So this isn't a full theory but I just wanted to say that I don't think Ethan's hat has any real lore importance
And before you Ethan theorists come at me with pitch forks and torches, please let me at least try to explain
I think the hat itself is a red herring, something Starkid threw in to make us think it was more important than it was. And the only real reason I think this was because of Ethan's line "cross my heart, hope to die"
I know this is a stretch but hear me out
I feel like Ethan's dying was more of something he decided to do, not fate or whatever. He saved Hannah, he wasn't just killed out of nowhere. And Hannah, throughout Black Friday, may not have been physically harmed, but she was sure mentally scarred
I think that we need to focus not on the hat, but on the story Ethan tells behind the hat. That is a detail that I think Starkid slipped in on purpose
Ethan claims that the hat is filled with the power of Gray Skull, who was once a great warrior. Gray warrior. Gray could certainly be either a misinterpretation of, or a substitute for (so it isn't blatantly obvious) the White Warrior General MacNamara was talking about that we never really discovered the identity of
Ethan couldn't have come up with Gray Skull on his own, not just like that. There is a possibility for it, of course, but I think Gray Skull is a story that has been told down his family tree, which is where the misinterpretation of Gray instead of White might have come from
Again, I'm not saying that "Oh, the hat is meaningless, just forget it ever existed!" I'm just saying that it's a possibility we need to shift focus from that hat, and turn it more towards the story behind it, and how that story connects to Ethan















