History WMG / VirtuesLastReward

* We've already seen this can work, because Akane and Kyle can trade places as K depending on if Akane lives or not. Phi also comments on how everything about Radical-6 could be faked, but why do that? There is a motive with TrickedOutTime.

* {{Jossed}}.

'''Warning''', spoilers ahead. Please post speculation about Zero Time Dilemma [[WMG/ZeroTimeDilemma HERE]], on its own page.

[[WMG: Zero III is [[spoiler: the 9th Man.]]]]

** How about it's an A.I. ''based'' on [[spoiler:his personality]]?
*** Jossed, Zero III is an A.I. created by Zero II, who is [[spoiler:a future version of Sigma]].

*** It's actually not. While the game takes place [[spoiler: 40 years later rather than a year later as is believed, Phi is one of the three characters who actually comes from the 'present', along with Clover, Alice and Sigma's consciousness.]]

*** [[spoiler:Not specifically Jossed, but they do have different surnames.]]

** [[spoiler:Junpei.]]

** Jossed. [[spoiler:He's a clone of Sigma.]]

In the anime promo, the camera notably lingers on her when Sigma asks "Who would do such a thing?" While she will turn out to have her secrets, she ''won't'' be responsible for the new Nonary Game -- instead, she exists to make players think [[spoiler:she's an {{Expy}} of Akane]].
* [[spoiler:More or less confirmed. She's an AI who is ''working'' with Akane, but she isn't actually responsible for the AB Game.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}]]

* [[spoiler:Thankfully {{Jossed}}.]]

Thank about it, what better way is there to [[spoiler:punish the creator of the original Nonary Game]] than to have him participate in another, similar game? You know, while I'm at it...

* [[spoiler:To hide the fact that he's a clone of the protagonist, perhaps?]]

* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}.]]

* [[spoiler: Actually, she IS pulling the strings once again. And the punch comes when Junpei states that because of what has happened, the Akane he cared about was gone. Ouch.]]

* ...[[spoiler:{{Jossed}}.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}. Everyone does get saved, but it's still more than a little bittersweet...]]

* Very close to the mark - [[spoiler:while the theory was right, it is Sigma, not K, who is the amnesiac (or more accurately, younger version of) Zero.]]

[[spoiler:June.]] That's why it [[spoiler:refers to Clover as Cleaver (an Axe Ending reference only June would know about) and is a rabbit (Sub Ending reference that June would also be the only one to know about). Furthermore, the designation of the number III implies that the second Zero, if they aren't June or Santa, would at least be aware of their identity as the original Zero. Lord Gordain and Ace never used the moniker in their games. Therefore, June is either working with Zero or is Zero.]]
* [[spoiler:Confirmed. June is working with this Zero.]]

Most people have noticed how incredibly brain dead Clover is in this game, especially compared to the last Nonary Game. You'd think that for someone who [[spoiler:works for a secret agency by using her esper powers to prevent terrorist bioweapon attacks]] she'd be a little smarter or more educated. However, due to her presence in the last two Nonary Games as well as her powers with the Morphogentic Fields, Zero picked her to work with him in the NEXT Nonary Game/Mission [[spoiler:in the Mars test facility.]] She was already told of everything by [[spoiler: Akane]] and is merely faking surprise at the info [[spoiler: Tenmyouji/Junpei tells her]]. Her purpose in this game is to prep Sigma about knowledge of the past Nonary games as well as let him [[spoiler: feed off her weaker esper powers]] all while remaining under the radar with her "stupid girl" facade. Zero's future purpose for her is unknown, but undoubtedly important. She is far smarter than she appears in this game, and Zero knows that. However, too much suspicion cannot be drawn to her, as her being forced into coughing up details [[spoiler: will ruin the current game's purpose.]] Therefore, she hides her inside knowledge and smarts by pretending to be dumb.
* [[spoiler: All of the specifics here are {{Jossed}}, though it's possible Clover still is ObfuscatingStupidity and it's just never stated.]]

* [[spoiler: It is stated in the Golden Ending that Sigma lost his eye and his two arms saving a random girl. That element will also appear on the next game, according to [[WordOfGod Word of God]].]]

I don't remember the specifics of each timeline, but I recall not seeing Phi among [[spoiler:the bodies in Alice's ending]], and in K's ending [[spoiler:she is injected with the tubocurarine antidote, and so can no longer be killed by the bracelet.]] We see her escape in [[spoiler:her own ending as well as Dio's.]]
* Jossed. [[spoiler:Her body is among the dead in Clover's Ending and she is killed by the bombs in the Sigma and Alice Endings.]]

[[WMG:In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Akane is AddressingThePlayer.]] ]]
[[spoiler:The player is the uncontrolled variable. Despite Phi, Sigma, and the real Kyle having already gone to the past, "Kyle" has a "spare" consciousness inhabiting him, and Akane tells him that he will also be going to the past. Her words make it clear that, despite having no knowledge of what went on in the Nevada Test Site, he will be going back to save the world, and he too has the power to travel through time and through worlds. Since this consciousness can do such a thing and has all knowledge of what went on in the game, it stands to reason that the player will be taking an active character role in the story.]]

[[WMG: As a variant to the above, [[spoiler:the mysterious character is [[VisualNovel/{{Ever17}} Blickwinkel]]]]]]
* It may serve the same purpose, but unlikely. [[spoiler:The writer was actually surprised that people outside Japan knew that ''[=Ever17=]'' even existed]].

[[WMG: Luna is [[spoiler:based on a real person, a Free The Soul cultist who is responsible for unleashing the Radical-6 virus.]]]]
Consider the possibility that [[spoiler:robot Luna was based on a real person. When the group finds the memory card containing a transmission from the Nevada Test Site, a female voice that sounds incredibly like Luna responds that she "killed them all" (referring to six others in the Test Site, and the "six billion humans" in the world), implying that she deliberately released the Radical-6 virus. Now consider that Luna is the only person that Dio votes "Ally" against, that Dio's fall from grace within the Myrmidons was due to sexual dabbling with a woman, and that Free The Soul tends to clone its most important members. Luna is either an identical copy of this cultist, or has enough similarities to her that Dio is reminded of her and is unwilling to vote against her]].
* [[spoiler: Sigma, at one point, sacrifices himself to be practically mutilated to save a woman in the Nevada Test Site. This could mean that Sigma, in one way or another, cared deeply for this woman over the course of the game and, weather or not he did in fact manage to keep her alive, wished to keep her in his life in one way or another, and made Robot Luna a 'Mother' to his 'Child', in a way, making her his wife regardless if Kyle accepted her or not.]]

[[spoiler: Sigma and Dr. Klim are the same person, differentiated by 45 years worth of mental information consisting of memories and probably other components of a human mind developed during that time. Likewise, Sigma from one timeline is the same person as himself in another excecpt for that information, which differs in each timeline. Sigma's ESP allows him to displace that information across time and space.]]

All-ice mentioned in 999 is actually Alice [[spoiler: after she traveled back in time after Another End.]]
* [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod the entire All-Ice business was nothing but an UrbanLegend in the first place. It's in the game to get you thinking about Ice-9 and how a change in inanimate matter can be contagious via the morphogenetic field.]]

[[WMG: Quark is [[spoiler: Is Akane's son]]]]
[[spoiler: Due to the TimeyWimeyBall nature of the game and the fact that everything is interconnected in the game it would stand that Junpei just finding Quark in the middle of a thunderstorm isn't a random thing. What happened was that Akane got pregnant intentionally so that Junpei would wind up raising Quark. The reason for this is that Akane does know/knows/will know that Junpei will be heartbroken once he finds out what Akane has done to make sure that they can change the past. So when that happens Junpei might either commit suicide or just waste away. So she makes sure that he has something to live for so she gets pregnant. It also allows her to have a child with Junpei in a very roundabout way. This is also the reason that Luna saves him in most endings while letting others die. She was programmed that no matter what make it so that Quark survives. Akane is willing to let herself be killed, let Junpei and the others dies but as a mother she cannot let Quark die.]]
* [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod, Quark isn't intended to be anyone in particular, but the author likes the idea of him being the ''grandson'' of one of the 999 characters.]]

[[WMG: Quark is [[spoiler: Dio's son]]]]
[[spoiler: We know Dio had some dalliances with a woman, and that's why he fell out of graces with the Myrmidons. But what if, horror of horrors, this perfect clone being created in a perfect way actually fathered an imperfect child as well? When the woman he had been with presented him with his son, he panicked, slew her, and left her the child to die... only to be found by a salvage man named Tenmyouji... Support? Quark and Dio have the same hair color, and usually the same eye color as well. (Dio's eyes appear blue in some shots, but appear to be brown like Quark's in the official art.]]
* [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod, Quark isn't intended to be anyone in particular, but the author likes the idea of him being the ''grandson'' of one of the 999 characters.]]

One odd thing about Dio is that he will vote Ally in the first AB when going down the Golden Path. Seems to go against everything we've seen from his personality so far. However when you think about it, in this timeline [[spoiler:before the game started he got decked from behind, in this timeline and only this timeline. He then woke up inside the AB Room with no idea how he got there and how he succeeded in getting accepted into the game. This means he knows someone else in the group knows that he's not meant to be there. So he votes ally to make the others be more trusting of him. He doesn't think he needs to this in the other timeline because he believes he has fooled everyone and can just blame the betray on Quark. In the Golden Timeline he knows someone has good reason to betray him but doesn't know who. He can guess it won't be Luna because she looks far to frail to knock him out so he takes a gamble on voting ally on the first round so whoever knocks him out might reconsider his opinion along with making him seen better in the eyes of everyone else.]]

* We've already seen this can work, [[spoiler: because Akane and Kyle can trade places as K depending on if Akane lives or not.]] Phi also comments on how everything about Radical-6 could be faked, but why do that? There is a motive with TrickedOutTime.

* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}]]

* ... [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}]]

* [[Partially spoiler:{{Jossed}}. Everyone does get saved, but it's still more than a little bittersweet ...]]

[[WMG: As a variant to the above, [[spoiler:the mysterious character is [[{{Ever17}} Blickwinkel]]]]]]
* It may serve the same purpose, but unlikely. [[spoiler:The writer was actually surprised that people outside Japan knew that Ever17 even existed]].

Consider what Quark says when he gets infected. He shouts about how if he could just kill his body, his soul would be free. Sound a lot like Free the Soul's message? There's no way a virus could influence the words a person would say. So what if contracting the virus allows a person to access the morphic fields, thereby allowing Brother to urge that person to suicide? Remember that Free the Soul wants to cleanse the Earth by killing all those people whom they consider to be worthless. By using Radical-6 as a method to give Brother access to their minds, he can kill with ultimate efficiency, as he can spare anyone he knows to be loyal to him and his cause. Also, remember how it's mentioned that there was suspicion that the people who decided to use the annihilation reactors to cleanse the virus were already infected? What if that was true, and Brother used his access to their minds to detonate the reactors and create nuclear winter? Hell, what if that was his goal for the virus all along?

Consider what Quark says when he gets infected. He shouts about how if he could just kill his body, his soul would be free. Sound a lot like Free the Soul's message? There's no way a virus could influence the words a person would say. So what if contracting the virus allows a person to access the morphic fields, thereby allowing Brother to urge that person to suicide? Remember that Free the Soul wants to cleanse the Earth by killing all those people whom they consider to be worthless. By using Radical-6 as a method to give Brother access to their minds, he can kill with ultimate efficiency, as he can spare anyone he knows to be loyal to him and his cause. Also, remember how it's mentioned that there was suspicion that the people who decided to use the annihilation reactors to cleanse the virus were already infected? What if that was true, and Brother used his access to their minds to detonate the reactors and create nuclear winter? Hell, what if that was his goal for the virus all along?

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Possible interpretation of Luna's GAULEM product ID.]]]]

* In one of the secret gold files, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the GAULEM you meet in the GAULEM BAY's product ID[[labelnote:note]]GTM-CM-G-OLM[[/labelnote]] stands for '''G'''AULEM '''T'''ype '''M'''ale - '''C'''ockney '''M'''odel no. G-OLM.]] Taking from this, we can fill in some gaps in [[spoiler: Luna's product ID[[labelnote:note]]GTF-DM-L-016[[/labelnote]] and get '''G'''AULEM '''T'''ype '''F'''emale - '''D'''iana '''M'''odel no. L-016, with the L most likely representing "Luna."]]

* In one of the secret gold files, it's revealed that [[spoiler: the GAULEM you meet in the GAULEM BAY's product ID stands for '''G'''AULEM '''T'''ype '''M'''ale - '''C'''ockney '''M'''odel no. G-OLM.]] Taking from this, we can fill in some gaps in [[spoiler: Luna's product ID[[labelnote:note]]GTF-DM-L-016[[/labelnote]] and get '''G'''AULEM '''T'''ype '''F'''emale - '''D'''iana '''M'''odel no. L-016, with the L most likely representing "Luna."]]

* Jossed. [[spoiler: It is stated in the Golden Ending that Sigma lost his eye and his two arms saving a random girl. That element will also appear on the next game, according to [[WordOfGod Word of God]].]]