- Jossed here.
- Edward does look an awful lot like Aniz. It says that while Aniz was (supposedly) killed by Quintinga Ti'Fiona, she ALSO died in the fight. What if Quintinga died, but Aniz somehow survived and created the illusion that they had killed each other, and then Aniz offed the real Edward Ti'Fiona and took his place? Considering the title and dialog in this strip.... And then there's the fact that Aniz' clan mark is on his left forearm. And Edward's left forearm always seems to be obscured in some way....
- But that begs the question: if Destania is more powerful than Aniz, how would he pull that one over her? I find it hard to believe she wouldn't notice at all.
- Also, why hasn't Alexsi developed headwings?
- *puts tin foil hat on* If we follow this theory, Alexsi would have been born as the natural child of Edward and Quintiga.
- Quintiga goes off and seemingly kills Aniz, while dying in the process.
- Edward mourns Quintiga, and to his surprise Aniz pops up and kills him, and takes his place as the owner of Lost Lake to raise Alexsi (Why? I don't know, but Aniz is an enigma anyway).
- Aniz has shown that he has some remorse towards unintended victims. Maybe he raised Alexsi because he only realized after the fact he had orphaned her.
- Destania comes along, and they reconcile, over a mutual hatred and plan to end the dragon race, with Destania giving birth to Dan. This would make Dan Abel's half-brother, and would explain why Abel reacts the way he does.
- Jossed even further here. Edward's resemblance to Aniz is commented on, but only to suggest it's why Destania didn't immediately kill him.
- This comes from Seme's representative explaining that they had "checked [his] geneology." Depending on what method was used this could still be fooled-note that in the earlier jossing public records have Destania down as a being as she was undercover.
- This comic suggests Dan's father may have a case of Identical Grandson going on, making him distantly related to Aniz and Abel.
- This comes from Seme's representative explaining that they had "checked [his] geneology." Depending on what method was used this could still be fooled-note that in the earlier jossing public records have Destania down as a being as she was undercover.
- Nothing of the sort. What was made clear was that someone used an image of Pip when invading Abel's mind. The text bubbles hint that it wasn't actually Pip.
- Further, Albanion has referred to Pip as a different person (in upside down text, third panel) here
- Jossed, he's just been stealing Abel's clothes by accident.
- The nightmare and Abel's backstory both point towards things he wishes he could have avoided, and things he feels he could have prevented. Abel's clan marking doesn't match any of those which visibly remain, at least as far as a casual observation of the Cubi Clan manual reveals... and it seems like Abel's father went out of his way to ensure that both his wife and son would feel guilt for quite a ways to come.
- According to Dr. Ink, Abel's affinity is "Misery. Much like his father and clan."
- Isn't Cubi breeding almost exactly like the Diclonii? Meaning doesn't matter the parent or the attempt the kid will always be a succubus or incubus.
- Not confirmed to be true. That seems to be groundless Fanon
- Not groundless. It is, however, implied to be false by that very same page. So this WMG is actually plausible.
- Nothing's implied; that page outright says the kid will nearly always be a Cubi if the other parent is a Being. If the other parent is a Demon, Mythos, etc., it's more dicey, but Devin seemed to be a Being.
- It specifically says nearly always. Would fit, especially if Aniz was expecting his son to be cubi and he wasn't.
- It says "Cubi half breeds only seem to work if the cubi parent is the more 'powerful' of the two... which is why beings are often a prime target." There's a lot of wiggle words in this statement. Rewording, it notes that half breeds seem to always fail when the cubi is less powerful. However, it provides no data as to the likelihood that it will succeed when the cubi is more powerful, simply that it only ever works when they are. If there's a 5% success rate when more powerful, and a 0% success rate when less powerful, the given statement remains true. We can infer that beings are usually less powerful because they are prime targets, but it makes no guarantees. Perhaps a particularly powerful being or particularly weak cubi (Aniz isn't particularly strong for a cubi, as noted in the later strips) will result in a being-cubi coupling being guaranteed to fail.
- Not confirmed to be true. That seems to be groundless Fanon
And it says nothing about children of Husks, so Devin could still have fallen in love with Xander, if he had a soul.
- Considering the below theory, it seems more likely that Abel and Mink merely stopped hanging out. Judging by Mink's personality, maybe a Friend Zoning gone wrong is the most likely culprit.
- Abel's Story just ended without killing Mink, so the above theory re: friend zoning is very possible. Alternately, a lot can change over three hundred years and they may just have grown apart.Mink: This panel is full of lies! Don't listen to it! I'm fine!
- That suggests plural, the death by anvils is one "lie" so the quote is also a lie.
- We only saw the Academy for one day, so it is entirely possible that Mink and Abel are still good friends and Abel just hasn't mentioned him. He hasn't mentioned much about his life at the academy, after all.
- Abel's Story just ended without killing Mink, so the above theory re: friend zoning is very possible. Alternately, a lot can change over three hundred years and they may just have grown apart.
- Jossed. Mink is mentioned here and shows up here.
- And the Friend Zoning is Jossed, too, in that Mink has never dated, and given Abel's rant to Wildy, he probably hasn't, either.
- What if Abel friend-zoned Mink?
- This implies that eugenics works in the world of DMFA. Unfortunate implications much?
- Meanwhile, Abel, whose father was a monster in both senses of the word, is a nice guy at heart, and is trying to kill his monster of a father. Dan turning bad seems unlikely.
- Is it clear how canon that arc is? Then again it doesn't seem to not be.
- As of the end of Abel's Story, he's still around. Hooray! Now that I think about it, that should have been obvious- what are the odds, after all, of a cubi getting killed within SAIA, right under Fa'Lina's nose?
- Jossed, all undead that existed before undead gained souls have no memories of their past lives, and that includes Devin.
- Jossed.
- Jossed-ish. It's been decades, not centuries, but the adventurer who killed him was working on the orders of Zivnth authorities.
- At least partially jossed, because the Fae quite clearly exist at a level beyond sith powers. Probably Dragons, too.
- There is precedence for achieving tri-wing by eating souls (see Zezzuva in the Cubi Clan Leaders arc, ascended by eating the soul of her sister, the previous leader)
- Cyra's method of ascension ticked the dragons of enough to start a war of genocide against cubis, and Cyra's own clan remains "kill on sight" even after the truce
- Cyra is shown (in a dream, granted) to be bizarrely huge
- Of the two forms a Dragon can take, their most famous form is bizarrely huge
- Partially confirmed, partially jossed: Amber has stated that all clan leaders are bizarrely huge. To quote- "Tri-Wings are naturally really big. Usually if you are seeing a normal-sized one (like Fa'Lina), they have either shapeshifted themselves smaller...or more likely they are simply using an aspect puppet or proxy of themselves to interract with folks while their true selves are hidden elsewhere." However, it was confirmed in Comic #1583 that Cyra caused the Dragon/Cubi war when she managed to kill a dragon and ascend to Tri-Wing status as a result of doing so.
- Somehow, I don't think Pip was one. He seems like he's an Immortal Playmate, and therefore she's allowed to keep him alive forever. Merlitz, maybe?
- Merlitz seems like a much better candidate than Pip; go back and read earlier comics, especially during Aaryanna's introductory arc, and see that Mab had a very strong connection to Merlitz. Plus the fact that he's still being mentioned indirectly (Jen showing up at Lost Lake and bemoaning his absence, for instance), as opposed to characters like Azlan, who's been Put on a Bus. Still leaves no answers as to who the supposed two are.
- Also compounding the fact is that Dan has technically died twice already. Back in the Lighter and Softer years and once killed Dark Pegauses. The second time his heart stopped beating for a minute which is dead in the classical sense.
- Four of the five friends are confirmed to be Fa'lina, Wildy, Jyrras, and Biggs, Wildy's brother, as shown by the list accompanying this comic page. The fifth with the unused boon isn't directly stated but the page introducing the concept implies it to be Dan.
- I'd chalk the first few appearances up to Art Evolution, but other than that...wow. It also might explain how Biggs managed to get to the top of the Twink Territories pecking order so fast.
- The human/were member of the creature council looks suspiciously like Biggs. They've got the exact same hairstyle and bandana. Also, weres are supposed to be decent at magic, and Wildy is a magic-user.
- The unnamed Councillor also looks like this guy.
- Isn't that a girl?
- I'll buy this theory. Secret page info lends credence to this as well: According to the Human page in the Demonology 101 section, humans did exist in Furre. They vanished suddenly several hundred years ago, and Weres have a different story about them and their extinction than the rest of the races do. Now, when you consider that bit of in conjunction with the fact that Wildy-San is a fan of humans, it raises a lot of implications. This is all circumspect at best, but it does make sense...
- Apparently, this spec has been bouncing around the fora since 2006, where it's well-known enough to be a bit of a meme. Nothing new under the sun and all that...
- Partially Jossed, Amber intended for Wildy to he a Were but scrapped the idea because she thought the comic didn't have enough Beings (similarly she decided not to turn Jyrras into an undead).
- Oldest clan leader.
- Only male clan leader.
- Willfully separated from the academy.
- Shrouded in mystery.
- Has a clan quirk that Abel inexplicably shares.
- Closest we've seen to familiar incubi.
You couldn't have a more obvious Chekhov's Gunman if his clan marking were a flashing neon sign. So... perhaps he "adopted" Aniz, the same way Seme "adopted" most of the Siar? Maybe Jyrras is him in disguise, under heavy Amnesiac Dissonance?
- To be fair, the same page talks about how any non-Quoar can have the same quirks as a Quoar; it just so happens that Quoar always have the aformentioned quirks (Combination bat-and-feather wings and mismatched eyes), while it's seen as an omen if a non-Quoar has even one of those traits. If I had to guess, I'd say that the Quoar were perhaps some sort of progenitor species of Cubi. Later clans had similarities, but individual quirks, perhaps based on the fact that most Cubi tend to mate with non-Cubi. You could think of Quoar himself as sort of a Cubi equivalent to Cain; not all Cubi are of his clan, but all Cubi trace their origins back to him.e
- I like this progenitor theory alot - in fact I'd like to go even further with it. The Demo 101 page for Cubi mentions a theory that the Cubi race was formed from a union of demons and angels, and Quoar's clan has a lot of traits from both. His entire clan quirk is based around duality, about the fusion of opposites. And of course, his emotional affinity is love. Could he be one of the original, immediate descendants of a union between demons and angels?
- Further more, this is the "one of the five friends will destroy the world" thing Mab was saying.
- He's feminine, but even she doesn't know their gender.
- She could have shapeshifted her eyes to be the same color. But then again, you could probably say something similar for the wings....
Now, regarding Merlitz's dull life stone: one of the reasons a stone can go dull is because the adventurer is where powerful magic cannot track. If something is powerful enough to obscure a phoenix's knowledge, then it's probably powerful enough to confound any magic between an adventurer and their stone. Whatever is doing this needs Merlitz alive for something, and yet needs everyone else to think he's dead.
- Think about it for a moment - sending these adventurers to hunt for Cubi at Lost Lake nearly resulted in Alexsi being killed by them. Is there any doubt this was a plan of hers to send Dan in a rage and start killing adventurers in revenge, bringing her son back to her side?
- Confirmed that the oracle in question was murdered prior to the adventurers arrival, and that whoever impersonated her was immune to oracle sight, able to naturally shapechange, and could stand having their head set on fire for a long period of time, overlaid on a picture of Destania in her disguise as Biggs' secretary. Probably about as close as one can get to being confirmed without Destania stating it in the text.
- Jossed as of #1927: She's on a starship heading for another planet.
Very likely jossed as of page #1451 though. Unless that's not Hizell who is scrying on Lost Lake...
- It would be a very good explanation for why Pip hates Dan so much if this WMG turned out to be true.... If Pip isn't Hizell then he might still be someone closely associated or working with Hizell. And the dragon in page #1451 has yet to be identified by name, so while less likely, this WMG isn't dead yet.
If that's not the case, it may also be that the dragons somehow knew about the technology that humans were capable of and decided to get rid of them preemptively before they could become technologically advanced enough to be a real threat. Which has certain implications about what could potentially happen to Jyrras or beings in general...
- Partially confirmed: It was made canon in this issue that the dragons wiped out humanity, though the reason why is left nebulous beyond somehow disrupting what dragons perceived as "the favorable status quo". Later on, it gets mentioned in this issue that the big reason that the Dragon/Cubi war got started was the Dragons got really nervous at the idea of being killed by a "lesser being". With that in mind, this WMG looks a lot more plausible...
- Amber made the races, but Jyrras made them equal? I like it.
- Rat 1: If the place has a basement, then there will be rats!Rat 2: We have a network!
If it is Jyrras who does it, it might be through some kind of Brain Uploading, given his research. After all, he still needs to take care of Deebs and M.A.C.E., neither of whom likely have any kind of limits on their lifespans.
The Amulet passed on a lingering magical effect to Lorenda, touching it will break that effect, restoring her wings to full size.
He just doesn't know it yet. That time he transformed his head wings with only the most basic introduction to them? He shouldn't be able to do that so easily. The reason Abel attacked him afterwards was because it took Abel months, maybe even years to be able pull off what Dan managed in minutes. Also, only hours after finding out he had wing tentacles he was forming them into interesting shapes, again with minimum instruction.
- Addendum: Dan is actually really good with *most* Cubi abilities.....as long as he's not actively thinking about properly using them. Absent-mindedly using his tentacles to do complex shadow puppetry whilst not wanting to listen to Aaryanna the day he obtained them and Pac-Manifying his Head-Wings as a spur of the moment gag have already been mentioned but there's also the matter of the Memory World with Cyra. Whilst he needs her to use the power to make it work, he's still able to subconsciously edit the created world in a way that mildly surprises her.....simply because he didn't like the decor and would prefer it to be a room from a different time period than the one they're in. An argument could also be made for his use of his powers after he saw Regina too.
- Dan being a Genius Ditz / Idiot Savant does seem in character for him.