#personal theories

[thresher-tano]

I can feel it in my bones. Theyre gonna have someone poison MaoMao with buckwheat and Jinshi is going to have to demonstrate how much he has watched her and listened to her over the years. I need it so bad

[shycloudkitty]

A personal theory on why Leon's favorite color is blue💙

Okay, so just right off the bat I'm gonna say this is a personal theory that I had for months but didn't exactly said it out loud cause I wasn't sure at the time and now the more I think about it the more it's true.

Maybe this is a personal hc? But I mostly think this is done on purpose in games to show what's going on in his head.

So, Many of you who played the game Or watched the movies have noticed Leon wearing blue all the time, right? Like what's up with that yk? Like does he even have a wardrobe with different colors? 🤷🏻‍♀️

In OGRe2, Re2r, Re4r (dark blue), Re6 (I know it's purple but just hear me out!), Vendetta, Death Island (DI)RE & Infinite darkness (ID) . Leon was seen wearing blue in all of these. Except Damnation Leon, Degeneration, OGRe4.

Personally, I believe it's a way for Leon to connect to his 21 year old self who still had the innocence, bright optimism, good morals and strong sense of justice.

EDIT: I forgot to add the most important thing, his police uniform that he wore was blue aka when he was 21 & a rookie. That's why it's a way to represent his young self

Think about it, everything changed for him that one night in raccoon city. He saw the most ugliest parts of humanity on the day that was supposed to be his first day on the police force. He saw how deeply corrupt the entire system was, how an entire city got destroyed cause of this. He was never the same again.

Now, I will try to put my thoughts into words and explain what each versions is telling about his mentality.

I think after Re2, the blue color stayed in his life to show that even though he changed small part of him, that bright eyed rookie was still alive deep down.

Re4R: he's seen wearing a dark blue compression shirt. (I'm sry in advance if I get his outfits name wrong, I'm terrible at men's fashion) . It's dark blue cause well, obviously this game was kind of just after Raccoon city incident. So, the wound is still fresh in his heart, he's not that optimistic, so the dark blue mostly indicates his ongoing internal conflict, trying to make sense of what's actually right & wrong.

Also, in English literature, blue is mostly associated with melancholy. And well, it doesn't take a genius to see that he was clearly depressed.

RE: ID - I think he got better here, since his suit and shirt were navy blue. I think...he made peace with what happened (somewhat not fully ofc) cause a part of him was still resentful about what happened, like in that scene of Leon yelling at Jason. But in this one he was more determined than ever to not let that incident repeat ever again.

And I think it's kind of reflected in his colors, that he had a much clear mindset.

RE 6: Okay, Ik Ik it's purple, I get it🙄. But hear me out before you sue me👀

Ada's color is red and Leon's color is blue, mix it together and you got purple. Tada. Still part blue you see☝🤓

Yeah, it's definitely done to show his feelings for Ada, I think he was ready to be with Ada, so much so that he had already let her in his heart and just...change that part of him (rookie one, the most vulnerable) that he kept protected. Keep in mind guys, that Ada's color stayed red always.

But at the end when it was clear, she didn't want anything with him (at least not personally). He finally gave up and made peace with the fact that him and Ada would never cross that boundary. Poor guy🥺❤

Also...I think it's a lightning trick too cause in most scenes of the game, where there's dim lighting you feel like he's wearing a blue shirt (where he's being himself and doing his job and not forced to face his feelings). But in the end scene with Ada where fire is everywhere, lightening is too bright (shirt turns purple), and then he's forced to confront his feelings for Ada head on.

RE Vendetta: Now... This one is interesting. So I know it's not obvious but if you look closely, he's wearing a blue shirt under that black jacket. Now before y'all ask me why was I trying to look under his black jacket- It's cause I'm a pervert for Leon okay? Y'ALL ARE PERVERTS FOR LEON TOO OKAY?? DON'T JUDGE ME.

*ahem* Anyways, you can see that he lost significant weight. Hungover and wasting away, waiting for his inevitable end. It's obvious that he's extremely depressed more so than he was in Re4r. But there was also something interesting that I just couldn't ignore.

How tightly his black jacket was hugging him and how he had zipped it up to the top so his blue shirt is barely visible, but it's there. And despite my pervert-ish wishes his zip didn't even budge down even a little bit. Like damn, okay a girl can't even see his pecs🙄 maybe it's an animation thing idk

I think, it shows that behind all his bitterness and skepticism about the world he still has that rookie part in him, but now it's just...surrounded with so much bitterness that it's fighting for it's survival like Leon. Waiting for his heart to turn into ugly and full of hatred and when that happens...Leon would be no more.

RE DI: Well, it is obvious that Leon has gotten in better shape and getting his vacations (at the least) . And it shows! His jacket and shirts were both blue, and def lot brighter shade than the previous ones. It does show that he is trying to heal from the trauma and trying his best to accept his past self.

I mean, look don't get me wrong he's still a skeptic & has changed a lot, which is a whole another topic in itself. But I would like to think he has started to embrace his past self once more and is starting to head in a more positive way to approach his life.

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This concludes the end of this rant😊😊. Thank you all for coming to the end of my ted talk. If y'all have any theories to add into mine I would love that. I had this thought lying in my mind for months actually but since I don't usually write hcs or theories & stuff I kind of stuffed into the back of my brain.

Now on a whim, when it got too much I finally decided it's time what my personal opinion on this. So, I hope you enjoyed reading this, cause I certainly enjoyed writing it!

Have a good day, guys!

-Bella

[kaiyingscorner]

The Language of Loneliness

Maybe loneliness is a language of its own.

Lonely.

A few weeks ago, this word came up in class while we were studying its meaning in our language course. 寂寞 [jìmò], this is how you say it in Chinese, einsam in German, самотен [samoten] in Bulgarian, and solitario in Italian.

Maybe it’s because Bulgarian is my native language, but самотен feels heavier than any of the others. Even as I write it, I feel a weight settle on my chest. Funny, isn’t it?

I once read that we are emotionally attached to our mother tongue - that words carry different emotional weight depending on the language we use.

That's why some people can say "I love you" easily in English, yet struggle to say the same words in their native language.

A second language lets you detach and observe yourself from a safe distance.

The Language of Loneliness

Maybe loneliness is a language of its own.

[shadowbinding]

replaying the wind waker, and it fuels sooo much more my theory of the great flood being the event that resulted in the founding of botw/totk's hyrule (outside of tph/st continuity, as i doubt only one new settlement cropped up but possibly several) - as well as my theory on the sheikah and zonai's influences being present in tww itself ......

more at 11 👀

[synergymagicbabeee]

The possibly unintended (though I doubt it) brilliance of Z.O.E.'s power-ups

With @zoe-oneesama's season 5 of Scarlet Lady slowly creeping to its big finale, I am sure anyone familiar with the AU knows how well written everything is, however something in particular caught my eye as a world builder, that being Marigold's power-up. In case my name didn't make it obvious, my entire thing is magic systems. The Miraculous as a system are immensely interesting, and part of the reason I dropped canon is that they didn't flesh it out as well as they could, leaving it feeling flat.

Why's there a five minute timer post-ability for underage users? They aren't old enough to handle the full power, but that isn't an in depth answer. There's no internally consistent logic to it, or if there is I can't find it. Why are the Kwami bound to their holder's orders if they're primordial basically-elder-gods that embody inherent concepts? What defines suitability for a Miraculous, or is it literally just personality? We don't get these answers, and while not the largest reason by orders of magnitude, it is one of the many reasons I don't like canon, and that's when they don't turn around and straight up contradict themselves.

Oh, underage users have a timer? Not if they "master" their Miraculous, but we won't define what that mastery is or how to achieve it, because that would mean admitting the writers are talking out their asses! Like yeah, we can infer that the Guardians were shit from the reason Feast came to be, but the Mage was supposedly borderline Saint like, so why would he force the Kwami to obey whoever holds their Miraculous?

A line from Plagg (known gremlin and likeliest to slag off on the Guardians) talking about it could have fixed that issue, just imagine! "Oh yeah the Mage was awesome! The problem was his students, who would go on to form the Guardian order. Once he died, they used his research to alter the enchantments on the Miraculous' to force us to obey them. Jokes on them though, doing that weakened the jewels by a ton!" Boom, problem solved.

Anyway, while some of these questions haven't been answered, and probably won't be (we have like five episodes left including Maledictator, plus it's at least a little bit a parody, it's job isn't to answer) there is a neat little thing that has shown up, specifically in the first episode of season five, Zombizou. And that was the introduction of Bee Balm.

This power introduces a lot of shit and does so brilliantly, foremost being actual requirements for a power-up. In canon, we have the introduction of the Akuma talismans that comes from... Maribug understanding her powers and believing she can do more? This isn't a bad way to do a power-up mind you, and she was absolutely due some level of recompense for the universe repeatedly kicking her in the metaphorical dick, but it doesn't feel like it fits in this situation particularly.

The Akuma talisman boost would work if this is Marinette finally getting past a mental block and we knew about it, but I can't find anything about that, so it feels almost like a payoff without a conflict. Compare that to the introduction of Bee Balm, where the heroes are constantly stressed due to having to simultaneously fight Hawkmoth and pick up Scarlet Lady's slack, so they're both near constantly stressed and training their asses off.

Then, Chat Noir is taken out. More than that, he's taken out defending her civilian identity, after being essentially betrayed by their incompetent partner, who's then taken out in turn. Bare in mind that this same sociopathic bitch is vital in stopping Akumas and preventing swarm incidents, and without her they're essentially fucked. She can't go get a Miraculous from where she is, and that wouldn't help anyway, meanwhile her partner and the dumbass they have to tolerate are out of commission. So what does she do?

She develops a power relevant to both her Kwami's concept and the situation at hand. If she can't purify the Akuma, then she'll purify the effect their having on others. And looking at Zoe's other power-up posts we see that the ability is clearly specific to her, because we also get to see Queen Bee's and Vesperia's power-up forms, and none of the three Bee users share a power apart from Venom.

This of course all made my little world builder's brain light up, and the fact that we get to see new forms for Carapace, Rena Rouge, Pigella and Purple Tigress did so even more, and not just because Nino's entry gave me more clues for my personal theory as to how they work. With all that out of the way, I think I just locked down the conditions for a new ability. First is the emotional component, a degree of anguish and desperation on the level of a mental breakdown. Marinette looked like she was a few seconds from a literal heart attack before the awakening hit, for god's sake.

Next is the affinity the user has with their Miraculous. A person who isn't suited for a particular jewel simply isn't going to be able to use it properly.

Third is the domain a given Miraculous commands and the way the user interprets that domain. Bee Balm is an application of Subjection, created when the horror toward Zombizou's powers and actions against people Marigold had sworn to protect reached a critical mass. Her subjects, if you will, were being forced into a state where they had no agency in the most literal sense possible, and thus she gained the power to free people from such an influence, both commanding the Miraculous magic affecting them to fuck off and bypassing a lesser form of her domain of influence.

Fourth is the environmental factor. That specific thing you can trace for exactly how the power formed the way it did. Bee Balm having no effects on the inanimate because there was no collateral damage factor, Carapace's theoretical waterbending power-up, they shape the power because they are exactly what was needed at the time. Nothing else would suffice, they have no more tricks in the arsenal, and even if they did none would work.

With all that in mind, I think I have an idea as to what set evolved!Pigella off in Z.O.E.'s last power-up design post, as well as a possible ultimate form(?) ability of my own which would give Hawkmoth a cold sweat.

The first (love chain's activation) would probably be a Scarlet Moth incident, possibly even the first depending on if the timeline the power-up happens in is closer to the Scarlet Lady one or not. Rose has the Pig Miraculous, she's got it active, and she's fucking terrified. People are getting mass akumatized, it's a known factor at this point that a Miraculous doesn't make you immune to Akumas and Rose had looked into Princess Fragrance enough to figure out that she was sandbagging, hard. Remember, this was the Akuma with airborne mind control and was likely capable of making any number of chemicals.

So Pigella is in the streets fighting Akumas and is stressed out her gourd. She has to maintain a positive attitude, while helping fight a what's basically a small scale apocalypse with a tambourine of all things, and she can't use her powers because they're one use a transformation, and only affect one person. So you can imagine the stress she's under.

As she's going across the city, she spots a swarm hit a group of people. None have been akumatized before so there's a small delay as the butterflies try to decide on the host forms, but Rose knows she's got maybe twenty seconds from the other end of the street. At this point the stress is at an all time high, a headache is forming, she has no idea if her friends and loved ones are okay, and...

Then it hits, that little piece to the puzzle. Loved ones, love, specifically how it can develop and relate to other emotions. Right now, Paris needs love very literally, it needs positivity to resist the swarms, and if Gift as it is can't help, then something new is in order. Grabbing the side of her tambourine with her free hand, Rose twists the handle and lets go, allowing her weapon to take its new form.

With a cry and a pull on the not-muscle that normally indicated her power, Pigella's new whip flies across the road and sinks into the nearest Akuma-to-be with a strange ripple effect, like the end of the weapon had dropped into a pond as opposed to hit a human being. A soft glow encompasses the civilian, before sparks leap off of them and onto the person next to them like forks of lightning, and the process repeated. In less than a dozen seconds the entire group was affected and in the face of such joy, the Scarlet Akumas were forcibly ejected.

While I don't have an actual story-bit for the ultimate form power, I do have a general idea how it would form. The power would be called Blessing, and befitting it's Ultimate moniker, it's absolutely cracked.

Blessing would be a support/empowerment ability formed when someone close to Rose (for this example, Juleka) was Akumatized again, and her sheer incandescent rage is enough to unlock an ability, turning her tambourine into a weapon not unlike the Voltron Bayards.

Blessing allows the user to purify an Akuma while it's still in the person, granting them a set of powers similar to that Akuma form, and also preventing them from being transformed into that state again if they have multiple forms. In other words, Blessing permanently eliminates options from Hawkmoth's roster while empowering the victim to let them better fight back.

[furiousgoldfish]

I'm starting to think that Society hates kids, because of how they treat young survivors vs. Abusive, 'old' survivors of abuse. But then again it could just be that common society hates the defenseless, wich we can also see in various other minority groups. Any thoughts on this theory?

This is a lot for me to theorize about. I think a lot of minorities were made defenseless, by people who had something to gain for it, and they're still dedicated to keeping them defenseless in order to exploit it. It's always done to someone's benefit. I don't think hatred is even the word to describe it; in order to hate someone, you need to see them as a human, but to the oppressive and abusive groups, minorities and children are just resources. It's dehumanization.

Society will also favor the survivors of abuse who will enable the systems that puts easy exploitation into place. The younger survivors are the ones who are demanding for a change, who want a less harmful system, so we're 'dangerous' and 'need to be silenced back into our place'. It's still all about benefit, and not challenging the system that some people have something to gain from. It's very disheartening, but we'll keep fighting!

[opinionsandfeelings]

Ok, I’ve reread From Blood and Ash and A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire, and I just...Alastir has sneaky written all over him and he definitely considers Poppy a threat and wants her dead. Here are my thoughts, I don’t necessarily think they’re spoilers but just a warning.

-first up Alastir gets slightly off kilter after he hears Poppy’s last name being Balfour, a true liar and betrayer may be good but they can’t completely cover up their every emotion. He also knows about Ian and nobody told him about poppy having a brother, yet after he learns her name he seems to know way more than he really should.

- he also used to help people escape Solis and he doesn’t remember ever hearing about poppy’s parents, and yet he has excellent memory of other events from hundreds of years prior. MY PERSONAL THEORY: I think he was luring Poppy’s parents so they could be killed. I think he was the one who murdered them, and attempted to do the same to Poppy, and the threat of whatever Poppy is couldve been extinguished at that point in time. But she somehow lived, which sucks for him. I think he knows exactly what she is and the threat it posed to the Atlantian kingdom and crown and, as he is supposed to be loyal to the royal family, of COURSE he’s trying to get rid of any threat. But, clearly he’s got to do it on the sly so he doesn’t lose any trust in Casteel or Kieran or literally anyone beyond the crown.

- Sure, Alastir would totally help Poppy escape Casteel and his plans if she was being forced into the marriage. He’d totally get her away from Casteel-probably an entire continent away and six feet under.

-Alastir is NEVER around when bad things happen. Oh, New Haven gets attacked by Chaney and Co? And Chaney straight up says he has contacts in the descenters? Hmm. Then the gang gets attacked on the way to Spessa’s End by the bone clan even tho that’s NEVER happened before, but who rode thru there just a day or so earlier??? Alastir. Could be coincidence but the bone clan knew the gang were ‘bloodsuckers’ and wolven, and as we’ve been told many times there’s no way to tell mortals from immortals on face value alone (not including Ascended). So, they had been told. Then at the battle of Spessa’s End Alastir just HAPPENS to be absent again, and this time it’s slightly more believable that he’d have to spring into action because otherwise Casteel could’ve been overwhelmed and killed in battle and despite his agenda, Alastir doesn’t want Casteel dead. So, conveniently he and Kieran arrive back in time as the gods-sent cavalry. Kieran btw I’m 100% sure is loyal to team Casteel and poppy so he’s excluded from this theory about Alastir. (Edit: my bad, I thought he’d returned with Kieran but Alastir does not in fact do that, no instead he stays in Atlantia to snitch and further his agenda, again totally gone from all the bad ish)

-All the bombs Alastir drops at such opportune times? “Oh Poppy did you know Casteel’s been in love and engaged before and it was my daughter??” “oh Poppy did you know Casteel’s going to be king?” “Hey Poppy did you know he was also engaged AGAIN also to someone else in my family???” “Oh I personally have nothing against you Poppy but EVERYONE ELSE WILL” I don’t know man, those are some fine gaslighting revelations there that would absolutely create emotional mistrust and doubt in a relationship, he clearly wants her out of the picture.

-he totally set up the end of Flesh and Fire, Beckett was his grand nephew or something and Alastir has likely voiced his soul eater opinions about Poppy, because didn’t everyone say previously that hardly anyone remembers Empaths?? So why would they even resort to calling her that?? How did they even know she was coming if her arrival was kind of supposed to be on the hush hush? Joke’s on Alastir though because he essentially ruined his own plans with that ambush.

In conclusion, from my suspicions and rereading, I believe Alastir is the one who’s essentially put a lot of bad things into motion and he should definitely not be trusted, at least not by Poppy or Casteel. He has his own agenda and that has something to do with keeping Poppy far, far, faaaar away from the crown and also the hearts of the atlantian people. I could be completely wrong, but until the next book arrives this is my personal theory and I’m sticking to it.

[kyerinell]

Stormlight Archive Theory

So firstly, this is a wip.  But there’re some things that i think tie in a little too well.  However, not all the information is there to prove it yet, so take the entire thing with a pinch of copper.  Below cut because possible Oathbringer spoilers.

What we know:

10 heralds, somehow tied beyond physical realm into a cycle of death and rebirth (ish)

Can’t fully die under usual circumstances

Prior to the beginning of the series, 9 heralds had broken

9 unmade

Heart of Urithiru tied to a singular large scale fabrial

Unmade can be contained like other spren

The Heralds lost something when they broke, and they’re currently twisted from their attributes.

Jezrien is killed by a knife of a strange material with a blue stone (sapphire) in the pommel.

You might be able to see where I’m going with this already.  My theory is that the unmade are what was lost from the heralds over the millennia of torture and breaking.  We’re told that the Midnight Mother feels like she lost something to Shallan, that she’s seeking to understand humanity.

We know that the Unmade can be captured in certain gemstones: Nergaoul into Ruby, Yelignar into smokestone.

Nergaoul is tied to the Ruby, tied to the attributes of bravery and obedience. Strangely it ties specifically to these two in the battle rage it inspires: encouraging the bravery while undermining the obedience.

Jezrien is killed by a knife where one of the key (only) things we know about it is that it had a sapphire embedded in it, which is specifically tied to Jezrien’s representation and place in the essences.

We see veins of garnet throughout Urithuru, which is tied to blood and Shallash.  We also know that Re-Shephir was “separated” from the others and captured for some time.  I suspect she was imprisoned and used to power the tower fabrial, as it would have likely taken a powerful spren to do such.  Additionally, Taravangian says that the spren used in half-shards could have made a radiant in a different era, so it seems high spren can be used in fabrials (see also the oathgate spren).

That’s the main stuff that has support.  The rest is pretty much just running through an idea I like.  You see, the idea of the heralds and their divine attributes being skewed interests me immensely.  I suspect it’s also tied to something else: I think we’ll see another creature soon: a tenth unmade made of a shard of Taln.

We see Nale struggle with the loss of his confidence.  His twin attributes are Just and confident.  Personally I believe he lost more along the lines of his sense of justice and is attributing that as loss of confidence because of personal moral views, but it’s rather immaterial in this instance.

We see Jezrien as a beggar outside the court of Kholinar, leading none, protecting none.

Shallash now destroys in the name of honesty, destroying images of veneration because she is unworthy.

Ishar the pious now proclaims himself a shard of god, his guidance twisted when he gives it to others.

Kalak is the resolute, but in his conversation with Nale he’s worrying, and Nale confirms that it’s now common.  The resolution of Kalak, of metal, has shattered.

I don’t know enough of the others to say for sure.  But that brings us to the most recently broken: Taln.  The dependable and resourceful.  I’d argue he’s lost that resourcefulness right now, as his dependability is still there to some extent.  When attacked, he catches the darts in an instant.  And he still came, even broken, to warn.  However, he can’t react to anything around him properly.

I also want to go ahead and mention some of the other unmade and the connections I think most likely.

Re-Shephir - Garnet - Lightweaver - Shallash - creativity without honesty to the creation (making twisted, base copies)

Nergaoul - Ruby - Dustbringer - Chanarach - bravery without obedience or temperance

Yelignar - Smokestone - Skybreaker - Nale - both people become extremely confident, conceited (though both were to start, as well)

Moelach - Emerald - Truthwatcher - Paliah - grants cryptic insight to the future without any learning behind it (tenuous, I know)

I’m afraid I don’t know enough to tie down the others.  I suspect, however, that Ba-Ado-Mishram is tied to amethyst and Kalak, the willshapers, tied to the transformation of the voidbringers.