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DGM theorying about Cross, Bookman, and conspiracies
I'm feeling more human today, but I have literally been kind of hiding from the internet for the last day or two. I have not had a great February and I'm emotionally in a bad place.
But I returned with a wacky DGM theory!
We know that Cross is a supporter of and was a conspirator with Neah, but we also know that Bookman and Bookman's apprentice before Lavi were close to him. At the time when Neah was alive, the Bookmen were on the Earl's side rather than the Order's, making Bookman one of the few still alive who know anything about Neah.
The Noah have the Bookmen captured right now, and threaten Bookman by saying, "You don't want to lose another apprentice at your age, do you?"
They don't actually say that Bookman's apprentice died.
I've been running on the personal theory that Neah, Cross, Bookman, the first apprentice, and maybe Mana to an extent were all in on this conspiracy together, and that the apprentice was killed when Neah executed his plan.
But... what if Cross was the apprentice?
Bookman and Cross have clearly known each other a long time, and Bookman has an understanding and trust of Cross that no one else does. Cross has a lot of knowledge that most people don't, including knowledge of the Earl and his forces. And he has something conspicuous in common with Lavi -- no, not the red hair -- but something to hide on the right side of his face. Lavi hides his right eye, the eye that has been implied to keep the Bookman records; Cross hides his, too, and we don't know why.
What if, like Lavi after him, Cross was with Bookman doing his training thing, but he developed a weakness for Neah? It's thematically consistent and it would bring us back to Lavi's plight and backstory without distracting us from the ongoing plot.
Technically, this means Bookman wouldn't even have to have been a conspirator, strictly speaking. He could know everything that happened because his apprentice was part of it, not because he personally had gotten involved.
Bookman lost his apprentice because Cross chose to get involved up to his ears in Neah's business, and take a side in the war -- Neah's side, the third party, not the Order nor the Earl. In a way, that was probably a valuable record, too. But Cross said, to hell with emotionless nonindulgence and not taking sides; I'm with Neah! But he's still not really part of normal humanity, any more than Bookman and Lavi think of themselves as being really human.
Something to think on. :|a
But I returned with a wacky DGM theory!
We know that Cross is a supporter of and was a conspirator with Neah, but we also know that Bookman and Bookman's apprentice before Lavi were close to him. At the time when Neah was alive, the Bookmen were on the Earl's side rather than the Order's, making Bookman one of the few still alive who know anything about Neah.
The Noah have the Bookmen captured right now, and threaten Bookman by saying, "You don't want to lose another apprentice at your age, do you?"
They don't actually say that Bookman's apprentice died.
I've been running on the personal theory that Neah, Cross, Bookman, the first apprentice, and maybe Mana to an extent were all in on this conspiracy together, and that the apprentice was killed when Neah executed his plan.
But... what if Cross was the apprentice?
Bookman and Cross have clearly known each other a long time, and Bookman has an understanding and trust of Cross that no one else does. Cross has a lot of knowledge that most people don't, including knowledge of the Earl and his forces. And he has something conspicuous in common with Lavi -- no, not the red hair -- but something to hide on the right side of his face. Lavi hides his right eye, the eye that has been implied to keep the Bookman records; Cross hides his, too, and we don't know why.
What if, like Lavi after him, Cross was with Bookman doing his training thing, but he developed a weakness for Neah? It's thematically consistent and it would bring us back to Lavi's plight and backstory without distracting us from the ongoing plot.
Technically, this means Bookman wouldn't even have to have been a conspirator, strictly speaking. He could know everything that happened because his apprentice was part of it, not because he personally had gotten involved.
Bookman lost his apprentice because Cross chose to get involved up to his ears in Neah's business, and take a side in the war -- Neah's side, the third party, not the Order nor the Earl. In a way, that was probably a valuable record, too. But Cross said, to hell with emotionless nonindulgence and not taking sides; I'm with Neah! But he's still not really part of normal humanity, any more than Bookman and Lavi think of themselves as being really human.
Something to think on. :|a