The concept of Elio being saved + unable to save the Trailblazer in the og timeline and possibly drawing the gaze of Terminus to write a romantic story better ending for TB has me in a chokehold. It's literally the plot of Madoka Magica when u think about it but idc cuz both are peak 😭
Also the Elio-Cyrene parallels are driving me insane because wdym their core colors are opposites (black/blue + white/pink)??? Let's not forget the cat and Mem being like... stand-ins for both respectively since their totally romantic and not at all gut wrenching stories started 👍
Mem is most commonly referred to as a puppy too. Which like. Doesnt sound like much, but its literally the ‘opposite’ of the cat that Elio is represented by. Also both having ties to aeons similar in nature?
Plot twist, Elio actually still is the motherfucking cat, just in the same way Cyrene is Mem. NO I NEED TO LET CATLIO GO.
Anyways. The Cyrene-Elio parallels might just be something im hallucinating, but well, it’d be a really fascinating hallucination.
I do generally like to believe that Elio is from a Timeline that he’s basically rejected. I mean, he’s a follower and denier of Finality.
Trailblazer being the Protagonist not because of an aeon or fate, but because they managed to effect someone (Elio) so deeply that he simply chose to deny the ending the universe had in store for them, to change the fate of the universe as a whole just for that one person?
Well… it certainly would fit with the Trailblazer as we know them. They’re capable of reaching people in a way others have never been able to, in a way unique to themselves and themselves alone. Sunday, Dan Heng, Firefly, Phainon, Cyrene, Acheron…
The Trailblazer’s biggest strength has never been their prowess in a fight, but their ability to reach someone at their core, in deeply personal ways.
Even in the abandoned timeline, I doubt that’d be much different. I imagine that most people in that timeline were still fairly similar. Just without the influence of TB.
Hence why it was the bad timeline.
Elio went back to change tbe stories ending, and the Trailblazer’s ending in particular. Because he was someone who was still reached by the Trailblazer.
Ngl. It’s a little bit ORV Inspired imo. (Though, Amphoreus also gave me those vibes with Ampho Edition AE Trio lol)
Cyrene & Elio having parallels in that way as well is so fascinating.
But I dont want to forget the concept of Elio also having parallels with Phainon. Going back through to the start to get it right this time? Doing whatever needs to be done? Their fucking EYES???
Elio is the Trailblazer’s writer, as Cyrene ended up as Phainons, but Trailblazer was also Elio’s reader, as Cyrene was Phainon’s.
Amphoreus being a microcosm of the universe and story at whole is endlessly entertaining for me.

















