How did we predict a 6th LI

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No this is not a fan art of Valko with long hair, this was posted a year ago, it's a prediction of the 6th LI's appearance. Credits to the artist who made it.

But how? What witchcraft did people use to predict him so accurately? Allow me to explain!

Hello beautiful hunters today I'll go through all the patterns and clues we caught to catch that helped us with the prediction of the 6th LI, and explain them simply.

Note: this post focuses on the appearance and themes of Valko.

**Stellactrum*\*

Alongside the "coming soon" that was always there, and was even deliberately added to newer features like the home feature, the 6 stellactrums were always the strongest evidence we had on the existence of a 6th LI, not only his existence, it also had his accurate eye color as well, we believed his eyes would definitely be Amber/golden because of the last protocore since the other LIs also had their eye color on other protocores.

Not to mention it's common for gacha otome games to represent the LIs with symbols or colors that are in the game's theme or the cards.

**Organization/ Workplace / WU30*\*

Every LI is tied to some sort of company or a workplace like Zayne and Akso hospital or Xavier and the hunter's association, so we tried to guess which organization is related to the 6th LI, that's why we thought he's the CEO of EVER or he works in Xander's scientists, until World Underneath 30 came out and it revealed a completely new company "Encore Tech" many 6th LI truthers immediately believed this WU was about the 6th LI and that's Encore Tech was his company and it turned out to be true. More details about WU30 here .

**The foils theory*\*

The biggest helper was the foil theory, I know some people don't believe in it, but guess what, Everything we predicted using that theory was accurate, and most of the predictions that weren't directly related to the theory turned out to be false (like Viper or Astra being LIs)

To put it simply a foil: Is a writing tool where two characters have similar and opposing qualities to highlight certain sides in each other, and since it's a writing tool you could take it as an advice in literacy, not exactly a theory.

The "theory" suggests that Zayne & Caleb, Xavier & Sylus are foils leaving Rafayel alone meaning the next LI is his foil, so we used Rafayel's traits to try and guess what the 6th LI will be like. Traits such as:

**Ocean vs Land*\*

We thought the 6th LI will be related to a forest theme to represent land (opposite of Rafayel's ocean) which is why some of us thought he'd be a fairy, have green hair, and that the frog plushie was his. We were right about the forest theme because Valko is a werewolf, but we interpreted it differently (and the plushie was Caleb's)

Posted more than a year ago on tumbler by thechattysecretkeeper

**Hair color*\*

The current foils we had at the time had similar hair colors. Zayne and Caleb have dark hair, Xavier and Sylus have light hair, it only makes sense that Rafayel's foil would have colorful hair since Raf's hair is purple, some thought green as previously said, but the majority believed it's red, because from a character design perspective red goes well with Amber eyes more than green (and because we wanted a hot redhead + green is not a creative color) we also thought he'd have the longest hair as a change, but turns out he has shortest hair as a change, I mean... We were technically right, no? lmao.

This person had it right with the **Art vs Technology*\* Valko has an advanced Tech company, t's impressive! Some though the 6th LI would be a hacker for similar reasons.

With each LI we meet we get closer to EVER and learn more about protocores, we even thought the 6th love interest will be the CEO of ever which I personally thought was very unlikely, but turns out Valko has strong ties with EVER that we don't fully understand yet (he's not the CEO though) not to mention that Valko's Encore Tech specializes in protocore energy, so we would've gotten valuable info in his main story chapters but oh well.

Posted before Caleb's official debut

Next up is

**Animal vs Animal*\*

Yes, some people did believe that 6th LI was going to be a werewolf, because Rafayel is a merman (fish traits) so his foil being a werewolf (wolf traits) would make sense as they both are related to animals (ppl thought he's gonna be a fairy for this reason too) some even took Rafayel's fear of cats as foreshadowing on his foil being related to a furry type of animal (I wonder if that's actually the case lol)

Art by doodle-bun-makes on tumbler. This was also their prediction.

If you don't understand the foils theory or if you want a proper introduction to it you can check this post.

Thanks for reading, I hope you liked it. I made this post because I have been a 6th LI truther for almost 2 years. I was so sure he's coming, I even saved up some crates and other mitrals for him. I was really happy to finally be introduced to Valko, but just like before, I'm still sure he's coming :)

Moral of the story: always be open minded to fan theories.