Sometimes It Takes A Man To Be Best Girl

Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.

Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.

Dante gets glimpses into the Library, and one way or another the things they see and experience and the people they meet on their journey influence who and what they're going to meet next in the Library's history.

The first Library Walp story was the Sinners going up against an Abnormality, not anything to do with a Guest. Abnormalities are something familiar. Fairy Festival has two aberrations in Limbus; Fairy Gentleman and Fairy Long Legs.

The second Library Walp story has the Full Stop Office, and Dante's been through T Corp by then. Seen the Eternal Parade. Seen Don Quixote regain her memories. I don't know if any of those things would have been relevant to the concept of the Sinners joining the Full Stop Office in fending off the Church of Gears and then clashing against Argalia, but it is worth mentioning. T Corp would have had gears, various other things would bring to mind cults and the like. That said, for all I know this Walp was an exception, because...

The next one to be a Library Walp was the General Reception for Hanafuda (Jeong's Office, Urban Plague) and Allen (Night Awls, SotC) and this is because Dante saw them together during Canto 8.

Now we're at Fixer at Daybreak, the fourth Library Walp, and the trend is continuing with another connection to the main story - Dante has access to an Identity that talk about the Smoke War and the "Fixer at Daybreak" in Valencina Rodya, and with everything to do with Gregor would be wanting to learn more.... and there it is, the other side of the story.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised at this point to see anyone from earlier on in Ruina who hasn't appeared yet, because it isn't "have we got that far yet" it's "have we seen someone who went to the Library whose story we [read: Dante] are intended to be curious about?"

With that and the way the Dawn Office were upscaled in mind, I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot more characters from early on come back well before we comfortably hit SotC, just purely because there's a lot of characters we could meet, if nothing else.

I think that regarding Walpurgis Night as being tied to Dante's perception and memory makes it all make sense? Especially if going with the theory that their identity before Limbus Company (as in, before they joined the Company) was Ayin, because- look at how coherent the Lobotomy events are compared to the Library ones.

For the Lobotomy events, everything is in chronological (ha) order. We enter starting at Malkuth (same as the Manager in lobcorp) and next we get Yesod, and then Hod, and although we skip a Netzach focused event we do get Safety Team agents, and then we get Tiphereth, and after that we get Chesed and the Welfare Team.

It's become easier to predict Lobotomy IDs and EGOs based on how far along we are in the game because it progresses at a natural rate. We even get IDs famously saying "'Tis Day 15!" and "'Tis Day 26!" to remind us that the days are coming along (thank you, Don Quixote). We haven't yet reached the point where the Manager (at this point, still "X") reaches his first Core Suppression, nor the full synchronisation of his memories with those of his past self (at this point, still referred to as "A").

It's expected that the Lobotomy events are going to carry on in this vein, carrying us to the Core Suppressions, and to certain reveals about how the Facility works.

Not so the Library.

The Library events are scattered, mostly focused on the Guests, and yet we also see an Abnormality and sometimes nothing at all other than the IDs' uptie stories to tie us to any particular person or period.

I said that this makes sense with Dante being Ayin in mind, and I'm sticking to that because think of it like this:

Ayin was there for the Lobotomy Corporation story. He was literally in the middle of it as the Manager.

The story of the Library, however? He was not. He was in the Light, presumably able to follow events, but based on how Carmen seems to be fractured into being able to talk to literally anyone and everyone at once in the City, I'd say that any memories of being within the Light and the events he experienced would be... fractured. Scattered. Like trying to catch multiple somethings floating in a pond, that get away from you when you reach your hand in.

I can't imagine that the understanding - the sheer enlightenment - that one would have in the Light is something that they could take into a human mind.

So, what do you do if you have memories of an event or series of events that won't come back?

You triangulate.

You find a point that feels familiar, and you work from there.

Dante recognises Abnormalities? Walpurgis night sends them into a Book with an Abnormality that needs to be Suppressed.

Dante makes a few connections in their mind? They get a scenario that pushes them to keep going no matter what.

Faust: There may be an incident in the future in which LCB's journey comes to an untimely halt due to our failure to find the 'conclusion' in a Walpurgis Night event… mm. It appears the access to that information is still locked.

Dante sees people others point out are from the Library, and they find them in the next Walpurgis extraction.

Not everything is relevant. Nothing is in chronological order.

It also makes sense because if Walpurgis Night is tied to the Golden Bough in Dante's head in any way, which I think it is, then of coures it's going to connect to things in this sort of way.