I have a theory, but it has a lot of holes in it.

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I have a theory, but it has a lot of holes in it.
The seven year War that took place 500 years before the events in ACOTAR had almost nothing to do with freeing enslaved mortals. It was about trade and protecting forged supplies being stored UTM. The Night Court and Hybern were allies…they were working together… why is no one talking about this, or is this old news?...
(A Court of Wings and Ruin, Two Years Before The Wall: Rhysand—
If Rhysand is your “Shadow-Daddy,” look away now- right now, because this is the part where I question Rhysand’s motives 💀
Before I get 💩 for this, (if you’re still here) just know that I used to think Rhysand was “the villain.” However, I’m starting to believe Rhys may have some debts that need to be paid off; perhaps some unfulfilled bargain(s) from the past coming back to haunt him…
So the Cauldron was tainted at some point and wicked things were “forged,” but it was eventually stolen back “at great cost.”
I doubt the price was Rhysand’s knee, but the direction my mind is going makes this tongue-in-cheek “secret” all the more hilarious.
He tries bargaining Feyre’s bones, but even the Bone Carver knows Rhys isn’t that heartless.
However, you wanna know just how heartless Rhysand is at this point in the story?… (besides the hundred examples I don’t have time to list atm)
Yes, that’s right—Rhysand’s goal is to find and nullify the Cauldron, knowing very well that the act will kill Feyre in the process. That “devastation” on Rhys’s face is guilt.
Feyre almost puts two and two together, (but she’s an idiot in lust)—
• Rhysand’s potential motives and suspicious capture—
Rhysand was rivaling his predecessor to take over even before the war… and allied himself with two of the most powerful Illyrians to do it
Rhys’s father realized what he was doing and separated them to try to stop it… and he was captured.
Although it’s implied Amarantha led to Rhys’s capture, his father seems a more likely suspect.
We don’t know when Amren came into the picture, just that it was sometime after (usurping his father) gaining the title of High Lord. I’m starting to think Amren is who Rhysand made a bargain with—why she’s second in command, despite not having as much power as before—why she was brought back when Rhys was resurrected… and why Azriel doesn’t seem to trust her…but I digress…
Y’all. I just cracked the Critical Role Moon Theory.
It’s the former base for the Bureau of Balance. Hear me out. Very little is known about the battles of the Divergence. The “Gods” who “came from beyond the stars” to Tal’dorei imbued specific items with incredible magics that were then erased from history and left to be rediscovered. The Age of Arcanum brought with it the arcane knowledge to create floating cities. All the pieces fit, The war of the Divergence is a retelling/reimagning of what a fight with The Hunger would actually be, and the devastation it would cause. The harrowing nature of it, recontextualized as a battle of the Gods.
Realistic brain: Bex and Bowie are going to get married and live happily ever after and have a nice big Cece styled wedding and then become the nuclear family Andi wanted
Cracked brain: Bowie loves being a dad but feels like he missed out on so much of Andi’s childhood and he wants to have another kid. Bex is happy with life as it is and doesn’t want another kid. But because Bowie and Bex do not communicate about important things like this, they will find out later down the line and this will cause drama and force them to evaluate whether they should be getting married, because sometimes loving Andi and loving each other isn’t always enough
“Isn’t it kind of messed up that we call Dark ‘Darkiplier’ after the guy who made him what he is?” — Maybe, but mayhaps Celine just wanted to keep the last name to spite him, have you considered that?
"They killed everyone and it escaped. Find the axe and end it. I'm counting on you."
Wow, good thing that message is clearly intended for someone else who isn't distracted looking at this thing and trying to figure out which Unown that is in the middle:
(It's an 'H'.)
there's also some lixian shenanigans in the new blood money letsplay...
it's probably just for the lulz, but also the entirety of markiplier extended universe is for the lolz so i thought it might be worth mentioning
My biggest takeaway?
Yet another hole for the whole Hole Theory! Which is definitely a real thing and not something I'm making up as we go along.
Importantly, this hole is different than the other hole Mark had Lixian throw us into in the No Skin video. That one was pink, and inside were gray clouds and flashes of blue lightning. The hole in the Bloodmoney 2 video is blue and full of galaxy colors/stars.
Specifically, pink hole takes us to the Lore, blue hole takes us through time.
Funnily enough, in In Space With Markiplier, every time we went through the wormhole it was blue on the inside, except for the time Wilford ordered us a ride after saying, "None of this 'Oh, is that in the past, is that in the future? Oh, I can't wrap my head around this whole timey-wimey thing--' Figure it out!" when it was pink.
What I'm saying is, time, lore, it's all holes all the way down, holes inside of holes even.
Calling it now, if/when Mark gets around to playing Berry Bury Berry, things are going to get weird (mostly because he has no chill when it comes to incremental games and the inevitable hurricane of euphemisms, but also: hole).
As far as Lixian...
He's probably fine, right?