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Hello. Everyone. I'm mostly a fan of Blazblue's fighting system but I'm also highly interested in the lore surrounding this series and its' spinoffs. As such, I thought I could present some of my theories and observations on Blazblue, Xblaze and Bloodedge Experience. Note, however, that I have no "unified" theories - just bits and pieces of thoughts, not necessarily backed up by facts, but still, I tried to construct them as well as I could. Also, for the sake of a better flow, I assume there are no "red herrings"/fan references present anywhere, and that everything is connected in some way. Firstly, I would like to talk a bit about the nature of Blazblue's world, which I believe to have been an "Embryo" all along, having been created either by Amaterasu or someone else, and existing at the end of Xblaze's and BE's timeline. It's like this - at one point, the Xblaze-BE world was eventually completely decimated along with it's population, perhaps in the enormous world-razing war Terumi might have been referring to (with super weapons, etc), and not necessarily with the appearance of some kind of a Black Beast. At any rate, Amaterasu, its' creators or a "third party" having discovered the power of seithr, have decided to build something akin to a quantum sphere with a highly limited possibility of entropy (sort of similar to the Neo-Crystallia world of LR FFXIII and the spherical world of SMT Nocturne), with the aim of transmigrating souls of everyone died and/or alive to this new "World Embryo" to eventually rebuild the "Old World". Traces of the original people's relationships would appear in the new world, and here's where another part of my theory takes off. In my opinion, several characters from Blazblue are reincarnations of key actors from Xblaze-BE timeline - the biggest, most visible case would be Makoto, who was recognized by Naoto as resembling "Yuki" (a very complicated character on her own, I will get to her later on) - and assuming he didn't just mean her chest, this would point in the direction of my "reincarnation theory" being somewhat true. Makoto's relationship with Noel (Hinata), Tsubaki (Kuon), Kagura (Akira), etc. as well as their general personalities, are all interesting to me in this regard. Meanwhile, there are other characters who might not be transmigrations of anyone from Xblaze, or might have a completely different set of circumstances - and I could "Yuki Terumi", Ragna, Jin and (partially) Noel among this latter category. Does anyone remember this whole debacle about Ragna, Jin and ''Saya'' being rescued from some kind of a laboratory by Jubei? They were obviously either experimented on or created in an experiment. What if they were kind of "artificial reincarnations"? Who and how was reincarnated this way? Personally, I believe they were originally Touya's, Hinata's and Sechs' "shadows". In this theory, Touya's shadow would be Ragna, Hinata's - Noel, and Sechs' - Jin. If someone doesn't know what I am talking about, only three characters in Xblaze have these shadows, and they are the aforementioned three. Now, these shadows are most likely the original forms of Touya, Hinata and Sechs. Xblaze: Lost Memories talks about this the most extensively in "Black", "Green" and Sechs' DLC scenarios (and partially in Kuon's "Red"). All three of these characters had some kind of "previous existences" (Touya - original Touya who died after using his blood control drive too much in his childhood while trying to rescue his friend; Hinata - the original Hinata before she wished to recreate Touya during Wadatsumi Catastrophe and - in my opinion - actually NEVER ceased to be the successor of the Azure; and Sechs - the original human Sechs, who served as a basis for the homunculus one we see the most in the story) that seem sort of "dark" - most likely Seithr-based IMO - and, at least in specific circumstances, maintain mental connections with their "successors". These three shadows could have been reincarnated artificially as Ragna, Noel and Jin - also, the loving relationship between Tsubaki and Jin is paralleled in my eyes by the siblings' bond between Kuon and Sechs (who in his youth looked remarkably similar to Jin). And now a theory about "Yuki Terumi". We know this is not the psychopath's original name, though as to its origins, there is nothing certain - maybe it's a reference to Yuki Himezuru or the one that Naoto knew, or maybe both? Many people versed in Japanese language also consider the possibility that it means "ghost" as per Terumi's designation in the world of Blazblue. Or maybe in fact, all of these theories are true? If that's so, there is one thing that comes to my mind, and it's this: Yuki Terumi was originally Kiri, whose original drive placed in his eye ("Ripper") was destroyed at the end of Xblaze LM, and who ended in intensive care in a hospital - perhaps under care of Yuki Himezuru. Why did he even survive, though? Originally it was said that people who have their drive crystal torn, die. Then came the case of Akira, who forcibly removed his crystal and survived - and maybe this event taught Yuki how to save and treat Kiri. Also, the nature of Drive in Xblaze is that a concentrated crystal of seithr gradually hijacks a person's nervous system, eventually dissolving them into seithr. This seems to point to a relationship between soul, seithr and nervous system. Personally, when I saw Terumi's "ghost form" in BB CT, long before Xblaze games were even made, I have not considered it a ghost at all, but some sort of a freaky autonomous nervous system. How could it have come to this? Maybe in the enormous conflict Terumi mentioned to Kazuma, Kiri was placed in the newly-made Susanoo unit as a person who actually desperately wanted to be a hero. He then witnessed enormous destruction, death, and subsequently lost faith in mankind and everything else. When Amaterasu was to create the world of Blazblue ("The New World Embryo"), for some reason he was not allowed to transmigrate and find peace - maybe because of his post-drive body structure or due to some other factor. Subsequently to this, he torn himself out of Susanoo, went into Boundary ("the sea of seithr") and then jumped into the world of Blazblue, similarly to how Naoto time-travelled (to be honest, I don't think that was a pure time travel, but rather a dimension jump), and decided to bring his despair to everyone, including Amaterasu, who "rejected" him. His last name could have originally been Terumi, or Himezuru was a sub-clan to Terumi just like the relationship between Terumi and Amanohokosaka, or there were other reasons - and one of them could be related to Naoto, though this in turn would make this particular theory invalid. Now, onto the topic of relationship between Naoto and Ragna (Touya's "shadow" as per my theory above) - I believe that they were both marked with their "seals" by the homunculus Sechs who is trapped in the Boundary, his existence infinite and tied to the sword of Kusanagi. He cannot reincarnate nor even manifest directly in the physical world, and he has been stated by Hinata's "shadow" to be her greatest enemy. He despises all interventions and loopings, but he himself cannot bring his desired world directly anymore. What he can do, however, is to make contact with individuals through the Boundary (we know this is possible) and engrave his "Deadly Sign" of them, metaphorically granting them a part of his power. He could have done that to both Naoto and Ragna, and then brought the former into the latter's world, perhaps to prepare for some sort of a merge-resurrection? Yes, in this theory Sechs would attempt to control the reincarnated shadow of Touya and make him merge with Naoto, while Sechs' own shadow (Jin) would oppose him. This "Under Heaven Destruction" would be a twisted version of Xblaze's Touya-Sechs conflict, in a way. Sorry that this post is so long, but I'm about to end it soon. Who is Saya Terumi, what is her relationship to Amaterasu? No clear answers here, unfortunately. Still, there are certain factors that make me think that Saya Terumi could have been the first Boundary Interface Prime Field Device created by Relius as well as the first, incomplete reincarnation - or perhaps a copy? - of Hinata's shadow. I can definitely see some similarities between Saya Terumi's and Mu-12's omnicidal attitudes, and while Hinata's shadow as depicted in Xblaze wasn't shown to be so crazy, it was noticeably cold and harsh. When Hinata's shadow was later on more completely reincarnated as Noel, it could have either maintained connection with Amaterasu and its now possibly "empty" pilot, or was switched at some point with artificially created ("doll") Saya - who could have been a clone, soul-copy or even an incomplete Chrono Phantasma of Saya who is in the Amaterasu unit. I know a lot of people will now say "But Noel was born/created in Ikaruga and miraculously survived Take-Mikazuchi's attack!"......but is this really true? Maybe this "Noel" is not 5-year old, but was in fact brought by Terumi into the Ikaruga lab (again?) subsequently to his attack on the church, remodeled into Mu-12 and then attempted to be fused with, which of course failed. Izanami could be just toying with Ragna when she was imitating his sister (Noel's) voice; after all, like I said, there seems to be a definitive connection between Hinata's shadow, Saya Terumi, Izanami, Amaterasu and Noel - so much that it could have been the reason as to why Noel saw Amaterasu's pilot as herself. It could be in essence a type of a life link, or something similar to what happened between Nu-13 and Noel at the end of BB CP. In fact, the ending of act III's trailer seems to support my theory by showing that the "Noel" in Amaterasu is in fact Saya Terumi's body - and that Noel, since she is based on Hinata's shadow (whose "Embryo-Successor of the Azure" nature would make her intervention powers more dominant than those of Saya Terumi), would "observe" the pilot as herself. At any rate, I suspect there will be lots of different merges in BB CF, either in act III or in the console release's story mode. Lastly, there are two characters about whom I don't have anything resembling a consistent theory - they are Nine and Hazama. The latter I heavily suspect not to be Kazuma's reincarnation, but in fact Ripper's, and the former - as we see her in BB CF - to be a merge between the Dark War Nine and the "Me-Nobody", who remained in the Phantom field following the release of the "Es-Nobody". The reason for this is the fact that the Dark War Nine was never shown to have the seithr-suppressing eye like the one possessed by "Me". Maybe after Terumi's attack she fell into the Boundary, where she made contact and merged with "Me" (whom I consider to be derived from a timeline alternate to Xblaze-BBE-BB)? I'm not really sure, these two characters - Nine the Phantom and Hazama - are in my eyes the most manipulative, most complex and deepest characters in Blazblue anyway. Once again, sorry for such a huge post - I am sure I will be criticized by either mods or other members for it, but still, I wanted to give my opinion on this entire convoluted mess somewhere. Maybe, on the other hand, it will inspire someone, who knows.