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huhhhhhhh. I mean I thought it was the case that they ran out of time/budget since Last Encore was SUPER short. I guess I’ll check out the drama CD sometime maybe and see how it treats her when not having to be bogged down by that?

I did like her conceptually; seeing her inner pain about “always being the weakest” was interesting it’s just that they didn’t do anything beyond that so it was like. ok. thanks for looking like you were gonna lead up to Some Dank Emotional Bullshit i guess????

But regarding timelines.......

Idk something isn’t really adding up for me with that explanation? I mean, they don’t really make it clear regardless, and it’s canon that the Moon Cell does it’s little thing fuckin over and over and over again a la Twice........ But there seems to be no small amount of blame placed on Hakunon that implies that her not defeating Twice was the reason the Moon Cell got all fucky in the first place? There’s one bit toward the end in particular when discussing the outcome of Hakunon vs. Leo where DF!Hakuno is thinking about maybe this wouldn’t have all happened if it was Leo who won instead of Hakunon since he was so strong

There’s also the fact that Twice even says “No one came” until Hakuno in ep 13. As well as Rani and Rin not able to ascend or die not being a result of the moon cell ceasing to function. The Moon Cell couldn’t properly observe who was the winner or loser so it did The Thing to them, but they were already locked into that state BEFORE the Moon Cell ceased to function. Because it ceased to function, it used “humans as [the floor’s] gears” since it couldn’t sustain itself any longer, but locking Rin and Rani into that fight happened before shit was fucky and they were fighting for nearly 1000 years, which directly lines up with the amount of time everyone else has been suffering/the amount of time elapsed since everything got fucky/etc.

Same with Alice’s bit. Things look normal in DF!Hakuno’s flashbacks of her; there’s even reaction shots of her sometimes after he leaves of Buddha/Twice’s thing appearing in the sky and everyone freaking out about the grail war being fucked. But in the actual beginning of the flashbacks, things look more-or-less alright. And Nero commenting that “moving up a floor due to someone surrendering was rare, but she knew of it happening” contrasted directly against those flashbacks of M!Hakuno going up and their whole backstory, the implication here being that Nero knew about M!Hakuno and Alice even if she didn’t know it was them, exactly, and if so it would confirm that M!Hakuno existed at the same time as Hakunon (with his servant being fuckingggg Suzuka Gozen LMAO), but probably died after she failed against Twice since, while the Moon Cell was still A Thing Fuctioning Properly, it doesn’t look like it adheres strictly to the Week-style the OG Extra was in that would put all masters and such on the same page after elimination battles. Then he was probably in Moon Cell Purgatory and eventually just kind of......... merged with all the accumulated hatred (along with Hakunon) to be the “arm” of that hatred after nearly 1000 years of marinating in that hell.

(as a side note, it’s actually kind of eyebrow raising the Mount Purgatory a la Dante’s Divine Comedy parallels to the floor system here and I guess like the themes and progression of everything??? especially since Mount Purgatory had 7 terraces with the very top being Earthly Paradise wherein Dante witnesses a procession of an allegory within the allegory that is already The Divine Comedy, and is drastically different stylistically different than the rest of Purgatorio, that becomes a theological masque wherein characters cease to be people and are instead symbols, and reads as a grand drama and another one of God’s art. It’s also wherein Dante is reunited with Beatrice and where he ascends to heaven with her as his guide. THAT’S KIND OF A TANGENT and I think maybe the similarities are more parallel to other works that have had their own interpretations of Dante’s Purgatory (I’m thinking specifically of Umineko no Naku Koro Ni) but it still works incredibly well considering the framework)