Lately I Haven't Stopped Thinking That The Conflict Between Ruby And Neo Works As Some Kind Of Foreshadowing

Lately I haven't stopped thinking that the conflict between Ruby and Neo works as some kind of foreshadowing or sample of what could happen with Salem.

Salem and Neo grew up in a controlling and dysfunctional family to the point where they wanted freedom above all else and met someone (Ozma and Roman) who gave them the freedom they craved.

Salem, like Neo, is angry about the death of a loved one (Neo for Roman's death and Salem for Ozma's death) and they blame others for their respective deaths (Neo blames Ruby in the same way that Salem blamed to the gods) and just as Neo vents her anger and pain by lashing out at everyone in Ever After without caring for her own physical or emotional well-being, Salem ended up lashing out at everyone (causing chaos and destruction throughout Remnant) not caring if it ends up destroyed her (she tried to commit suicide without success and waits for the gods to destroy everything in the hope that she can die). They also both don't care if they hurt others by being so caught up in their own pain that they consider the pain of others irrelevant.

Ever After and the whole situation with Ruby and Neo is like the conflict that the protagonists have with Salem but on a smaller scale, so this scenario could work as a kind of preparation for the protagonists when they finally face Salem because she cannot be destroyed but it can be stopped through empathy and communication, both on the part of the protagonists and on the part of Salem herself.

One of the things I love about Gear 5th is that it is a power up designed to completely destroy the opponent like other power ups seen in other series but what makes Gear 5th stand out is that it destroys the opponent in a different way. A standard power up destroys the opponent physically but the Gear 5th destroys the opponent not only physically but also destroys the opponent's pride by being defeated by a visually ridiculous power up.

Just imagine for example AFO from My Hero Academia being defeated by Luffy Gear 5th, simply AFO's pride would be completely destroyed since he wanted to be an all-powerful villain like in the comics and believed that only OFA users can defeat him and he wants to defeat said users in the most epic way possible only to Luffy Gear 5th (a character who isn't even from the same universe as him) deny him that fantasy by forcing him to operate under Tom and Jerry or Loney Toons physics to the point to force AFO to look ridiculous while being attacked by Luffy Gear 5th, AFO would be VERY frustrated because he never expected in his life that he would be defeated by a power that is not even flashy like OFA but is a power that is visually funny and ridiculous to the point that the heroes and civilians who were scared of AFO before now laugh at him seeing him being defeated with such ridiculous and funny power, with this AFO would never want to be a villain again for suffering the greatest humiliation of his life.

I think I'm not the only one who noticed this:

Seeing the copies of these characters is a reflection of their identity problems because basically if you saw them without knowing them you wouldn't know which one is the real one.

Taking this into account, now imagine if at some point Eda and Luz meet and Belos sees them together, he would already have two reasons to attack Eda because he would not only believe that Evelyn is still alive but he would feel jealous of the mentor-apprentice/parent-daughter relationship that Eda has with Luz besides Belos would also attack her because he would think that she kidnapped and brainwashed Luz as he thinks that Evelyn did with Caleb. Also let's not forget that Belos is obsessed with Luz and that before he left for the Boiling Islands he told everyone this, especially Luz because she is human and because he knows her more than the others who are with her:

Oh no. I just realized something.

An unstable Belos, who keeps seeing his dead brother everywhere, is currently possessing Raine. And who is most likely to deal with Raine?

Eda.

Eda...who currently has short hair. And whose silhouette currently strongly resembles-

OH FUCK.

Do you remember this post where I mentioned how Belos has a feeling of solidarity with Luz for being the first human he has seen for decades, besides that she reinforced this solidarity for him by helping him without realizing it? This plus what we have been shown in the series regarding the fact that he became a witch hunter out of admiration for Caleb and the witch hunters seeing them as heroes and to fit in in Gravesfield plus the fact that Luz wanted others to understand her led me to think that Belos wanted and believed that Luz understood him for being human like him and ironically Luz's wish to be understood was granted in the worst possible way because Belos is the first human who does not see her as a freak but rather he recognizes her as someone smart, as a person and sees her as his equal (a treatment that he does not give to anyone else, not even Hunter) to the point of wanting to have her on his side, to see himself as her savior and protective and being so obsessed with her in general.

Belos somehow sees not only Caleb reflected in Luz but he also sees himself reflected in her as a person who seeks to be understood and to feel that he belongs somewhere so he wants to be understood by her and at the same time in a twisted way, he wants to give Luz that feeling of belonging and be the special person with whom Luz feels understood, protected and loved.

When I think about how Ruby's semblance would evolve, I can't help but think of Nico Robin's and Ladybug's powers.

Nico Robin ate the Hana-Hana no mi or Flower-Flower fruit which allows her to manipulate and create parts of her body with flower petals. Robin has put her power to a very creative use, being able to create extra limbs that come out of any surface that she can use to attack and grab her enemies and she can even use them as wings to fly or stairs, she creates clones of herself made with petals of flowers and even creates giant clones of herself to fight larger or stronger enemies.

On the other hand Ladybug uses her powers to repair damage caused by an akuma attack with the item she summoned to defeat said akuma, making the damaged item look like it was never damaged in the first place.

Just imagine the possibilities that Ruby would have with her evolving semblance, she could do the same as Robin, she could also use her semblance to rebuild broken structures and objects and make them as if they were never broken like Ladybug does and could even she use her semblance to recover from serious injuries because by turning herself and her lost limbs into rose petals she could reorganize herself and remain as if she never had taken damage.