Guesses about Lea from before the story was complete
Lea is Shizuka under a different avatar.
The obvious hints put in front of us are the identical scars and Lea's dreams when logged out.- More or less confirmed.
- Deconfirmed: Lea is an AI copy of Shizuka, but Lea is, well... Lea! And she plays herself.
Lea is not Shizuka.
But she has met her in the past.- Half-confirmed, half-jossed. She's not Shizuka per se, but she is an AI clone of her.
- Confirmed: Lea is just a copy of Shizuka, even then acts nothing like her.
Lea and Shizuka are two different personalities stuck in the same Avatar.
The very title of the game; Crosscode, may represent the conflicting personalities as each character becomes more intertwined. This may cause trouble for Lea as Shizuka becomes more active...- Deconfirmed: Lea is an AI clone of Shizuka that uses a technology called CrossCode that makes it possible to create an AI player that behaves just like the source. But Lea was instead created from zero to be like someone Sidwell knew.
Lea is Satoshi
He didn't die, he fell into a coma. The similarities to Shizuka (... such as being female) are because Sergei couldn't create an avatar from scratch, he modified the code for the most closely-related person he had available: his sister.- Deconfirmed: Satoshi sent Lea hidden in a file to Sergey, and Sergey wakes her up. As for Satoshi himself, he became an evotar himself.
Lea isn't human; she's a fully sapient, self-aware Avatar.
Given how ridiculously complex and detailed the Avatars are, it isn't a stretch to imagine one becoming independent under the right conditions. It would also explain her lack of memory; she had literally nothing to remember prior to activating on the M.S. Solar, as those were the first moments of her true life. It could also be what motivates of the Blue Avatar; he's gunning for her and nobody else because she isn't a puppet being "played" by humans on some distant world, but a fellow artificial being. Notice that while he addresses the crew of the Solar as "mortal", he never describes Lea as such...- Confirmed. She's one of many Evotars in the game. However her presence is illegal. She's cutting edge AI.
- The Blue Avatar being a fellow artificial being is jossed.
Sidwell is the same person as C'tron
Consider the following (spoilers for up until the post-credits scene):- The first time C'tron met Lea, he was clearly surprised, which would make sense if he is Sidwell, who met her before.
- C'tron was able to monitor her, and shortly after he teamed up with Lea for the first time, she was kidnapped during the raid by the Blue Avatar, hinting that he might have leaked information somehow. Even Sergey brings up the possibility of a leak later. Furthermore, after Lea met C'tron for the first time but before she was kidnapped during the raid, Sergey had to move locations offline without mentioning the reason why, possibly indicating that Sidwell might have tried other methods first before going for the raid extraction.
- By the time the second raid was brought up, C'tron is the one who conveniently found it, and even after Lea declined to participate, he is the only one who keeps trying to talk her into it if you contact him via Direct Link shortly afterwards.
- That would also explain why he decided to patch things up between Lea and Emilie in chapter 8, because he needed to get her back to a position where he could get her to participate in that second raid. Notice that the questions he asks Lea are decidedly on point without wasting a question - it might be that he simply thought that this was best (if he isn't Sidwell), or it could be that he already knew what happened to Lea (if he is Sidwell).
- Sidwell tried to teach Lea both sign language as well as various tricks with his fingers, while later C'tron is impressed that Lea knows those signs (since she kept forgetting them around Sidwell).
- In one flashback, Sidwell asks Lea if she remembers any signs, and she attempts the "two fingers spread apart" trick. That's one of the first tricks C'tron tries to teach Lea.
- C'tron goes on a break from Cross Worlds conveniently at just the time the final raid starts being prepared. More specifically, for "personal issues".
- During chapter 7 in Vermillion Wastelands, C'tron is only online during the days when Sidwell isn't in some form involved in the Vermillion Wastelands. Notably, C'tron is online during the day Shizuka meets Lea, indicating that Sidwell might not have been monitoring things on that day, and is offline on the day Sidwell actually meets Lea.
- Finally, after the credits, C'tron shows up in the Vermillion Wastelands and makes a comment about something only Lea and Evotar Lukas should know about, from their conversation in chapter 7 that the rock formations around the lake in the Vermillion Wastelands are weird and make no sense.
- C'tron is also mysteriously absent from Lea's farewell party and the meeting where Sergey confirms/deconfirms that she'll be returning.
C'tron's whereabouts will be a topic covered in the post game.
Possibly tying in with the WMG above.- Confirmed: Sidwell created and disposed of multiple C'tron once they became self-aware and defiant. So the C'tron Lea knew was disposed of and later brought back by Sergey so they could investigate Sidwell. At first he had no memory, but eventually recovered it.
CrossCode's sequel will be focused on the jobs that Evotars will be assigned to
- And Sidwell will be involved again, although having a smaller role.
CrossCode's sequel will focus on a new character/player
- Lea's story is finished; she's overcome her greatest struggles. The sequel will need a new protagonist with new struggles (and it will justify why the player character has to start from scratch).
