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...we are terrible people.
Sep. 14th, 2011 04:12 amChrome updated to post-Shimon somewhat recently! This was all well and good on its own, but she went and asked 'Dera about Spade. The inconsistency being pointed out then lead to 'Dera forming a certain theory. Things snowballed in chat and the tl;dr version is under the cut, but let's have a more condensed version to start with.
Basically, the island has been trolling Giotto for nearly two years (and somehow even explained a couple of old OOC problems along the way).
► Tsuna has more or less screwed up Thal's plans in some way every time she's made a move, and Giotto has the potential to be just as much trouble because he has similar abilities. The only difference between these two was that Tsuna had Guardians to threaten and Giotto didn't, so Giotto was a little more free to act.
► The island should have grabbed the "real" first gen Guardians, but didn't for whatever reason (in reality, Ryu, Val, and Nebbia were tossed into the game before canon expanded on the first generation and made our group fake). Whether it was Cyriana/Thalassa/both that had a hand in it, this was a test of control in more ways than one.
► The memories of the entire cast were altered a bit, exactly to prevent inconsistencies like the mention of Spade ruining everything--affection for the substitute Guardians had to be established before that was allowed to happen.
► This also explains why Enma never got a solid explanation as to what happened with Cozart--it involved Spade as a major player, and therefore memory of it got messy (in reality, it was because the Shimon arc was currently on-going and accurately explaining anything was impossible).
► As of 12/28/11 it somehow got worse. Basically this twist is so trolltastic, it's...trolling us back.
( By the way, about that soul of yours... )
( The original play-by-play. )
Basically, the island has been trolling Giotto for nearly two years (and somehow even explained a couple of old OOC problems along the way).
► Tsuna has more or less screwed up Thal's plans in some way every time she's made a move, and Giotto has the potential to be just as much trouble because he has similar abilities. The only difference between these two was that Tsuna had Guardians to threaten and Giotto didn't, so Giotto was a little more free to act.
► The island should have grabbed the "real" first gen Guardians, but didn't for whatever reason (in reality, Ryu, Val, and Nebbia were tossed into the game before canon expanded on the first generation and made our group fake). Whether it was Cyriana/Thalassa/both that had a hand in it, this was a test of control in more ways than one.
► The memories of the entire cast were altered a bit, exactly to prevent inconsistencies like the mention of Spade ruining everything--affection for the substitute Guardians had to be established before that was allowed to happen.
► This also explains why Enma never got a solid explanation as to what happened with Cozart--it involved Spade as a major player, and therefore memory of it got messy (in reality, it was because the Shimon arc was currently on-going and accurately explaining anything was impossible).
► As of 12/28/11 it somehow got worse. Basically this twist is so trolltastic, it's...trolling us back.
( By the way, about that soul of yours... )
( The original play-by-play. )