There is something I’ve been thinking about for the last few days and I wanted to talk about it. It’s about shicmuon’s strength and it’s origins. We already know that his parents are very strong, and that he inherited that strength.
First, I want to talk a bit more about his parent powers. Before starting, I feel the need to say there is going to be a long paragraph about eperia and her powers. This last chapter showed us eperia becoming a monster and losing control of herself. This is not the first time we see her in her monster form, but what caught my attention was essiahel’s words: “the forbidden magic should have harmonized with the princess long ago. Did something go wrong?” and “did she awaken? [...] was that monster released from when she had lost her control from something?”. Why did he say she awakened? Isn’t that supposed to be reserved to magicians? Moreover, they’re not supposed to become monsters after awakening... I know they used forbidden magic to give her powers, but according to essiahel, he should have had complete control over her powers. Therefore, it doesn’t make sense for her to become a monster and to have powers of her own. Seeing his reactions after she ‘awakened’, I would say he wasn’t aware she was able to transform. Eperia was already amazing to have survived all the ‘experiments’ they did (using forbidden magic) when she was younger. Instead of being a human able to use the power of demons, she became a demon with a human body. Similar to rood. That’s how I see it at least.
That means that shimuon was exposed to this ‘inhuman’ power during nine months, before eperia gave birth to him. Not only that, but his father, lanoste, was also capable of using strong magic (he wasn’t able to control) from a very young age, which earned him the title of [devil]. He was also able to withstand all the pain/dangers from removing the mark.
As if this wasn’t enough, after losing his powers, he was able to defeat/kill many magicians of the tower. Even after doing all that, he still had the strength to confront the king and to fight the magicians of the tower placed in front of the door leading him to eperia.
My point is, shicmuon’s inherited a lot of strength from his parents, and some of it may not be human.
When I first saw this scene, I just thought: “jaja, shicmuon doesn’t like his dad”. I didn’t think too much of it. It was a cute family moment and that was all. And then, lanoste said: “...he’s already this strong. Must take after you” (chapter 221). Once again, I didn’t think much of it, since we know eperia is strong, and it was funny seeing shicmuon reject lanoste. It didn’t cross my mind, that shicmuon might have been exposed to demon powers, nor did I find it weird that he was strong, although he was just a baby. This last chapter (chapter 224) made me see things differently. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it’s a fact that shicmuon is strong, and I can’t help but think it would be interesting if he actually had demon powers. I just don’t know why I didn’t think of it before. I mean, we had scenes like this one:
Chapter 208
and this one:
Chapter 221
I guess, the thing that changed, is the possibility of eperia not being really/totally human. For example, lidusis has the king’s powers. Just like eperia he wasn’t born with this power, it was given to him. But, contrarily to eperia, when he awakens his eyes aren’t split in half (like with eperia and rood). As you can see here:
Chapter 203
Therefore, for me, he is more human than a monster/demon. He is simply a human who has ‘inhuman’ powers. This is what the tower wanted for eperia, yet along the way, she started ‘losing her humanity’. Maybe, it’s simply due to lidusis perfectly assimilating the power, but I still think it’s weird.
The reason why I decided to talk about it, is because of the following scene:
Chapter 167
You might think there’s nothing wrong with this scene and maybe you’re right, but it has been bothering why after seeing the green thing (I don’t know how to call it: meredith powers? Meredith (the king) dying scene?), shicmuon immediately attacked the tower girl and asked her what did she (the tower) do to rood.
Why?? No one else reacted like him. The last time he saw him, he was fine, so why ask now? Did he felt rood faint? I don’t think that’s possible, so that brings me to my next point.
Meredith (the king) said that he and rood (the king) were one and the same at some point. Which means, that their powers are/were also the same. That’s how I see it at least.
Chapter 181: “We are same as one another”. If they share emotions, then why not having the same powers/magic?
What if shicmuon felt meredith dying, and thought it was rood? He assumed something bad had happened to rood and reacted this way. Shicmuon is also always able to locate rood, no matter which form he takes. You can call it obsession, but it doesn’t matter how obsessed he is, recognizing rood chrishi was the black magician, was not an obvious thing. Rood’s eyes could have reminded him of the black magician, but rood isn’t the only blue-eyed boy in helios/in the empire. Maybe, the reason why shicmuon is able to find him/feel his energy is because his powers aren’t (totally) human?
Moreover, in his awakened form, shicmuon has his mother’s crimson magic, and not lanoste’s white/blue magic. I don’t know if this is normal or not, but I think it’s interesting how he didn’t inherit lanoste’s color magic (the same color of his magician mark). If shicmuon was born with a magician mark, then things would have been different, as I think, the magician mark adapts to the user, and therefore, everyone has their own distinctive color. But, this mark was given to shicmuon after he was born. It wouldn’t be weird if shicmuon’s transformation was exactly the same as his father (although it would be too confusing to be honest. They are already very similar). Anyway, I find it interesting how his mother’s powers (acquired through forbidden magic) and lanoste’s powers mixed together, allowing shicmuon to use all that power. Basically, if eperia is not totally human, then what about shicmuon?
It’s just a theory I have, and wanted to share it. Maybe next chapter will explain this (i.e. shicmuon having his mother crimson magic), who knows?
Bonus:
Chapter 87
Shicmuon jumped from the roof in helios and survived. That’s not something a normal person would have been able to do. He didn’t even break his arms or legs.
That’s it. I don’t know if what I wrote makes sense... :’) Why do I always end up writing long posts?
