Monday, July 1, 2013

Overthinking Things: The Nature of Alcor, both in Devil Survivor 2 and in Meatspace.

Ah, The Anguished One, (as mentioned on TV Tropes) expy of not only Lucifer, Prometheus, and Naoya (from the first Devil Survivor game) but also of Kaworu from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Let's see here...White-haired pretty boy? Check. Oddly interested in the protagonist? Check. Actually an Eldritch Abomination in a Form We are Comfortable with? Check. Dies so that humanity can survive (In the anime and most of the endings in the game for The Anguished One)? Yeah...



Well, there is something I though would be interesting; if the eyes of Alcor in humanoid form were white/red hetrochromatic. And that's 'cause...*insert drum roll here*...

Alcor is actually a binary star, yes, as in two stars orbiting each other but is seen as one with the naked eye. To be precise, Alcor A is a White Dwarf star while Alcor B is a Red Dwarf.

But then I remembered a bit of a theory or guess as it may be, where since the colors black and white are traditionally associated with evil and good (and, yes, I know it's very racist) then the red and blue parts of the colors of the Church of Gaia and the Order of Messiah  correspond to, well, Law and Chaos.

So, to get the kindness (good) of the Law faction and the Freedom of the Chaos faction; which I hear does describe the result of The Anguished One's Ending in Devil Survivor 2, you'd end up with the colors of...

White and Red.

So, was this all just as Atlus planned, or am I just...

Overthinking Things.

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