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Yor and Twilight are both being manipulated by a third party
A third organization is responsible for destabilizing Westalis and Ostania and is currently manipulating both Yor and Twilight, culminating in framing Twilight for the assassination of Desmond, which will be exposed as a Westalis plot and lead to open war between the two countries. Said third party organization was also responsible for developing Yor, Anya, and Bond (among others yet to be revealed) into superpowered agents, precisely to carry out their as-yet unrevealed goals, though Anya running away was a wrinkle in their plans.
  • Also, Dominic is a spy for said organization, responsible for keeping an eye on Yor and Yuri to ensure the success of Operation Strix.

The Narrator.

  • The narrator of this family tale is Anya's (future) child.
  • Or Anya herself.
  • Or an older Anya telling the story to her future child.
    • Going for the anime, the narrator's voice is that of an adult male, so it's highly unlikely is Anya.
      • In the spy drama genre, how common is the trope of using a voice changer? Very Common. Is it 'inconceivable' that a future Anya will find a need to disguise her voice? Tricking people into thinking 'an adult male.'
  • The future child of Loid and Yor, if they get together and end up giving Anya a sibling.
  • Subject 001, from the same experiments Anya endured, who has omnipotence instead of telepathy.
  • The Director of WISE, who is reflecting on Operation Strix and its role in ensuring peace between Westalis and Ostania.

At one point Yor will be ordered to Assassinate <Twilight> where at the same time <Twilight> will be ordered to Spy on <Thorn Princess>

And for a certain reason they will both wear disguises so they won't have a clue one is the other.

  • Alternatively, this will be how they discover each other's secrets.

Alternately, <Twilight> and Yor will find out each other's true identities when they're hired to work together.
  • At some point, Loid and Yor's superiors will need to work toward a common goal, and both agree to send in their best agent to ensure the mission's success. Cue an extremely awkward reaction when <Twilight> and Yor recognize each other.
    • As a bonus, the goal of the joint mission is to locate and ensure the safety of an asset that went missing several years ago. Specifically, a child who was given psychic powers as the result of scientific experimentation. The asset is known to have green eyes, pink hair, and an affinity for peanuts.
Anya was part of the "Apple Project"
At some point they tried to experiment on children, which is why Anya has superior intelligence for a girl her age, possibly her powers were a side effect.

Desmond will turn out to be working FOR world peace/not have been a threat at all.
<Twilight> was instructed to figure out what Desmond is actually planning, and the audience has been given no hints. The author has even kept Anya away from him or any characters who might have an idea what he's actually planning. For all we know, he seeks to end the cycle of war and vengeance just as <Twilight> and WISE do.
  • A common theme in the series is for characters to keep secrets and have hidden motivations. We've never seen any actual signs of what Desmond is thinking or doing(of course, that's why we're here in the first place), and Anya has been kept away from him for the duration of the series so far.
  • Another thing we've seen is that appearances don't always match what people are like inside. Despite how scary Desmond might look, one of the first things we see him do in Mission 38 is smile and dismiss <Twilight's> apology as unnecessary. The most unpleasant thing he did in that mission was an incredibly exasperated sigh at Damian being upset his father had no intention to seek retribution for Anya striking him, a childish and vengeful idea.
    • Except in the same Mission he also explains that he can't really empathise or understand people, even his own children, which is absolutely a sign of how his mind operates and should raise some red flags. Apply that perspective to someone involved in politics and it's not going to work out well.
    • Yet even that could still be a Red Herring. Having issues with empathy and connecting to people is not immediately proof of malice in of itself. Neither is being a bad father.
  • We've never actually seen what his "unusual purchases" and "moves behind the scene" entail, and even if he was, say, buying up nuclear weapons manufacturers, it's entirely possible it could be with the intent to use his influence to unilaterally disarm his country as part of a peace deal.

Desmond will renounce his extremist views due to his interactions with Twilight
  • The first interaction between them hints as this, as Twilight (as Loid) managed to steer him away from one of his more extremist views by relating it to his (fake) profession of a psychologist.
    • Isn't this the whole point of Operation Strix?

Desmond may simply want Damian to become a good person, nothing more.
  • His first outward sign of displeasure with anyone is towards Damian for acting like Anya had grievously wounded him over a simple spat. He immediately shows Damian a kind smile when he apologizes.
  • He claims that even his children are strangers and he can't quite understand/be sympathetic towards them, but at no point does he state that he doesn't care about Damian. He even concedes that <Twilight> has a point when the spy responds that it's still important to meet people in the middle, and that may be why Desmond showed up to the school.
  • Desmond stuck around after <Twilight> left the conversation to see what Damian wanted, despite multiple signs from his bodyguard that they may be late for something (pointing at his watch and verbally reminding him.)
  • While he does congratulate Damian on earning a Stella Star already, he doesn't seem to actually care. Instead, his parting words are to tell Damian to continue striving not to besmirch the family name. This shows that he doesn't seem to care what Damian achieves or doesn't achieve, simply that he act in a respectable manner.

Desmond will be revealed as a sort of Ikari Gendo-like character
That is to say, Donovan will have his own agenda and end goal separate from that of his associates in the National Unity Party. His Parental Neglect of Damian and unhappy marriage with Melinda would stem from his own unresolved psychological issues, though it still hardly excuses his treatment of them.

Desmond may already know or suspect the identity and goal of <Twilight.>
Desmond showed some suspicion towards <Twilight> towards the end of Mission 38, even making sure to catch his name. He also paused at several key moments throughout their conversation regarding each of their beliefs, and showed an ability to manipulate Damian with simple reactions, showing displeasure when the boy acted out and beaming when he apologized. With his great ability to remain detached and manipulate others, it may be entirely possible that he figured out that <Twilight> is a spy from the very early stages of their exchange.

The organization that experimented on Anya specialized in turning children into spies and killers
The group would find children that had lost everything and turned them into highly effective agents and assasins. The "clients" for this organization were the nations of both governments.
  • Anya was one of the prototypes for a second-generation soldier, who would have not just Charles Atlas Superpowers but actual psychic abilities. By sheer chance, she escaped and unknowingly ended up with two "successful products" of the organization.
  • In other words, the spy, the assassin, and the psychic are a Secret Project Refugee Family, and none of them know it. Of course.

Desmond is a red herring and the real scope of everything... is to put Anya (psychic) together with Forger (smart), Yor (juggernaut) and Bond (seer)
  • The scope will be to construct a post-human society.
  • In this case, the chess player needs to be a superior intelligence, able to manipulate different agencies.
  • We need to find an equivalent of the Master/Missy of Doctor Who.
  • And this character can be the real, final, definitive Big Bad.
  • There is also the possibility that the manipulator is future Anya, able to manipulate the past to have a time loop that sustains her existence.
    • Or prevent a Bad Future not unlike what Bond did?

The manga will undergo Cerebus Syndrome later on
Even if for just one chapter or two. Maybe we'll see the enemy nation getting one step ahead of Twilight/Loid and him struggling to keep his identity safe and by extension, his family. But this will get treated as a serious deal, unlike the other chapters, reaching the edge of drama.
  • Seemingly confirmed with just how grim Twilight's childhood was in the current Missions.
  • What if Operation Strix ends up failing and war breaks out between Westalis and Ostalia?!

The name of Twilight's operation will somehow (probably inadvertently) be related to the target.
"Strix" is the genus name for earless and wood owls. This could appear to be a reference to the Theme Naming going on with the family Twilight had built.

However, it can also refer to a beast from Greek mythology. Polyphonte and her two sons were transformed into strixes as punishment for cannibalism. Donovan Desmond has two sons, and it is possible the cannibalism could be a metaphor for something Desmond did to gain power or status.

Or it is the surname of "goggling eyes" Desmond. See the owl. You can like the simplest option.

In that case we would have a Fish-Eyes operation.

Anya and Damian will be part of an arranged marriage
One or both of Damian's parents will learn that Damian has a liking towards Anya and arrange a marriage between the two of them when they get older. Twilight will use this as a "Plan C" to complete operation "Strix".
  • Looks like Plan C is getting Yor to befriend Melinda. Still a possible Plan D.

Anya is in fact Desmond's secret weapon
She's a prototype of a new wave of psychic counter-intelligence agents, designed to root out spies like Twilight...

Anya's horn-like hair clips cover real horns or similar characteristics
Anya is never seen without her hair clips because she is physically different from normal humans. A hint is her chimera doll: it has horns, too. This fact makes her similar to a oni (Lum) or to a diclonius (Elfenlied), or she has antennae (Saiki K.). Her worse fear is to be treated as a freak and she hides them.
  • Seconded. In Vol 1, she has a flashback to before she escaped. Instead of hair clips, she has bandages the same shape as her clips. You don't put bandages on decorations.
  • Nightmare Fuel. The experimenters Drilled Holes In Anya's Skull to reach her brain. The bandages covered the wounds, that eventually healed over.
    • Jossed on the bandages front- the anime shows the "bandages" are actually just Odango Hair.

Anya's horn-like hair clips DO NOT cover real horns or similar characteristics
Because it would be trivial.

Her horn-link clips could be an allusion to other characters with princess-like features, like Usagi Tsukino.

Moreover, her parents prepared her very accurately for the admission at he school. This needs also hair care and it is impossible her parents do not notice horns or strange bumps. It can be a princess allusion.

Nightfall and Yuri will end up together
Either as Pair the Spares or as another instance of Loid's situation where they are only a couple for their own agendas. It'll probably end up becoming real for both of them. Or they join together to break up the Forgers' relationship so they can have Loid/Yor for themselves, only for them to fall for each other instead while attempting (and failing) to do so.
  • Maybe a trope of 'making Twilight/Yor jealous'?

Nightfall and Franky will end up together
They've already worked together once with Nightfall promising to rely on his services and skills more. It's an easier, less improbable fit than Nightfall/Yuri and would make sense as a contrast to Yor and Loid.

Anya is an Alien.
That's why her powers are connected to the moon. Alternately, she could be a human enhanced with alien DNA, thus explaining her Chimera toy.

Yor is a Cyborg/Super Soldier
Even in-story, her strength is far beyond human with a very high pain tolerance. The organization she's working for might have done surgery on her upon recruitment to make her a more efficient killer, or perhaps used gene therapy to modify her DNA.In summary:
  • Yor is inhumanely strong; she is also immune to poisons.
  • Yor is an orphan so that she has a nebulous childhood;
  • She appears unusually naive; is she programmed in some way?
  • The possibility of Yor being a modified human is not contradictory with the background of the story, since the series shows already some cases of experiments, on human beings and not: precisely Anya and Bond. And both are in her family now. (Perhaps a coincidence; perhaps NOT).

Yor is a product of the same project as Anya and Bond, and has an assigned subject number just like them.
Anya is Subject 007. Bond is subject 008. Perhaps Yor is 004, since Four Is Death?

Anya will get more stars
It'll be through extraordinary stuff like when she saved the kid from drowning, rather than schoolwork.
  • Confirmed. She gets her second star for her actions during the Red Circus arc.

Another two things that may happen at the same time: <Twilight> will need someone else than him to assassinate a target right when <Thorn Princess> needs someone to spy on one of hers
They will then spend an inordinate amount of time trying to find the right person for each job while Anya and Bond Pass the Popcorn.

<Thorn Princess> is a member of GARDEN
In chapter 43, there's a group of assassins Franky mentioned going under the name "GARDEN", and at the end of the chapter Yor gets an ominous phone call for a new assignment. Curious, no? Also related to the WMG above, this is when <Thorn Princess> will clash with <Twilight> without them knowing who the other is or, for drama, they'll find out who the other is.
  • Confirmed that <Thorn Princess> is part of GARDEN, but her job in the following arc doesn't have anything to do with <Twilight>.

The events of the cruise ship arc will result in <Thorn Princess> and <Twilight> unwittingly being pitted against each other
Anya will find a way to clue Loid in to the presence of hit men aboard the ship. This will lead to him using his spycraft to find and disable their mission control, making Yor's job a little easier. However, he will be led to believe that the hit men are working for GARDEN. At the same time, GARDEN will discover that <Twilight> was aboard the ship and assume that he was there on an official espionage mission. Both Loid and Yor's superiors will tell them that neutralizing the other has become a high priority, with poor Anya being the only one who knows that both of her parents have been ordered to dispose of the other's alter ego.
  • Jossed. Loid ends up handling the bombs planted on the ship while Yor faces off with the assassins. They never learn of each other or the threat the other is handling.

Sylvia Sherwood's daughter was a subject like Anya
  • Considering Anya's own origins are a mystery, it's likely that Sylvia's child likely disappeared as well and was part of the same experiment.

The Voice Actors for the characters
Loid and Yor will end up having a baby
Anya will have to get ready to be a big sister.

Alternatively, they've already had one
  • Not in the traditional sense,though. Some third party (independently of Operation Strix and without the knowledge of Yor or Loid) took the DNA of the killer Thorn Princess and master of disguise Twilight and combined them into a test tube baby: Agent 47
    • Or Anya is the end result from that experiment, making her Loid and Yor's ACTUAL daughter. Of course, if those two found out what these scientists did to Anya for the sake of peace, no doubt Loid and Yor would massacre them.

Loid's Real Name
  • Is actually Roy.
    • It matches the tendency for names to be puns/wordplay (being the opposite of Yor).
    • All of his pseudonyms but one begin with an L/R and can be hand waved to Japanese pronunciation conventions. While Twilight could easily just use any line of sight name, perhaps a subconscious part of him clings to the L/R.
  • Ian or James, as this series likes to reference the Bond universe.
    • There's a potential Double Meaning to the name Ian: It is spelt and pronounced the same as the Japanese word for "to comfort" (慰安). When Twilight cast aside his original name, he also cast aside comfort.
  • In contrast to his usual fake names being puns on types of lies, his real name could be a pun relating to types of truths.

Chika Fujiwara is a descendent of Anya Forger
Anya and Chika are both bookdumb but they have high emotional intelligence. Moreover, they can easily read social situations and manipulate them to their advantage. Also, they both have pink hair.

A future arc will involve the scientists who gave Anya her powers coming after her
This could have great chances for both comedy and drama. It could be comedic if her classmates were to try and save her, and quickly become serious once her parents get involved.

Twilight's father was a spy as well, and may still be alive
Twilight's father did some kind of work that required him to go to the border when things were heating up, and he implied he'd met and gotten to know Ostanians. His whole face has not been shown yet, which implies he may be someone we've already seen — the Director, perhaps? He's the right age. As to him still being alive, they Never Found the Body.
  • This seems plausible. Notice how his father was really against the war and told him to wish for peace. Very similar with other characters we've seen so far, hiding their identities for the sake of peace.

Yor's near-immunity to poison comes from eating her own cooking
For the same reason, Yuri is probably very resistant.

Donovan Desmond actually possesses a psychic power himself
The theory has been around for some time, and what we know of him seems to line up. His party was in power during the war, and "Apple" might be their secret war project. He also has two scars on his temple, perhaps caused by surgery. Also note that when Loid met him Anya was conveniently absent and he managed to confuse even Loid at times. His power may be a mindreading like Anya which suits his belief that people understanding each other is impossible, or perhaps something similar.

Donovan Desmond is an alien.
Maybe Donovan's problems with empathy and understanding people aren't because of some underlying disorder; rather, it's because he's an entirely different species altogether! Or perhaps he's being controlled by a Puppeteer Parasite. Either way, it could explain how someone with a limited understanding of how people work came to be the leader of a major political party.

Operation Strix is meant to put Twilight into semi-retirement as a secondary goal.
To put it simply, Handler repeatedly insists that Strix is a long-term project. What's longer-term than settling down and raising a child?

Sylvia Sherwood a.k.a. <Handler>.
  • Anya is Handler's daughter.
    • Anya is chronologically older than her physical appearance.
    • Appears to be jossed. Chapter 78 briefly shows Handler’s daughter, who doesn’t look anything like Anya.
  • Handler eventually finds out about her lost daughter.
    • Externally she gives up her daughter for the mission.
    • Internally Handler let's Anya go, to a better family and a good life.

Anya is actually very smart for her age. It's just that her age isn't 6.
Anya only told Twilight that she was six years old because he was specifically looking for a child that age. At least one character has remarked that Anya is unusually small for a six-year-old. It's likely that Anya's actual age is closer to 5, meaning her emotional and intellectual development is half a year or more behind that of her classmates'. And yet she's still keeping up with some *very* advanced material by modern First Grade standards, albeit by the skin of her teeth. As Anya gets older and her brain begins catching up with her peers', she's likely to become one of Eden's top students—no psychic cheating required. She'll also probably get better at dodgeball. Probably.
  • Seconded. I thought she was very smart even without mind reading it's just that she hated studying due to her background.
  • Heck, for all we know, she could be even younger. With genetic engineering in play, it could very well be that Really Was Born Yesterday is in effect via accelerated aging and such. We know from her paper trail that she's at least a year old. Depending on how long she spent in the lab before escaping, she could be anywhere between ages 2 and 4.
  • I think Anya could be 6 years old and highly intelligent. Anya is underconfident in her academic abilities, she was bought up in environments where praise was lacking, something Yor noted motivated herself. She is overconfident in her telepathic abilities, Anya comments after one test where she scores low that she used her abilities to copy of someone else, she didn't get the answers wrong someone else did. She could have probably scored a higher grade had she answered the questions herself like in the mid terms where she lost her powers yet achieved a mediocre mark even after wasting time studying the wrong subject with Yuri. Anya also has poor handwriting, Eden College does not strike me as the sort of place which would grade an illegible piece of work, Anya could actually be getting more answers correct then we think.

Handler's child is alive and well
Her words could have a double meaning, in that she is no longer has a child because that child has grown up to be a teenager/adult and has a rocky relationship with her.

Loid and Yor will never physically get intimate during the series
Because Anya would find out what happened in the bedroom and this is a family friendly series.
  • Or they'd just gloss that over or simply not address it at all.
  • Or Anya will be out of the house.
    • The two reasons above doesn't work because even if Anya wasn't there when it happened, they could have thought about it later and Anya find out later. Unless they were both drunk or not remember it at all, so they never even think it and Anya wouldn't know.
  • Just to bring up another possibility, Anya has notably never run into any Dirty Mind-Reading related problems so far despite how commonly sex appears in the front of a normal adult's mind. My guess is that her powers are selective, making her aware only of thoughts that might interest her, and being a 5-year-old girl pretending to be 6, nothing sex-related ever gets brought out to her attention (the less family-friendly alternative is that Anya has suffered from Dirty Mind-Reading all this time to the point she became completely desensitized to it, but that's unlikely to be the case in this particular series). If that's the case, Anya's powers effectively come with their own censorship, even though just incidentally.
  • Of course, it could also be that she does run into Dirty Mind-Reading frequently, but being a kid she doesn’t understand any of it and so doesn’t think much of it when it happens. We never see those scenes because, well, it’s a family-friendly series.

End series prediction
  • The 'final boss' is related to the scientists that experimented on Anya. Bonus if Desmond involved.
  • Anya will ended up losing her psychic power and live a normal life... But with parents like those she'd grew up to be Badass Normal.
  • It will go full Cerebus Syndrome and Anya will end up losing one of her parents.
  • Operation Strix will fail and Twilight will end up dying.
    • Chapter 12 could be foreshadowing a bad ending when it tells the reader it will be another 10 years before the Iron Curtain comes down between East and West.

Desmond is a Well-Intentioned Extremist

Anya hasn't unlocked her full potential
  • Mind reading is just the first step. The next step should be sending her thought directly into another person's head so she can communicate without words.
  • To take it even further, this means she could make subtle suggestions to her target's mind... Basically a form of mind control.
    • Anya's likely too nice to use her power for evil but it's possible she used it for her own desires. For peanuts!

Anya will get more bolts
For the sake of drama I can see her getting all the bolts minus one needed for expulsion... But then she got one more and ready to be kicked out of school... Only for some extraordinary circumstances happened that allowed her to stay (maybe she saved the school or something) and earned all the stars needed.
  • Most likely she'll get more bolts and possibly be suspended at some point. It's also possible she might be dangerously close to getting an eighth one, and Damian will take the fall for her, allowing her to stay in school and giving him one.

Chapter 62.3 foreshadows the ending and moral of the series
The recruiter remarks that revealing hidden truths will result in tears, but Twilight is resolute that "ignorance is not bliss." Meaning that, as much as the series revolves around secret lives, eventually most or all the secrets will need to come out in order for the characters to have a future.

Yuri and the secret police will be the antagonists of a post-secret reveal arc
Yuri's been looking for Twilight, unaware that he's actually his sister's husband. Should Loid and Yor reveal their secret lives to each other, then their later openness about it could lead to Yuri learning Loid's true identity. He'd inform this to his superiors, and then make his move to bring Twilight in for questioning, believing that he'll be keeping Yor safe this way. This would lead to conflict between the Briar siblings, due to their differing views on Loid/Twilight and learning about the professions they've taken for the sake of protecting each other.

Assuming the series can one day fit into the Jump Super Stars Crossover Fighting-Game Multiverse, The Martial Art that Yor practices is a branch of Nanto Seiken
Possessing the monstrous, superhuman speed, strength and endurance common to Assassins of both the Fists of the Northern and Southern Stars, the evidence of Yor's practition of Nanto Seiken (South Star Sacred Fist) is that like all Nanto students, her very bare hands are capable of cleaving through solid objects like a hot knife through butter, demonstrated comically by the shattered pumpkin that scared off Anya's kidnappers, and horrifyingly by the multiple holes she rapidly punctured through the giant Assassin's face during the Cruise Ship battle. Also, while certified in basic Keiraku Hiko (pressure point) techniques, Yor is unlikely to be a Hokuto Shinken (North Star Sacred Fist) practitioner as there are only four branches of Hokuto traditions (one of which died out shortly before World War 2) during the tradition's 1800 year history, each allowing only one male heir per-generation. This is in contrast to the the 108 schools of Nanto Seiken, the 102 "lesser" schools of which Yor's organization could easily be one of the branches of.

Bill Watkins was injected with something similar to the steroids from the tennis tournament, but longer lasting
That would explain why he looks like a teen at six years old. The fact that anime shows his father be even taller hints that the whole family may be benefitting from whatever it is.
  • Alternately, he could be the product of genetic engineering.

The Stella Scholars put up an elegant front, but when in private, drop it
Going along with the series theme of hiding your true self. In the private dining hall, they're relaxed and maybe slovenly. Plus, since their success in life is almost guaranteed and they have nothing else to work for, they're lazy.

A future plot will take Yuri's obsession with Yor to dark levels by using it against him somehow
This will lead to a fight between Yuri and Yor, which Yor will win before convincing Yuri to let his crush go and find someone to love other than her.

"The Garden" Yor works for is a Spy X Family setting branch of The Brotherhood of Assassins
Thus far, Yor and The Shopkeeper at least, has demonstrated an admirable dedication to The Assassin's Creed:
"Stay Thy Blade From The Flesh of The Innocent"
"Hide In Plain Sight"
"Never Comprimise The Brotherhood"
Not to mention that the Raisons D'être of The Garden's Warriors, namely to protect the innocent by smiting the wicked, aligns perfectly with that of Warriors from the Brotherhood such as Ezio Auditore and Jacob Frye.'

Garden unsuccessfully tried to train Yor into becoming a Femme Fatale kind of assassin
Yor's work dress doesn't fit her fighting style at all, and it occurred to me that perhaps her handlers at some point started to train her to be a Honey Trap type of Professional Killer after noticing that she definitely got the looks for the job with the right getup, but then they realized how much of a Naïve Everygirl she's in anything unrelated to murder and decided to scrap the whole idea. She did end up liking the dress they had her try on and her handlers saw no reason to not let her keep it.

Anya is a de facto ninja in training
Mr. and Mrs. Forger engaged in espionage and assassination respectively, two skills that a ninja engages in.

The story is occuring in the universe of The Difference Engine
The event that caused this time line to diverge from ours was that Babbage perfected his Difference Engine and later his Analytical Engine, causing the computer and information technology revolution to occur over 100 years too early. Bill Watkins has a computer he runs simulations on but it is shown as a mechanical computer with "bombes" spinning around and clacking gears albeight with a glowing CRT display.

Also, as in the book of the same name, the divergent events have been so intense that the political map of Europe by CE 1960 is unrecognizeable. Westalis is a capitalist state but Ostania isn't a communist state as such, simply a very authoritarian one. Hungaria is another nation mentioned but almost nothing is known about it. Perhaps Germany never united in this time line and Westalis and Ostania are two Germanic countries made from the many small German states which united in quite different ways.

Yor and Garden are going to serve as Desmond's bodyguards, pitting her against Loid and WISE.
This relates to the "Desmond is secretly good" theories. If Desmond were really a threat to the peace between two rival nations, it would make sense for Garden to go after him. What's more, Yor's involved with Loid and Anya as part of her cover, so this gives her the perfect excuse to get close to Desmond, the same way WISE wants to make Anya an Imperial Scholar so Loid can get involved in Desmond's social circle. However, if that were the case, Yor would be pressuring Anya with her studies so she could become an Imperial Scholar as fast as possible, the same way Loid does. Plus, as the leader of one of Ostania's political parties, he's high-profile enough that Garden wouldn't ignore any potential threat he could pose. This implies that Desmond might be Good All Along, or Garden will be Evil All Along. Either way, Garden will try to protect him from any potential threats against him, like Loid and WISE, putting him and Yor into conflict with each other.

WISE has a plan B to get close to Damian's brother Demetrius similar to Loid's friendship scheme.
If WISE was willing to use Loid and Anya to get close to Damian and enter Desmond's social circle, then it makes sense if they have someone getting close to Damian's brother in case they screw up. WISE wouldn't want to take any chances with Anya, who's too much of a Wild Card for them to control. Thus, they are duplicating the friendship scheme, but applying it to Demetrius and a student they've converted to their side. Considering he's already an Imperial Scholar, it would save a lot of time if they went straight to Demetrius instead of Damian. This also makes sense considering Sherwood has been shown to be very impatient, wanting to make Anya an Imperial Scholar as fast as possible. She suggested to Loid that they stage a bunch of incidents so Anya can play the hero and earn more Stellas, as well as changing Anya's test answers to give her perfect marks on her midterms, without considering how suspicious this would make Anya look. With that in mind, she might be working on converting one of Demetrius's friends to accelerate Operation Strix.

Yuri will learn Loid's identity first
Yuri finally track down Twilight and find out he's his sister's husband, but Loid will somehow coerce him into keeping it a secret.

Loid and Yor's eventual child will be a boy named Sunny.
  • His parents and sister's names refer to night and darkness, but this baby would be born when his family and their secrets have been brought into the light.
  • Sunny Forger has Theme Initials of Spy x Family.
  • It sounds like "sonny".

The Garden is directly at odds with the National Unity Party
Based on the Gardener's caution towards Yor regarding the Desmonds, it stands to show that the Garden believes that The National Unity Party and Donovan Desmond in particular are a growing threat to the peace they are trying to uphold and may have even tried to assassinate Donovan before in the past to nip the evil in the bud, hence the ridiculous amount of security measures Donovan puts out in the present which prevents WISE from gaining intel on the National Unity Party's agenda.
  • Shopkeeper may have also figured that if Loid isn't genuinely aligned with the National Unity Party, then he has ulterior motives for trying to get close to Desmond—that he's a spy. Either way, a potential threat to peace.

One of Anya's birth parents is still alive, and will be an antagonist
The father is more likely, to be a foil to Loid the protagonist. Anya's parents were lab rats whose psychic abilities were abused as weapons during the previous war. The couple managed to escape and live in hiding for a while, only to be stolen back shortly before Anya was born. The father was separated from his wife and lied to that the baby died, for which he massacred his way out of the lab. Learning afterwards his wife was dead but Anya survived, he amassed a terrorist cell (an expy of SPECTRE) to help him find his daughter, and take revenge on the political powers responsible for making his life hell.
  • His power would have to be more suited to combat than one-way telepathy, e.g. telekinesis or pyrokinesis.
  • Anya's villainous father has the potential to be the Blofeld to Loid's Bond. Blofeld is the Trope Codifier for Right-Hand Cat (Anya's cat motif), has a mint popping habit (Anya and peanuts), and his "Number One" codename is easily referenced if the father is Subject 001 (Anya is 007).

Members of the terrorist organization
Related to the above theory; Possible members of the evil organization, based on familiar Bond characters:
  • Le Chiffre: An immoral genius who was Trapped by Gambling Debts and agreed to serve the organization for their protection, even though the boss terrifies him. To keep the "foreign" element, he will possibly be Japanese or Chinese coded.
  • Bond girls: A Femme Fatale foil to Yor. Whereas Yor is a chaste master of melee combat with a night theme, this would be a seductress and manipulator with a day theme.

The Desmonds aren't the leaders of an evil organization.
Simply put, Donovan and/or Melinda make up a Disc-One Final Boss. They founded the Ostania National Party, but their partners are misappropriating funds and assets to further a more outright sinister movement. By the time Donovan and Melinda realize the duplicity, the real Big Bad gives the couple an ultimatum: The whole Desmond family can either be accomplices or hostages.

Damian will learn about Anya's power first.
Anya and Damian's relationship is in a rut. He keeps his distance to hide his crush while she begrudgingly tries to get closer to him. Enter a rom-com staple: A shared secret. Anya's powers stay hidden because a rational adult sees the signs of a mindreader and dismisses it as fantasy, but another kid isn't that cynical. Damian eventually notices the weird coincidences surrounding Anya, comes to the conclusion that she reads minds and confronts her about it. Terrified of being shunned as a freak, Anya begs Damian not to tell anyone. The boy agrees, mostly because meeting a person with honest to goodness superpowers is the coolest thing ever (he might even make his own "waku waku!" face). From there, the kids become closer as they test out Anya's telepathy in new ways.
  • Semi-jossed, at the chapter 95, Anya reveals Damian her secret but he doesn't believe her

The experiments that produced Anya are an offshoot of Project Apple, intended to create a counterpart to Garden, unsurpassed mentally rather than physically.
There's a general plant theme with both the project that produced Bond (Project Apple), and Garden (Yor's codename is Thorn Princess, the Shopkeeper is literally introduced in a garden trimming plants, etc.). In addition, it's stated that Anya's telepathy was an accidental side-effect of the experiments performed on her, just like Bond's precognition (as Project Apple was merely intended to create more intelligent military dogs, Bond even being considered a failure in that regard, since the scientists would have no way of knowing he can see the future, Anya only knows because she's a telepath, able to see the visions as he has them.), and two entirely unconnected projects both producing psychic powers unintentionally sounds too unlikely for a link not to exist. It's possible that, after some success with Project Apple, the scientists moved to human trials, hoping to create a group of hyperintelligent strategists and information-specialists to complement Garden's combat prowess.

English dub predictions for some of the cast

Bill Watkins doesn't really look like that.
"The Great Dodgeball Plan" is heavy with outlandish scenarios imagined by the children. It's not impossible that the kid on the other team who is a bit bigger and really good at dodgeball is seen as a giant by the others.

Loid and Yor will have a vow renewal ceremony in the final arc.
Having fallen in love and decided to get married for real, the Forgers hold a proper wedding, but pass it off as a renewing of their vows to the guests not in the loop.

Bill Watkins' father is the product of the Ostanian equivalent of Weapon X
And its effects were inherited by his son.

Secret reveal
  • Twilight will find out Yor's first.
    • He is a master spy, it would be insulting if he didn't eventually find out.
    • However, as a spy Twilight will focus to get his mission done. He can't get rid of Yor so easily since she is needed to be Anya's mom and contemplating what is the best way to keep his secret rather than outright killing her or something.
  • However, Yor is an assassin, her biggest advantage are her physical strength, not her brain. She doesn't even need to know who Twilight is. Yor could simply found out by cornering Twilight with physical strength, especially if Twilight hesitated in killing/harming her.
    • She would figure it out by accident.

There is an esper experiment that's far more powerful than Anya, to the point of being a Reality Warper
And they're the cause of several Contrived Coincidences and one-in-a-million events throughout the story.
  • In Mission 54, Anya failing to properly return Yor's dropped dagger causes an assassin to take himself and his partner out, because he just so happened to step on the exact spot the dagger landed and slip on it, hit his head on a pipe, and accidentally fire his gun at his partner's leg, causing him to fall and hit his head. This is a turn of events so coincidental that even Anya is skeptical of it being "exactly as planned". Perhaps said experiment was making sure this turn of events came to pass.

Keith Kepler and <Snoops> are related
<Snoops> basically resembles an older Keith, both of them are terrorists who have motives to spark a war between Ostania and Westalis, and both of them use explosives to achieve their means without caring about the innocents that will die from it.

Bond will have another bad future glimpse about Anya during the Red Circus arc
  • Bond gets another glimpse of the future where something bad is happening to Anya, and he will attempt to save her. One of the possible bad futures Bond will see includes:
    • Anya becomes one of the casualties that Red Circus members murdered.
    • Anya will accidentally expose her telepathy powers in public and got her classmates injured or killed.
    • Anya will be taken over by her dangerous personality when she kills every member of Red Circus and Anya's classmates are scared of her.
      • All jossed, as Bond does not make a major appearance during the arc.

Anya will unexpectedly meet another test subject like her, but with stronger powers
  • There is a chance that Anya will meet a test subject child, who works for Red Circus unwillingly. They will blame her for abandoning them rather than saving them.

Anya has a split personality if one of her horn hair clips is forcefully removed, physical pain or is called a monster
  • There is a hint the reason Anya never removes her hair clips is that she may have a split personality that will trigger if one or both of her horn hair clips are removed. The other Anya might be smarter, but dangerous since her telepathy powers are stronger than Anya's. Anya's other personality might be the reason Anya escaped the lab easily she either comatose or murder the scientists who tortured Anya.
    • The other Anya might come out when Billy forcefully removes Anya's hair clips because he finds them stupid and distracting during the Red Circus arc.
  • Anya will experience a painful memory from her time in the lab or when she was placed in the foster home when Billy Squire physically hurt Anya for not keeping quiet or disobeying him. As another way for other Anya to come out and hurt him back with her telepathy powers.

Some of the plants that Shopkeeper grows are the source of the Garden assassins' superhuman capabilities
In a similar manner to the Heart-Shaped Herb, consuming one of the plants will grant enhanced strength, durability, agility, and reflexes. Another of the plants could be the source of the assassins' near-immunity to poisons.

  • In this case, it's also possible that they could have let Yor have some of their surplus crops as an award for her service. She would then use them in her cooking, which is why Yuri also displays the same durability.

The main trio's professions and abilities were based off one of Pokémon's type triangles
Specifically, Dark, Fighting and Psychic, where Dark beats Psychic beats Fighting beats Dark. Loid is the Dark-type, being a Master of Disguise (not unlike Zoroark's Illusion) and often uses Combat Pragmatist techniques to take down multiple enemies instead of fighting them in direct combat. Yor is the Fighting-type, combining martial arts feats with inhuman strength to take down groups of enemies in direct combat. Anya is the Psychic-type thanks to her telepathy which she uses to learn her allies' and enemies' plans.
  • It even plays out in how they can "beat" each other — Loid's mind is often too complex and confusing for Anya to read, Yor would demolish Loid in a no-holds-barred direct fight, and as morbid as Yor's thoughts are, Anya can still read them clearly.

Yuri will have to make a choice between his sister and his job, prompting a possible Heel–Face Turn
...when the SSS eventually finds out about the assassin known as "Thorn Princess", and send him to investigate. This being Yuri, he would likely go against his duty when he finds out that his older sister's on the line.

The show is based on Günther Gulliaume's life.
The countries in question is obviously pre-reunification Germany. Just flip the political standings and you got the picture.

Ostania's other political party is one half of an Evil Versus Evil conflict with the National Unity Party.
  • Chapter 66 reveals that the National Unity Party has lost power in the years since Desmond stepped down as prime minister, implying their opposition party is in charge now. While this might seem good on the surface, remember that Ostania still has a Secret Police, and they have arrested so many people that one of the reasons Yor agreed to Loid's fake marriage is because a single woman her age would be under suspicion of being a spy. This isn't just a problem for women, as it's shown that anyone can be ratted out as a spy without actual proof, as shown with the end of Chapter 67.1, where Loid's boss at his hospital claims he's a spy out of spite because of Loid's popularity at work. Had Franky not intercepted the call, Loid could've been in some serious trouble. There's also Yuri's introductory chapter where he turns in evidence that the man being interrogated is a spy, after he was already arrested. His fellow officer scolds him for his not turning in the incriminating pictures, but the fact remains that they arrested him without proper evidence. All of this implies Desmond's political opponents are just as corrupt as he's built up to be if they're willing to let the Secret Police operate like this.

Westalis and Ostania as we know it were once multiple states, like ancient Germany
  • In the ancient past, there were multiple states that became united, but unlike Germany of our own world, something happened that caused some of those states to form their own state separate from the others instead.
    • Alternatively, they did become their own unified state, but unknown strive caused the state to become divided into the Westalis and Ostania we know today.
      • The war in which Loid and the Briar siblings lost their parents and Handler (and/or people she knew) went through other horrors was a very violent and bloody break-up similar to the wars that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia IRL.

Nightfall's real name has a money theme.
The closest equivalent to "Fiona" in the Bond universe is Moneypenny the secretary, as one of the few female characters 007 does not romance. Her name will reference this by naming her after currencies, e.g. Penny, Lira, Mark, Sterling.

Why Loid and Yor were especially offended by Swan taunting Anya
Both Loid and Yor are war orphans, so they were not only angry at Swan for taunting Anya, they took it as a slight against themselves, as well.

Anya's birthday
Around the time Operation Strix will have been active for a year, the question of Anya's "seventh" birthday will come up. The truth is, due to her less than nurturing background, Anya has no idea when her real birthday is. Either she or Loid will impulsively claim it's the day he adopted her, leading to Anya getting her first birthday party.

Anya will try to play matchmaker for Fiona.
Along with Becky, the Know-Nothing Know-It-All of romance, Anya will try to set up Fiona with someone to get her to stop pursuing Loid. At first, the girls will see Yuri as a potential beau because Anya wants to see less of him too. After that falls flat, Anya will move on to shipping Fiona with Franky, her chronically dateless Honorary Uncle.

The Shopkeeper's garden is filled with poisonous plants
Very similar to this garden, which is used by the Garden agents in becoming more tolerant of various toxins and poisons.

How Anya will meet Demetrius Desmond
Eden offers tutoring with the Imperial Scholars, as aiding the younger kids is something expected of honor students. Anya signs up for lessons with Demetrius as a means to gain some footing with the Desmond family, if not Damian. It turns out, Anya is the first student to request Demetrius in spite of his near perfect grades, because he suffers from a bad reputation. Constant pressure to be the perfect student and heir has taxed him physically and emotionally: He looks like a sleep-deprived zombie, and he's professional bordering on cold with people.

  • Jossed. He's introduced during the Stella Star ceremony in Mission 93, which highlights both his academic prowess and his difficulty understanding people.

The Imperial Scholars have Chess Motifs
Smart People Play Chess, making it an apt theme for the smartest kids in a school for smart kids. The student body, who are "pawns", refer to the five Scholars often shown in silhouette form as chess pieces: King, Queen, Bishop, Knight and Rook.

Franky's real name starts with a Q
As the manufacturer of Loid's spy gadgets, Franky is a likely counterpart for Q from the James Bond films.

It is civil war, not war with Westalis, that might erupt in Ostania
While tensions with Westalis are already tense as it is, it seems that civil unrest within Ostania is also becoming hot. What with the SSS strong force in the name of keeping the peace, and neighboors reporting each other, is leading to a fragile peace within its own borders. This conflict is what will catch WISE, SSS, GARDEN and the government off guard.

Shopkeeper from Garden and Handler from WISE know each other well
  • From outside story, both Handler and Shopkeeper are the closest they had to 'parent figures' in this sham marriage. Spy x Family has family secret setup tropes (including Yuri) for the laughs. It isn't too farfetched to think the 'parents' are in on this as well.
  • From in-story perspective, it is weird that Handler and Shopkeeper would approve Twilight and Yor 'marriage' without getting information of each other. They probably didn't plan for Twilight and Yor to ended up together but once it happened they allowed it since it is beneficial to each other.
    • Handler and Shopkeeper might even be EXES, what with random throwaway line about Handler's child. If so, they would be the precursor for Twilight/Yor pairing, but with older generation.
  • If this is true, Twilight and Yor’s secrets being revealed would actually never be a real danger.

Anya's original last name started with A

Nightfall is a Fallen Princess
The girl who would become Nightfall was the spoiled daughter of rich parents. Unfortunately, her family came by the wealth dishonestly, e.g. a criminal empire or backing both sides of the Great Offscreen War, and this ended in their execution. Left with nothing and no one, the girl was forced to survive as a Street Urchin. She was practised in thieving and lying by the time <WISE> scouted her.

World War Two went Off the Rails
It's not exactly subtle that Westalis and Ostalia are West and East Germany, with the series taking place in an alternate 1960s. However, there's not a word of Communism or a USSR analogue running the show for Ostalia, and any terrorist groups mentioned are all Right Wing, never Left Wing. So the sequence of events for the alternate World War Two are likely something along the lines of the following:
  • The Alternate Operation Barbarossa was a resounding success and the Soviets were crushed and Fascist puppet states were established in Alt!Ukraine, Alt!Belarus, the Alt!Baltics, and Alr!Russia undergoing Balkanize Me, and any and all Communist institutions and groups are harshly ground down out of existence. In real life, Ukraine Nationalists actively supported the National Socialist invasion at first, so if Alt!Hitler and the Wehrmacht weren't idiots that wasted the opporunity, they could have easily supported such groups and used them against Alternate Russia.
  • With the armies mostly freed up (aside from forces needed to garrison the new puppet governments), the Western Front had a great deal more manpower and resources resisting the Alt!Allies. But having to police so many extra miles of territory from La Résistance movements eventually became a drain on Alternate Germany, leading to a slow, destructive defeat and division.
  • With Germany defeated, the Axis hegemone would fall to another state originating from one of the Eastern Puppets, possibly one of Alt!Russia's successor states, or a looser union thereof, who negotiated a peace with the Alt!Allies. One element of this would be breaking up Alternate Germany between them as mutual buffer states.
  • Thus, the Cold War - instead of being between Democracy and Communism - is this time around a continuation of World War Two, being between Democracy and Fascism.

Damian literally is a stranger to Desmond, or more specifically a step-son.
Melinda had Damian before she married Desmond. Demetirus was from his earlier marriage. The marriage was political, and Damian was added baggage. That's why Desmond cares so little for his 'son.' Also, since Damian wants to emulate his 'father' so badly, his mother's also grown cold to him. That's why neither of them care too much about Anya's punch. Damian has no idea about any of this.

  • Might be jossed as of Chapter 75, where Melinda is shown to have conflicting feelings about Damian after he mentions Donovan, wishing that he would die while also loving him with all her heart. It more or less shows that she sees Damian as a reminder of her loveless marriage with Donovan, something that presumably wouldn’t be the case if Damian wasn’t Donovan’s biological son.

An agent of WISE will help to break Billy Squire out from the SSS' captivity
At the end of the Red Circus arc, Billy got captured by the SSS after having a change of heart thanks to Anya. Considering what they did to his daughter years ago, SSS likely have a horrific fate in store for him. As wrong as Billy's actions were, he did show regret/remorse for his actions and doesn't deserve that level of harshness. He could thus "conveniently" end up being escorted out of the country by spies disguised as SSS officers — after all, WISE and its agents/allies would likely know most about Billy's backstory and the injustice the SSS did to his daughter.

Fiona will get an Important Haircut.
When she becomes a warmer person, the agent will symbolically lower her walls by cutting her bangs to make both eyes visible.

The story is being retold from Anya's perspective.
There's not a lot of missed details thanks to Anya's telepathy, but the more outlandish elements are product of her being an imaginative Unreliable Narrator. At the end of the series, she will be seen telling her baby sibling about their parents' adventures.

Yuri is gay.
It's one way to ensure Yor is the only woman he ever loves.

Daybreak's real name...
is Jimmy. Like Loid's name it references lock picking, but loiding is to masterfully pick a lock and jimmying is to force a lock open. It's also a nickname for James, showing he's not quite the James Bond he thinks he is.

Loid and Yor will discover the truth because they have to rescue Anya
The organization that experimented on Anya will finally locate her again and abduct her. Loid and Yor will independently track them down and stumble across each other while infiltrating their base to retrieve her.

The Desmond family secret
Is that Damian and his brother, Demetrius are, unbeknownst even to them, clones of Donovan (or at least Gattaca-esque test tube babies, given Damian's resemblance to Melinda). One of the first things we learned about Donovan is that he doesn't trust other people. Thus, his desire not to have a son (i.e. another person) but rather "himself" for an heir. That's why he pushes Damian so hard AND why he's so cold to him: he sees Damian as a science project that could fail to live up to his expectations, not as an actual person, much less his child.

This may also explain Melinda's complicated feelings towards Damian (making her a dark reflection of Yor's relationship with Anya if Damian isn't her own blood) and why Desmond kept the Glooman Medical R&D team together, i.e. to improve future sons (I thought it was weird from a storytelling perspective why George's father specified R&D was kept on).

Bonus points if Anya's powers are a "rough draft" of a way to improve on a third Desmond son, which would also make Damian even more of a foil to Anya if they're both the result of the same project.

GARDEN is less benevolent than they've presented themselves to Yor.
Assassination is an at-best morally-gray profession. Yor is, in many ways, painfully naive and has been associated with Garden since she was at least a teenager. The only word we have that the people Yor gets sent to assassinate are evil and deserve it are from Garden and Yor herself. It's certainly not out of the question that Garden has been intentionally misleading Yor, keeping her in the dark and generally presenting her work for them as good and necessary to keep her in action and from asking inconvenient questions.
  • If that theory is true, Yor could suffer a Broken Pedestal towards Garden, especially Shopkeeper, to the point that she could try to resign and Garden becoming an antagonist
The Desmond family will leave at the end of the series
  • If Donovan turns out to be a warmonger, he would have to go far away, Anya would be happy since "The good guys won" but then she would realize that Damian will also leave and their relationship has probably improved to the point of considering themselves friends, This could make her realize that Damian is someone very special to her, similar to Cardcaptor Sakura.

Eden Academy is a front for GARDEN, and Project Apple was their doing
The Garden of Eden housed the apple of knowledge. Plus Eden Academy's logo is an apple.

Yuri will be arrested
Due to Twilight's reputation, the higher-ups have doubts about how Yuri survived an encounter with the fabled spy and thus suspect he is working with WISE or think he is Twilight himself, which causes him to be detained and tortured.
  • Yuri's superiors don't seem to suspect him, even though he seems like a celebrity for surviving <TWILIGHT>, however, this is Spy X family and nothing is what it seems

Yuri will end up joining Red circus or WISE
In reference to the previous WMG, after Yuri is hypothetically arrested and tortured by his own comrades suspecting him. That would cause Yuri to have a heel realisation and realise the inhumane treatment the SSS give their prisoners, therefore, Red circus or Twilight (most likely Twilight) would end up rescuing him. After losing everything, he would join Red circus or Twilight.

Loid's turning point will come when his growing feelings for Yor will start to interfere with his spy abilities...
...specifically when he's called upon to play a role where he needs to seduce an important woman for a mission. He goes to kiss her, but at the last second finds he can't do it because whenever he tries Yor's face keeps appearing in his mind and making him hesitate, until the woman catches on to the fact that something is wrong, forcing the mission to be abandoned. He's then forced to finally admit that his fake marriage has become an obstacle to his job- but also to finally work out why this is and be forced to choose between love and duty, or at least realise that he's going to have to do so soon.

Donovan Desmond is a deep cover super spy even more skilled than Twilight, working for a third power
During the Inusan Crisis Arc, WISE theorised that the only way the student terrorists would have been able to afford the expensive trained bomb dogs was if they were being secretly backed by an outside third party, and this turns out to be correct. After the real Desmond stepped down as Prime Minister of Ostania years before the series started, his security weakened just enough for a spy working for a hostile power to pull a flawless Kill and Replace on him. Melinda worked out the truth about her husband, but he was able to terrorise her into not exposing him by threatening that if she tried, he'd simply vanish and Damian (who Melinda believes, possibly erroneously, to have been fathered by the imposter rather than the real Donovan) would be executed by the SSS as the son of an enemy, which is the source of Melinda's complicated contradictory feelings towards Damian, believing him to be the only thing forcing her to protect her husband's murderer. The spy's goal is to run an extremely long-term con to manipulate Ostania and Westalis into an all-out war for the benefit of his home country, which will swoop in and conquer both in the name of "restoring peace" once they've utterly devastated each other. Also, he worked out who Twilight really is the first time he encountered "Loid" and is planning to manipulate him for his own ends. Because he's such a flawless master spy, the only thing that will end up giving him away is Anya's mind-reading.
  • Chapter 93 reveals that "Donovan" and Demetrius used to be closer when Demetrius was younger, with Donovan taking an active role in his elder son's life, but nowadays Demetrius has almost as little contact with his father as Damian does, despite being the apparently "perfect son" that Damian is striving to be. What changed?

There will be an antagonist seeking revenge on Yor
Knowing that Garden has a gray morality and is capable of killing anyone who threatens peace, it is not surprising that a survivor of an attack by Thorn princess would seek revenge. This antagonist would suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to Yor's brutality kill "The traitor scum". This antagonist would make Yor question if what she does is really the right thing and that his murders only brought misfortune on innocent people.

Damian will tell Anya the truth
If Donovan ever turns out to be really planning the Ostania-Westalis war, Damian could possibly also team up with Anya to secretly put Operation Strix to an end along with Loid/Twilight.

Melinda's simultaneous love and hatred for Damian has a much simpler reason
Namely, he's a living reminder of the fact Donovan will never love her. Donovan as depicted is an extreme paranoiac who considers everyone strangers, even his own flesh and blood, so the idea of him having any form of sexual desire/love or the like seems odd. Melinda meanwhile hates him with a passion to the point she only calls him "that man", and Damian mentioning him triggers her feelings of hatred.

Her reason for hating Donovan could be as simple as the fact that the two were in an Arranged Marriage of sorts, and that while she tried to love him and put in the effort to make the marriage work, Donovan kept her at arms length the entire time. And whereas their first child, Demetrius, had to be conceived so the Desmond family could have an heir, Melinda likely convinced Donovan to conceive Damian thinking that a baby conceived out of love rather than duty would bring them together, especially since Demetrius was already The Ace and didn't need to take up their focus... only to realize Donovan just doesn't care about her or their kids. It was Damian's birth that made her realize just how little she actually mattered to Donovan, and while she loves Damian as his mother, she also hates him for being a living reminder of the fact that everything she did for Donovan was All for Nothing. He's her "treasure" since he's her precious son, but he's her "curse" since his very existence reminds her of the years she wasted loving a man who wouldn't love her back.

It would serve as a parallel to Loid and Yor's relationship, in that while Loid lies to himself about his feelings by claiming it's "for the mission" while both he and Yor make the relationship work easily, Donovan genuinely has no feelings for Melinda outside of a contractual obligation for the Desmond family while Melinda tried and failed to make it work.

There is at least one rich Ostanian family...
...who has named their daughter Stella, hoping that she will get into Eden Academy and become an Imperial Scholar.

Potential names for other assassins of Garden
Preferably plant-themed and/or fairytale-themed.
  • Poison Apple.
    • Their method will be poisoning the victims, likely with a Perfect Poison made by Garden.
  • Sun Flower.
  • Rapunzelnote .
    • Their murder method will be hanging the victims.
  • Rose Red.

Donovan Desmond was privy to some horrible actions to end the war.
It could explain why Melinda is furious at Damian for mentioning his name.

The Authens are Anya's biological grandparents.
The Authens are genuinely good people, and Sigmund did his neurological research ethically and with good intentions. Their briefly-mentioned (as of chapter 92) son, however, perverted his Father's research by using it as part of Project Apple. And he used his own daughter as a research subject.

One thing that may joss this is, it's mentioned in chapter 92 that their son has a family of his own, which the Authens are aware of and are persumably in contact with (so they would have learned about it if he had a daughter that had gone missing). But it could be explained if Anya was kept secret for some reason, like being an unwanted affair child or the like. In which case Anya's father may well have seen the lab as a way to get rid of her.

This would effectively turn the Authen's subplot into a ticking clock. The moment their son comes to visit, there's a risk he will find Anya. It would also be a awful source for Angst for Anya, as she not only has to avoid having her terrible bio-dad find her, but she also has to learn about him playing family with his children who he didn't abandon.

  • It also makes her name fit with the series' theme of alliterative names: Anya Authen.

Anya doesn't consciously remember her biological parents, but she may have a long forgotten, subconscious memory of them.
During the interview, when Mr. Swan asked if she liked her old mother or her new mother better, she cried because she was reading Loid's thoughts that her old mother was most likely dead.

Mr. Authen was part of Anya's experiments.
Little is known about his past and we only know that he was a neurology professor, and he could also be faking his dementia to get closer to Anya.
  • Or his dementia could also be caused by some torture, because he regretted his actions and helped Anya escape, only they both do not remember it.

Two more first-year Eden students will be introduced whose first names start with the letters C and F.
Currently we have Anya, Becky (and Bill), Damian, Ewen (and Emile), and George.

One chapter will reveal that "SPY WARS" will officially end production.
Eventually Anya's favourite show will end, much to her horror and grief and spends the entire chapter moping about it. However, one possible ending is that it will receive a revival and continue as normal, or it was a misunderstanding where the current season was over and a new one was in the works.

Nightfall's attraction to Twilight is deconstructed Like Parent, Like Spouse.
Twilight resembles her (likely deceased) father and plays an authority role as her mentor. It wouldn't be surprising if Nightfall's a "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl considering how emotionally stunted she really is. It's also a dark reflection of Loid's attraction to Yor because her strong, loving character reminds him of his mother, whereas Fiona seeks validation from a Replacement Goldfish and mistakes it for romantic attraction.

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