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dgray_man2011-01-02 09:49 pm
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Just some thoughts about Road
I just realized something, while thinking about the last novel. It may not be much, but I'd still like to share to know your opinions. It's not really a theory, just some thoughts about certain things that keep bugging me.
I haven't read the novel, of course, only the summaries offered by kind![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
leafyaki, but though it wasn't directly stated anywhere, I think it's strongly implied that the 14th's full human name was “Allen Walker.” Even if it wasn't, I think it's reasonably safe to assume that it's not just some random name crazy!Mana loved and gave to children/pets he liked, and it's most certainly related to the 14th, the Noahs and the main plot.
There is definitively something strange with the Earl and Mana, so strange I won't even try to make a theory out of it. What is sure is that his memories on the matter are a little foggy, and judging from his behavior I think we can say he doesn't or at least didn't remember the name's (possible) importance.
Still.
Look at this.
Did Road REALLY think there was nothing strange at all with an Exorcist named “Allen Walker” that can see akuma? Really?
Maybe she even knew his “father's” name, which I think the Earl knew and possibly told her (on higher quality scans you can actually read “Mana Walker” on the cross), and I would assume that she knew Mana's weird story at least to some extent.
She is the only Noah who survived the 14th, and apparently the only one to actually remember everything (except, maybe, Wisely). I daresay that she's one if not the most well-informed character in the whole series. She even seems to know why Tyki looks like the 14th (or like a younger Mana?), and she wants to keep it a secret for some reason.
She is not as childish as she first seemed to be, at all, and I think that even when she's being sadistic she has a more detached view over the situation than, say, Tyki. As if she perfectly knew what she was doing. If you ask me, she may enjoy being cruel, but most of the time she has an actual purpose for being so, too.
Back to Rewinding Town. Lero said he didn't know why she was there. Apparently she didn't tell the Earl or anybody else, just like she and Tyki didn't tell the Earl about their little game with the Exorcists while the Ark was being “downloaded.”
Surely Allen, Lenalee and Miranda weren't enough of a threat at the time, and she could have easily killed one of them if that was her goal. And yes, I first thought she might have been there just out of boredom, but she's smarter than that and isn't it too much of a coincidence? Of all Noahs, of all Exorcists, of all the places in the world?
What's more, all she did there in the end was dressing up Lenalee, nailing Miranda on her own clock, and, well, meeting Allen and stabbing his left eye with a candle. Which evolved some chapters later (“The darkness has returned…”) and seems to be connected to his Noah's form, somehow, as we saw from the last few chapters.
What if she went there just to, you know, make the Noah wake up faster, somehow? She seems to be very loyal to the Earl, and yet why did the 14th spare her? What if Neah really doesn't want to hurt the Earl? Obvious questions are too much obvious?
I think there were even some crack theories about what she might have done to Lenalee while she and Allen were unconscious, since she began having those weird and still unexplained dreams (connected to Allen and partially to the 14th, even) shortly after that, and Road is the Noah of Dreams – but really, I won't venture in there yet because it's just confusing and I haven't much to offer aside from some suspicious covers and “durr durr sometimes they wear the same clothes but in reverse colors durr.”
… Okay, I don't know. She looked surprised when Allen's sword turned out just like the Earl's, so maybe she really doesn't know anything. But. But still.
I'm aware this doesn't make a lot of sense, nor it adds anything significant to what we know, and I know I'm reading way too much in far too few pages, but we've known Road for so long and she's still such a mysterious character…
Does someone have any good theory about her? D: I'd like to read them.
I haven't read the novel, of course, only the summaries offered by kind
leafyaki, but though it wasn't directly stated anywhere, I think it's strongly implied that the 14th's full human name was “Allen Walker.” Even if it wasn't, I think it's reasonably safe to assume that it's not just some random name crazy!Mana loved and gave to children/pets he liked, and it's most certainly related to the 14th, the Noahs and the main plot.There is definitively something strange with the Earl and Mana, so strange I won't even try to make a theory out of it. What is sure is that his memories on the matter are a little foggy, and judging from his behavior I think we can say he doesn't or at least didn't remember the name's (possible) importance.
Still.
Look at this.
Did Road REALLY think there was nothing strange at all with an Exorcist named “Allen Walker” that can see akuma? Really?
Maybe she even knew his “father's” name, which I think the Earl knew and possibly told her (on higher quality scans you can actually read “Mana Walker” on the cross), and I would assume that she knew Mana's weird story at least to some extent.
She is the only Noah who survived the 14th, and apparently the only one to actually remember everything (except, maybe, Wisely). I daresay that she's one if not the most well-informed character in the whole series. She even seems to know why Tyki looks like the 14th (or like a younger Mana?), and she wants to keep it a secret for some reason.
She is not as childish as she first seemed to be, at all, and I think that even when she's being sadistic she has a more detached view over the situation than, say, Tyki. As if she perfectly knew what she was doing. If you ask me, she may enjoy being cruel, but most of the time she has an actual purpose for being so, too.
Back to Rewinding Town. Lero said he didn't know why she was there. Apparently she didn't tell the Earl or anybody else, just like she and Tyki didn't tell the Earl about their little game with the Exorcists while the Ark was being “downloaded.”
Surely Allen, Lenalee and Miranda weren't enough of a threat at the time, and she could have easily killed one of them if that was her goal. And yes, I first thought she might have been there just out of boredom, but she's smarter than that and isn't it too much of a coincidence? Of all Noahs, of all Exorcists, of all the places in the world?
What's more, all she did there in the end was dressing up Lenalee, nailing Miranda on her own clock, and, well, meeting Allen and stabbing his left eye with a candle. Which evolved some chapters later (“The darkness has returned…”) and seems to be connected to his Noah's form, somehow, as we saw from the last few chapters.
What if she went there just to, you know, make the Noah wake up faster, somehow? She seems to be very loyal to the Earl, and yet why did the 14th spare her? What if Neah really doesn't want to hurt the Earl? Obvious questions are too much obvious?
I think there were even some crack theories about what she might have done to Lenalee while she and Allen were unconscious, since she began having those weird and still unexplained dreams (connected to Allen and partially to the 14th, even) shortly after that, and Road is the Noah of Dreams – but really, I won't venture in there yet because it's just confusing and I haven't much to offer aside from some suspicious covers and “durr durr sometimes they wear the same clothes but in reverse colors durr.”
… Okay, I don't know. She looked surprised when Allen's sword turned out just like the Earl's, so maybe she really doesn't know anything. But. But still.
I'm aware this doesn't make a lot of sense, nor it adds anything significant to what we know, and I know I'm reading way too much in far too few pages, but we've known Road for so long and she's still such a mysterious character…
Does someone have any good theory about her? D: I'd like to read them.
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Then I thought something similar to what you said, which is that Lenalee was the Heart and so she could feel other Innocences and some of their users (in the ark she actually feels Allen's and Chaoji's Innocences) – but I don't think it's her after she went Crystal and had a fairly reasonable explanation to what happened to her. Lavi was skeptical about it and the Earl said the Heart is awake and conscious, and I trust him on this one. If I had to choose I'd be more inclined to say it's Komui – but I have no actual proof so let's leave it. After all the Heart was finally mentioned in canon again by the creeper of the month!
Anyway yeah, the whole dream connection must be something else. I have no idea what it could be.
Also, I don't think it's Allen because imho it would be a little too much: main character, 14th, possibly the most powerful and strangest Noah ever, can see akuma's souls and is the Heart? D:
Still, nothing of this explains the dreams and stuff e_e I'm not even sure Allen remembers them, so… yeah. IDK.
Really? XD I'm glad <3
Definitively nightmare fuel. I… cannot stop thinking about how he could pass his parasites to Lavi or anybody else. Does he have to, like, kiss them? Lick them in the ear or somewhere else? EWWWW XD And here I thought Road was creepy XD
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Oh yeah, I'd completely forgotten about that. I never really thought about that much. I just kind of assumed that raw innocence that was being synchronized with gave off a power that would be recognizable to someone who's been an exorcist as long as Lena. And Allen was giving off power bursts the Noah could feel, so for me that seemed kind of irrelevant to everything. XD
Yeah, that Cardinal guy is weird. The last chapter really makes it seem like the heart might not end up being one of the already introduced exorcists. :/
And, haha, yeah, I guess that might be my bias towards Allen showing itself a bit. ^^;
No, he definitely remembered the dream where the 14th grabbed his wrist. It was shown that he remembered it when he saw the 14th's shadow in the piano room mirror. Although we have no way to know if he remembered his dream about Krory. Hoshino is so very, very cruel. ;-;
XD
I would be seriously grossed out if tongue-contact was how he did it. x-x Maybe he spits the eyeballs and they explode with spore gas? I don't know if we're ever going to actually get to see him infect somebody. D:
Road has been out-creeped by two other Noah now. If she doesn't turn it up a notch she's gonna lose some serious creepy ground. XD