unless I’m an idiot and misremembering something, but pretty sure I’m not). Gallerian only states that they have golden hair. So Ney having yellow eyes has no bearing on whether or not she’s an Irregular. Her having golden hair is a result of being an Irregular (though it may be a retcon–it is possible mothy originally envisioned Arth as human, and that Ney having blonde hair was just a result of her genes, but in any case that’s just a red herring with current plot developments).

Second, Hansel and Gretel’s various incarnations all look like them as a result of some unspecified “fate” as per their reincarnation (that they are fated to be born as the same people each time). The implication we get is that the reason why Ney looks different from them is because Allen and Riliane were originally intended to be the reincarnated bodies of Hansel and Gretel. Abyss leading Prim to “seduce” Arth resulted in Gretel being reincarnated first, and because it wasn’t in the intended twin bodies she was born alone with a different appearance.

As for whether or not Arte, Pollo, and Lemy were born in an Irregular way–there’s no information on that. We don’t know how Arte and Pollo were born, and we don’t know the circumstances that led to Lemy’s mother getting pregnant.

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i just remembered… the fact that adam and eve are able to use the swap technique is written down somewhere, right? then cant that be used to solve them potentially being the irregular babies but not having irregular bodies in oss? they simply swapped with some random miku and kaito bodies sometime later on, adam potentially doing so to become a scientist without drawing too much attention

I haven’t yet seen all of the information on who was able to use the swap technique (it’s in Gift, I think), although I think it is safe to say yes they were able to use it. However, I don’t know how one learns the swap technique, or when they learned it, and I don’t know why they would.

You give a reason for Adam (though it feels tenuous to me), but why on earth would Eve do so? And if they had bodyswapped into their Kaito and Miku bodies, why would there be no mention of it anywhere at all? Why would the entire series treat these bodies as their true form (such as Eve incarnating as her Miku self in all of her identities, and Adam taking on a Kaito look as Gear)?

It’s not impossible, but I think it’s unlikely. Maybe I’ll eat crow when the novel comes out but I don’t think that it’s the kind of thing mothy would pull. You say “simply” like swapping bodies with someone is as simple as wearing a wig when it involves literally giving up your entire identity to someone else and adopting theirs. There’s quite a bit of explanation and context that would need to accompany something like that.

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This is probably a stupid question but if Behemo is the Real Master of the Hellish Yard, then why did he want to make Riliane and Allen end the world?

He didn’t. I haven’t read Tailor in full yet, but I believe that scenario is only put forward by Rahab, yes? In the Heavenly novel though it’s stated (or at least theorized by Gumillia) that Allen and Riliane meeting had no danger of accidentally causing a Re_Birthday reformatting event (the end of the world that she was talking about), and it was just Rahab’s wishful thinking/incorrect theory due to them being Irregulars.

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Omgggg thank you so much for the info-mining the novel!!!!!! You're da best. Do you think Levia knows the truth about Behemo? I mean given the fact that only Levia knows that him is not her younger brother but her "counter-part from another world", is it possible for her to know, now that the world ended, that her brother is not from the second period, but the first?

I don’t know. I presume now that everything is over she would have been told the truth, but there’s nothing she says in the ending (assuming she’s L) that directly indicates she has.

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So in the end, it looks like you were right about Maria Moonlit being the one in the doll? Just... removed by a few incarnations.

Yes, it does explain why there were such strong hints with both characters.

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So sickle we've been known is a robot made by luna and not the real hazuki? Or is it just hazuki messing with allen?

Hazuki is Luna Hazuki. Sickle is TALOS, a robot. It was our assumption that Hazuki was Sickle’s real name–I think it was an in-universe misconception as well, as Nemesis seemed to think Sickle was Hazuki too.

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i was always confused about what about coming to the third period would make the second period gods 'immortal,' but now I'm assuming its either because they all died on the ship or because they're avatars and thus not prone to ageing? im still not sure if what sickle said about them all dying was true or part of his bluff

I mean they did all die. That did happen. But that was after they finished their work.

I don’t know–I assume it gave their spirit data a particular quality. There’s a lot about the logistics that isn’t gone into in detail. But it is noted that the Second Period avatars were superior to the First Period humans at the very least.