06-23-2025, 05:40 PM
The whole thing's a fucking ouroboros loop, eating its own tail.
Earth lives until its core dies, an artificial core is created and Philos is born, only to break apart into pieces, then Philos dies and...then Traceback returns to try again on Earth of the past?
When time ceased to be a limitation
Philos civilization was unable to escape its inevitable decay
Strife raged tirelessly across the land
And the regime could only cling to life by relying on the secret weapon
My favorite of all my theories so far is that the combination of Caleb and the girlfriend made the Deepspace Tunnel somehow. What if, in the Fallen Cosmos trailer, that's what we're seeing? They appear to suicide-pact as Philos is struggling to stay alive/using them as living weapons - maybe they resonated so hard trying to escape, they made a path to where they could be together again.
I don't know! Between past / present / future and alternates of all of them, split between somewhat conflicting storylines from all five boyfriends. its like that one gif of the sun and all its spiraling planets.
Like this sucker:
I had this thought while I was walking in to work this morning - if the girlfriend is the heart of Philos, and her avatar/incarnation is what grants longevity to the people around her because of the aether core (fragment?) she carries (not yet awakened / not yet whole) -- what if the boyfriends are other aspects of that core and they're all struggling to come together into harmony again / be whole again?
Something like "Voltron! Assemble!"
It also could be that since the boyfriend storylines are mostly parallel to each other (although there is crossover in the present, yes) there is "The Core" and then there is the fragment in the heart of the girlfriend and another fragment in the heart of the boyfriend?
Okay, maybe that doesn't work because in Sylus' storyline, you get "the other half" of your aether core and now you don't have Protocore Syndrome anymore because its now stable. But still! Maybe its a supercluster sort of thing - the boyfriends need to have their aether core complete so they can merge with yours - or vibrate together and make beautiful music or something.
I'm overthinking it, I know.
EDIT: oh, other point i meant to mention -- Philos is in pieces and its difficult (or near impossible anyways) to travel between the segments. who's to say that Abyss walker and Xavier's forest don't exist at the exact same time, just on different parts of the planet, separated by literal distance and not time? there's no reason not to think that Philos' avatar couldn't spawn multiple fragments in different places, trying to attract its other, lost pieces back to itself.
Earth lives until its core dies, an artificial core is created and Philos is born, only to break apart into pieces, then Philos dies and...then Traceback returns to try again on Earth of the past?
When time ceased to be a limitation
Philos civilization was unable to escape its inevitable decay
Strife raged tirelessly across the land
And the regime could only cling to life by relying on the secret weapon
My favorite of all my theories so far is that the combination of Caleb and the girlfriend made the Deepspace Tunnel somehow. What if, in the Fallen Cosmos trailer, that's what we're seeing? They appear to suicide-pact as Philos is struggling to stay alive/using them as living weapons - maybe they resonated so hard trying to escape, they made a path to where they could be together again.
I don't know! Between past / present / future and alternates of all of them, split between somewhat conflicting storylines from all five boyfriends. its like that one gif of the sun and all its spiraling planets.
Like this sucker:
I had this thought while I was walking in to work this morning - if the girlfriend is the heart of Philos, and her avatar/incarnation is what grants longevity to the people around her because of the aether core (fragment?) she carries (not yet awakened / not yet whole) -- what if the boyfriends are other aspects of that core and they're all struggling to come together into harmony again / be whole again?
Something like "Voltron! Assemble!"
It also could be that since the boyfriend storylines are mostly parallel to each other (although there is crossover in the present, yes) there is "The Core" and then there is the fragment in the heart of the girlfriend and another fragment in the heart of the boyfriend?
Okay, maybe that doesn't work because in Sylus' storyline, you get "the other half" of your aether core and now you don't have Protocore Syndrome anymore because its now stable. But still! Maybe its a supercluster sort of thing - the boyfriends need to have their aether core complete so they can merge with yours - or vibrate together and make beautiful music or something.
I'm overthinking it, I know.
EDIT: oh, other point i meant to mention -- Philos is in pieces and its difficult (or near impossible anyways) to travel between the segments. who's to say that Abyss walker and Xavier's forest don't exist at the exact same time, just on different parts of the planet, separated by literal distance and not time? there's no reason not to think that Philos' avatar couldn't spawn multiple fragments in different places, trying to attract its other, lost pieces back to itself.
