#bug trio

Ruan Mei creating an Artifical Emanator-> Lygus creating Irontomb

A place of Erudtion being more suited for Destruction

Chasing after the Phase Flame to save the day-> the Flamechase

Weird memory bullshit + the Trailblazer slowly piecing together the past

The crown of the Mundane and the Divine

This motherfucker being here for some goddamn reason

Screwllum and Herta

Erudition criticism + debates over its meaning

People seemingly dying but not really

Happy-ish ending which leaves more questions than answers about the dieties in HSR

Bug Trio theory is a theory centered around Cyrene - Anaxa - Phainon as the three characters heavily connected to the three paths that intersected in Amphoreus: Remembrance (Fuli), Erudition (Nous), and Destruction (Nanook) respectively.

Cyrene — Eros (έρως) / Butterfly

Meaning: Desire or passionate love.

Role: Represents desire, longing, or attraction, often toward beauty, pleasure, or creativity. In some interpretations, it includes both romantic and aspirational desire

Bug description: Romantic and emotional souls become butterflies, dancing gracefully...

Anaxa — Logos (λόγος) / Beetle

Meaning: Reason, logic, speech, or rational thought.

Role: Represents the rational, intellectual part of the soul. It's what governs reason, deliberation, and understanding.

Bug description: Strong and rational souls become beetles, moving forward steadily.

Phainon — Thymos (θύμος) / Firefly

Meaning: Spirit, will, pride, or righteous anger.

Role: Represents the emotional/motivational part of the soul — especially the drive for recognition, honor, and justice. It's what fuels courage and indignation.

Bug description: And those with lofty ambitions or open minds are shaped into fireflies, using their light to illuminate the darkness.

Plato’s theory of the Soul

According to Plato, the soul consists of three parts, which are located in different regions of the body:

The logos (λογιστικόν), or logistikon, located in the head, is related to reason and regulates the other parts.

The thymos (θυμοειδές), or thumoeides, located near the chest region, is related to spirit.

The eros (ἐπιθυμητικόν), or epithumetikon, located in the stomach, is related to one's desire.

The function of the epithymetikon is to produce and seek pleasure. The function of the logistikon is to rule through the love of learning gently. The function of the thymoeides is to obey the directions of the logistikon while ferociously defending the whole from external invasion and internal disorder.

Plato makes the point that the logistikon would be the smallest part of the soul (as the rulers would be the smallest population within the Republic), but that, nevertheless, a soul can be declared just only if all three parts agree that the logistikon should rule.

Sumerian Deities Counterparts

The bug trio’s design incorporates the crescent moon, the eight-pointed star, and the solar disk, which are symbols of Sumerian deities; Sin the god of the Moon, Inanna the goddess of War, Love, and Fertility, and Shamash the god of the Sun.

The Judgement of Shamash is also the divine key wielded by Kevin Kaslana in HI3.

Bug Trio Theories Masterlist

Bug Trio Chart — by Alice

Do you believe in the Bug Theory? — by ShiroLovesKeith

Bug Trio & how they represent their part of humans/the soul (feat. philosophy, religion, character analyses, and alchemy) — by _WhiteTower

We have been seen the Anaxa is Zandar and Lygus is another Rupert almost like canon buf what if, (thanks for nothing stupid leaks that make me scream while my brain go mush trying to theorize)

What if Anaxa is part of Rupert the one that make the anti organic equation and later get another perspective thanks to Rupert 2 in domination but now in Amphoreous get broken apart after Nanook gaze upon Khaos and alongside the iterations of Khaos he has been learning and Lygus is the part of Zandar that get disillusioned with the world because even if he help with the Screws and make Nous during all that and seeing Nous calculations begin slowly to hate the world, Nous try to slow down finality approaching so he begin to hate what his creation is doing so he grew resentful and want to kill THEM

So he enter in a hidden scepter and because he get inspired by Rupert he begin the experimentation at first to try to find a reason to why but not that later at seeing Destruction interest and the cyclical nature he get infatuated with perfect an Equation not just anti-organic but against everything, a perfect Destruction Equation so he can take two birds with one stone, proving the prime mover of life and get a new beginning with everything becoming more beautiful to him, a definitive answer, meanwhile Khaos get repeated again and again getting reforged like Nannok do in the Forge until he become a better vessel of destruction

Rupert or at least a part of him wake up, at first he was in a safe mode, learning like his programming compel him, but because of the scepter and outside intervention he can't take the administration role because he is getting fixed, slowly but surely, more and more pieces of himself get added but at the same time simultiok, knowledge, examples that he never contemplate thanks to his broken modulated are inserted alongside his memories, appreciation, feeling, morals, things he despise about organic life he begin to fall in love with, Humanity not as an enemy or a error but as another form of evolution, just like machines can do things humans too, they bring the last piece to the evolution and should be admired and protected

He takes many roles in the simulation to see all perspective of life, god and mortal, rich and poor, noble and beggar, warrior and diplomatic, artist and scholar, devoted and atheist, woman and men, child and elder, all paths of life bring him something new until what in the beginning was just the cold apathy of an emperor who see the world as something for be saved to a his prime code the one that begin his own evolution, research and answer, he see now how brash and faulty his actions were before even if he can't find regret in them, now his directives has changed

In the last cycle he decide to take the identity of Anaxagoras an atheist scholar, he wants to be in direct contact with Khaos or like this iteration is called in the archives, Neikos496, and while seeing his ascension as Lord Ravanger would be interesting he wants to see if Humanity, the biggest piece of Khaos and their iterations have been fervently grasp on their code could survive

SkeMma720 and the prime mobile that the Admin inscribe seems to align with his objective and take the role as Phainon professor, but even him with all the times seeing the simulation and living in humanity shoes had never expect Neikos and Philia decision, no, that names are giving to them but don't fit, Khaslana and Cyrene, Eternal Recurrence, he can influence slightly in the cycles but he is as trapped as Lycurgus and Khaslana, passively taking information, trying to preserve the best he can this Amphoreous cycle after truly fall in love with the people ge meet, before it was in passing as subjects and factors not as complete individuals but he learn, he fail, he win, he suffer, he hate and he love with the same intensity that drive him as the Emperor of the Machine Empire, he won't let Lygus destroy everything, the suffering of Khaslana and Cryrene would not be in vain but even he can't find a perfect solution after all 33550335 cycles, if he do things harshly he can risk destroying everything, his equation mutate in something that even him need to treat with care and he can't just destroy it because it's an essential part of the code of everything, specially the Chrysos Heirs with their destruction alignment imbued in their golden blood, how fortuitous that his specialty is the soul research and alchemy, but while he was getting a bit desperate at seeing Khaslana and Cryrene situation but the trailblazers came now, a New variable that bring the final piece to their salvation

And this basically it, this idea get in my brain after I go a bit crazy trying to complete gold and gears because my run get fucked more than once (stupid transformation dice that fuck my run)

This more than theory is a funny idea from a demented mind, the probability of this is -95% but if even a piece get confirmed I would make an aluminum hat