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After reading today’s manhwa chapter, I was suddenly reminded of the fact that the cheerful theme park as we know it now was different to the one Soleum knew from the wiki. When I first read about this, I thought it was because the park changes every visit, so the story behind the theme park also changes each visit. But then we learned that the park doesn’t change spontaneously, it simply grows with the mascot’s desires. And I thought, ah, Soleum’s visit to the park must be happening at a different point in time to the entry he originally read.

Now, I think it’s because of Soleum’s presence.

I already wrote a brief theory on Soleum and the Yellow Mascot ages ago here but this one’s about the Blue Dragon’s relation instead.

A brief summary of my previous post: as we already know, the DER wiki has lore and entries spanning decades. Soleum was summoned at a time where many of those entries he’s read in the past were about events that had yet to happen in the future, but that which he’d end up changing because of his very presence. (Tuesday Quiz Show and Train to Tamra being the most obvious 2)

But what if those changes had been happening even sooner than during his time as a Daydream employee? What if they’ve been happening since the moment he arrived in Sekwang?

Blue Dragon lost his home due to Director Cheong’s interference, the very thing she uses to sabotage CRI’s summoning attempt. But he was still contracted to the DMB as (most likely) the Blue Dragon Team’s guardian spirit beast. However, he lost that too when Sekwang was sealed. And this gave Cheong the opportunity to stuff Blue Dragon into the mascot suit.

What if the original dragon in the mascot suit in the DER wiki wasn’t Blue Dragon, but a different entity entirely? And due to this different entity’s temperament, the stalemate between the Red, Blue and Yellow zones lasted much longer. After all instead of fighting back against Magic Bunny’s attacks, Blue Dragon hid the entrance to his zone away.

Points against this theory: Mermaid Grave and Sekwang City Disaster both existed as wiki entries before Soleum’s summoning. Assuming things turned out the same as with Soleum being the cause of the disaster, Blue Dragon would’ve also been weakened by the incident and been the perfect prey.

anyways, I do wonder what caused such a difference between the two settings of the Cheerful Theme Park ghost story. Because technically the Yellow mascot’s body must’ve been scavenged after it died to the Magic Bunny. So it being harvested for parts afterwards has no bearings on— wait.

Actually, I think I have it. Yellow mascot being harvested for parts after it died to Magic Bunny meant that there wasn’t enough of its body left over for it to respawn. The Yellow Mascot’s ghost(?) Was still there when Soleum took over, and it probably hid its main components deep inside the resort like Magic Bunny did with itself and the body it was trying to make. Probably buried somewhere underneath the basement. And just like with Magic Bunny, simply killing the main mascot wasn’t enough to destroy it completely. Didn’t Soleum mention something like how Magic Bunny could come back if they didn’t get rid of every last bit of its influence? which is why they went to the castle with Blue Dragon to remove it.

Huh. Problem solved. Post cancelled.