#tkdb clash

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Tokyo debunker theory??? From me???? That relies heavily on conjecture??? Really?? Well that's just unheard of.

Fr though, Tokyo debunker spoilers ahead. Implied or not. Beware!

Skdhsn. Eugh. Eieu. I just poured salt in my mouth. Bad. Moving on (×⁠_×)

I think the Dionysia ghouls; Mio, Shion, and Jo are going to appear in more than just name in the next episode or two.

Why do I think this? Well...

I found this funky little piece of dialogue in my reread. And I realized "oh. They're planning on sending them on missions in the future?" (Wow, how insightful, I know)

But they've been talking about these characters—particularly Shion— for a while now.

Jo, I don't believe we know much about. Mio, we know was a mechanic, made Haru's new arm, and had a lot of experience with clockwork anomalies. Then we have Shion.

... Shion sucked. That's basically what we know. Destroyed the Sinostra casino, which Haru now has to pay for, broke Haru's arm, possibly having made him an amputee, and I believe they also said he was the main reason Haru and Taiga didn't get along. He sucked.

Either way, if they said they couldn't send these ghouls on missions yet, that means eventually they could. They were likely pretty powerful ghouls—maybe not the point of being called powerful, but at the least they might've been skilled, if they were able to successfully escape Darkwick, even if just for a little while.

When MC tried, she lasted what was probably less than an hour. Both times.

But these ghouls were actually able to ESCAPE. My point in mentioning this is that if they were capable of that, it would make sense for them to be put on high-ranking, important missions.

If Hyde suggested putting them on the Jabberwock case when Haru fell ill, it means they're a backup.

Thus, maybe in seeing the trouble the ghouls are having in finding Kyklos—or whatever they're going to do for the next mission—, they may deploy the deserters.

"but wait," you might be thinking "didn't Haru or one of the Bar guys mention them waiting for sentencing?"

... Let's be real here, if the staff is planning to use them for missions, they're gonna wanna keep it on the down-low. But we also know they really like fear mongering. Saying they'd lock the deserters away while using them for their own ends seems pretty on brand.

Also, if they said Elias was getting info or smth (again, take this with a cavern of salt, [ew, salt] my reread is going very slow and I don't really remember this too well) then either

1. The staff would know, since someone else might be an institute spy and rat on him, then they all start lying to him

Or 2. Elias is an institute spy, feeding them false info

It's 3am. Tldrww; (too long don't wanna write) I think the deserters r gonna show up in the next 1-2 episodes bc 1. Mentioned a lot recently 2. Gonna be used for missions 3. Stakes are rising 4. Haku Clash flashback possibility via the preview, thus clash info, thus the deserters

[lunchboxe]

Okay, so I had a mildly prophetic-feeling dream about TKDB and I feel like I have to say it out loud. Theory time.

I think, and hear me out here, there's a chance the missing daughter from Episode 21 is the Kyklos.

... I'm not done. I also think that, being the Kyklos, she is also the victim of the One-Eyed Sleeping Beauty Murder.

(I'm probably going to say at least something wrong in the next several paragraphs, so please correct me if I do. Also, as always, this is just conjecture, but. Theory!)

So, first of all,

The day she went missing, she said she was going there alone. It doesn't explicitly say she ever got there. She could've been taken from the train like MC was. It says she went missing 2 years ago, which would fit in the timeline, and that there were no anomalous incidents at Lockburn Castle, which would still be correct if she was abducted by the previous Kyklos on the way.

Kyklos means Cycle. Our Kyklos doesn't seem to be targeting anyone but MC. It feels possible that maybe Kyklos only targets one person at a time, and possibly dies once the curse is passed. The last bit doesn't have any evidence though.

Either way, if the previous Kyklos got the daughter, then what? Well, maybe then, after a year, she turned into the Kyklos in her sleep. Seeing the one-eyed sleeping beauty, someone may have killed it, breaking the academy into 2 factions. Dissidents and Sympathizers. One believes that she shouldn't have been killed simply for being an anomaly, the other believes that, as an anomaly, and thus a danger to other students, this was the right course of action.

"but wait," I hear you saying, "if the one-eyed sleeping beauty was killed, then how would Kyklos still be there to curse MC?"

... Give me a bit to think that over.

*hesitant page flipping*

Ehem. So. It's possible that, while Darkwick was "trying" to find a "cure", for the daughter, before she turned into Kyklos, they placed her in Ultio. Yk, since she was going to turn into an anomaly, and Ultio would likely be best at dealing with anomaly containment when that would happen.

*brain reboots slowly*

... And maybe, since it would seem Kyklos is fairly sentient, either Jiro (who has openly said in one of his lines "they said they wanted to die, so I prescribed that what they needed.") tried and failed to kill her post-turning, at her request, inadvertently setting her free, OR, maybe the one-eyed sleeping-beauty wasn't the one murdered. Maybe she committed the murder, and is called the one-eyed sleeping beauty because whatever "human" is left in her, is forever asleep now.

... Look, I don't know how it happened, okay? I'm just saying it's possible she could've gotten out.

Anyway, moving on. Maybe Kisaragi station is near Lockburn Castle, or the daughters house, and that's why she keeps bringing her victim (MC) there. Ed suggested earlier in the game that may be the Institute, or Darkwick, or whoever, had specifically placed Kyklos is the station.

Maybe they do know how to cure it. Or maybe you can only kill Kyklos where it was turned. Or maybe they knew that Kyklos would curse another person brought there, and they realized if they can reset the cycle, they'd have the new Kyklos back in their grasp.

Whatever the reason, it worked, and now MC is cursed.

I am tangled in several skeins of the red string I had to waste to connect these bots on my hypothetical theory board. I can't move my left arm and I think the string is cutting off circulation to a few of my fingers. Help.

(yeah, I had to take several massive leaps in logic and refuse to explain several things for this to work out, but idk. A theory is a theory. It's not like I'm betting money on this. I barely believe it myself. Would be cool tho. Plus, if I throw enough darts, I gotta hit the board eventually.)