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Jesse: What the fuck are you talking about?

Walter: *sigh* alright Jesse, let me make this simple for you. Kids are more inclined to buy vapes if you give them a fun flavour, yes?

Jesse: Yeah?

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Ralsei is the prince alone in deepest dark, Noelle is the girl with hope crossed on her heart and Susie is the cage with human soul and parts.

Noelle being the girl with hope crossed on her heart is already treated ground. Pure crystal + thorn ring makes a sword and the girl is depicted holding a sword. Wierd route connects with LOVE finding its way to the girl. All that stuff

But I also believe Susie to be the cage with human soul and parts for the following reasons:

1

The mural is depicted with what seem to be claws. Cool.

2

The word cage does not feel very aplicable to Kris. They sure seem to be stuck with the soul but more as a vessel. Though consider what would likely happen if the soul ever atempted to control Susie. She has time after time show to be able to refuse the will of the soul, if the soul were to try and control her she would like still have a lot of autonamy. Plus, given that Kris can rip out the soul it seems that the possesed can exert influence on the coming and going of the soul.

Thus, if the soul were to try and control Susie it is likely that she would be able to both keep her autonomy and not let the soul leave. The soul would be unable to leave nor exert its will, like its stuck in a cage.

3

Given that Susie was able to bleed at the end of chapter 4 people have begun to speculate that she could be part human. If this is true she would also meet the "Human parts" part of the mural.

She would even fit better than Kris by a little. I'd say "with human parts" is much more descriptive of something which is part human than an actual human. That or the prophecy just struggled with comming up with a good rhyme.

4

It would fit thematically as a climax to Susie being able to refuse the player any choice. I feel its too big of a part of her story to not be relevant in whatever her stories climax is.

5

A sequence of the game where the player is controlling Susie and they are only able to take actions which she aproves of would go very, very hard. Massive aura potential. The player would control Susie but Susie would then also control the player.

So what is up with Kris then? Not too much is know about their motivation but I do believe that they could have inserted themselves into the story somehow. Perhaps they Intercepted the soul somehow, Maybe that is why they seem to be hiding the soul from Susie. Maybe? At this point it's still ambigues enough for any number of interpertations to be feasable so I'll just leave that be until next chapter. Assuming next chapter doesn't debunk this theory.

I don't fully know how this would impact the story as there are still a lot of unknowns with regard to Kris' motivations and the ending of the prophecy but I do expect Susie and the soul will interact a lot more in upcomming chapters.

Perhaps the player will need to defeat her or get her out of the picture in some other way in order to continue the wierd route. And if they don't Susie will intercept the soul trying to control Noelle and then she will force the game back on the normal route.

Maybe she can be possesed by the soul without any of the wierd route prep work cause of the half human thing?

After issue 64 with Whisper and Duo and Silver and all that I am slightly worry how they will stick the landing there since Whisper made a big accusation and nobody even bother to ask or explain why Whisper and Silver though Duo was Mimic. Anyway I would like for that to be retconned.

So somewhere in the next few issues there will be an issue that starts of right after Jewel talked with Duo in the hospital bed at the end of issue 64. While heading back to her office she runs into the diamond cutters and Sonic is also there after having handed the pasta to Tails and Amy. They were waiting by hear office because they wanted to speak with hear. Whisper explains that she thought she saw Duo kick Silvers heel during training and after confronting Silver about it later he brought up, unprovoked, that Dous eyes changed to black in colour. They all agree that that specific of a detail could not have been stress or coincidence or anything. Nobody fully believes Duo is Mimic yet aside from Tangle. Whisper herself started second guessing herself as well but Tangle says she believes her which helps Whisper be more confident again. They do all agree they should keep an eye on Duo. They end up asking Rouge and maybe Shadow too if they can gather information on Duo, they agree to in exchange for a chaos emerald. The diamond cutters, Jewel and Sonic agree to leave it to Rouge and Shadow and only tell people they know they can trust until Rouge and Shadow come back with a conclusion about what he is planning because Whisper reasons that establishing a false identity is not what Mimic normally does and there might be more going on. Lanolin also asks whoever ends up telling silver of the plan that she is sorry she sent him without letting him explain himself and that he is welcome to rejoin the diamond cutters if he would like.

Rouge and Shadow end up confirming that Duo is Mimic and also that he has secret meetings with Clutch who Rouge recognizes from issue 34. They also see that Surge and Kit know that Duo is Mimic. They can probably get help from some gadgets made by Tails for the job.

At the same time that issue 70 is occurring, in Jewels office, Rouge and Shadow tell Jewel that this is all they could find about Duo without risk of getting spotted and that the rest will be up to the restoration. Jewel thanks them for their help and tells gives them a chaos emerald. Duo knocks on the door and Shadow uses chaos control to leave with Rouge. Jewel welcomes Duo in and the scene with the two of them from issue 70 plays out.

Jewel later relays the findings of Rouge and Shadow to the diamond cutters and Sonic and who ever else they are sure they can trust. They agree not to tell Surge or Kit that that they know Duo is Mimic but either Sonic or Amy tells them anyway to try and show them that they trust them. Don't know if it would be better if they betrayed that trust or not but I think it would be fun. After that the story can continue as normal while the restoration tries to find out what exactly Mimic and Clutch are planning.