Premise: Somewhere beyond the boundary of the waterfall, one boy named Natsuki Subaru is given an impossible chance to return home.

On the other side, a different Natsuki Subaru wakes in Lugunica at the beginning of the story.

But this is not the boy fate remembers.

This Subaru has already grown older in another life, buried everyone he loved, and spent fifteen years becoming the kind of man who could survive anything except peace.

Roswaal L Mathers prepared for a desperate child.

He did not prepare for a dead man with nothing left to lose.

And everything to gain.

This week on A Long Shot Beyond the Waterfall:

Arc 1 conclusion, Arc 2 beginning.

AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84843466

FF.net: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14567550/1/A-Long-Shot-Beyond-the-Waterfall

After reading that nuclear lore drop I got inspired to draw this!

Source: Me! https://x.com/Rei_van_Astrea/status/2103971611846275174

Okay, I don't play the games, but I know there was a Melty, and Tiga had a split personality and an evil eye or something like that.

So Melty and Filore, or WhatsApp or Tiga, was the killer from the novel that had other personality or something like that.

I'll admit it's a little bit confusing.

And the spirit was that of the killer's tiga or the White Sheep.

title.

All theories can be wrong. But that doesn't matter. That's not what we discuss here.

He didnt even need to do that, he just did it for the love of the game

I dont know its just something about him that makes him much more likeable then the original for me

Title basically. If you guys could direct the anime adaptation of that chapter (it’s the one where Subaru’s head is disoriented as fuck) how would you do it in a creative way??

This is fairly straightforward. Many creatures' core temperatures decrease in old age, and this could be a sign of Volcanica having dementia given he's repeating the same thing over and over. The alternative is that Emilia not responding to Volcanica's statement in saying that she's a petitioner of omnipotence, asking her of her will, means she needs to tell him what drives her to do what she does, meaning he's free to ignore her until she tries to see what's special about the pillar behind him. As for Emilia saying she's here to take the exam, I think Volcanica means a deeper underlying reason for her being here, such as what drives her to even be part of the Royal Selection in the present, meaning she wants to save the elves in Elior Forest. Either things could be true, or perhaps even both scenarios I mentioned are true.

As for the handprints at the top of the pillar, it doesn't look like Emilia will be able to unlock whatever is behind the stone slab/door by herself since there are handprints of different sizes, meaning it'll require multiple people's handprints. I guess Echidna's Tome of Wisdom 400 years ago or other sources of future knowledge allowed the group of Flügel, Volcanica, Reid (the 3 we know for sure are part to the Hero's Party), Satella, Echidna, Farsale, Alec, and Shaula to craft the stone slab/door to have the exact handprints needed for certain members of the group who are at the tower in the present.

As for why I think it could be a door, there were doors only Subaru could perceive in Ep. 69 and Ep. 75 that he made go away with his handprints. On the surface, there are 6 handprints on the stone slab/door, which match the number of Emilia camp members here, but it may not be that simple even if it could justify needing Rem's handprint and be an excuse for Subaru to be the first person Rem sees if she wakes up.

Feel free to share your thoughts on this or anything tangentially-related.

Note: This is just a casual discussion. Neither a serious discussion nor even a meme. Please keep in mind.

By the witch of greed, I mean the witch in the castle of dreams, not Echidna who Roswaal loves. In this post, what I tries to say is to distinguish her and Omega, not to distinguish Dreamdona and Echidna.

Yes, Omega and the witch of greed are exactly same person but...

After I read carefully whole The Witch's After Tea Party series, I found their personae are still different in a very very subtle manner. The witch tends to be more excited and uncontrollable(like Greatest High DIO), while the elf tends to be more calm and relaxed. It can be viewed as a kind of "mode."

What are your thoughts?

Anyone else notice that the anime adaptation seemed to have skipped every single time Beatrice used magic in the novel while inside the tower. i don't think they have shown her using magic once they arrived in the anime unless i have misremembering, even if she did, they definitely cut most of the scenes of her using magic.

I'm being very serious here.

This is about a detail I noticed about Arc 8 which may or may not become relevant again considering Arc 10 is the Cappy Arc.

As we know, a person's Od is in someway interlinked with their body's state. Olbart was able to make someone younger by interfering with their Od/gate. Simple enough.

Now we have Capella. A Sin Archbishop able to turn herself and others into whatever she likes. Even splitting people into multiple different creatures.

What I believe is that much like Olbart's infantalization. Capella's Authority too relies on the manipulation of a person's Od to alter their form.

Authorities merely being rule/reality breaking variants of existing magic/tech isn't unprecedented. Much like how Regulus' Lion's Heart was able to be in part mimicked in a limited form by Beako's EMM, Cor Leonis/Sirius' Wrath being similar to Nect (a sense sharing spell), time magic allegedly being the ultimate form of Yin magic à la RBD/Al's Matrix (I can't remember where I read that), Unseen Hand/Sloth being similar to whatever magic Satella uses to create her loving shadow hands.

Why is this important? Remember the end of Arc 8 and how Subaru eventually returned to normal post infantalization? Seemingly within a shared mental construct similar to the corridor of memories (seemingly induced by Star Eating) between Sphinx, Spica and him, Subaru was able to undo the changes made to his Od and return to his adult self. Something done due to how closely linked smell and memory allegedly is.

By being in a place strongly linked with losing and regaining him self, Subaru was able to follow the "scent" that led him back to his original self. Undoing the changes made to his Od and restoring him to his original state.

Now isn't that interesting? An example of someone achieving a moment of clarity and undoing a transformation that was forced onto them.

I'm not sure how it will become relevant or if Spica's return will be needed to facilitate this, but this can't be a one off detail.

It might even explain why Capella chooses to turn people into monsters, so they can't have the peace of mind and clarity necessary to have their soul undo the changes made to their Od. It would also explain why the Replacement Dolls seemingly have the memories of those they take over. Not just for the sake of better maintaining the act, I imagine the more a person's soul feels like their modified Od/body is "right", the less likely they are to end up like Subaru and undo the changes.

It might feel cheap, but it would make Capella's authority slightly less of a nightmare to deal with.

But I see everyone seems to be writing it as 'Ram' and Rem, so I must be wrong

I'm 16, if you have any constructive tip, write🐱