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So basically I love re zero and have loved it since seeing the anime. It and the books are hands down my favorite fictional series excluding video games, where it ties with some. I read the EX series and was just so emotionally connected to them, and I started reading the main series over the summer and made it to Arc 3.

With arc 2 I was super invested, and this investment continued across volumes 4 and 5 till I got busy and wasn't able to read as much as I wanted.

Recently I continued arc 3, but just...wasn't able to get emotionally invested. I read the Rem speech part in the ending of volume 6, which made me cry seeing it in the anime, but here I just wasn't able to really get into it. I've been reading volume 7 and realized my same passion just isn't there.

I really want to feel the same passion and investment I used to feel, but I don't even know what the problem is. Could it be that I didn't read it in a while, so I lost my connection to the arc? Or burnout (which I'm hesitant to say since I went a while without reading it)? Another thing it may be is I'm trying to read 20-30 pages a day as daily reading for yknow, brain health, but could it be that that formulaic, repeated daily reading is making me less invested? But again, idk.

Has anyone suffered from this, and what could be the problem and solution?

(By me) (Scyn_Art)

I'm split between two theories which go as follows:

Flugel and Natsuki Subaru (envy) propably share the same origin (as in they both are Natsuki Subaru (Tokyo)).

My quess is that Envybaru was re-created from Od Lagna's earliest memories of Subaru, which were formed when the person now referred to as Flugel entered the world (and hence interacted with Od Lagna) So re-created from zero. This option is also hinted by Al's existance after everything we know of him post A9 & No stella No life iykyk. Sunaru being re-created from Od Lagna's memories could also explain the chips & the phone (as he had those upon his first interaction woth Od Lagna). This may or may not include Authority of Gluttony shenanigans.

Another quess is that Flugel's existence was erased by Pandora with "what if you got summoned / entered this world 400 years later" type of ability, which subsequently poof'd him out of existence and all the achievements by him (in people's memories) got attributed to the "sage", as he was this sage-like figure, with people's memories of him dissappearing / getting distorted. Pandora's authority might only affect the memories of "people", which could explain Patrache's and Shaula's unvawering loyalty towards Envybaru. This would also explain why white doves (speculated to be associated to Pandora), were present before Envybaru ever interacted with Witch Cult

As for why white whale appeared around flugel-tree: I really cant say. Could be that its some kind of contignency plan by Echidna & Flugel, with Echidna using authority of greed to some yet unknown degree. Either way neither of these theories fully explain it.

As for how could Flugel be Natsuki Subaru when Envybaru hates him: IF routes show us a version of Subaru, that Envybaru would hate. He is not THAT far off from losing it lol.

I think the name "Re:Zero" is actually a hint towards a theory like this. If this was "Natsuki Subaru's" first time at this world, the name of the series could just as well be: Zero - Starting life in another world (from zero). Instead its Re:Zero, which in my opinion hints towards this being a repeat (unbeknownst to Subaru) from zero. I think A6's whole amnesia phase is a plot device to hint us towards this, as we see Amnesiabaru act exactly the same as A1-baru. The difference being that during A6 Od Lagna still retains memories of Envybaru (A1-A6-baru), which is why unlike A1-baru, he realizes he has lost his memory and spent some time in the world already.

Questions? Go ahead. Also tell me your theories

At this point, I'm convinced that if the artist ever draws Rem, she'd be a large dog with Subaru's head in her mouth.

Everybody loves cats, right? Probably not these ones though.....

Drew this a while back, so i might as well put it here too.

this came to me as i was reading chapter 71, if subaru and al were to be caught in an attack that kills both of them how would it go? (assuming subaru and al get rewinded to the same point of time)

would it a)

subaru and al both loop to before the attack and have racked up 1 death respectively meaning they BOTH reset with BOTH their memories of said attack and maybe evade or

b)

subarus authority takes priority and only he loops back with his memories, allowing him to dodge the attack,but then al being fatally wounded

and if b was the case, al would also loop back to before the attack where his checkpoint was and this time both would have their memories and evade the attack, each racking up 1 death again

kinda seems to be the same conclusion but what if subaru were to die first instead?

imagine a sword horizontally drawing a line on the course of both their heads and subaru is first in line, he first would die, loop back to right before the attack and duck, meanwhile al would die and then have to loop. this probably goes the same even if al was the first to die

although this scenerio is very unlikely to even be hypothesized since subaru's checkpoints send him considerably further back than al's so that would in turn either teach subaru not to go to a sword slashing torture chamber

or maybe this creates some time paradox i dont know

I wanna make all the red headed Astreas as waifus

Summary: The fourth day has come and when everything goes fine at first. Subaru catches that something is amiss and everything becomes very not fine.

Hoping the mods won't ban me for choosing a wrong flair...

So: yesterday I wondered: "What if Shaula was a Jurassic Park Character?" and so I opened Photoshop and spent the evening creating this "photomontage".

I was perplexed about the background, so I put a Screenshot of the JP Raptor Pen I made in Minecraft.

https://x.com/Obsidian_Chest/status/2113307794522898850

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I’m terrible at promoting my own fic. I’m embarrassed by myself.

ENG: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93639501/chapters/254204781

SPA: https://archiveofourown.org/works/93639631/chapters/254205746