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Yohei is somewhat directionally challenged and says his dad is even worse. After all, Ryoga once lost his way to the empty lot adjacent to his house!

Yohei is somewhat directionally challenged and says his dad is even worse. After all, Ryoga once lost his way to the empty lot adjacent to his house!

[[WMG: Satan fathered Rin and Yukio through Fujimoto Shiro]]
He possessed Fujimoto and impregnated Yuri, making the twins Fujimoto's children as well as Satan's.

Yohei is somewhat directionally challenged and says his dad is even worse. After all, Ryoga once lost his way to the empty lot adjacent to his house!

Only this time the Sword of Heroes burns blue instead of red, and here he might be the one to vanquish the Darkness (Satan) for good. At some point in the story he may be forced to stab Shiemi/Izumo/[[HoYay Bon]]/[[{{Twincest}} Yukio]]...

[[WMG: Shura is [[GurrenLagann Kamina and Yoko's]] daughter]]

[[WMG: Noriko Paku is at least partially [[NoKoreansInJapan Korean]].]]

2. Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Theory: In the Percy Jackson series, in the beginning (if I recall correctly) the titular character is said to have Dyslexia. It is later revealed though that since he is a Half-Blood (aka the son of a Greek God) his brain automatically wants to read Ancient Greek (and is awesome at too) but flounders when it comes to Modern English. If we borrow that idea, Rin's brain automatically wants to read the demon tongue by merely being the Son of Satan. Japanese has nothing in common with it, so he has to struggle with it. (This gives an interesting idea of someone, maybe Yukio, struggling to decipher a demon scroll and Rin looks over his shoulder and just automatically translates it without thinking about it.)

Second, personality wise, he's not suited for book work. He's too active and so would have originally have been forced or bribed to sit down and learn how to read. It's very easy for a kid to learn to hate something they ''have'' to do if they find it boring and on top of it it's very hard for them to do. And things learned young tend to stick and can even become bad habits in certain cases.

Finally, he was considered the monster/demon child by those outside the Monastery/Church or whatever he grew up in. With all the misconceptions in place, it makes it ridiculously easy for people to overlook the problems someone has.

None of this means that Rin would ever be a book person – it just means if he does have Dyslexia, an intervention in that regard would smooth some of the difficulties he has down. No instant genius, his younger brother is always going to be the smart one. But it will probably help his grades a bit and means the only real problem they would have when it comes to Rin and books would be convincing him to do it.

2. PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Theory: In the Percy Jackson series, in the beginning (if I recall correctly) the titular character is said to have Dyslexia. It is later revealed though that since he is a Half-Blood (aka the son of a Greek God) his brain automatically wants to read Ancient Greek (and is awesome at too) but flounders when it comes to Modern English. If we borrow that idea, Rin's brain automatically wants to read the demon tongue by merely being the Son of Satan. Japanese has nothing in common with it, so he has to struggle with it. (This gives an interesting idea of someone, maybe Yukio, struggling to decipher a demon scroll and Rin looks over his shoulder and just automatically translates it without thinking about it.)

* But only if uttered by SamuelLJackson.

** He gets his chance. Well... kinda. [[spoiler: It's later revealed how he has the ability to do such incredible feats with nearly no effort. He's a Time Stopper. That's his major demon power, and he uses it to hold back a ''black hole to Gehenna'' when some scientists create a gate that won't stop expanding. Temporarily, to this point at least, it's being held in check by Mephisto.]]

I've had this theory ever since chapter 16 came out, but I was lazy so I didn't put it up. Toudo is Yukio from the future. Yukio seems like he doesn't have any demon powers yet, right? And Satan doesn't seem that focused on him unlike the way he is on Rin. So maybe it's all ann EvilPlan by Satan for Yukio's powers to develop later on than Rin's and become a demon. And plus, the way Toudo talked about not being able to be like his brother and father seems a lot like foreshadowing Yukio's eventual transformation. Plus, Shura even says that he's at risk of becoming a demon. Plus, after Todou [[spoiler: absorbed Karura, he looked a lot younger. I kind of see a resemblance between him and Yukio.]]
** A funnily related (yet probably unintentional) fact - when Fukuyama Jun, Yukio's seiyuu was asked to act out one of the lines during Yukio and Todou's confrontation(when Yukio says "I'm different from you!") in a series of interview videos posted on nicovideo, he was oddly insistent upon playing the part of Todou as well - only speaking Yukio's one line after much egging from Okamoto Nobuhiko.
** '''Jossed''', Todou's siblings are seen in a single panel flashback early on in his second fight with Yukio, with the same white striped hair as him.

Fujimoto clearly trusted him completely, having intended to send Rin to him for some time. Add that to the fact that Mephisto being evil just seems too easy. I mean, the demon that betrayed hell didn't really betray it? Come on, that kinda thing is just done to death.

** This could also indicate that Mephisto getting Amaimon to learn about Assiah (starting with Japan) could be a move to get Amaimon on his side.

Just look at Rin, Mephisto, and Amaimon; they all have traits that could be called {{adorkable}}. Then there's Satan while he's possessing Shiro Fujimoto and how he acts then. It's obvious, Satan has dork genes and Rin, Mephisto, and Amaimon inherited them. Even Yukio has dorky aspects to him. You can conceivably read Satan's lines from the manga in a dorky!evil headvoice and have it work pretty well. And it also has to do with the line choice; just because someone is an evil villain doesn't mean they can't have dorky factors to them. And it's highly likely a villain with dorky leanings would go for an overblown generic villain-type actions.

It would explain some things...
* Or perhaps all summoners have at least some demon genes in them. Most of the people in the series are summoners seem to have a trait that is off. Even Shiemi's naturally blond hair could be a sign of her having a demonic lineage because most of the other character with non-dark colored hair have been shown to use hair dye.
** '''Confirmed''', in a sense since her family's summoner abilities all stem from how they are distant descendants of a kitsune. Though because her bloodline has become so diluted over the generations Izumo is much less than a ''half''-breed.

Watching the episodes and reading the manga, Rin's inability to read anything but manga well is ''ridiculous''. In all honesty, he's actually of average intelligence – he's smart enough in the Boot Camp to immediately think of the lights and when he's doing the candle training he does eventually figure something out to help him do it by himself in the manga. Most of his “dumb” moments come from his ignorance – he was kept in the dark practically all his life after all. So, perhaps his book issues have another thing as it's root – ie, Dyslexia.

And there you go. None of this means that Rin would ever be a book person – it just means if he does have Dyslexia, an intervention in that regard would smooth some of the difficulties he has down. No instant genius, his younger brother is always going to be the smart one. But it will probably help his grades a bit and means the only real problem they would have when it comes to Rin and books would be convincing him to do it.

If this is so, I suspect things will get REALLY, REALLY complicated and dangerous for everyone when this fact comes out. Because I doubt all the demons would be happy to have a half-''human'' as their possible future king. And the True Cross Order will ''freak''.

Yeah. Mephisto has made it clear that he wants to raise Rin to become a weapon against Satan, but it's easy to tell that he's not exactly "good." It confused me for a while, before it hit me: Mephisto does want Satan out of the picture, but not because Satan is evil, but because he wants to rule Gehenna himself. Mephisto either believes that he will never be able to defeat Satan and Rin will, or he's just a {{Magnificent Bastard}} and doesn't want to sully his hands. If you think about it, it makes sense and a lot of things fall into place that way.
* Even a manga translator guessed that this would happen. It seems to be a fairly popular theory and it's further supported by the fact that Mephisto ''is'' the eldest son of Satan that we've seen so far. He'd probably be next in line, since his father still seems to think that Mephisto is loyal to him. If there's one thing that's clear, it's that Mephisto wants to take down Satan. Why that is, we'll have to find out. The ''one'' problem with the the theory of Mephisto wanting to take over Gehenna though, is that he himself has said in an aside (with no one around for him to lie to) that he ''never wants to go back to Gehenna'' and that Assiah is too much fun. To rule Gehenna, wouldn't he have to return to it?
** Then maybe he wants to ''destroy'' Gehenna and be done with it. And this may seem all fine and dandy at first, but maybe it'll be something like Gehenna is a necessary evil. Although Satan is bad, destroying his dimension would cause some crap on Earth. Mephisto, blinded by the immense power he's gained by having Rin defeat their Father, ignores this fact and goes on a rampage.
*** Sounds a bit OutOfCharacter for Mephisto, being a MagnificentBastard, to go on any sort of rampage. But it's still plausible. Would also be an interesting twist for the story to take since it would make Mephisto the true BigBad. We'll just have to wait and see.
* I've always seen Mephisto as someone who would rather be TheManBehindTheMan. he likes pulling the strings, but he also likes a level of freedom to act as needed, more like the type who would want to replace Satan with someone easier to control or with compatible goals than actually take over himself.
** Now that sounds more plausible. Still leaves one wondering just what his true goals are though. [[ForTheLulz Amusement seems likely.]]
** ...said Man in front will be Rin, of course. Or perhaps Yukio...

In fact, the awakening of the Impure King is part of Mephisto's plan to force Rin to use his flames to defeat the SealedEvilInACan. Mephisto may or may have not personally told Todou exactly what to do in the first place. [[spoiler:Tatsuma's apparent death]], as planned by Mephisto, will only [[UnstoppableRage increase Rin's power]] against the Impure King. With that power, Rin will be able to destroy the monster, which will greatly impress the rest of the Order. As such, they will give Rin and Shura the necessary time for Rin to master his flames enough to make him a powerful exorcist to fight against Satan. Todou's recent [[spoiler:increase of power as result of forcing Kurara to possess him]] will be of no consequence to Mephisto, who will simply have him [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness eliminated when the time is right]] - either personally or by ordering someone else to do the deed. Possibly Amaimon.

[[WMG: Fujimoto was actually Satan all the time]]
all the times he appeared, it was actually a decoy.

that Hamster...

* '''Confirmed''' as of episode 24 of the anime. The manga, however, still has yet to put in any hints about Yukio having Satan's powers at all.

** I'm positively agreeing with you on this, at least in the Anime, something is really strange with him, he was seen on the same place Mephisto and Amaimon were, watching the events of Ernst's attack in Gehenna, reciting verses about Abbadon in a CreepyMonotone as Ernst is enveloped by the Locusts and thrown into the Gehenna Gate, he may even be Abbadon himself!
** Recent developments in the manga have debunked this: Takara is a summoner who manipulates dolls. Shura accuses Mephisto of purposefully letting in her ''and Takara'', and says something to the effect that Takara has his own mission. This seems to suggest more that Takara is working for the exorcists as well. Besides, the demons wouldn't feel the need to plant a mole- Mephisto is their mole. They think. Neither the exorcists or the demons really have a complete idea of who's side Mephisto is on- the Exorcists keep him on as an honorary Knight, and the demons believe he's their mole based on him feeding them information... provided its not pertinent to his plans that they don't know something.
*** There are now hints that he is [[spoiler: an Illumanati spy.]]
*** Chapter 48 seems to indicate the puppet may be the one usually seen in charge, as after Takara's eyes open the puppet apparently tells him to "calm down" and "sleep."
**** Not only that, but [[spoiler:he may not be an Illuminati spy. It actually seems to be ''Shima''.]]
**** '''Confirmed''', [[spoiler: The bunny puppet is a demon who is controlling Nemu's body since the boy is actually asleep.]]

Pure crack theory here, but the thought came to me the other day...

'Nuff said.
* And [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyouko Sakura]] is ''her'' daughter. Somehow.

[[WMG: Related to the above, Shura is a distant descendant of [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Yoruichi]]]]

* Alternatively, Rin is Karkat Vantas and Yukio is John Egbert, at least appearance wise. This donned on me while watching the cooking episode.

* One of the best WMG yet. You, sir, are awesome.

Only this time the Sword of Heroes burns blue instead of red, and here he might be the one to vanquish the Darkness (Satan) for good.
** Following that, at some point in the story he may be forced to stab Shiemi/Izumo/[[HoYay Bon]]/[[{{Twincest}} Yukio]]...

* This troper honestly can't see him going in any other direction, especially since he has already stated, [[AudienceMonologue in a private moment where he would have no need to lie about it]], that he plans to never return to Gehenna. Assiah is too much fun for him, in many ways. He seems to genuinely enjoy Assiah things such as {{Moe}} and [[SweetTooth candy]] and [[{{Otaku}} Otakudom]] in general. Why would he ever want his father to destroy all of that?
** this could also indicate that Mephisto getting Amaimon to learn about Assiah (starting with Japan) could be a move to get Amaimon on his side.

Just look at Rin, Mephisto, and Amaimon; they all have traits that could be called {{adorkable}}. Then there's Satan while he's possessing Shiro Fujimoto and how he acts then. It's obvious, Satan has dork genes and Rin, Mephisto, and Amaimon inherited them.
** This troper can absolutely believe that. Even Yukio has dorky aspects to him.
** Satan...dorky. You, my friend, have an odd idea of dorky. Although his laugh came off to this troper as very generic villainish.
*** This troper first came up with this theory before the anime started. You can conceivably read Satan's lines from the manga in a dorky!evil headvoice and have it work pretty well. And it also has to do with the line choice; just because someone is an evil villain doesn't mean they can't have dorky factors to them. And it's highly likely a villain with dorky leanings would go for an overblown generic villain-type actions.

Now we come to the final round: why, if Rin is Dyslexic, does no one notice? I can think of reasons why by this Troper merely drawing on her own experiences: this Troper wasn't properly diagnosed as having Aspergers until she was 14/15 merely because she was ''female''. Aspergers has different signs for girls than boys. (Not to mention all the doctors I had seemed to have this ''habit'' of merely throwing pills at me...Note to all: Doctors are human too.) By taking that into account, I can thus think of ''three'' reasons why Rin's Dyslexia wouldn't be noticed.

This had to be put eventually. There have been quite a few signs and hints pointing to this direction. Shura pointing out that he's at risk of becoming a demon, and Toudou's BreakingSpeech to him, and their slight similarities being two that stick out to this troper.

Okay so I admit the first one is just a gut feeling (albeit a really strong one)but the second one seems likely as (even though Fujimoto's death was merited by DeathByOriginStory and TooCoolToLive)... Rin would've wanted him to see how far he managed to come. Or something like that.
* The first happened in the Anime and this Troper can't see it not happening in the manga too.

** Recent developments in the manga have debunked this: Takara is a summoner who manipulates dolls. Shura accuses Mephisto of purposefully letting in her ''and Takara'', and says something to the effect that Takara has his own mission. This seems to suggest more that Takara is working for the exorcists as well. Besides, the demons wouldn't feel the need to plant a mole- Mephisto is their mole. They think. (it's this troper's personal belief that neither the exorcists or the demons really have a complete idea of who's side Mephisto is on- the Exorcists keep him on as an honorary Knight, and the demons believe he's their mole based on him feeding them information... provided its not pertinent to his plans that they don't know something.)

[[WMG: The Series is setting itself up to be a Deconstructour Fleet]]
Because there have already been a lot of subverted and inverted tropes in the series, and everything else seems to be building up the issues our main characters face. It wouldn't be a far stretch to think this was being set up.

* But only if uttered by SamuelLJackson.

[[WMG: The Series is setting itself up to be a Deconstruction Fleet]]
Because there have already been a lot of subverted and inverted tropes in the series, and everything else seems to be building up the issues our main characters face. It wouldn't be a far stretch to think this was being set up.

Don't think it needs much explanation, aside from the idea that, unlike the anime, in the manga Demons are, on average, AlwaysChaoticEvil if not Neutral, that raises the question of not only why Satan of all demons noticed her but why she choose to not have an abortion. Perhaps like with Margaret the sons of Satan she was carrying was the last straw and she ran; but didn't have anywhere to run to. And then chose to not kill the unborn children for one reason or another.

Yukio will deliver the final blow.
** (Another Troper here) After a HeelFaceTurn, since many speculate (and its been hinted) that Yukio will turn evil at some point.

Very similar physical appearances, both possess great power far in excess of most other people, both voiced by [[Creator/BrycePapenbrook Bryce Papenbrook]]...

** Jossed, Todou's siblings are seen in a single panel flashback early on in his second fight with Yukio, with the same white striped hair as him.

* Confirmed as of episode 23.

* Confirmed as of episode 24 of the anime. The manga, however, still has yet to put in any hints about Yukio having Satan's powers at all.

[[WMG: Rin and {{Black Rock Shooter}} are related]]

* The twist here is that Black Rock Shooter was also Satan's past 'project' in creating a vessel, but she somehow couldn't return to the human world, so Satan left her for dead. She now traverses Gehenna, seeking to kick his ass and a way to go home.

** He gets his chance. Well... kinda. [[spoiler: It's later revealed how he has the ability to do such incredible feats with nearly no effort. He's a Time Stopper. That's his major demon power, and he uses it to hold back a [i]black hole to Gehenna[/i] when some scientists create a gate that won't stop expanding. Temporarily, to this point at least, it's being held in check by Mephisto.]]

The kanji for Paku is 朴, which is also the kanji used by RomiPark in her last name. RomiPark is of Korean descent and her last name can be read as Paku, but is more accurately Park. So maybe Noriko is the same and her name is more accurately Noriko Park.

[[WMG: Manga!Yuri Egin is like [[TheDresdenFiles Margaret Dresden]]]]

Don't think it needs much explanation, aside from the idea that, unlike the anime where Demons are, on average, AlwaysChaoticEvil if not Neutral, that raises the question of not only why Satan of all demons noticed her but why she choose to not have an abortion. Perhaps like with Margaret the sons of Satan she was carrying was the last straw and she ran; but didn't have anywhere to run to.