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[shaylogic]

Season 2 Predictions: Niko, Charles & Monty in the Neitherlands ; Niko & Charles' Parents

Borrowing this shot direct from @captainfantasticalright's fantastic Niko costume design breakdown post

Aurora Borealis is often associated with folklore about spirits travelling the sky.

Highlighted excerpt above from here.

In the Toby Litt/Mark Buckingham comics, the Neitherlands are a place between life and death, shown with bird bone snow (I have a theory we will see Monty bump into Niko again in season 2 in the Neitherlands like when they first met).

There's no Niko in the comics, but the combination of Hana & Rosa proxy over to Niko in the show.

Charles saves Rosa from the Neitherlands in the comics.

Charles and Niko are both shown foreshadowed with the bear, probably an allusion to Nanuk.

Walrus = Mick => Niko's costume design parka in the last scene

Aurora Borealis => Spirits of the Dead

I also have a theory that one of Charles' parents will die in season 2 and he'll see them there, like Niko will see her dad

I have a much more in-depth post on my theories about Season 2 and Afterlife Worldbuilding here.

And here's my theory on Charles' parents in season 2, based off of comic book parallels to the show that I've picked up on.

Update 1: Here's a post on some afterlife lore I scanned from a J Non-Fic book called "An Atlas of Afterlives"

Update 2: George Rexstrew Cameo reading the last two stanzas of "Sack of the Gods" by Rudyard Kipling (the last stanza of which was read in episode 1 of season 1). He did this cameo on the last day, before people could ask followup questions (and later in the week when he would have had time to get permission from higher-ups to drop hints?)

Update 3: George posted a vid of the Collar Scene with the caption "As long as the red Earth rolls <3"

Update 4: George Rexstrew Cameo where someone asked about DBD International Cases (season 1 already was in America vs London) and GEORGE ANSWERED JAPAN (Niko family lore).

[captainfantasticalright]

Is your moniker Captain Fantastical right or Captain Fantastic alright?

I am so so happy you asked about this because it’s “Captain Fantastic” “alright”. And the reason is: I love Elton John and originally I wanted to be only Captain Fantastic because of his album, but that was taken. So I thought I could join it with another Elton song, namely “Saturday night’s alright for fighting”- so that’s the origin of the whole thing. Keeping it rocketman :)

[shaylogic]

Part of a greater slideshow project I'm working on. I figured I'd go ahead and share this slide about my theories on the Costume Design of these three characters.

Note: I theorize that the human guy possessed by the demon before Crystal was named David, and that the demon has some True Name he won't reveal, because then he could be controlled/banished, so he goes by David.

The citation linked to @captainfantasticalright's excellent Crystal Costume Design Post is here. I highly encourage all their meta posts on costuming and DBDA/Dante's Hell.

[captainfantasticalright]

sorry if this is a weird question, but is your blog name supposed to be ‘fantastic alright’ or ‘fantastical right’??

Not a weird question at all and always happy to reply! It gives me a chance to talk about my favorite musician: Elton John.

The username is “captain fantastic” and then followed by “alright”. Hope you don’t mind me blabbering as to why that is, but I originally only wanted the captain fantastic because of Elton John’s album “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy”. Weirdly enough, it is not my favorite album of his, but I have always loved the backstory of why it was named Captain Fantastic.

It was the record that Elton would go on to describe as one of – if not the – finest he’d made to that point. And, after its release, on May 19, 1975, it became his first album to enter the American chart at No.1 .John and Taupin wrote Captain Fantastic…, unusually, in chronological order, in the sequence in which the songs appeared. It is basically an autobiographical album and Captain Fantastic is Elton John and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is Bernie Taupin, the genius lyricist behind almost all of his songs. It details the rough beginning, the rough middle and just a journey of self discovery and rising to fame amongst the chaos and poor choices.

And because the original username I wanted was taken, I still wanted to have something entirely dedicated to Elton John. At the time, the song that I thought would fit better with this was “Saturday night’s alright for Fighting”. And because the alright is very highlighted in the song, I thought it would be a nice one to add because when you say the name out loud it should have a sing songy quality to it. (At least in my brain it does). :)