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THEORY FOR SPARKLE: MONODRAMA TRAILER
The popular theory for Sparkle right now is that in the trailer, her red masked version represents Aha, her white and red masked version represents her current self, and her white masked version represents who she used to be. Whilst scrolling these theories many people pointed out inconsistencies, but I think I have a theory that gets rid of those.
The crucial part to this is that in the scene of 0:28 to 1:12, you have to view it as a conversation between two seperate people.
For the purpose of this theory, the red mask will be referred to as Aha, and white mask will be Sparkle.
In the scene shown Aha shows up to play a game of Russian roulette with Sparkle, with an unknown wager. It’s important to note that the reason they likely approached Sparkle is that their personality from then to now is probably quite similar, and her manic behaviour possibly intrigued Aha.
Sparkle takes the bet and does her first shot (1/6), which doesn’t fire. She gets interrupted by enemies and starts to take them out, commenting on how they’re in her way. She throws the gun over to Aha who responds with “so what?”, who then catches the gun and takes a shot that doesn’t fire (2/6). They aim to take another shot before being attacked, and dodge the attack, taking a third shot in the motion which doesn’t fire (3/6). Aha comments on Sparkle pretending to be smart, and asking what a fool is, and saying that it is knowing when to act clueless, like they do. They take another shot after taking out the enemy, which doesn’t fire (4/6). Aha then passes the gun to Sparkle who looks visibly shocked.
The scene switches and it shows Aha forcing Sparkle to point the gun at their head. Sparkle tugs away, looking frustrated, and the reason for this is that this has come down to a 50/50 chance. If Aha takes the shot now and it doesn’t fire, Sparkle is guaranteed to have lost the bet.
Aha takes the shot, and the lines of colour pour out, indicating this was not a shot and they have won the bet. This is further backed up by the scene at 1:35, with Sparkle being forced to take the final shot, with a line of white representing the direction of the bullet.
Now it’s unclear what was actually wagered in this bet. Since it’s Russian roulette it’s heavily implied it’s her life, but she’s still living and the difference between the red-white mask and the fully white mask seem to represent her leaving behind her past self –with the red-white mask representing her path of elation– instead of losing her life itself.
Back on topic, it’s unclear if she willingly went into the path of elation because of what Aha taught her during the game, or if she was forced to by the bet. It’s more likely she was manipulated emotionally or psychologically into accepting the path of elation since she seems like she enjoys it, instead of being physically forced, and therefore garnering hatred for it, which she doesn’t seem to have.
In summary, the theory is that Aha and Sparkle engaged in a game of Russian roulette, with Aha coming out on top and Sparkle joining the path of elation as a result. Sparkle likely was mostly manic even in her earlier days but still held onto her own frustrations and humanity; the death of the white-mask represents her letting go of that humanity and embracing the path of elation.
I don’t know if others have already come to this conclusion but this is what I gathered from it! :)
Honkai: Star Rail spoilers ahead! This theory is about major plot points of the Penacony Trailblaze quest! This theory was made in 2.0, so this will most likely be debunked or revealed in upcoming patches. Also, theres basically no evidence for this, it just seems right idk. Enjoy!
The little boy looking for Mikhail (the Watchmaker) in the real Dreamscape turned into the “Death” meme. After Amber Eras of frantically searching for Mikhail, he grew more and more miserable until he slowly turned into that meme monster. His consciousness, however, manifested into a separate being, known as Misha. He has no memories of his former life or what has become of his physical form. Thats why only Stelle can see him. Its cuz hes just consciousness. I don’t know what his relationship to Mikhail is, maybe he even is Mikhail, but either way, we’re gonna save Misha, unmonsterify the meme, and revive Firefly. Hopefully…
Honkai: Star Rail spoilers ahead! If you haven’t completed the Version 2.2 main story “Then Wake to Weep” and don’t want to be spoiled, avert thine gaze!
Everyone’s talking about how powerful Acheron is as the Emanator of Nihility, but are we just gonna ignore the fact that the Trailblazer is technically a triple Emanator?
I don't know why but I smell that the indescribable attachment of Stelle toward Kafka will be one of the main reasons of why the trio will be separate in the future.
My bet? He's lying. We've seen in the Second Eruption manga that he'll throw his own life and mind on the line to ensure victory and that he can predict what people will do before they even think of it, so it wouldn't be that far of a stretch to say he went into the dream willingly and knowingly with the understanding that everything would probably be fine in the end and if he took all the dangerous jobs (first confrontation with Sunday in 2.2, protecting us from the Family in 2.0 and 2.1) everything would be fine because he has 300,000 souls anyways.
My big question here is how did he not effect the Dreamscape? I mean, he probably can. Like, the big tip off for other people could very well have been "time and space are warping around Welt", but they weren't. Raises some questions for me.
New update spoilers what's the number? It's "then wake to weep"
Ok even though I do in my brain know that they aren't going to have Welt pull any weird herrscher shit this early in the life of the game, part of this kinda came off as a bit of a bait and switch to me? Ok probably not the word but .
So the thing with this update is the reveal that we have been in the dream since we first got to penacony and hallucinated Acheron. She's maybe the first to wake up from the dream because nihility (also detail to note: this probably means that under normal circumstances Acheron is probably a lot less likely to get lost everywhere) alongside others like Robin and Swan. Now what bugs me is this:
Why didn't Welt wake up on his own??? Ok there may be other reasons for that, such as him being unlikely to realize he is already in the dream but it bugs me deeply to remember that he pretty much foreshadowed the end plan by talking about project stigma early on (really fed me there tho) and then he somehow seems more resistant to considering it happened? Also that they brought up Nihility helping people wake and Welt is a nihility character...
This is one of those things where yeah there may be more reasons sure, but looking at it from a writing point of view it feels like the one and only truly loose end of this update. I could retcon it all to make sense though... I have a little bit of an idea that Welt may be like Dan Heng and have his own secret secondary path that isn't nihility cause this is just my thoughts but why did all the other nihility characters wake up before him :( I think we are likely having another update in penacony though and that's awesome cause tackling this or not I feel like the story would benefit from another Acheron and Welt interaction
Idk that was my thoughts today I may have more later but these are the words I have inside