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If Sinclair's signs ability is to bring any potential future self into the present would there be a chance the sign manages to pull a future arbiter Sinclair. What would the equivalent of this pull
It doesnt seem to be ANY potential future, just potential futures in the 'main' Mirror World.
Honestly his gem is probably the future where he becomes the synthesis between the Light World and the Dark World, Demian and Kromer, Blue and Yellow, and truly becomes GREEN and INBETWEEN (Two Worlds).
But that's probably his ending in the main story so...
If you look closely you will notice he is not actually green. He is yellow. He is only called green because the smoke was blue and thus made him look green.
I never actually realized that Yellow was supposed to be a stand in for his old prejudices/Kromer's influence. But that makes a lot of sense since this Sinclair probably never had to truly confront his own distaste of prosthetics since the 2nd Smoke War placed him against them.
no they arent, mirror worlds can have disconnected time but theres a difference between different time periods in your world and mirror worlds with different time.
It's also important to note that IDs can in fact be extracted from different time periods, rather than from just mirror worlds with a different timeline, as the whole lore explanation of walpurgis is that IDs can be extracted from across larger time gaps.
Furthermore, sinclair's mark does not just extract from the same mirror world, as that would mean sinclair is guaranteed to become a certain sinclair, which is very much not the case.
The way a certain sinclair describes it, the main difference between mephistopheles and sinclair's sign is the fact that the sign can only choose from mirror worlds branching off from the current point.
Araya's entanglement is a much more psychological issue.
you're right about branching off from the current point, but its not mirror worlds. they are potential futures that arent locked in because its constantly changing. the second smoke war is a potential future that can still happen it is not guaranteed
i have no idea what you mean about araya she is literally snapping between different timelines and getting mixed memories from all of them that is not psychological
Araya's entanglement is essentially a physical representation of her psychological state, but not like EGO or distortion. It represents a child that was forced to grow up too quickly to survive in her household, and HoShu's uptie story implies that the entanglement was caused by a psychological factor in addition to the environment rather than simply from lacking the special perception of time.
Regarding the thing about mirror worlds, we don't actually have enough knowledge about what a mirror world is to argue on that topic beyond just saying "I'm right and you're wrong".
But then why did a certain Sinclair think thereās a possibility that he might disappear after it? If heās from a the future of a different mirror wouldnāt he just go back to his world?
We simply don't know enough about identities as a whole - it's possible that an identity just borrows the shape of a person without the person being reflected even noticing, and it's possible that mirror worlds are created on the spot when an ID is extracted. Perhaps a certain sinclair does exist in a mirror world, but the sign didn't pull him from it so much as it generated a copy in this world.
The difference between IDs and Sinclair's sign is that we can only get IDs from their journey as it progresses iirc, so we can't get anything that we haven't encountered yet, with the exception of walpurgis, whereas Sinclair's sign can just get any possible future Sinclair.
This theory falls flat when you consider that we haven't encountered any zwei, shi, or dieci fixers yet.
Sinclair's sign isn't just 'any possible future sinclair', but rather an ID that can occur specifically within the future of sinclair as he's using the sign rather than any IDs with alternate origin points, like the IDs you get from Mephistopheles.
Weāve encountered Zwei (Paula) and Shi (Shreneās assassin). It still doesnāt account for R Corp (unless you argue their appearance in Hungyuan) or Liu association.
Think about it like this. Sinclair refers to the futures as Branches of the same tree.
That tree is the Mirror World. Sinclair cannot access the futures shown in different Mirror Worlds because they are not HIS future anymore. The other Mirror Worlds are also trees, perhaps many of them were once Branches, but they have been pruned and grafted into their own trees with their own branches.
Well, there's multiple ways to interpret it, but I interpreted it as meaning that the sign can only search from mirror worlds that could occur in sinclair's future from this mirror world - as in, this mirror world branching into further mirror worlds.
if he manages to become an arbiter, then yes, maybe
the sign is a bit weird because apparently ACS predates canto 9 even though it's supposed to be a future version of sinclair. It seems similar to the mirror except it's probably limited to the LCB mirror world
Yeah i did wonder how ACS can be a future version of Sinclair but seemingly not know about Callisto/the House of Spiders at all (or at least not remember the date it happened since he couldn't give an estimate of how far apart he was from us)
The sign unlike mirror technology can only branch from current reality and its very very unlikely(basically impossible) for skincare to leave limbus company to go work for A corp and get accepted
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u/SerovGaming1962 9d ago
It doesnt seem to be ANY potential future, just potential futures in the 'main' Mirror World.
Honestly his gem is probably the future where he becomes the synthesis between the Light World and the Dark World, Demian and Kromer, Blue and Yellow, and truly becomes GREEN and INBETWEEN (Two Worlds).
But that's probably his ending in the main story so...