This was initially a reblog response to @chemicalleak but after I wrote it all out I realized it was actually a really good starting point to share with the fandom about what has lead me to pursue the theory that Lewin Light may be Rin Okumura from the future/potentially, an alternate timeline. So I decided to copy it into a post that won’t get lost to the void of my reblogs.
I have a few more parallels and similarities to snoop through before I’ll feel confident about piecing the theory together, but here are a few random examples from where I am at in my read (and a couple pages I had fresh in mind from recent chapters) that will definitely be on that list!
The entire idea came from Lightning’s comment in chapter 70: Ambition, about how he lost his family to a demon, and then he proceeds to brush it off so you don’t know what’s true and what’s fiction in a manner very similar to how Father Fujimoto would dodge certain topics. This is also happening along side when we first start seeing how Yukio’s mental well being is deteriorating. It’s also the same chapters we learn that Lightning is awful with memorization which is why he uses the technique he does as an aria and where we learn that his approach as a tamer is to befriend demons. The first person we see in the series to truly befriend a demon, is Rin with Kuro, and then we learn that is an unusual approach, which he shared with Shiro.
Onto the panels/pages!
The parallel paneling between Mephisto and Shura’s comment.
The similarities between how Lightning comforts Yukio and how Shura comforts Rin. Also on this note, one of the early things that drew me to pursue this concept, was Lightning’s discussion with Yukio. I don’t remember which chapter it is in but it has always felt to me like Lightning was talking to his own brother from experience during that discussion.
Lightnings comment to the sylphs about giving them a bonfire later, for Rin’s “Satan campfire” technique to appear shortly after, which… resembles a bonfire far more than a campfire to me lol
And of course, Rin’s consistent ominous interactions with deities about the state of his existence, which we do not fully understand just yet. It makes me very curious if Yuri was possibly decent from the grigori or something like that… but these are the reasons I must wait to put out a full theory because I could be forgetting some information from SSC.
God and that’s not even all of them that I’ve pieced together through this read… but I don’t have many more pages. Very rough, but hopefully it gives you all something to consider in the meantime while I work on finishing my reread and get myself together!
One thing that stuck out to me especially on this read, because I went in with the intention to look for things this round… was that Lightning is introduced in chapter 38… and we learn in 39 that Mephisto is Samael, King of Time and of the nature of Rin’s demon heart being locked within the Koma sword. Lighting has an interest in the Koma sword and it makes me wonder if there can only be one copy of the Koma sword in any time line. Interestingly enough, Rin didn’t have the Koma Sword during the SSC arc… and I cannot even begin to express to you how overwhelmed I was when Rin went to the past, as I had already begun looking into this theory by the time SSC started.
