History WMG / ShadowOfTheColossus

* Moreover, to become the Queen is the "[[FateWorseThanDeath cursed fate]]" that she was [[MercyKill sacrificed to avert]] in the first place. But because [[{{ptitle123ut4ni5x96}} you can't fight fate]], some damn young fool goes ahead and has her resurrected by the [[SealedEvilInACan friendly neighborhood demon]], [[SelfFulfillingProphecy dooming her]] and a [[NiceJobBreakingItHero whole lot of other people]] in the process.

They prevented [[spoiler: Agro's fall]] from being fatal because They were, at best, True Neutral if not actually Good, and this was part of the repayment for Wander's releasing Them.

Making this an example of SelfFulfillingProphecy.

As you know, the story closes with Mono and a Magically Created Horned Baby Wander trapped in the Forbidden Lands with a bunch of animals and Agro, who seems to be blessed/magical in someway, being able to survive that drop. In this theory, Mono finds a way past that barrier via something in the garden, then rides out with some of the animals. she spends several months taking care of Baby!Wander, who grows swiftly and remembers much of his past thanks to Dormin, who simply wished to parasite off his energy until They could exist independently of him and take over the world (or what ever it is that malevolent entities with god powers do). Eventually, after these months, his growth slows, as he has returned to the age he was when he started this whole mess, and they find a way out of the forbidden lands. Thus, he and Mono become the progenitors of the horned boys. Now, the line of horned boys eventually melds into a village being subjugated by a body-snatching remnant of Dormin, which recognizes the remnants within the horned boys (which according to Word of God are represented by the horns) and begins demanding them as sacrifices, thus giving us the premise of Ico. Upon killing the Queen, Ico unknowingly defeats Dormin for what is hopefully the last time, and and ensuing descendants of Wander's line will no longer bear the horns.

As you know, the story closes with Mono and a Magically Created Horned Baby Wander trapped in the Forbidden Lands with a bunch of animals and Agro, who seems to be blessed in someway, being able to survive that drop. In this theory, Mono finds a way past that barrier via something in the garden, then rides out with some of the animals. she spends several months taking care of Baby!Wander, who grows swiftly and remembers much of his past thanks to Dormin, who simply wished to parasite off his energy until he could exist independently of him and take over the world. Eventually, after these months, his growth slows, as he has returned to the age he was when he started this whole mess. Thus, he and Mono become the progenitors of the horned boys. Now, the line of horned boys eventually melds into a village being subjugated by a body-snatching remnant of Dormin, which recognizes the remnants within the horned boys and begins demanding them as sacrifices, thus giving us the premise of Ico.

Starting from the theory that Mono is the queen from Ico, maybe she wasn't that likable of a person in the first place and Wander happened to have a blind crush on her. Going off on my own here, Her supposed cursed fate which Wander may or may not have been enlightened on, involved the return of an ancient demon, if Dormin is as really really really old as we are led to believe maybe the tales of his tyranny were exaggerated like many mouth to mouth tales were.

[[WMG: Mono is a bitch and her cursed fate was a SelfFulillingProphecy.]]

He actually does die when those first tendrils enter his body from the first Colossus, and the between-boss light we see is the tunnel of light before death. Dormin's power is keeping his soul tied to his body, but it's not perfect with the god still sealed. This is why he seems to survive more and more ridiculous abuse as the game goes on - he's already dead, though he can be knocked out by things that should be fatal.

How else to explain NotTheFallThatKillsYou, MadeOfIron and SoftWater? In-universe, I mean. Out of universe explanations can range from HandWave, TheyJustDidntCare and YouFailPhysicsForever to ArtMajorPhysics, AWizardDidIt and WorldBuilding.

* Neither of them, but was created as a byproduct of the spell.
* A side effect of Dormin's ability to revive dead souls gone awry.
* Dormin sacrificing themselves to protect Wander out of gratitude for their brief stint in a body.

[[WMG: Wander has supernatural powers of his own. Or else CharlesAtlasSuperpowers.]]
How else to explain NotTheFallThatKillsYou, MadeOfIron and SoftWater?

When a colossus is slain, not only is there a shadow-man over Wander, but there is a dove by Mono's body. Dormin never planned to revive her. Instead, they planned to put the female 'voice' (which is gone by the time he is released) into Mono and the male one into Wander. Dormin was meant to exist in two forms from the start, which is why it still refers to itself as 'we', even when it dropped the female-half of its voice in the larger, shadow body. Combining his light and dark aspects effectively hand-cuft them and confused their power.

After each colossus is killed and the idol shatters, a shadow figure in the shape of a human appears. This is because each colossus was once a person, and the pieces of Dormin's soul were made animate by the spirit of the human being in question. Perhaps they were religious followers of Dormin that were killed by Emon as punishment for worshipping evil, or were used as living hosts for the broken parts of Dormin's soul. Or maybe they were individuals who, like Wander, tried to defeat the colossi for their own or Dormin's benefit and ended up being destroyed and possessed in the process (or both; that would explain why some are confined as if to prevent them from escape and others are able to roam freely). We see at the end of the game that when Dormin possesses Wander's body, he takes the shape of a colossus. It makes sense that a piece of Dormin's soul would transform other human bodies, too, just less powerful. Emon also refers to the black shadow people as the spirits of the dead, which wouldn't make sense unless the dead were human beings that were somehow trapped inside the colossi, because they appear only after the colossi idols are shattered.

After each colossus is killed and the idol shatters, a shadow figure in the shape of a human appears. This is because each colossus was once a person, and the pieces of Dormin's soul were made animate by the spirit of the human being in question. Perhaps they were religious followers of Dormin that were killed by Emon as punishment for worshipping evil, or were used as living hosts for the broken parts of Dormin's soul. Or maybe they were individuals who, like Wander, tried to defeat the colossi for their own or Dormin's benefit and ended up being destroyed and possessed in the process (or both; that would explain why some are confined as if to prevent them from escape and others are able to roam freely). We see at the end of the game that when Dormin possesses Wander's body, he takes the shape of a colossus. It makes sense that a piece of Dormin's soul would transform other human bodies, too, just less powerful. Emon also refers to the black shadow people as the spirits of the dead, which wouldn't make sense unless the dead were human beings that were somehow trapped inside the colossi, which would support this theory, especilly since they appear only after the colossi idols are shattered.

Come on, you expect me to believe that, after the ridiculous lengths ''someone'' went to to create the Colossi seal, saying a few words over a magic sword is really going to keep Dormin down for very long?

** [[{{Bishonen}} You haven't]] [[VillainousCrossdresser watched much]] [[{{Bisienen}} anime, have you?]] That aside, I assume that they're genderless, but if they do have gender, then sure, why not.

Come on, you expect me to believe that after the ridiculous lengths ''someone'' went to to create the Colossi seal saying a few words over a magic sword is really going to keep Dormin down for very long?

They were all hard to kill. My theory is that, back when Dormin was free and powerful, there was a cult that wanted to get rid of him. So, through whatever process, they started using the Sword to seal away bits of Dormin, as the whole would be far to much for any one creature to take. A minotaur roaming the edge of the city, a prize bull, a loyal Knight, etc. They keep sealing all the pieces of Dormin's essence away, until they get to the last piece. The leader of the cult, presumably a very religious man, knows that he will go to his equivalent of Hell for what he has done to get rid of Dormin. So, in a moment of self-sacrifice, he uses the sword on himself, becoming the last Colossus, Grandis Supernis. Dormin's consciousness, along with the 16 transformed creatures, were then locked away inside the Forbidden Lands. The Sword would be passed on along with the history of the Cult, as would the tales of the Forbidden Lands. Until one night, when a young man would take the Sword to those lands once more...

Dormin is a Hollow that was split into sixteen smaller Hollows. A powerful Hollow can be composed of thousands of souls, and when Dormin was split, the souls he was composed of were split into sixteen soul-blobs, which later became the colossi when they merged with nature. The more souls a blob was composed of, the more power it had, and the higher it's "rank" was (#16 was the strongest, followed by #15, #14 etc.). The reason Dormin is the only Hollow in Hueco Mundo is because SoTC takes place AfterTheEnd. The temple is all that is left of Las Noches. The group of people that the Wanderer, Mono, and Emon belong to are the descendants of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome every Shinigami in Soul Society, who after defeating Aizen in a great war]] [[PyrrhicVictory were stranded in Hueco Mundo and started a new society]]. After a couple of generations, something caused Shinigami to lose their powers, and by SoTC, only one Zanpakuto remained: the Wanderer's sword. As for the existance of Agro, we know that there exists Hollow versions of small animals like lizards in Hueco Mundo (sound familiar?). Without Hollows to prey on them, it is not too farfetched to expect some of them to evolve to larger animals, like [[YouFailBiologyForever horses, eagles (eagles can sometimes be seen in The Forbidden Land) and the deer]] we see in the ending (in the Garden). Agro is a hollow who was tamed and may or may not be an Arrancar (to explain his lack of a bone mask).

Dormin is a Hollow that was split into sixteen smaller Hollows. A powerful Hollow can be composed of thousands of souls, and when Dormin was split, the souls he was composed of were split into sixteen soul-blobs, which later became the colossi when they merged with nature. The more souls a blob was composed of, the more power it had, and the higher it's "rank" was (#16 was the strongest, followed by #15, #14 etc.). The reason Dormin is the only Hollow in Hueco Mundo is because SoTC takes place AfterTheEnd. The temple is all that is left of Las Noches. The group of people that the Wanderer, Mono, and Emon belong to are the descendants of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome]] every Shinigami in Soul Society, who after defeating Aizen [[PyrrhicVictory were stranded in Hueco Mundo and started a new society]]. After a couple of generations, something caused Shinigami to lose their powers, and by SoTC, only one Zanpakuto remained: the Wanderer's sword. As for the existance of Agro, we know that there exists Hollow versions of small animals like lizards in Hueco Mundo (sound familiar?). Without Hollows to prey on them, it is not too farfetched to expect some of them to evolve to larger animals, like [[YouFailBiologyForever horses, eagles (eagles can sometimes be seen in The Forbidden Land) and the deer]] we see in the ending (in the Garden). Agro is a hollow who was tamed and may or may not be an Arrancar (to explain his lack of a bone mask).

Get ready for a big one.

Ok, Dormin is a Hollow that was split into sixteen smaller Hollows. A powerful Hollow can be composed of thousands of souls, and when Dormin was split, the souls he was composed of were split into sixteen soul-blobs, which later became the colossi when they merged with nature. The more souls a blob was composed of, the more power it had, and the higher it's "rank" was (#16 was the strongest, followed by #15, #14 etc.). The reason Dormin is the only Hollow in Hueco Mundo is because SoTC takes place AfterTheEnd. The temple is all that is left of Las Noches. The group of people that the Wanderer, Mono, and Emon belong to are the descendants of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome]] every Shinigami in Soul Society, who after defeating Aizen [[PyrrhicVictory were stranded in Hueco Mundo and started a new society]]. After a couple of generations, something caused Shinigami to lose their powers, and by SoTC, only one Zanpakuto remained: the Wanderer's sword. As for the existance of Agro, we know that there exists Hollow versions of small animals like lizards in Hueco Mundo (sound familiar?). Without Hollows to prey on them, it is not too farfetched to expect some of them to evolve to larger animals, like [[YouFailBiologyForever horses, eagles (eagles can sometimes be seen in The Forbidden Land) and the deer]] we see in the ending (in the Garden). Agro is a hollow who was tamed and may or may not be an Arrancar (to explain his lack of a bone mask).