Theory? about Witch Hat's current arc and what it could entail
Spoilers at least up to chapter 96 of the manga
Okay, so I was fumbling around the independent witch hat wiki for inspiration, and I stopped at the section about the mythology of the world. I said, "Cool, maybe this will help."
There's a section on this page about a trilogy of drawings Sensei did of three epics of Zozah
The first one is about the Dadah King's death and the other about the King and his witch
But there's a third one.
"Song of the Princess who married the wind, handed down in the tribe of the dragon herders"
While the first two have been referenced in the anime, this is the only one that hasn't. The Japanese version of chapter 96 referred to the current arc as something akin to the "Dragon Isles arc". This arc is the perfect place to introduce the full story behind the princess's epic.
The thing about the princess marrying the wind might also be connected; there have been some ominous mentions of something in the wind, not only by Vinanna (and its mention immediately worries Beldaruit) in chapter 75, but by Eoleo when talking to Riliphin.
The mysterious person at the end of chapter 96 is also introduced with their hair blowing in the wind.
The princess who married the wind passed by the people who herded the dragons and possibly lived on the isle of dragons. I don't think this is all a coincidence, not entirely at least.
I was about to call it off on theorising, but something else caught my attention when taking a closer look at the art of the princess.
The buns. My mind immediately remembered not only the cover of chapter 96, but the bonus chapter of volume 8.
Tetia has a similar side-bun style on the cover of the chapter that introduces the arc, and again when she calls herself a princess.
My theory is that Tetia has some connection to the dragon isles. Wheter she is aware of it or not. And we're going to find more about it in this arc.
Maybe it's a stretch, but I'm dying for Tetia lore, the whole connection she started having with the nobles by stumbling onto Eoleo during the Silver Eve. A witch whose past is connected by blood to a princess, making herself a contradiction of the pact that says royalty and witch life can't be mixed, so there are no more wars or conflict.
