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The reason Cassiel doesn't reveal her powers is because they turn her emo.
In the Kabbalah, Cassiel is the Angel of Solitude and Tears. Her job is to watch the events of universe without interfering. It's possible her powers have something to do with the "solitude and tears" part.
There will be a crossover between this webcomic and the 'Collar6' webcomic
Wouldn't it be awesome?
Missi has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
She's impulsive, easily distracted, seems bright enough (she started working on cars at a very young age), but is reckless.
If Ash does turn back into a boy, then Emily and Missi will start dating each other.
Ash is doomed to be the 'girl' in relationships
(Male pronouns used for Ash)
Ash is/was a nice guy who didn't have much experience with girls. He has trouble going from telling a girl that he likes her to the stage where he does something about it. Thus, all the girls he goes out with will have to take the more dominant, ie 'male' part in the relationship. Look at Ash's past relationships: With Missi, even Ash was aware that Ash was the 'girl'. After Emily groped Ash's boobs, we saw Ash have a private 'Girly' reaction, while there was no matching scene of Emily. Plus, in the Misfile comic posted July 7, it's clearly Emily who's pushing the relationship to sharing a bed with Ash.
Ergo, Ash had better learn to accept it and, if Emily and Ash have a lesbian wedding, Ash should just accept the fact that Emily is the one people will be expecting to wear the tux. Besides, I could totally see Ash in a lacy / sexy wedding gown Ash's mom selected for 'her'.
Kay was misfiled from girl to guy
While 'gay' doesn't necessarily mean misfile (some would argue that Emily is lesbian, bi, or 'ash-sexual', Kay may have been misfiled from girl to boy by someone (likely Rumisiel since he is the only clerk in his part of the depot. During the Model Party arc, in response to him finding Ash was looking at other girl's boobs, he agrees to keep it a secret, however he states something along the lines of "Trust me, I'm the Secret King, I'd say I was the Secret Queen, but that would sound like I was trying to hide something" which the queen part might have been a joke only he would have understood, or he might suspected that Ash was a little unusual from than other 'lesbians', and might have been fishing for information. Also, Kay is a gender-neutral name, and I believe Ash's is too. It would also create an interesting comparison in the series. Ash had to masquerade as a girl to keep his cover, while Kay would have needed to masquerade as a guy. Kay's back story might have been that he had woken up one day as a guy, but without an angel to explain his situation, or someone is a somewhat similar spot (like Emily for Ash) he/she had to fly solo, and had to learn the ropes of his/her new reality by him/herself, though he still was curious to find out how it happened. Since it happened way before Ash and Em's misfile, their memories were of Kay as a guy because while they were misfiled at the same time, thus keeping their memories of each other status quo, Kay happened years earlier, both explaining why they remember Kay as a guy, and why Ash didn't suspect anything, as Kay would have had to acclimate to his/her new environment.
The misfile was part of an elaborate Gambit Roulette by 'The Monster' car to will itself into existence and to create for itself the perfect racing team.
Ash, as male, was a talented driver/mechanic but who had no contact with his mother and whose dad often assigned him heavy chores. As a girl, Ash has contact with her mother (who paid for the Monster's engine), has met with the perfect team manager and engineer (Ash can't do everything by herself, after all), and now has the Angels for her dad to dump the heavy chores on.
The misfile was part of a divine Gambit Roulette
It has been established that God knows about the misfile, but for some reason has decided not to do anything about it. As a result of this, two angels are currently hanging around in an obscure town in the middle of nowhere that has coincidentally been haunted by two evil spirits and where an archon has recently been murdered. With the hints that the other archons are disappearing, something evil is clearly going on and only a ridiculously circuitous plan can stop it.
The comic is actually a Prequel for Doctor Who
Rumisiel is obviously a pre-William Hartnell version of the Doctor before he got all clever and the Tardis. Cassiel and Vashiel are early versions of The Rani and The Master explaining their Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory. Heaven is Gallifrey and the Celestial Depository with it's reality altering, omniscient and omnipotent files is it's central computer. Even the absent God story corresponds to the absence of Rassilon. Ash and Emily are obviously prototype companions.
Ash has always been a girl
Technically the way the filing system works, this is true. But before the misfile, Ash was female, the misfile did not change Ash's gender as it changed what Ash THOUGHT her gender was. Why else do we never see male Ash before getting transformed?
Ash is bi, but too squicked to date a guy.
The misfile made a mess of her sexual preferences. She probably would still be into James if she forgot about having ever been a boy, but she'd still be into girls. (However, given the nature of the plot, it doesn't matter.)
At the end of the comic, Ash will have his file put back, but Emily will decline to have her missing pages replaced.
This way, Emily still won't be dead in a car crash and someone will be left on Earth to remember everything that happened. She got the better end of the deal anyway. (This may or may not have been inspired by the ending of Midori no Hibi.)
Vashiel has a Superpowered Evil Side that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
And killed Raechiel. Think about it. Raechiel ends up missing and dead after Vashiel has his Flashback Nightmare about the old days. You also see a place on fire. Vash had a destructive streak. This manifested into a Superpowered Evil Side or I guess, just and Evil Side. Raechiel was a judge at Vashiel's hearing, or something like that. Evil Vash wanted revenge and killed Raechiel, whish is why Vash can say he didn't kill Raechiel.
. Anything before 1567 couldn't be Vash's fault.
At the climax, God, and possibly Lucifer, will come to Earth.
The comic has thus far entertained a slow progression from Mundane Fantastic with a single angel and the two mortals he became entangled with. Then a little bit of cosmic intrigue came with the introduction of Vashiel and Cassandra, and Vashiel's backstory, and grew with the death of Raechiel. Ultimately, the entire heavens will be pointed at Western Massachusetts, and breasts and academics will be the least of everyone's worries.
Fixing the Misfile is an all or nothing proposition
Especially with recent events going on in the Celestial Depository something odd is going on and it's going to turn out that it's not going to possible to fix one file without the other. As such Ash will choose to remain a girl rather than let Emily die. As part of earning their happy ending this will prompt Emily to sort out her feelings for Ash and end their Belligerent Sexual Tension status one way or another and everything will work out in the end. Though Ash may or may not return to being male
Vashiel is holier-than-though even compared to the other angels because he was mindwiped after the Tadfield Debacle.
Angel at the Gate. Flustered around the male-in-a-female-body. Pale blonde and the least masculine of the Misfile angels. Discuss.
Ash and Emily will be together after things return to normal.
We've seen how reality rewrites itself to suit the new status of the world (female Ash sending the letter to her mother, where the male Ash just threw it away, for example.) We've also seen that "friendships" can also be recast—Ash and James, for example. So, while the angels obviously have to cover their own asses and erase all memories of the misfile, they will show some kindness and, in the rewritten reality, have the two of them have met (around the time that the misfile occurred) and have started going out. Besides, how else can they explain why Emily wasn't in that car crash? Because, just like in the "messed-up" timeline, she was with Ash instead.
Ash can return to being a guy without giving up memory of things.
Not entirely sure this will happen, but I'm putting the idea out there in case it does. The idea is present in Emily's situation - take out a page. Assuming that Emily were to remain the same age she is post-Misfile, doing that would both ensure Ash's memories and make the two of them the same age to boot. And Ash has said it herself that if she were to lose a year of her life it wouldn't be a huge deal.
Ash will have to confront his male self at some point.
Given that Ash's identity crisis is a major theme of the series, and as the matters with the Angels and Heavens escalate, I'm confident that Ash will end up having to race his former self, in the form of some kind of illusionary what-if, as part of some kind of Divine Aesop proving that Ash is Ash, regardless of what the misfile says.
No, not trying to be some lame Nietzsche Wannabe here. Something must've happened to God in the Misfile universe (either he died, something unknown killed him, or he just plain lost interest and left the universe completely), which is why we don't see him at all. The Celestial Bureaucracy was set up to keep the universe in order to make it seem like God is still alive, kicking, and in charge. Only the highest ranking angels know about this Masquerade and the recent assassinations are an attempt to destablize the order and unravel said Masquerade.
Emily will find out she didn't lose her virginity in this timeline.
Emily remembers having sex with Ryan from before the misfile, when she was a freshman in high school. After the misfile, Emily would have been two years younger and in middle school. That could cause some serious Squick factors. We don't know much of anything about Ryan, but if he was a decent guy, he might have stopped like Emily wished he had just because Emily is younger now. Besides, if Emily were to ever need something good to happen in the story, what better way to sheer her up than tell her she's got a second chance? She was fantasizing about sharing her first time with her best friend. Granted, she technically remembers having sex, but that could be played for angst if it's held against her anyway. It's an easy way to Throw the Dog a Bone or Yank the Dog's Chain.
Pre-Misfile Female Ash was a lesbian.
Either because of or resulting in the weirdness of what happened with James. Rumsiel and post-Misfile Ash were shown playing some sort of bikini beach game (I don't recall if it was volleyball or a DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball-style "jubble-centric" minigame pack, but either way, it was almost definitely Ash's from pre-Misfile. 1) Ash was broke from the misfile until after the appearance of the game. 2) so was Rumsiel. 3) Ash's father wasn't surprised to see her playing it, and would (despite his perversions), be unlikely to play such a game around his daughter (based on comments from Dr. Upton himself).
When they finally get the chance, both Ash and Emily won't want to be fixed
Emily has already outright stated she doesn't want things to go back the way they were. Ash is getting more and more feminine as time passes, plus she has a better relationship with her parents than what s/he said s/he had as a boy.
Rumisiel is a high-ranking Xanatos Speed Chessmaster using Obfuscating Stupidity as a cover
The original gambit was the titular misfile, which was enacted to save Emily's life and begin her magical training. (Hence turning Ash into a girl and pushing them to become friends - the former guarantees Kate's interest in Ash, and the latter ensures that Emily is present when they deal with Kate's dead sister.) This explains why Rumisiel is so Badass when the stakes are high (1. Tom; 2. Angelica; 3. Missi, which no ordinary being could have expected to work, but who did a lot to help Ash keep it together; and 4. Bronwyn), why Rumisiel always does something to make himself look really stupid right after each of those, and why the Archon came to this obscure little town when trouble started brewing in Heaven. In the original plan, Rumisiel would have had cover for returning to Heaven after taking care of Bronwyn, but what with the missing Archons he needed his superiors give him an excuse to stall.
Emily will give up on Harvard and set her sights on MIT instead
Harvard offers zilch for gearheads, after all.
Team Misfile will eventually become the world's first all-female rallying team, with Ash driving, Emily navigating, Missi wrenching, and Ash's Mom will be their sponsor.
Ash says rallying is her favorite form of racing, rally cars have navigators, and given their respective personalities it seems like a natural fit.
God is literally in Ash's car.
Aidan is awfully spooked by it for some reason and claims it doesn't even react like most cars to him. Ash's car has some power above and beyond what you'd expect from just the parts - it nearly was able to beat Kamikaze Kate's high-end racing machine. God is possessing Ash's car, which will be revealed with a literal Deus ex Machina and God Was My Co-Pilot at the end.
All Real Life transexuals are victims of misfiles.
Ramael will turn out to be the true villain.
He appears shortly after an angel is found dead. Ever since he met Rumisiel, he's done nothing but tempt the poor guy further down the path of vice. Vashiel has a history with him, and clearly hates him as a result. He even looks like a bad guy. He could possibly be a fallen angel, working for Satan and trying to bring the whole Celestial Bureaucracy down.
He's either trying to tempt Rumisiel into messing up so he never goes back to heaven, because he knows about the misfile, and it's crucial to his plans. Or he knows nothing about the misfile, and is simply luring Rumisiel into a false sense of security so he can be killed just like that other angel, either because Rumisiel has a bigger part to play than would seem, or because Rumisiel's death would significantly traumatise Vashiel, who obviously would have a big part to play.
Missi is about to get some serious Character Development and possibly be truly Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.
"Now" being as of comic 1448, found here * . Look. She looks way too serious, almost sad, and a four-mile walk barefoot is beyond her annoying Clingy Jealous Girl tendencies and into "This is real and important" territory. I smell Cerebus Syndrome.
Shelden is a 'devil'
So far all we have seen of hell in the Misfile universe is Cassiel, who barely constitutes a threat. Naturally of course, with all the Cerebus Syndrome starting to kick in, its a rather obvious time for a couple of red herrings to appear. So far, all of Ash's major races have had some kind of supernatural influence occur, yet we haven't actually seen any hint of it yet. Enter Shelden, who appears to be offering temptation, in the form of a position on a 'proper' racing team, provided she acts against her principles... ie throw the race.
Pre-misfile Girl!Ash was transgendered.
The differences between the timelines were all due to hormones and body parts; they always had the same personality. Pretty much the only evidence I've found for this is that Doctor Upton's reaction to Ash shouting "I'm still a boy inside!... I'm a boy!" was "Go to bed, Ash!", which implies that he already knew but isn't angsting over it (assuming it wasn't Selective Obliviousness), but it would't necessarily have had any lasting, visible repercussions for Misfiled Ash to find.
Rumisiel is God
After Vashiel messed up, we've already seen that they altered his mind so that he can't lie. God may have thought this was a perfect excuse to alter this angel's memory and escape from a lot of duties. Just had to negotiate a deal with Gabriel to go along with it. All was going pretty good. He got to be pretty lazy and just bum around without people heaping responsibilities on him until Vashiel decided to be the good big brother and get him a job. Rumisiel still just slacks off, cause that was his initial plan anyways, but because he's supposed to not be God, he finds himself having to follow the major rules anyways. Rumisiel did say that it wouldn't be a problem that God knew about the misfile. He never said God wouldn't try fixing it.
This is not the first time Rumisiel has caused a Misfile.
Rumisiel causes misfiles to improve people's lives. This, however, is not his job. He was in the process of misfiling Ash's file and had likely been finishing up Emily's when his bosses came to chew him out. He was then kicked out of heaven. He has no intention of fixing the misfile but rather making it permanent himself and is afraid that the beauracracy will change it back to its previous state. I can't really explain otherwise why the files weren't filed in the first place.
Missy is a physical manifestation of the Miss File.
Besides the obvious clue hidden in the names, (ok fine this is mostly based off that), it does seem rather suspicious the way that its kept being brought up that Ash would have met her around now in the normal timeline. Her personality and the part where Ash specifically says dating her was making him/her the 'girl' of the relationship, comes from the file. She is literally the manifestation of Ash's male side or the Misfile itself. The dead and dying angels... well you can't expect that all the energy and power for a totally new person would come from nowhere, not to mention what it would take to alter the entire world.
The resolution of the misfile will be around the two-thirds mark.
Think about it. On one end, intrigue among angels, a conflict between eldritch forces in which the very fabric of existence may be changed beyond our comprehension... on the other, a Gender Bender racing cars around the Worcester Plateau and awkwardly flirting with an overachieving closet case. When the misfile is resolved, while Ash and Em get used to whatever their lives have become, it will be just a prologue to their involvement in the cosmic cataclysm that the author seems to be laying the foundation for whenever the angels show up.
Missi was a little girl aged into dead-center puberty overnight.
A little odd, but Rumisiel's initial assessment of the situation at the start of the comic might make for a Chekhov's Gun. It really explains a lot - Missi is an impulsive, demanding person who is very perky and eager but easy to depress. While easy enough to write off as a Genki Girl based on that alone, it fits well with a few other oddities.
For instance, Missi's frustration with her parents paying more attention to Tom even though he was getting ready to leave for college at the time and based on what little we've seen they don't seem to neglect her any. It could also explain her random insistance on a Halloween party and seeing large breasts as an all-powerful force; her Suddenly Sexuality, her seeking out Ash as soon as she could, and her instant hatred of Emily daring to be Ash's friend too can also explain this nicely. She could've agreed to try the dating thing in the first place due to being able to tell that Rumisiel is an angel combined with a lack of proper understand of sexuality, while she could have sought out Ash because she saw or heard about him when younger and had learned of the sudden gender change. The Emily hatred is just simple childhood jealous and a "You can only have one best friend" mentality.
As for the thing about Missi being a car mechanic? She was lying. We've never seen her bring it up beyond the one time, and Tom claimed to handle it himself - just because he's a dick doesn't mean he always lies.
This also conveniently explains the Fridge Logic of why Ash and Emily's files were out and why Rumisiel had to rush to hide them - he had messed up on a file from the same town somehow, and he was looking through theirs while trying to find and fix it.
A compromise will be reached between correcting and not correcting the file
When/if Rumisiel gets back into Heaven, Ash and Emily will ask him to, instead of correcting their files and erasing all memory of what happened, put details of the misfile in their files so they remember. Emily will probably want him to leave her life as it is, and Ash will get his file moved back, but since it's noted that they were out of place for a while they'll be able to carry on as normal (aside from Ash being male).
If/When Ash does return to being a boy, his and Emily's relationship will be rewritten so that they were dating since the Misfile began.
We know Ash likes Emily and Em likes Ash back, but cannot accept she is attracted to a girl. We've seen that as a girl, Ash and James would have been together, so obviously it can work the other way. Cape Cod could be explained by Em encouraging Ash to finally contact his mother and the summer vacation was for them to reconnect, maybe with Em being the one who wore Ash's dress. James and Ash falling out could be Ash prioritizing Emily. The race against Kate could have been Kate seeing how much Emily cares about Ash, or maybe Em asks Kate not to kill Ash, which gets her to thinking about her views on life and getting over her sister. Missi, maybe Ash and Em break up for a while and Missi was Ash's rebound, but he realises he loves Emily and they get back together, he still dates Missi but remains friends with Emily and that causes some issues or Missi is trying to break the two up so she can date Ash. Oh, and Emily staying around in Tempest could be her deciding to miss college for a year to figure out what she wants to do and also to wait until Ash is old enough to come with her.
Missi's character won't evolve because she's always going to be a side character.
We've never had a section of the story devoted to Missi alone, showing her thought process and things like that. Ash, Emily and Rumisiel are the stars of Misfile, so they get character exploration and development, but Missi is just someone they know who hangs out with them. The only time we saw any depth was when she got drunk, because she let down her defences and confessed she feels lonely, but that seems to have mostly been ignored now. This could be because none of the main trio see past her bubbly personality and think she is naturally a happy child. Until she lets down her defences again or maybe we see some of her thought process, she will never be able to grow.
Rumisiel Is actually extremely lazy rather than incompetent.
It seems like Rumi really knows his stuff, when he wants to. Possibly a good 90% of the time he just doesn't care, and thus doesn't try, making him seem suddenly competent when he's actually trying to get something done.
Before the Misfile, Ash looked similar to Arthur.
It was inspired by how similar they looked in the final panel of this strip, but it would explain why he is the only guy Ash has agreed to date - it's because he subconsciously reminds her of her former self.
Rumisiel lied about how his his superiors would react to the misfile.
Think about it. We only have Rumisiel's word that "mistakes are covered up" by his superiors.
Rumi only kept the misfile under wraps because he knew it would mean he'd really be kicked out of heaven, but the files of Ash and Emily would have been corrected to their original status without any additional fuss. There would have been no reason for Rumi's superiors to cover up the misfile, since they already had their scapegoat.
The only redeeming fact for Rumi is that thanks to the misfile, it looks like several people's life are changing for the better.
Ash and Emily are soul mates.
This is why Ash still likes girls and Emily now likes girls when she was straight before. The filing system automatically corrected their sexualities.
Ash will consider a Deal with the Devil
Ash might become desperate enough for a solution to turn towards Lucifer or a demon for a way out, since Rumi hasn't done much to directly fix things. He'll try to arrange a deal to fix his gender while keeping Emily alive, then as with such deals, things will turn sour and have to be solved with a race for Ash's soul. Admittedly, this is just a wish for the racing to return, but...
Ash becoming a guy won't automatically make Emily want him
Em has always known Ash as a girl and is attracted to him as such. Her having to teach him about bras and pads and such was how they bonded, and Ash's insecurity is part of who she loves. All of a sudden, she has this guy she knows is the same person, but she can't think of as the same.
Ash is going to become an amazing trans ally after/if the misfile is fixed
Because, come on. Out of all of the cis* people out there, who would understand the plight of transgendered people better than Male!Ash?
Girl!Ash woke up one morning as a boy
Ash always refers to his girl self as a completely different person. So what happened to her soul when boy!Ash took over? Somewhere out there, girl!Ash woke up in a boy's body.
Ramael is Logan's father
Logan's father knows about angels. Something has changed Ramael since the brothers last saw him. The difference manifests itself as respect for a man's home and family. Just a short time around Eponine has had a profound effect on Cassiel, who knows what fathering a human child might do to an angel?
The Mind Is Not A Plaything Of The Body
Aside from the street racing (which, as Kate and other characters have proven, is not a male exclusive interest anyway) Ash doesn't strike me as having being particularly 'macho' as a guy - I'm not say he was actually transgendered, just not stereotypically uber-masculine either. All the things that Ash has been freaking out over enjoying as a girl because he thinks he's acclimatising to his new body, were things he would have enjoyed doing as a guy anyway - he just never got the chance to try them because he was more socially isolated then, and there was more social stigma attached to a guy doing the exact same things, which could have either denied him the chance to try them or made him feel awkward about doing so.
Eponine took the photos
Everybody is running around behind Eponine's back trying to find out who took some compromising photos of her that have recently surfaced. Nobody has thought to let Eponine know they exist or ask if she knows anything about it. Chances are that she knows where they are from, either she took them herself a while ago, or else they're a remnant of the relationship that just broke up so unpleasantly.
Missi knows that Ash is a boy on the inside.
She obviously doesn't know about the misfile, but she might know that Ash is transgendered. She says, "I don't even like girls! Why do I have to like you?", which could be a case of If It's You, It's Okay, or, it could be that she figured out that Ash isn't a girl mentally, but feels that Ash should tell Missi on his/"her" own.
If both Misfiles are corrected Ash will end up with Missi
Think about it: Emily would have never met Ash if it weren't for the Misfile. When the misfile occurred Ash was a sophomore and Emily was a graduating senior; Missi didn't enter as a freshman until the following year. Ash would never have gotten to know Emily but he would have had plenty of opportunity to meet car-crazy Missi. And Missi's behavior makes more sense if a relationship with Ash were written into their files — hence her confusion over being inexplicably attracted to another girl. Note that this doesn't imply a permanent relationship: How many people actually end up with the first person they dated in High School?
Boy!Ash had a huge penis.
We know that code on the file is interpreted differently depending on which cabinet the file is in. So what kind of data could be reinterpreted as huge boobs?
Rumisiel was not responsible for the misfile. Cassiel was.
After Rumisiel dumped Cassiel, she decided to have him kicked out of heaven. She knew he was a slacker and a stoner. So she snuck in, grabbed a file, some papers of a file, and put them where everyone (Rumisiel included) could reasonably believe Rumisiel would have dropped them. Even if he didn't remembered pulling out the files, he shrugged it as his natural "I-don't-care" attitude. Cassiel either called the "celestial Nazis" or timed the drop to have them see the file and loose papers. She would just have to wait. And then, Rumisiel was temporarily kicked for "lighting one on the job". Not believing he actually stashed them, she was sure Rumisiel scrambled and caused an incident. As soon as possible, she took her leave to spy on Rumiiel and was quick to figure Ash was misfiled. She cannot report it without being asked incriminating questions about how she knows, so she tries to gather evidence, or cause Rumisiel to make a fatal mistake, whichever comes first.
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