Ok I'm locking in my prediction of Julian being the new survivor. There are other reasons it could be him but this connection is significant enough evidence, apart from my hoping & coping. So Sable wears 2 rings on her left hand. Julian has scars on his arm. (His right arm, but it's a left arm in the perk icon, but whatever). Sable lends him a hand in the tome lore. The new perk "Lend a Hand" depicts this! 👀🤔
It's also suspicious that Julian was barely mentioned for a long time but now suspiciously being revealed in a tome suddenly. His appearance & a bit of lore right before the anniversary as well. It would also make sense from a marketing standpoint to make him alt as well since Sable performed well & adding our first emo & alt male in a while, he'd obviously perform just as well as Sable did. Especially being connected to Mikaela, who also became popular. And with the Unknown & Greenville being in Jason's lore, the timing makes sense. There was a non-Julian survivor leak but it was pretty much just confirmed fake by Eric Pope himself, so Julian hope is back up! Either way, if it's not him, bhvr has seen how hyped up & loved he is, so they'd definitely add him eventually. They know we want him. People asked for him for years, they just figured out how they can make him more appealing. Sable is proof lol
EDIT: Ok nevermind, no Julian 😭 lol. I love Shane tho, glad we got Native American rep finally. Hopefully we get Julian soon, Maybe he'll be the next survivor paragraph 🙏