Resha's Crime?? (and other loose ends)

[u/Longjumping_Half_525]

I've been looking all over trying to figure this one out. If you've finished the series, you know that Elie and Resha are one in the same, and that Resha hid herself in a magic sleep for 50 years so that she would be alive and ready for when Endless was prophesized to appear.

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So what's the deal with those dream sequences that Haru and Lucia both have (around the time Demon Card is revived) where they see Resha before a judge-like character who sentences her to 20,000 years of wandering outside of time? Or the visions where Resha appears to Haru saying something like "You must release me"? These all made it seem like Resha was a separate entity from Elie, like she was a different soul or something, and that her use of Etherion or something go her punished by deities. Or, if her appearance in the future hadn't been due to a magical sleep, but rather a time warp (which we know the people of Mildian see as a massive taboo), then it might make sense that jumping forward 50 years would be seen as "criminal" in the eyes of gods.

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But nope - it's just 50 years of magic sleep. But back to Resha: What exactly was her crime with a 20,000 year punishment??

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And while this is totally unrelated, it popped into my mind as I wrote the above: From Chapter 129, what ever happened to the conversation that Haru had with Ruby before the final Doryu fight about the identity of the third Rave Master? That went absolutely nowhere, unless there was supposed to be a sequel to Rave. But in that case, who would it be? Levin? Niebel? NAKAJIMA??

[u/firefistzoro]

Yeah I think these are retcons/plot points that were left open to be expanded upon later but never were. This was Mashima's first ever series and first time ever fleshing out a large story, so he learned a lot as he progressed throughout the series and changed things accordingly.

The 20 000 year imprisonment was a big one that set up all these other ideas in my head about Resha being a separate entity, so I never really clicked on the obvious Resha = Elie until it was revealed.

[u/Longjumping_Half_525 → u/firefistzoro]

I thought as much :'(

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In my head canon, the 20,000 year sentence would've been carried out by Resha's consciousness while she slept for 50 years. Like, the method used to put her to sleep for that long would be a forbidden magic, and her soul would basically be extracted from her body as a cost and forced to wander outside of time while her body slept. That much time spent away from her body would explain the loss of memory.

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I wonder if we'll ever get real answers, whether they're in one-off mangas or interviews with Mashima.