I got many new ideas and theories when I was rereading the manga so ima just drop them all here. It’s about the Immortals, the Demon Kings and the possible roles that everyone could have in the war arc.
I will warn you that this analysis/theory is even longer than the last one, so just so you know jaja.
(I had posted this before as a reblog when I realized it looked so ugly and that it diverted the attention from the new information I wanted to share, so I deleted the old reblog thingy and posted it again as its own post. I'm still learning how tumblr works and I realized with this thing that I like my posts to each be their own thing).
Anyways.
Enjoy!!
I said that I didn’t want Mephisto’s Devil *star* Punisher to be the one that killed Satan but I will have to retract from that statement just a bit. I don’t want it to be the only thing that kills him, but I want it to be the last shot they have to fire in order to defeat him.
Just like Nauhaus explained:
The Devil *star* Punisher is a demon ego obliviator, meaning that when they shoot Satan with it, it will cause him to forget his own ego, to revert to the baby version of him that Yuri faced when she was a kid and back in the laboratory in the very beginning before he learned everything he could.
This is great, since now he can’t harm anyone this way; and here can come Mephisto and maybe Shemihaza (Shiemi), and seal him in a special capsule thingy that freezes time and space within it, letting him alive but not being able to move, grow, have contact or develop in any way (I made up this last part, I have no idea what Mephisto plans to do after they shoot him with that thing).
Anyways, is just to not let him go around posessing other people and causing mass destruction and death, or another Blue Night.
This is the best alternative they have, but for doing that they need to lower his defenses and expose his heart first. (How do I know this? Magic ._.).
2. Which is where I come again with my Immortal theory thingy: we have fire (Karura-Ryuuji), water (Hachirotaro-Yukio/Shura), and earth (Uroboros-Shiemi??).
I have given it a bit more thought and if we are already have three of the four elements in the mix (fire, water and earth), why not throw the fourth element (air), to have the avatar in there?? To make things more balanced??
Now, you may think, “but Lily, we barely know how Uroboros looks like and who will use him, from where are we going to get the air demon and its master???”
Well, that’s pretty simple, we have them right here:
According to Homare, they are the highest level demon kin of Azazel, king of Spirits.
Yukio and Lewin are the ones that have a contract with them, unofficial and official contracts respectively; and when it comes to the requirements for them to be Immortals, it mostly depends on having this cycle of death and rebirth. I went to good ol’ trusting wikipedia to look up some info on them, and found this:
Indra is associated with the sky, lightning, weather, thunder, storms, rains, river flows and war. He rules over the much-sought Devas realm of rebirth within the Samsara doctrine of Buddhist traditions. (Another connection to Ryuuji there). (Samsara is the beginningles cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again).
Vayu is the god of air, wind and breath of life. On the east asian Buddhism he presides over the northwest direction.
Now, who is Vayu and who is Indra in the manga panel? I’m guessing that the one from the right is Indra (the one flying on lightning) and the one on the left is Vayu (the one flying on clouds), but who knows, I’m basing my theories out of some panels I found on ch. 122, and the info I wrote here, so maybe you can make something more out of it.
Ok so, they are two high level demons that seem to come in pairs, have elemental affinities to wind, rain and lightning, and are in some way related to the aspect of death and rebirth.
Now, who is the other exorcist that has dual demons with elemental qualities that relate to air, spirit and light..?
Izumo.
Izumo controlling these two would be awesome, a bit too much maybe, but awesome as well. She can already summon Uke and Mike without her summoning papers (she still uses them later, I guess for a sense of security and stability), and idk how easy it is to pass a contract between masters, but Lewin could easily aid Izumo in controlling them, Shura aids Yukio, Tatsuma could appear here (hopefully), and teach some last minute fire bending-imean fire controlling abilities to Ryuuji and for the last element, earth, it will be more complicated, but I got a small idea on who could it be.
3. Here is where things get a bit complicated from all the mess of charts, elements and demon kings:
First we have the Diagram of Demonic Elements, in which the five main elements that exorcists can use when summoning demons are: fire, rot, spirit, earth and water.
We know the following:
Fire is being covered by Karura-Ryuuji/Tatsuma.
Spirit would be covered by Vayu & Indra-Izumo/Lewin or Vayu & Indra-Yukio/Lewin (for current contract efficacy).
Water would be covered by Hachirotaro-Yukio/Shura.
Earth could be covered by Uroboros-Shiemi/Amaimon or Uroboros-Shiemi/Nauhaus.
Rot could be covered by many options but the main ones would be: Nine Tails-Izumo/Astaroth/Neuhaus or Impure King(???)-Neuhaus/Astaroth (this option is the less likely, but oh well).
We know that Astaroth is currently with Satan’s fraction but if you remember from the 10 year anniversary character spread, he was one of the characters facing to the right (Satan’s side, the one in the paperbag), but his face in which he posseses Reiji Shiratori (the dude from ch. 1), was actually looking at the reader (meaning that they are neutral, so he could be swayed to turn with the True Cross side, after some talking and confrontation).
(Same shit with Amaimon, Dog Mephisto and Shima, we gotta look out for these dudes, they may betray us in the future, or they already did with their whole “I’m your enemy/Ima play with your feelings/I will cause you to have some character development and make the plot move forward” thing -.-).
Also, where tf is Takara?! Shouldn’t he be joining the exorcist forces with him being a high rank?? I know that the last time we see him is when he’s with Tsukiko (Tsukumo), when the artificial gate to Gehenna opened and everyone started seeing demons, I guess he was protecting Tsukumo (the bare frickin minimum but oh well). And I also find it curious that his head and his puppet occupy two places on the spread, meaning that whatever is posessing the puppet, has a will of its own, and Takara himself is another thing. This dude is suspicious as heck.
(A small parenthesis here, is that Kuro also has two places as well, I guess is because one is the demon cat sidhe (Kuro), and the other one is the physical body of the cat that is being posessed by Kuro, the demon sidhe).
(I know this is a bit outdated since Yukio already turned with the True Cross, but he's the only exception here, everyone else remains the same).
Also, I’m thinking that Astaroth is going to be the big boss that the gang is going to battle against (Ryuuji, Izumo, Koneko and Shima), since he hasn’t made any big movements for the duration of the war and the gang already has a lot of experience fighting against necrotic and rotting enemies (the Impure king, the chimera zombies, Nine Tails, Gedoin).
In this fight is where Ryuuji recovers his flames with Karura and everything starts to come together, ohyis baby.
So, after a good fight, they may persuade Astaroth to join them, or he may posess someone (prolly Neuhaus, for the element compatibility), so they can use his powers against Satan to lower his body defenses, since we don’t have a rot demon that is an immortal and has death and rebirth abilities, if we are taking the Nine Tails out of the equation, since I find it harder for Izumo to control her over Vayu & Indra, but is still a good option.
Also, Neuhaus should be dead already from using and being exposed to the Devil *star* Punisher and the crystallization of Armumahel this entire time, that’s why I think the one that should be making the shot is Yukio, since he’s immune to the effects of the black flame and any flame whatsoever.
But we know that Neuhaus has a personal grudge against Satan for killing her wife and unborn child as well as scarring him for life, so he won’t let go of the weapon even if his life depends on it (so all this is telling me that he will die or smt).
4. So, anyways, to wrap things up:
I’m gonna proceed to show how the accumulated energies and powers of the demon kings may side with the True Cross to weaken/expose and subsecuently defeat Satan once and for all.
(It will be “Demon with Master in Contract/Teacher to Help Control Them”).
We have Satan’s mirror and almost equal which is Rin himself.
For the Sool, we have Shemihaza being Shiemi, and Armumahel being Yukio/Shima/Lucy (is she still dead??? omy I hope not). But both Sool are on the side of the True Cross.
For the King of Light, Lucifer, is kinda confusing, we got Uke & Mike, Vayu & Indra, and even the Nine Tails (since foxes are kin of spirit and light), with Izumo/Lewin or Yukio/Lewin being their masters. (Something is telling me that Lucifer will join the fight by directly posessing Angel, since he’s a clone of Lucifer as well as being in the Paladin position. Lucifer is slightly less powerful than Satan, so comparing him to Shiro being posessed, Angel has better chance to last longer as Lucifer’s vessel) (Also, will Angel die or sacrifice himself to contain Lucifer and this may free the position for Rin to become the next Paladin? I wanna know what happens) (We could even have Angel controlling Lucifer but that would be too far fetched lol or could also give the opportunity to Lucifer to have a life without pain and suffering ._. we may never know).
For the King of Time, we got Mephisto himself, if he doesn’t pull a betrayal out of nowhere, some scheme that may doom everyone or make some sketchy deal with some main character, then everything should be fine, sigh, this dude stresses me out so much.
For the King of Spirit, Azazel, we got Vayu & Indra (almost Immortals(???)), with Izumo/Lewin or Yukio/Lewin again, we could also add Nine Tails or Uke & Mike to the equation I guess, since they are all spirit and light demons, ugh, someone send help.
For the King (Queen) of Fire, Iblis, we got Karura (an Immortal), with Ryuuji/Tatsuma.
For the King of Water, Egyn, we got Hachirotaro (an Immortal), with Yukio/Shura.
For the King of Rot, we may get Astaroth himself, or in the worst case, the Nine Tails will have to be his substitute with Izumo/Neuhaus being her masters.
For the King of Earth we got Amaimon himself, whom I strongly believe Shiemi has a strong grip on him. Or Uroboros (an Immortal) (???), with Shiemi/Amaimon, but I’m not sure about that one.
For the King of Insects we got Beelzebub himself as well, he made it clear that it would be a pain if Satan won the war, so he will cooperate.
Konekomaru would be the main strategist for everyone to defeat Satan in the fastest and best way possible but idk how that will work out in the short time we have left.
With all this, we can see how the Baal and Sool all have their forces with the True Cross, which I’m guessing we will need in order to expose Satan’s heart and then shoot him with the Devil *star* Punisher to make him forget his own ego and destroy him right then and there or capture him and have him secluded somewhere with maximum security (like one of Mephisto’s alternate realities). Since Satan is like the fusion of every Baal and Sool, that’s why my insistence of having everyone fight together, aside from the fact that I want to see everyone kick a$$ with their powers and abilities, ohyis.
Anyways, this is all the new stuff I thought of, again, is all a theory jaja, some ideas I got and kept appearing and became bigger and bigger as I kept writing, uff. I rlly want to see how the story develops and I hope it lasts longer than them reaching the correct position and shooting Satan with Mephisto’s weapon.
Thank you all for reading this far!!! I can’t believe I actually got it to an end. My eyes are burning and I think I’m just giving myself super high expectations and ideas on what I think would happen in the manga, lol. But still is nice to dream and theorize jaja. Please excuse my english as it’s not my first language and I hope you are as excited as me for the next chapter!!
Whelp she’s complete lost in a snowy forest with a demonic god. This day could have gone worse. “Excuse me sir. Do you know where I am?” Never mind she can make it worse.
At the beginning I wanted to thank my beloved @vongrell, who helped me find the right colors for this bastard and for her brushes that changed my life! I love you gurl! （´・｀ ）♡
I really wanted to draw Hachiro! His desing is amazing! (*^^*)
