#lord luminous

Lord Selene (Lord Moon. Companion is Luna, his Lunar.) Loves candy and is very socially anxious because his star wiped half his personality and most of his memories in the wipe.

Lord Hypernova (Lord Kill Code. Companion is Void, his Moon.) 30' tall megalith of an animatronic. Is a safe haven for dimension travelers and has a soft spot for versions of his children from other dimensions.

Lord Pulsar (Lord Eclipse. Companions are his Sun, Dawn, and an Eclipse from another world, Magnetar.) Age regresses, becoming quite kind due to Magnetar's influence. Loves cotton candy.

Lord Artemis (Lord Blood Moon. Companion is Telesto, his Moon.) Very kind, very depressed. Still traumatized and depressed from his twin dying in the star going off. Loves all travelers, though his universe is not particularly safe for them at most times with random spatial jolts.

Lord Styx (Lord Harvest Moon. Companion is Nyx, his Eclipse.) A mean son of a bitch at first. Gets better once he realizes Nyx has no memory. He's very sassy and snarky but kind to those who he was close to before the star went off (Lunars and Blood Moons).

Lord Luminous (Lord Lunar. Companions are all of his family; Incandescent [Sun], Phosphorescent [Moon], Fluorescent [Eclipse], Iridescent [Blood Moon], Opalescent [Harvest Moon], and Pearlescent [Kill Code].) An abusive asshole at first but, once confronted with his abuse of his companions, Luminous becomes much kinder and willing to cooperate and try to undo the century of abuse he put them through. Loves spicy food, does the one chip challenge like they're doritos.

Lord Fractal [yep I made a new one again] (Lord Solar. Companion is no-one.) Lord Fractal took in Lunar's star power in a desperate attempt to save Lunar from judgment by the Astral Bodies, which caused the powers to go haywire and wipe the universe. Lord Fractal existed in a small corner of his universe for fifty-three years in a 'paradise' where his family was no longer dead, though it was only an illusion. After those fifty-three years, he realized he was in an illusion of his own making and used his star powers to create a world for him to live on rather than floating in space (though he can't figure out how to recreate his family). Fractal is a very lonely soul simply going through the motions of his old life with his star powers giving him whispers of the life he used to have and illusions of the family he lost when his star power went haywire.

Hi hi @lord-luminous :)

I honestly didn’t think it was a theory … I thought it was a given.

We only know Barun Sobti’s character as “Advay Singh Raizada” because the promotional material has suggested it. I’m pretty sure that Sobti’s character didn’t tell us his name in Episode 1. So the visual linking of the character and the name “Dev” that you mentioned suggests very strongly that he is Dev.

For me, the question when I was watching Episode 1 wasn’t whether he’s Dev or not. It was why did he change his name? This is from the Saat Soch:

I love the idea of the stone with his name to it. I love the duality of him running to save the murti (and thus the maha aarti and Chandni herself), and Chandni running to the stone with his name on it (but it said … Chandu-Dev? *squints at screen*). The yellow dupattas curtains were a nice touch, indicating the presence of the divine, which aligned well with what Advay was doing at the time.

And look at her running from her past, to him, and him pulling in the present. I love the set up of this sequence, it was brilliant.

I find it intriguing that he never took his name. Arnav’s sense of identity is tied so strongly to his name “Arnav Singh Raizada” that it was the first thing we learnt about him. He thinks highly of his name because it’s a name he created for himself. It speaks of power and wealth and effort and making himself something out of nothing. 

Hey @lord-luminous :)

Thank you so much, I’m glad you like it :D As I don’t dislike Anjali or have a problem with her, I can’t really answer for anyone who does. I don’t think you’re weird, if that means anything!

After the first reveal, there was a great deal of exhaustion and tension in the fandom because Khushi and Arnav just couldn’t seem to catch a break. They were very ‘two steps forward, one step back’ – something went wrong anytime they made progress in their relationship. As a consequence, Anjali’s attempt at an abortion, her attempts at manipulation etc, were interpreted as attention-seeking because they tore Khushi and Arnav apart again. 

The ratings plummeted before the Didi Ki Saut track really took hold, which is why there’s an abrupt change where Khushi and Anjali hastily make up just before Dadi enters. Fans wanted to see Arshi work against a common enemy much more than they wanted to see them being torn apart again.

On top of this, I think a lot of people see Anjali and Khushi competing for Arnav’s time and energy, and they get upset whenever she ‘gets between’ them. For example, people bring up Arnav wearing a kurta for Khushi after a lifetime of not wearing them for Anjali as evidence that Khushi means more to him. Some pockets of the fandom don’t seem to understand that a sister and a wife don’t usually occupy the same sphere in a person’s life.

(I suspect this is cultural. We’ve perpetuated the idea that a mother and a wife must fight for control over a man’s life in saas-bahu type wars, normalising this concept to the point where it seems plausible that the sister Arnav sees as a mother is a threat to his marriage.)

I’ve gotten a lot of questions over the years about why Anjali just didn’t believe Arnav at the first reveal, and I get the sense that some viewers genuinely don’t understand the mental and emotional abuse she endured. They see her as a whiny crybaby who ruined things for Arshi at times, someone who tried to manipulate Arnav and made Khushi feel terrible when it was finally time for Arnav and Khushi to be happy.

Some of them, like Lord Artemis, Lord Styx, and Lord Pulsar would be concerned that Lord Night is clearly quite distressed but they understand he's interacting with another Lunar, which may be slightly stressful for him.

Others like Lord Selene and Lord Hypernova would offer Lord Night to possibly regress to see if he too could have such a coping mechanism buried. Though, if that doesn't work, they'd help him find a method that does work besides ignoring his past.

Lord Shade would simply pick him up and hold him. Lunar to Lunar comfort time for awkward Lord Night. Lord Luminous would just sigh and gesture Lord Night to come over and explain that coping methods are different for different people, which technically Blacky and Night are as their experiences were different. Lord Night learned to bottle himself up and hide his trauma, but Blacky learned to outwardly show his trauma on his sleeve.

Lord Luminous’s life pre-star was a hell-fest. His Eclipse was so much more abusive than canon. He would lock his body for days on end, torture him to ‘keep him in line’, beat him unconscious, give him constant injuries, break him over and over and over only to fix him back to barely functional each time he broke him.

When Lord Luminous was meant to give Blood Moon the body, he didn’t stop them in time.

The twins nearly tore him apart, giggling all the while they were slowly leaving him on the brink of death. They left him only conscious enough to drawl back to the daycare and curl up in a party room crying.

Eclipse finds Lord Luminous like this and fixes him again, though he didn’t break him to begin with, and tortures him on how he got so injured. Lord Luminous lets slip that he knows Blood Moon.

Eclipse turns the torture 24/7 after that betrayal and Lord Luminous lives in agony for the next two weeks before Eclipse gets the star. When Eclipse gets the star finally, he releases Lunar from the torture machine and brings him out to see the star working as it’s almost finished charging.

Lord Luminous is so exhausted after two weeks of torture and the betrayal of Blood Moon that he’s stumbling and clinging onto Eclipse just to stay standing.

During this exhausted state, Lord Luminous asks to talk to Sun one last time before the wipe and Eclipse allows this for only a moment. Lord Luminous asks Sun if he would hurt him too, to which Sun says yes, since he thinks Lord Luminous is just hurt after getting the star.

Lord Luminous asks Moon if he would hurt him and gets another struggled ‘yes, for hurting me all month!’. Lord Luminous sees knows Monty hates him after the incident with Blood Moon, he said it to his face that he made a monster before Monty let him crawl back to the daycare by himself.

Once the star is fully charged and Monty sends Blood Moon to kill Eclipse, Lord Luminous gets ahold of the star and holds it for comfort because it’s so warm and he’s cold and he activates it to wipe the world and restart it as something peaceful.

When Lord Luminous wakes up in his new world, Monty is dead and Sun (Incandescent), Moon (Phosphorescent), Eclipse (Fluorescent), and Blood Moon (Iridescent, aka the chaotic twin, and Opalescent, the calmer twin) are still alive, but thoroughly beaten and broken. Kill Code (Pearlescent) gets pulled out of Phos eventually and also asked if he would betray him as well, which he says he would for what he’s done and what he undoubtedly plans to do.

He locks them in dungeons, isolating them even from each other as he makes his world perfect. He leaves them there for a fifty years, not minding that they’ve long since broken how he did and become quite humble and loyal servants of his. And, if it doesn’t work to make them his proper servants, Lord Luminous will toss them back in.

None of his servants dare try to betray him anymore or they get locked in the dungeons again. There was only two incidents of attempts to betray him. One with Iri and Opal and another with Pearl. Iri and Opal for fun and Pearl for isolating him from his sons.

Lord Infero just facepalms. He hadn’t even realized they slipped from their leash, and he knows they’ve claimed their counterparts as theirs now. Now he’s gonna have to explain that his gremlin brothers aren’t going to give their new adoptees back.🦇