spoilers for those who haven’t read it! tho actually this is mostly math/generational analysis
i’m not surprised by the reveal that mc’s lilith’s descendant, but it doesn’t bother me that much and here’s why!
i hope all this math is correct, i haven’t taken a proper math class since high school oops
from a biblical timeline, the great celestial war happened before adam and eve were cast out of paradise (because satan tempted eve with the apple) but of course that doesn’t align with the man lilith loved (because it certainly wasn’t adam) or belphie bringing back anime merch for levi lmao. so we can probably assume it happened after that period.
actually, it’d be pretty cool to see some fan or canon content about lilith/the brothers’ view on adam/eve, like satan tempting them to punish adam for hurting lilith ooo
in any case! it was a long time ago, and if we’re not assuming it happened at the very beginning of humanity, we can at least assume it happened around jesus’s time? that seems fair. the timeline is kinda super messed up with the implication that anime existed for so long, but whatever. so let’s say year 0
assuming one generation is about 30 years, 2020/30 = 67.3 generations - there are at least 67 generations between MC and lilith assuming she lived in year 0
ancestors per generation can be counted by 2^n = x, where n is amount of generations and x is ancestors
so in your first generation, 2^1 = 2 (your parents)
2^2 = 4 (your grandparents)
2^67 = 1.47E^(20) = 147,573,952,589,676,412,928 ancestors related to you on the same generational scale as lilith (in perspective! that’s 19598134474.1 times greater than the current population of the world, 7.53 billion!)
you know how if one of your grandparents is polish, you can say oh yeah i’m 25% polish? well
1/ans = 6.77E^(-21) = 0.0000000000000000000067% <— that’s your lilith percentage!<br/>
so, in my eyes, the degree of mc’s relation with lilith is to tiny that it’s negligible, on a biological scale. (my headcanon for why mc has all these spiritual connections to lilith is that she’s their mitochondrial mother (meaning she passed it down through a line of daughters until it reached MC through their mom!))
of course, the issue here is how the brothers treat you, but if anyone wanted a biological analysis of mc’s relation to lilith, i hope this helps ease your mind! now, for the brothers to realise that you’re not lilith… it kind of feels like yoosung and rika all over again haha. i think it was supposed to make you a little uncomfortable? i’d still keep playing if it turns out to be a “hey we’re all a happy family :)” game (without romance of course!!!) we have a ton of lovely fan MCs to use as love interests instead~
but! i’m sure it’ll turn out alright in the future chapters, i have high hopes! in any case, i’m taking this current content as some brewing conflict for the future chapters, because there’s no way this is our happily ever after, 1 month after the game was first released.
i love love love time travel stuff but it’s also so complicated and my head hurts if i try to think about it too much. so, diavolo and barbatos knew all along that it was MC, as lilith’s descendant, who freed belphie? and they sent MC back to the past under the guise of “checking” because they had to, in order to have them free belphie in the first place and get them to this point in time? is this time travel linear, like in harry potter 3, or did it open up an alternate universe and we’re completely separated from our original one like in mirai nikki? and why did barbatos warn us so sternly about 1) not interacting with anyone 2) not seeing our past self? we did both of those things oops. was it just for the sake of convenience and not having to explain time travel, or does it have actual consequences? there are time travel versions where you die immediately upon seeing yourself, so actually that’s what i thought happened when we saw MC disappear from mammon’s arms.
i’m also right there with everyone doubting barbatos, i don’t trust that guy one bit no matter how cool and intriguing he is and i’m fairly? certain? we’re going to go back to our original timeline. why else would they show everyone waiting for MC in the extra chapters? you have to play those after you finish the whole chapter, so i feel like the devs are definitely reminding us ‘you left your OG timeline behind! they’re all still waiting for you!’. Like, bells should be going off in our heads that something’s off and i can’t wait to see what it’ll be!
