History Fridge / TheEminenceInShadow

* There are several reasons why there are less humans with Demonic Possessions:

** It could also be a glimpse into how the Seven Shadows would’ve lived their lives had they not been cursed

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* While the dynamic of the older, stronger and responsible sister and younger, weak and naive brother is just another staple cliche in Light Novels but it makes a lot of sense that Cid, who has read of these tropes before, wants this to happen. Remember Claire's line that she herself learned a lot from her brother. It tells that Cid has been secretly training her since the beginning. Not only is he emulating that scenario to fit his fantasies but by making his older sister the center of attention, he can go about doing his own devices without interference.

* While Cid does show some honor in not taking his bloodlust out on those he deems pitiable, another reason is that he wasn't going to kill anyone who might have the potential to become future heroes. After all, some great heroes started out as underdogs.

* Zenon is confident to become a Rounds member because not only did he captured Princess Alexia but he also thinks he will succeed where Grease had failed years ago by acquiring one of the cult's targets, Claire Kagenou whose brother Zenon had detained to be used as TheScapegoat and a hostage to force Claire to comply with his demands.
* During the fight between Shadow and Zenon, Alexia notices how it's less of a fight and more of like a practice session between an adult and a child. That's because it actually is but for Alexia's benefit. Cid did meant it to her that he liked her swordsmanship so he's showing the princess how basic sword techniques can overcome the Bushin Style with Zenon being Shadow's unfortunate practice dummy.
* In Chapter 7 of the manga, it's shown that Nu immediately bolted to Cid's side when Hyoro starts hitting on her. Then it's later revealed in the next chapter that Nu used to be a student of Midgar Academy. Suddenly, her action is more or less born from personally seeing how much of a creep that guy is.

* When Shadow faced Iris at the Bushin Festival, Shadow has expressed nothing but disrespect towards her. Considering how much time he spent with Alexia, he has a good amount of information on who Iris is, especially her insistence that Shadow had used an artifact for power. There is also the possibility that his disrespect comes towards her self-doubt in their fight since unlike Annerose, who continued to fight with valor despite knowing the sheer difference in skill and power, Iris was completely paralyzed out of fear during their fight and only fought properly once she decided to assist Beatrix.

* Rose's induction to Shadow Garden takes inspiration from ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter'': A beautiful girl(Rose) who faced many suitors(Perv) till finally she met her true love(Cid), only to be taken by the Moon People (Shadow Garden) and had her past stripped from her. Rose's final shots in Season 1 has her trying to grab what's left of the memento from Cid, coincidentally turning to the Moon.

* Another reason King Oriana sent Rose to Midgar, other than for her safety, is in hopes his daughter would be protected by the Stylish Bandit Slayer. Even if Rose didn't tell her father about him, the king was probably smart enough to gather information about the low crime rates happening in Midgar's territory and learned about the person with incredible skills to not only wipe out the bandit population, but also cut down the cult's numbers.
** Assuming he may have found out about [=SBS=] way earlier, his reasons for building an alliance with Midgar was under the belief that the kingdom was actively fighting against the cult. This could also explained how Klaus knew about Shadow before his daughters did as King Oriana might have discussed about his findings to him.

* Due to her past as the leader of the Templars that purged possessed children, 559 is obviously not well-liked amongst Shadow Garden. It also what might have motivated her to paint Rose as a traitor. If Rose, someone that was blessed with Shadow's power, betrayed the organization, 559 would be seen in a better light since she, who was also blessed, remained loyal to Shadow.

* When young Cid found young Alpha, she was completely naked. If she had clothes after her exile, she couldn't possibly had taken them off as she's barely able to move at all due to her magic deviation. The only possible way was that the bandits stripped them off. If that was true, that meant these bandits were planning to [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] [[NoYay a child]] [[ILoveTheDead who was also basically a corpse]]. [[{{Squick}} Or have they done it already]]?
** Possessed mutation has been noted to cause the body to grow and shift in unnatural ways that causes clothing to rip and tear apart. Rather than remove her clothes, her captors simply chose not to give her new ones after her turning into a lump of meat destroyed the first ones.
* At the end of the Midgar Academy terrorism arc, Sherry told Cid that she's going to Rawagas City like Ruslan told her to. The problem is that Ruslan told Sherry to go there. Whatever's at the city, Sherry's troubles are far from over.

* The aftermath of Minoru's (Cid) death can come off as a Fridge Tearjerker. Do remember that his desire to be unnoticed had basically alienated almost everyone in that world. One must think of the possibility that the police could not have identified his body and will just label him as a John Doe. Or if he was recognized and had a funeral, just how many people could have come to it? Probably not a lot and the only ones who did come might be his parents and Akane. While Cid might not have cared and possibly might have been even delighted at this, it's still such a scary and depressing thought that this is how much Cid has allowed himself to be forgotten by the world.

* Given how eerily similar Akane's path as a hero is to the Three Heroes from the other world, it's implied her brother, Akira would have eventually founded his own version of the Cult of Diabolos. And [[AccidentalHero Yuuka's murder of Akira]] has unknowingly stop that from ever happening.

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* While Cid does show some honor in not taking his bloodlust out on those he deems pitiable, another reason is that he wasn't going to kill anyone that might have potential to become future heroes. After all, some great heroes started out as underdogs.

** Humans by now have only been shown to have monogamous relationships, which makes their blood less widespread with the implication that the cult had to go through selective breeding to ensure her blood is at least present within the royal families they have control over as shown with Oriana and Midgar.
* Cid tailors each of his enemies' defeats to be mentally and emotionally damaging as possible.

** Fenrir wants to die to someone strong and see the peek of power. Shadow gives him TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, that he could have gotten it if he hadn't given up so easily.

* When Shadow faced Iris at the Bushin Festival, Shadow has expressed nothing but disrespect towards her. Considering how much time he spent with Alexia, he has a good amount of information on who Iris is, especially her insistence that Shadow had used an artifact for power.

* Another reason King Oriana sent Rose to Midgar, other than for her safety, is in hopes his daughter would be protected by the Stylish Bandit Slayer. Even if Rose didn't told her father about him, the king was probably smart enough to gather information about the low crime rates happening in Midgar's territory and learnt about the person with incredible skills to not only wipe out the bandit population, but also cutting down the cult's numbers.

* It's revealed that the person who held the Tenth seat of the Knights of Rounds had been killed years before, most likely at Cid's hands. In retrospect, Cid's bored attitude against the cultists stems from him having already faced people who bragged about being or wanted to be in the Rounds. Even funnier is that the first Rounds members he faced on-screen was one(Lutheran) that was kicked out of the group and the other (Nelson) who ranked lower in the hierarchy.

** Cid was also improving where Mundane Mann had failed; getting everyone's attention. Back at the Bushin Festival, Cid's Mundane guise was doing well to draw people until Rose showed up and diverted everyone to her killing her father. When the Night Swords were about to flee out of fear of Cid's Jack the Ripper guise, Cid decided to withhold on facing the powerful Milia mutant and immediately take the Night Swords out first to ensure all the attention goes to him and only him.

* Why does most of the opening have nothing to do with the actual series, looking more like the Seven Shadows are in a WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld situation? Because Cid is a Chūnibyō par exellence and such a situation would fit his wildest fantasies.

* Marie's fellow prostitute mentioned how Shadow murdered the corrupt clergy in Midgar Kingdom, implying that individuals from Midgar, like nobles had went to the Lawless City to sleep with the prostitutes which allowed Yukime to learn about Gettan and the Thirteen Night Swords and later, giving the information about the latter group to Shadow Garden.
* Chi and Omega battled the Clovers elsewhere from Gamma to ensure they won't get caught in her LethalKlutz antics.

* It's funny how Skel and Po's deception to Mitsugoshi about the spa tickets is what prompts them to made the golden card with Cid's name on it, to prevent those two to pull another stunt like that.
* While the anime staff add events from the Web Novel's Oriana arc as a nod to the source material but it also helps explain Perv and Mordred's actions.
** Cid frees civilians, Anti-Perv soldiers and political rivals from a correctional facility, possibly controlled by the cult. The civilians will now have hatred towards Perv while the rest joined up with the Anti-Perv Faction, giving them more influence and power. So Perv immediately holds his wedding with Rose to quell the tension.
** Cid joins a volunteer army made by the Anti-Perv Faction to bolster their forces. His empowering of them with his magic lead them to wipe out both Perv forces and cultists. The three corrupt knights that harassed Marie even mentions that they were sent out to destroy towns that knew of the cult's activities. With his faction weakened, Mordred had no option but to release monsters to take care of the problem.

* By the end of the CorporateWarfare arc, Yukime is left as the only remaining lord of Lawless City. [[LightIsGood And guess what her color symbolizes]] especially since she regained much of her sweetness and optimism now after finding closure. With Elizabeth freed from her vampirism and left town and Juggernaut dead, maybe Yukime can lead this city to a better tomorrow.

* Gettan betrayed Yukime and his mother in order to gain power from the cult and get revenge against his tribe's attackers. However, the Stylish Bandit Slayer showing up and murdering all the attackers rendered his efforts for nothing, which drove him to become more insane than he already was.

* It's revealed that the person who held the Tenth seat of the Knights of Rounds had been killed years before, most likely at Cid's hands. In retrospect, Cid's bored attitude against the cultists stems from him having already faced people who bragged about being or wanted to be in the Rounds.

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