Line #71 WMG/AhMyGoddess


1	!Future events
2	(Although the series officially ended in 2014, the following speculations are left as-is to reflect fan mindsets leading up to the conclusion)
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4	[[WMG: Keiichi will receive his own ''spirit'']]
5	Maybe not an angel or a devil, but something else. It was shown after the Angel Eater arc that he was still able to be a host to a familiar.
6	* Jossed. It doesn't happen, although he does[[spoiler: get released from the libido-suppressing system Heaven placed him under when the contract was formed]].
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8	[[WMG: The Niflheim Arc will end with Urd becoming the new Daimaikaichou]]
9	This doesn't really fit with her character development very well but it makes for a brilliant CurbStompBattle.
10	* Jossed. It doesn't happen, although Urd does [[spoiler:tap into her demonic side, lose control to it, and Get Better with Skuld's help]].
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12	[[WMG: Hagall is going to have a tearful moment when Hild decides not to disintegrate her, despite her rebellion]]
13	And it will be absolutely adorable!
14	* As it turns out, [[spoiler:things got even more cutesy than expected!]]
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16	!Characters
17
18	[[WMG: Belldandy's perceptions are being clouded.]]
19	This is done as a test for both her and Keiichi; him for not giving up, and her for breaking past the clouding. The Almighty is making sure it will work out before such an unusual pairing is allowed.
20	* And it'll turn out that it's not just Keiichi's lustful feelings being suppressed. Belldandy's are too. After all, Peorth and Urd show that Goddesses can be quite interested in sex.
21	* Jossed. [[spoiler:Belldandy was fully-aware of the lust-suppressing system, and even Hild calls her out on it]]
22
23	[[WMG: Belldandy getting really mad would be just as dangerous as Urd thinks.]]
24	Note that she can overwhelm an individual by use of a CompellingVoice just by being moderately peeved. When she "believed" that Skuld built [[ChainsawGood "Texas Murder"]] to "help with the gardening", her thought process might have been, "I'll assume it's a gardening tool, otherwise I'd need to blast Skuld off the face of the Earth♥!". If she's as powerful as Urd (whose power is potentially ''greater'' but fluctuates all over) seems to think, she has the same [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech world of cardboard]] problems as Franchise/{{Superman}}, and puts on the oblivious persona as a guard.
25	* Supported by the OVA and anime; when Belldandy's emotions veer to simply ''subconscious'' jealousy, it's sufficient to ''knock out an entire hallway of its illumination''.
26
27	[[WMG: Takano Morisato has clairvoyance.]]
28	Takano, from her appearance in vol. 23 to her departure in vol. 24, repeatedly demonstrates knowledge of events that she was not present for, which she variously attempts to pass off as motherly intuition or eavesdropping, but there is one instance that cannot be thus explained – Takano brings up Chihiro's envelope, given to Keima. While there is a period of time in which Takano is not "on-camera", it's heavily implied that she spends the entirety of this time playing Mahjong against Urd, Skuld, and Peorth, none of whom knew about the events in question. Keima and Keiichi were racing against each other, while Belldandy was performing in the role of hostess (and also giving Keiichi a tiny bit of help). Megumi was helping Belldandy with the refreshments during this period, and while she was present for the giving of the envelope and could have passed it along, this is never shown or referred to.
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30	[[WMG: Belldandy's father is Balder.]]
31	It was supposedly mentioned on rec.arts.anime.misc once upon a time.
32	* Jossed. Chapter 294 reveals her father is [[spoiler: Tyr, the Almighty]].
33
34	[[WMG: Belldandy planned Keiichi's wish.]]
35	It's not clear ''how'' she knew that he was going to wish being with her (she only explicitly implies wish-earners are not the sort to wish maliciously) but when she teleported to him in the original OAV, we see an image of the temple that they eventually live. She also knew precise directions to the Temple when they hit the road: She somehow planned his wish and their getting kicked out of his dorm.
36	* That Belldandy has a sneaky side isn't too surprising, given her old teacher was the [=OMG=] version of ''Lucifer'' in the film.
37	** That's if one even ''counts'' Celestine as a canon character. He neither appeared nor was mentioned in the manga.
38	* She might not have planned the wish, but the manga [[spoiler:shows she observed Keiichi for most of his life, and was already in love with him before he made the fateful phonecall.]]
39	* The OAV version of the story heavily hints this is the case, with the two of them meeting as children when Belldandy sneaks down to Earth, resulting in a ChildhoodMarriagePromise. ''Flights Of Fancy'' does something similar after Belldandy is forced to muck around with time travel to keep from losing [=K1=] to Hild, though he's in high school when she intercepts them.
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41	[[WMG: Fairy Morgan Le Fay thinks that Keiichi is the reincarnation of her lost lover.]]
42	This is in the movie, that's why she tries to steal Keiichi from Belldandy. It isn't just that he's the geeky guy in the middle of the harem show so every cute girl will fall for him, but rather deeper: trying for a second chance with him. It isn't until she sees Keiichi and Belldandy walk through the arch that she finally gives up. That Keiichi might actually be her lover reincarnated isn't impossible; people can fail the test of the eternity gate, but are forced to separate, as was the case for Morgan and her lover, as well as [[spoiler: Tyr and Hild]].
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44	[[WMG: Keiichi is Morgan's long-lost lover]]
45	And they failed the test of the eternity gate.
46	* It was made ''very'' clear that Morgan ''was'' one of the beings at the Eternity Gate (a.k.a. Gate of Judgement) during Belldandy's flashback, and she ''did'' fail the test. Whether the male was a previous incarnation of Keiichi is debatable, but it would make some level of sense.
47
48	[[WMG: Keiichi's wish isn't specific to Belldandy]]
49	His ExactWords are, "I'd like for a Goddess 'like' you to stay by my side forever." Belldandy herself is never explicitly named in the wish. [[LoopholeAbuse Abusing this loophole]] allows for Urd and Skuld to relocate to Earth, and lets Peorth, Lind, and the others come visit. Belldandy herself could leave anytime she wants to, so long as some other Goddess stays behind with him.
50	* Belldandy doesn't seem like the sort to bind some random unwilling goddess to the wish's terms. She probably couldn't anyway, since it would be a mild form of slavery, probably as illegal in Heaven as it is in Japan.
51	* Jossed. This has proven to be false on multiple occasion by the statement that Keiichi's wish was asking 'Belldandy' to say with him forever. The words he used are also [[spoiler: the same words used to propose to a goddess]], so it's unlikely Belldandy would leave his side forever.
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53	[[WMG: Belldandy and Keiichi have already slept together.]]
54	Perhaps several times now. We the readers just haven't seen it, of course.
55	* Jossed. It's fairly obvious that they ''have'' [[ExactWords slept together]]. The question is whether or not they've had sexual intercourse, and the answer to that is a definitive NO, thanks to the explanation in Chapter 285.
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57	[[WMG: Keiichi is unknowingly something other than a normal human - possibly even a god himself.]]
58	In the OVA's flashback to their childhood meeting, Belldandy remarked that no human should have been able to see her arrival. Either she overestimated the strength of her BystanderSyndrome-invoking field (she ''was'' a child, after all), or this is canon evidence that K1's perceptions are beyond human.
59	* Or it's just the OVA being wonky and not at all fitting the following ''twenty years'' of manga storyline.
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61	[[WMG: Chihiro is the reason why Tamiya and Otaki don't allow women to live in their dorm.]]
62	* This is pretty heavily implied in the comic. Those two have a complex when it comes to Chihiro.
63
64	[[WMG: Keiichi's father is half-god half-human]]
65
66	[[WMG: Keiichi's mother is something supernatural]]
67	Takano is not necessarily a goddess but definitely something other than human. This would explain why she doesn't show her age at all, or the way that she and Keima quickly identified what the goddesses were and all of the ''unusual'' traits that Keiichi has.
68	* TheMovie introduced the concept of Fae, but the manga never did anything with them, so we're free to speculate that Takano might be one of TheFairFolk.
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70	[[WMG: Urd is Hild's doublet]]
71	This would result in two outcomes, and possibly both simultaneously: either Hild is old enough that she pre-dates the doublet system (and maybe proposed it herself); or before Urd's birth, something (perhaps ''very frightening'') happened to Hild's last doublet.
72	* Hild mentioned agreeing to the doublet system for Urd's sake. Also the entire point of the doublet system is that Hild would die with her doublet when her term as Daimakaichou expired.
73	* If the doublet system applied to Hild, it seems natural that The Almighty would be her doublet. Why would either side be willing to risk their leader dying because some random low-level enemy does something stupid and gets killed?
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75	[[WMG: Because of the wish, technically, Keiichi is a god in a human body]]
76	Even if the wish itself was cancelled, there is something weird in it- the wish is for Belldandy and Keiichi be always together. Now, it was cancelled, but the wish itself was for them to ''always'' be together. At the time it was made, no one know the wish would be cancelled, and as wishes in general are granted instantly, it's for sure that they solved the ''death'' thing in that very moment... but no one realized it yet.
77	* Jossed. Both Keiichi and Belldandy are aware (from their own musings and from others pointing it out) that the MayflyDecemberRomance is a certain thing, and choose to pursue their relationship regardless. Although, [[spoiler:we see by the end of the manga that it is entirely possible for a human to ascend to godhood; The Almighty even teases Keiichi about doing so, but the latter declines]].
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79	[[WMG: Even without the contract, Belldandy's goddess status and powers are bound to Keiichi]]
80	She loves Keiichi with all of her being. It is all-but-explicitly-stated that Love is the greatest source of a Goddess' powers. Furthermore, as a requirement of being a first-class goddess, Belldandy must never, ever tell a lie. If she decided to nullify the contract and return to heaven, she would be betraying her feelings, ''technically lying to herself'' in the process. She would remain a goddess, but would lose her first class status, with her immense powers and wish-granting occupation along with it.
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82	[[WMG: Skuld is in love with Keiichi.]]
83	Or rather, she falls for him over the course of the story once she realizes he really is a NiceGuy. Problem is, of course, that she's too (physically) young and he's already taken – both are things that lead him to see her as just another little sister, and her inability to adequately express herself. Her actions to keep [=K1=] and Belldandy separated really were originally to protect her big sister, as she claimed, but later on also reflected her subconsciously wanting Keiichi for herself.
84	* Case in point: On two separate occasions, each with Skuld starting to mature (one the temporary OvernightAgeUp, the other when she develops her face-stamp power), she almost immediately latches onto Keiichi. She also gets angry when Urd or Peorth kiss/molest [=K1=], even though one would expect her not to care if Belldandy isn't involved. Perhaps most damningly, the local boy she starts crushing on, Sentaro, is for all intents and purposes a younger Keiichi in both looks and interests.
85
86	[[WMG: Urd and Peorth ship Keiichi and Belldandy for a different reason than we thought.]]
87	They are both all too aware of [[spoiler:the restrictions Yggdrasil put on Keiichi's carnal desires, but they strongly disagree with those rules so they try to help Keiichi overcome those restrictions.]]
88	* Urd first arrived on Earth after she [[spoiler: ''sabotaged Yggdrasil'' and immediately started trying to get Keiichi and Belldandy to make love.]]
89	* As for Peorth, she probably found out after checking Belldandy's contract, and was talking about ''that'' when she referred to Keiichi's fondest wish that caused her to be summoned. After all, she openly presents herself as [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold the best goddess at fulfilling carnal desires]], and I can't find a better reason for Keiichi to accidentally summon ''that'' kind of goddess.
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91	!Setting
92
93	[[WMG: The Almighty is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} Gnostic]]-styled Demiurge.]]
94	He runs the universe, but like many gods, would not need to be its ''creator''. Thus he may be the Goddess' actual father (a common WMG in Western fan circles, since the translated comics have them calling him "Father"); if this is true, then he and Hela were an item once upon a time.
95	* Sort of confirmed: The Almighty is a ''title'', and the current holder is Tyr, who is acknowledged as the three Goddess' father.
96	* He's kind of an [[JerkassGods asshole]] too. His punishment for Urd's sabotaging Yggdrasil sure seemed harsh to me.
97	* Odin of Norse mythology didn't create the universe either, but he is still called "the All-father". In the myths he comes off a lot [[NecessarilyEvil harsher]] than Kami-sama here.
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99	[[WMG: TheVerse runs on EquivalentExchange]]
100	Clues can be seen in the doublet system, where killing a goddess or demon kills someone on the other side (though This Troper personally questions the effectiveness of it unless EVERY goddess/demon has a Doublet) and the chapter in which Keiichi was the victim of an "automatic luck-balancing system".
101	* Keep in mind that those who are in a doublet don't know who their counterpart is. So if they kill someone on the other side they will also kill one of their own, possibly even themselves, a friend, or a family member.
102	** Would Urd try to kill a demon if doing so might also kill one of her sisters?
103	* Senbei the genie's personal philosophy is the idea of a finite source of happiness that can be moved around for malicious purposes. This is treated somewhat comedically, but may explain why Keiichi never complains too loudly about his life; he knows it's his generous karma being balanced out.
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105	[[WMG: Reincarnation exists, and this isn't the first time Belldandy has granted this kind of wish.]]
106	The question of what happens after mortals die has never been addressed in canon, and rarely touched in fics- though for some authors, it seems that [[TearJerker Keiichi and Belldandy will be eternally separated when he dies]], because the Heaven that Belldandy comes from is different from any positive afterlife. If this is true, [[FridgeLogic you'd think Belldandy would have let slip something by now]] about how they only have about a hundred years at most together. Therefore, it's quite possible that souls get reincarnated, and Belldandy only works at the Goddess Hotline because she's [[ReincarnationRomance waiting out the centuries]] until [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments the soul of her lover gets reborn and calls her again]], and restart their whole relationship at the courtship stage. She never knows who that person will be, but that soul recognizes Belldandy each time, and thus makes the same wish. What we're watching now is only the latest cycle. Urd knows of this, and since she wants Belldandy and her lover to have as much happiness as they can until the end of the cycle, she's always pushing the two to hurry up. As for Skuld, she either doesn't know because she was either not present/too young to remember the previous cycle, ''or'' she ''does'' remember it, as well as how sad her Big Sis was, and wants to spare her the pain this time around.
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108	[[WMG: there is a third divine group besides the gods and demons]]
109	Djinns because... well, it was recently explained that the gods and demons fulfill humans' wishes in exchange for the energy created in the process (or something like that). The demons can qualify as JerkassGenie but not necessarily tricksters who play with the person's word and make him suffer and/or die.
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111	[[WMG:Tyr and Hild are aliens who consume emotional energies emitted by humans as a means of life-support]]
112	* Sort of proven: By the end of the manga, it's revealed that [[spoiler:what Keiichi sees as goddesses and demons are the human-shaped bodies that they make for themselves, while they are actually existing on other planes / in other dimensions and supporting themselves by granting human wishes]].
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114	[[WMG:Keichii emits an unusually large amount of emotional energy for a single human being, which is why all this is happening to him.]]
115	Assuming the above theory is true, then it would explain why Keichii gets so much attention from both sides. And even though the goddesses are with him, misfortune still happens to him on a daily basis (though admittably on a much smaller scale). These are Tyr's and Hild's means to keep his energies balanced, which, although reducing his misfortune, would probably mean that he'll never make further progress with Belldandy, because Tyr and Hild are actively sabotaging any romance between them.
116	* Jossed, partially. The reason Keichi's and Belldandy's relationship never progressed was explained as [[spoiler: the result of Heaven's efforts suppressing any lust that Keiichi has for Belldandy. This was in order to prevent an inter-species romance and submitting to the Gate of Judgement, which would force them apart forever if they failed its test]].
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118	[[WMG:There is a legitimate reason why Heaven abhors a human/goddess romance, beyond them being [[JerkassGods douches]].]]
119	Namely, the possibility or perhaps past experiences with a HalfHumanHybrid resulting in very bad things.
120	* Or maybe it was because of a half-''demon''. After all, Urd too experienced discrimination, and considering that [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide the moment she unleashed her demonic powers she immediately went insane]] ([[WillfullyWeak hence why she had never used them before]], at least [[GodzillaThreshold until the situation became that desperate]]) a previous half-demon may have done an enormous mess. Leading to the creation of the Gate of Judgement, extreme restrictions on deities and demons having relationships with those from not their respective race, and Urd being discriminated before she even did anything.
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122	[[WMG: There's something ''really'' strange with Nekomi Tech]]

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