#riptide theory

[namelessprince]

rejoice! riptide theory video be upon ye!!!

[arisveah]

i think john HAS to be the traitor but i dont think he knows it. listen. marshall john was the first to meet the riptide pirates, and he had a conversation with gillion that ordinarily would reveal their motives and create an outline of their goals as a crew, but something about that conversation swayed him. he starts thinking about it, and maybe he doesnt tell his superiors quite yet, but as the first to encounter them he is assigned their case, or something. maybe he confides his newfound doubts in a someone he thinks he can trust, and they betray him. then, the navy either replaces him or puts a scrying spell on him.

i dont think this was always the plan, either. when the crew meets john again, grizzly mentions a glint in his eye, in a malicious subtext, to gillion before he goes back to normal. maybe he was originally going to be a spy, but then everyone got super attached to him and grizz thought up the clone thing with jays grandma. why would he bring that up, when we are so close to the end of the campaign (or, at least, season 1) if not to tie into the traitor?

tldr: i think john is the spy either unknowingly being recorded or as a clone

[adriziclek45]

SPOILERS FOR EPISODE 116 OF JRWI RIPTIDE

I like to think that Destiny’s Blade didn’t shatter because of the destructive power of the Nameless Prince, but because it had met it’s purpose.

We all know that the soul that lived inside destiny’s blade was of one of the many chosen ones there were before Gillion, and we know that by becoming Gillion’s weapon it was chasing the prophecy that was previously his and now someone else’s.

Well what if I tell you that the prophecy is over, that both Gillion and Destiny’s blade were where they were meant to be, when they were meant to be, doing what they were meant to do, even if some versions of the old tales disagreed.

The future has arrived, the predictions proved true; and If there is no more Destiny to chase, the lost chosen one can finally rest.

I like to imagine that Destiny’s blade shattered because it was held together by the soul inside it, and when that soul was freed from it’s duty and led into Mana’s heaven, the blade came undone.

[asterrise]

SPOILERS FOR JRWI RIPTIDE ‼️‼️‼️

A map that is a guide and a key, passed around the hands of destiny. It leads to chaos infinity beneath the seas. The guarding giant, the nameless prince, the unborn kings. All await to be inevitably free.

(Ep 93 1:53:07mins)

The nameless prince the unborn kings the guarding giant. I don’t think jug is the guarding giant. Maybe the mecha leviathan? Or the leviathan we see in the real prophecy. The nameless prince is not niklaus or chip. Niklaus is working for the nameless prince maybe? Or is the offspring of them? Maybe the nameless prince was the original deal maker and did something to make niklaus only sail by himself. Niklaus said in all falls apart that he used to have friends that he would do anything for, maybe something happened to them and he could never replace them? The unborn kings is an insane theory, but maybe it is the sons of captain rose? Maybe that woman in the picture with price is the mother of the unborn kings, but something happened to them? Unborn is a really tricky word, cause is that not born yet or was born but was somehow put back? That would make me think maybe they were sealed somewhere. And I’ve been thinking about just two but maybe there were many of them? Maybe the unborn kings are former chosen ones? We’ve seen with destiny’s blade that he had a life before that and was turned into a sword or had his soul put into a sword, maybe it’s like that? Passed around the hands of destiny makes me think about how fin passed Arlin’s part of the map onto chip. Specifically through his hands as well. If gillion is one of the kings, then I think maybe each of these are their own type of thing? Unborn kings is gillion, maybe chip is the nameless prince but only through heritage? Why can he read celestial, why was captain rose also able to read celestial? From rose to Arlin to chip is what I think the hands of destiny is. So if the nameless prince is a lineage like the unborn kings are does that mean that maybe chips father has something to do with the nameless prince? Is he a son of niklaus or the nameless prince? Or maybe even of captain rose? If we follow this train of thought as well that means guarding giant would be Jay. Her family is Olympian, incredibly strong, and her fortune says that she may become the strongest woman in the world, does that not say giant? Ghhhhhhhhhhh there’s so many theories in my mind right now also chip could be Ollie’s brother. Also queen was 100% a member of the dread queens crew or a child of them I mean come on. He had a sense of familiarity coming from being on a boat and they recognized the person playing music when they fought the dread queens lover. Also what if the nameless prince was the cause of aster and lunadeyis’s split? They spread corruption into them? And then by the end of riptide of all goes well they kill the nameless prince and aster and lunadeyis get back together and gillion tells them to say sorry I swear that’ll happen man he either chooses between sea or land or gets them together I mean come on it’s obvious. But if it DOESNT go well the themes of destiny and inevitably even when you try to diverge from the path like Jay will always end up in a war with her family gill will always fail to fulfill the prophecy chip will always lose those he loves I mean come on that would be so sick

ANYWAYS that’s what I think this is all over the place bye

[zakaye]

i'm doing a rewatch of riptide and during ep 68, Chip has a very specific nightmare. It goes pretty much like this

"you stand in a blank void and in front of you is a dark mirror. you are staring at yourself and you cannot look away. you are locked onto your reflection. this night, for the first cicle, you see eyes open on every single area of your body. it happens until you are a one, gross amalgamation of eyes. for the second cicle, you see your skin melt off your body, then your muscles until you are staring at your own skeleton."

this happened almost fifty episodes before the events of episode 109. the fact that there was this level of foreshadowing is crazy to me. i know it probably was just something that Grizz thought would be terrifying, but maybe it was the nightmare that inspired him to decide what exactly would happen to Chip

[weird-unlimited-ramblings]

Riptide 116 spoilers (really don’t want to spoil any new watchers on accident

My deepest fear is that the nameless prince can control the black ops. I made this comment on patreon but like, they are made from the Black Sea? If he can control them or even just see through their eyes the navy literally loaded the kill everyone in the world gun and then laid out a red carpet for the nameless prince to pull the trigger

[tagiscool]

is this coherent at all

[apple-the-bluebird]

I don’t think there’s a single one of riptide pirates that could turn into an actual villian

Mana has a lot of swirling grey morals, even the navy, most think they’re doing the right thing and the other side is wrong. But there are real ‘villains’ like Price or Kuba Kenta that don’t care who they kill to get what they want.

They all were almost a villain. Gillion trained on killing civilians, Jay could have been as cutthroat and angry as her dad, Chip could have been part of price’s gang

But all of them dragged themselves back from the brink of it and decided never again.

Meanwhile, in the other campaign, you take Dakota out and tap William and Vyncent slightly to the left and they become Primes next supervillains

The dichotomy of dnd campaigns