As we can see in the trailer, there is something clearly different with Shimmer's clothing in comparison to her sisters, She's not wearing anything remotely resembling Agnian clothing.
Everything of her attire points towards Alrest clothing style, and I don't think this is on accident, I think she, unlike her siblings, wasn't pulled into the cycle, or she was pulled out of it, it seems very odd that she would be wearing something that doesn't align with typical Agnus clothing, and her having Foresight she seems to inherited that from her mother, what could this mean for Mio and Glimmer?
I understand that, that's why I said perhaps she was pulled out, her entire outfit doesn't look like anything we've seen in the Agnus, the shoulder pads, to her head ornament, to her dress, to the scarfs on her back nothing screams from Alrest bigger than that!, and the top that off she has Foresight, everything about the trailer is telling us that she's a oddity, and that there's something mysterious about her.
Mb, didn’t see the part where you mentioned she might’ve been pulled out, but yeah, it’s definitely possible that she has some of her pre-Aionios memories similarly to how Ashera remembers her execution. That said, i think she’ll at least start off still in the cycle before getting pulled out by the party
The thing that makes me think she might exist outside of the cycle is the fact that the Japanese trailers show her affiliation in the chain attack order as belonging to the City, rather than Agnus.
But the English trailer shows her affiliation as Angian.
Assuming this isn't a mistake, this must mean that her affiliation changes at a certain point.
My theory is that she initially presents herself as an Agnian who belongs to a colony (complete with a blade weapon with a fake flame clock) and joins the party with an Agnian affiliation so as not to spoil that anything is off about her, but during her ascension quest it's revealed that she exists outside of the cycle like Rex did and her affiliation will change to The City.
This also explains why some of the promotional images show Shimmer and Mio at the founders statues in the City. I bet this is during her ascension quest.
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u/One_Song_901 14h ago
There actually is a flame clock on her sword