Animus Theories Discussion!

[no_longer_a_king]

We all have them! Theories, plot speculation, general headcanon and fandom ideas. Everything from the collars to Ruana to the outside world to who Jason should be shipped with this week.

SO LET'S TALK ABOUT IT IN ONE PLACE.

What are your theories and predictions for Animus? They can be completely serious, silly, completely off the wall, and no matter what will make our modteam popcorn.gif in the peanut gallery. Post it here and let us know what you think!

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Wrong account but

[energyburst]

I predict Jason will be shipped with someone's metal boot in the near future 8|

it's all good

[cullscuttlefish]

Let's be real, I started to ship Jason's face with Feferi's trident a long time ago.

[imperialsun]

Jason's Face --> Everyone's weapons.

[swordedpast]

I've only got one.

So we know that Ruana is an escaped experiment in psychic powers, right? Probably from the tower itself? She was tortured somehow as part of the experiment and killed the people originally in charge before taking over.

When Archer asked Dax and the others about what it was that was destroying the worlds, Dax said it was "something like a virus."

My only idea is that this world-destroying virus comes from the same experiments as Ruana initially did, which might explain why the tower is somehow immune to it.

[sageprincess]

Adding on to this: it's been mentioned that it's year 1000 or so in Tower-world. It's also been mentioned that the destruction started 1000 years ago.

And Ruana has been stated to be over 1000 years old. Possibly the only survivor of the destruction in Tower-world due to being the epicenter of it?

[imperialsun]

I HAVE A THEORY, BUT I'M GONNA SHARE IT LATER BECAUSE NAOYA IS WORKING ON IT IC. TO BE CONTINUED?! I told Mel already so she can laugh at me when I'm gonna be completely left field for over-thinking it.

(Even if I'm a mod, I specifically asked not to be told the plot, so I'm in the dark about this as you guys are).

[no_longer_a_king]

OH COME ON! YOU CAN TELL US!

(Doesn't mean you can't still join the mods in the popcorn.gif seats!)

[imperialsun]

I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave. I mean Random.

(Sometimes they save me popcorn. Sometimes.)

[no_longer_a_king]

Why noooooooot? (I'm kidding with the whining, btw. Just go with the silliness.)

(As they should!)

[imperialsun]

BECAUSE IT WILL BLOW YOUR MIND AND EXPAND YOUR okay no but I'm just like a dragon hording her theory until I can prove/disprove it like a good scientist.

Ruana theory, come get your Ruana theory!

[slightlyoblivious]

SO. I don't know if anyone else is a fan of Seanan McGuire, but I'm a huge fan. Her October Daye books, in particular, have a rather interesting take on Faerie.

The basic premise is that there are the King and Queens of Faerie - Oberon, Titania, and Maeve - and while they've been missing for a while (nobody knows why, and it's been at least 500 years since anyone's heard from them) their kids sure haven't been.

The sons and daughters of the Big Three up there are called the Firstborn, and they are all insanely powerful. Maeve's descendants, in particular, are both powerful and kind of unhinged, to put it nicely, to start with.

To put it not-so-nicely, Maeve's descendants are the the ones you hear about in the stories as the Ones You Do Not Fuck With For Any Reason. Crossing into one of their 'knowes' - territories, in Fae speak - pretty much means you're dead quick if you're lucky, and if you're unlucky...well, you'll eventually be dead.

Oh, yeah. Maeve's lineage also kind of has a thing for blood magic. They'll take their pound of flesh if it's warranted, and even if it's not. They're the ones who kill, the ones who can trace another person's last steps by tasting their blood.

It is still possible to capture one of them. It's laid out in the very first book that a character was kidnapped, subjected to a lot of torture, and just came back wrong. Since we don't know when any of the Firstborn were actually born, well...

So. Let's put it together. Powerful, unhinged, blood magic, can have territory of their own?

I think our characters are getting sucked into the knowe of a really powerful, really fucked in the head Firstborn.

[animusnpcs]

COLLAR THEORIES COMMENT

[bloodyashes]

it's kind of obligatory at this point

Color chart reference link!

Things we can observe - power generally increasing as you move down the spectrum, With the following exception

-> All robots/etc seem to have reddier collars than their power would indicate
-> All dead-at-canon-point characters are purple
-> Almost all clone characters are purple
-> Almost all immortal characters are purple

DISCUSS IT

[no_longer_a_king]

Well, we found out the retrieval units have no souls, at least not in the same sense the PCs do, and they're artificially made. Maybe the robots/etc having redder collars is because their souls are more similar to those of the retrieval units?

[great_king_of_evil]

This is a small theory about the thing that destroys the worlds and why it does it. I don't know if someone did it before, but here we go:

During the Halloween event, there were characters disguised as the administrators. The one disguised as Ruana got the description that she'd feel as if something was pursuing her, and the only way to get her mind off it would be to play with the residents (as far as I recall).

So what is the thing pursuing her? So far we have no clue but if anything, I'd say it is the "virus" that destroys the worlds. Why? We know Ruana somehow spies on the characters before their arrival in the tower-- She has seen many of the thing they did in their homeworlds, if not everything (she said as much to Ganondorf). It implies she visited or observed their homeworld (possibly this is what she does when she 'sleeps'?).

Dax also stated that they can track the virus and know where it will strike before it does destroy the world. How? I think he said there is a pattern they can follow; that pattern may simply be the worlds Ruana visited. It was also said tower-world was attacked but somehow survived-- After failing to kill Ruana at the source, the virus went for the second best option, tracking her wherever she goes.

[puppy_lancer]

Ruana says she watches because she doesn't like to dream. In that case, what would she dream of, and how would that connect to the pursuing virus?

[cullscuttlefish]

Well, we know she was used in some psychic experiments and psychic torture, probably done by the same people who engineered the virus. If she doesn't like to dream, it could be because she has nightmares about what happened to her.

[cullscuttlefish]

It makes sense. And if the theory about Ruana being some kind of Fae is right, well, she would have a magic signature/trail/etc. to follow. If the virus is following her from world to world, then it might very well be tracking her by using her own magic.

Stop me if you've heard this one...

[idkworldruler]

New theory! FNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORDFNORD

At the very heart of the tower lies a supply of pills. If a person takes the blue one they will be able to live life in blissful ignorance. Completely unaware of the reality around them. If they take the red one, then they will wake up to reality and be able to fight the true oppressors. The same oppressors who had hired the Girl Scouts to craft a magic bullet. The same magic bullet that was used by bankers to assassinate JFK, Lincoln and Franz Ferdinand. The reasoning?

To keep people from finding...

...THE TRUTH! FNORD

Chloe's thoughts

[true_noir]

Chloe holds the long-standing theory that the admins are largely lying to the cast and that the worlds that they come from are not destroyed. The fact that their souls are confirmed to be imprisoned in the tower and resurrected at the whim of the admins, to her mind, upholds this line of thought. They have been spiritually dragged to this world and kept here. Since the spirit can be manipulated by them, when a person goes 'home' it is just as easy, to her mind, to have an inaccessible location where the soul is forced to perceive its own memories played out, destroyed and wiped of all life.

To her mind, she considers this fairly valid especially because of the Nyarlathotep incident and the presence of the 'guests' in the tower. The fact that another world existed much like the one she came from last (Amat) and this one causes her to believe that several of these worlds exist throughout the cosmos and various alternate universes, populated by extremely powerful creatures who, out of survival or out of their own sick amusement choose to keep spirits of people from other worlds here to torment.

The one thing she has noticed that distinguishes the Tower from the Island of Atia is that people do not leave and return with memories of their worlds. However, given that people can arrive from different time periods in what appears to be the same world, she surmises that the reason is because, once the soul 'escapes' or is destroyed, the person is no longer so easily accessible with the memories of the Tower as it was on the island of Atia. Something keeps them from implanting the old memories of their time in the tower, further hinting that the individual worlds still exist.

However, she is reasonably certain that the worlds of this reality are quite possibly vaporized wastelands. It would explain the mad ravings of the admins.