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Instead of working on what I’m supposed to, I wrote a short one off theory/”What if?” scenario for Tower of God of Arlene being Phantaminum’s real identity. If your interested, give it a read and tell me what you think.
Rachel mentions in s2 ep240 that she wants to see the stars that “that person” wanted, heavily implied to be Arlene. Knowing she’s pretty obsessed with Arlene (if we take from Rachel’s line about wanting to prove herself as the child Arlene wanted in Bam’s place as part of why she’s so envious of him), if that’s why she’s so desperate to see the stars, I bet that she won’t be satisfied upon seeing them at all.
She’ll just be disappointed, because it was never really her wish; she just was so obsessed with Arlene that she chased the stars Arlene wanted.
Hear me out
Paracule makes constant references to revolution all the way in season 1.
Revolution is actually a group affiliated with FUG seeking to bring change to the tower, first mentioned in the Marriage Arc → Paracule could be referencing them.
In season 2 to keep track of Bam’s friends FUG had Ron Mei watching team shibisu via Anaak and Michael + Apple watching Khun and Rachel
For FUG, though, who was watching Rak? Rak was alone on an island → Paracule knew where Rak was and was the one who traveled with him to WSB → was Paracule the Ron Mei for Rak?
Paracule’s silhouette giggling before Ran and Anaak’s fight about it being his turn → seems to run around the arena pointlessly, but then manages to perfectly arrange himself underneath Ran and Anaak and knock them both out in the all-in opportunity.
This just happens to be the one opportunity where every gambler except two, both of whom are FUG, are dropped out → allows the rigged final to melt Bam.
Is the one who stops Bam from running away from Endorsi and Rak, yes, BUT Novick had already arranged to distract the guards and Xia Xia and Reflejo so they wouldn’t get caught → in the next scene Reflejo says that they planned the thorn thingy, but this could also be implying that they PLANNED for Bam to break the deal and make contact first + how would Reflejo know that this happened if he was out and Xia Xia was drunk unless he got outside confirmation?
UNLESS Paracule planned for Rak to storm in and meet with Bam → stops Bam from escaping to force the meeting and thus Bam has broken the FUG deal → now Reflejo can do what he wants without having broken the deal first, AS REFLEJO PLANNED. And Paracule, as the witness, was the one who reported it was successful.
My conclusion: all these coincidences and plot points could possibly be lining up to reveal Paracule was part of FUG or Revolution.
My only other explanation is that Hwaryun somehow foresaw all of this, and accounted for Paracule and told Reflejo, but for Paracule to be this specific in that last action (didn’t arrive with Rak and Ehwa, and I think he isn’t part of Khun’s team either, but still knew where Rak and Ehwa were heading → timed it just in time, not even assessing the situation, to leap right in front of Bam → then immediately leaves with the others as if it was planned) then it’s likely in this scenario Hwaryun worked with him in some way →
either she a) manipulated him to be JUST in time with the right info, OR b) they were working together (and thus Paracule would be working with FUG)
Predicting it now Rachel betrays Yura in the future
I feel like Yura’s admiring of Rachel is way too deja vu to how Bam admired Rachel back then and it scares me.