Fridge Brilliance
- Why is summoning Personas outside the Cognitive World a lot easier in the usual Persona setting? Because Witches are able to summon things themselves, so cognition has been imprinted with that fact. Persona summoning being easier around Ley Lines even though they're apparently completely unrelated, with Personas being Cast from Stamina rather than Background Magic Field of Witch spells supports this as well.
- Akko shrugging off Sucy's more negative traits makes a lot of sense - the latter has a menacing appearance and can indeed be a bit of a jerk, but has a softer side. Who else does Akko know that would meet that description? Aradia.
- After accidentally draining her audiences of their magic and later scarring the moon that lead her losing the right to the Shiny Rod, Ursula's sudden aggresion in incapacitating Akko when the latter uses her Persona, a dark and malevolent force, is her trying to prevent Akko in making the same mistakes as she did.
- Since Aradia has no love for the Nine Olde Witches, it makes sense Chariot, a descendant of Aradia's followers, would be more open to change compared to the more traditionalist Witches.
- Why are almost all of Akko's early Personas weak to fire? Witches were persecuted and burned at the stake back in the day. Heck, Akko's contract with the Velvet Room has it take the form of a witch trial.
The Team Dipper's Shadow Selves:
- Shadow Sucy: she looks like an eleven-year-old Sucy, and is much more open than her Real Self about her feelings and desires; at the moment, we don't know much about her past, other than that she lived in an orphanage overflowing with children who couldn't stand her, and that she hated them back, and that she had a strong relationship with Ramzan, her guardian. At one point, Sucy decided to live on her own, between the ages of 11 and 12, exploring the world in search of poisons to sell to the highest bidder, but I guess all that loneliness and constant dangers soured her further; by the age of 12, she began to believe that she didn't need friendship, even though deep down she secretly longed for it.
- Shadow Diana: She looks like a six-year-old Diana, and this represents the innocence and wonder that Diana, at that age, felt when she saw Shiny Chariot's show. Shortly thereafter however, Diana found herself dealing with the mysterious loss of her magical powers, the death of her mother, the wickedness of her aunt, and the taunts of her peers about her love of Chariot magic, which led Diana to denigrate the performer to keep up appearances, and to focus exclusively in the study, thus giving up her childhood, and causing her Shadow Self to become corrupted, and become what Diana fears most: a corrupt and evil version of her noble-spirit ancestor Beatrix, who looks eerily like her aunt.
- Shadow Chariot: She looks like Shiny Chariot at 18, at the height of her career as a performer. She obviously was very happy when her performances brought joy and happiness to the audience, but over time she lost their interest, and was later deceived by Croix, unknowingly stealing the magical potential of her audience during her show in Japan; then her appeal in her last shows was practically meager, and in her anger and discomfort, she inadvertently damaged the Moon and lost the Shiny Rod. She has since become a meek and regretful woman, a pitiful image compared to the sunny and lively self of 10 years earlier.
- Shadow Amanda: She looks like an 11-year-old Amanda, the age when her beloved grandmother was still alive and by her side, and was free to have fun and explore the world with her. However, her grandma died ignored by the rest of her family, except Amanda, who found herself entangled in the power games of the O'Neill family, trying in every way not to be their puppet, but at the same time becoming a cynical, opportunistic and selfish girl, masking at the same time, with bold and defiant behavior, her frustration and sadness.
Fridge Horror
- Akko mentions that one of the people who's heart she couldn't change was a Train Molester. It's never stated how she found this out, and while Akko already had her powers at this point, that still leaves many other, extremely worrisome possibilities to consider....
- There has been small hints that Akko underwent severe trauma and the only reason she makes it through is because of Chariot's inspiration. Imagine once she finds out what Chariot actually did to her and this leads to the birth of her Shadow doppleganger.
