#ons resurrection

A rather tricky title for a theory, but actually, it’s something that I find rather amusing, is he trying to save Mika or is he trying to save Mikaela?

P.S: Theories are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded

As it’s been mentioned for a good time, the whole issue within the story is that Shikama is seeking to resurrect his son Mikaela, tasking his creation, Yuu, to help him resurrect no matter the cost and sacrifices made.

Image taken from Chapter 113

Despite the canon information about labeling Mika as the son of Shikama, there’s something rather trickish with the details given, what do I mean?

First of all, despite the lack of continuity in the Mikaela LNs, it is hinted that for so long, Rigr Stafford and Ferid Bathory seeked those carrying out the Michaela trait; and of course, with years, only Mika carried out both genes, the Seraph and the Michaela trait. But, even so, the story is slowly and gradually showing that it is highly possible that there’s a huge gap between Mikaela and Mika; is there solid proof?

There is:

Image taken from Chapter 114

Rigr points out that Shikama indeed found out a child who appeared in front of the Hyakuya Orphanage to meet the standards for the resurrection of his son, but it isn’t mentioned that his son reincarnated, but rather, a vessel for Mikaela was found.

Of course, Rigr kept delaying such scenario over and over until we reached the current events of the story, but, how does this relate to the question of the theory title?

Easy. Yuu is not focused on resurrectinng Mika from 16 years ago, but rather, he’s focusing to bring back the existance of Mikaela. But isn’t that a good thing? Isn’t it the same Mika?

Image taken from Chapter 120

For this, the answer is no. Certain reader might point out that it’s the authors story and while it’s indeed true that it is Kagami’s story at the end of the day, stories take the elemental essence of inspiration and ultimately, in order to dig into such topics, Owari is certainly not the first to touch the topics of resurrection, cloning processes, memory transfer, vessels or tools. 

In fact other anime/game title stories touch reincarnation including books that focus on doing the action such as: REGRESSION. Along this, there’s a phrase that I love so much and I’d love to quote it:

“The World allows a mind to find another matching vessel, but does not allow a vessel to gather the pieces of a mind”.

And perhaps you’ll wonder, what touches or dwelves this phrase upon, it’s simple; humans are unique, we have certain factors that determinate who we are despite sharing charms, characteristics, ideals and goals; that elemental point that makes or gives us identity even with the spawn of time, centuries and the possibility of reincarnation, cannot be replicated; the only way to save someone would be going to the past and alter it to give such being a new possibility.

But, what does this have to do with Mika’s resurrection?

Mikaela is certainly a character that misfortune focused due to all the things that have happened to him, but there’s one interesting detail and that is the very fact that he holds “key points” for elements of the story and the topic about the resurrection is no exception:

Image taken from chapter 106

Mikaela as a character is wary of his own footsteps in contrary with Yuu, therefore, there’s also another key element to mark the difference between Mika and Mikaela, what could it be?

A demon’s mind.

Once a vampire turns into a demon, they suffer amnesia depending a lot on the circumstances they were turned into; in contrary to Mika, vampires such as Ashera, Noya, Byakkomaru, Raimeiki, Gekkouin and Kiseki-O who were turned by the First and held sanity along his memories:

Image taken from Chapter 106

Back when Mika was exploring Yuu’s inner memories, he spotted the demons that are currently sealed in their respective cursed gears; nevertheless, the demons present had their own memories, will and loyalty towards the First; which of course, such memories were temporaly blocked until the required trigger was lifted.

But, in Mika’s case, the memories he recovered were the ones he lived through his 16 years of life; there wasn’t even a trace from a distant past; and even despite him seeing Shikama Doji present, it was evident that he didn’t grreet him with a smile or with the warmness he was supposed to feel towards a parent; this is even highlighted by Shikama himself after spotting Mikaela, instead of ensuring or giving a hug; the air he gave was intimidating: 

Image taken from chapter 106

But despite all these key points; Yuu’s goal stopped being focused on just giving Mika his humanity back, but rather, he is now focused on resurrecting him along his catchy phrase of resurrecting everyone, which is impossible. (For that, there’s a topic about it).

Even if the resurrection were to happen, there are some details that need to be explored.

And lastly, to give further strength to this theory, there’s just another surprise left that will be discussed in another theory, perhaps some might know about it, perhaps it has been long forgotten.

What kind of surprise will be?

What do you think dear readers?

Hello everyone, this is the first topic of the surprise linked to another theory, thereofre, you might wonder, what it’s so surprising about this, but in fact, there’s more to dig in such a single word despite being simple. Therefore, let’s begin!

P.S: Theories are held within a neutral view and ships are excluded

So far we know the resurrection of humanity is a process on which the corpses of whoever knows how many humans were gathered and ultimately were kept in a huge storage which was displayed in early chapters:

Image taken from Chapter 55

And in the recent chapters, it was revealed what happened to other bodies that were thought to be gone:

Image taken from Chapter 114

Though, why do I question the resurrection if it’s plain easy which is as it was explained, it is just needed to fulfill the requirements in order to trigger it:

Image taken from Chapter 114

Have you guessed my dear readers? 

First of all, the resurrection alone is applied to humans. It has never been displayed that a resurrection for a vampire and much less a demon was possible; but why? Wasn’t Shikama aiming to resurrect his son?

The difference relies that Shikama had his son’s corpse, ultimately, it is unknown whenever the corpse ceased to exist or is kept into the depths, but why do I talk about the depths?

One of the things that I find intriguing is that no matter how the story is handled, it always goes back to the main root where evil spread, and that is exactly around the cities that the Hiragi Family once controlled.

But focusing on the main point for now, here goes the main question:

Why are there issues or uncertainty with the resurrection?

We know that the resurrection means waking the dead from the eternal slumber, it means bringing their souls back to their bodies so they can once walk on Earth; alas, when it comes to the demons, how would such process even take place?

What do I mean?

Demons alone might be complex beings to explain, but despite that, they have something a corpse does not, and that is the very fact that they do harbor their respective souls despite not having a normal physical body like vampires or humans do; their physical manifestation relies a lot on a human they possess or make a contract with.

To some degree, it makes sense why Guren stated that resurrecting Mikaela would take the very same process they needed to resurrect humanity; because in order to bring back a person from zero with no phsyical body, with nothing left that made him exist on Earth, it’d be removing those shackles that bounded him or modified his entire being that made him a demon.

Furthermore, how exactly would they appear like? What do I mean?

Correct. When it comes to returning to Earth as humans with blood and flesh, there’s no doubt that if we were discussing about humanity in general, they’d preserve their physical appearance as they died long ago; but when it comes to demons whose appearance relate to their best moments of their lives or in the contrary like how Mikaela changed shape due to him being happy with both part of his childhood and finding Yuu again, the question would be:

-Will he return according to his age?

-Will he return from zero, as a baby or as a child?

-Will he have memories of who he was or will those memories fade?

At first glance, indeed, resurrecting everyone seems pretty easy, even how Guren paints it seem like it’s just bound to be that, but definitely, there are things that are left to the unknown and hopefully, time will reveal them.

What do you think dear readers?

Let me know!

P.S: The next surprise I hope it turns a bit mindblowing