Well, Rafael Grassetti, who did the concept art for Nova used Jared as his inspiration and has been advocating for him to play the role for years now.

https://twitter.com/rafagrassetti/status/1258859871094497285

https://twitter.com/rafagrassetti/status/1153137127367987200

(that second one especially)

I'm not sure an artist has much sway when it comes to casting, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt either (and the art is fabulous)!

Me: I just don’t get that whole Chain of Samael thing, Samael didn’t even get to see the Ninth be established

Also me: suddenly remembers that the weighted end of the chain is a Pelvis bone & that it is called the “relic of this long-dead warrior”. In catholic parlance, a relic can either be something that belonged to a Saint but is also very often a piece of physical remain of said saint. And such a thing is usually a core component of churches (legit for the longest time you could not have a catholic church without a relic it was MANDATORY). In ye olden days, there was also a HUGE catholic tradition of building cemeteries on top and around the graves of martyrs. And the Chain of Samael was kept in monument in the Anastasian, which is described as the sacred tomb of warriors and second most holy place on the Ninth.

Me: OH it’s not the chain of Samael it’s the chain OF Samael. It’s MADE with Samael!

I really wonder if The Dragon Prince Season 6 will end with Rayllum separated (temporarily) after Aaravos is freed, to mirror Rayla leaving Callum after Season 3.

Rayla still doesn’t understand that she hurt Callum deeply when she left post-Season 3, even after Soren and Amaya telling her that she broke his heart. I really hope that we get to see a moment where she finally realises what she put him through.

Also I think that the main plot threads in Season 6 will be the quest for the Novablade, hiding Aaravos’ prison and the Sunfire Civil war.

Also this is interesting, the black hole’s evolving into some sort of being

Perhaps by the end it turns into a Cookie, we’ll have to see

But for now at least, I think it looks pretty

A dying breath...

A unicorn horn...

Blood filled with hatred...

https://twitter.com/XMenUpdate/status/1686578029051420672?t=gmI9Am69nKjXT4GZ6T-kDg&s=19

Do you think there's a chance that this is true or is this just another form of fancasting?

Btw love your blog thank you for your insights!

Thank you friend. Link. My first gut feeling is this is real, BUT I'm open to public ridicule if it turned out to be fake.

I don't think Jared will be the lead because Nova will focus on Sam Alexander instead.

Thanos destroyed Xandar off screen so my guess the Nova project will take place before Infinity War when Richard Rider escapes to Earth and meet Sam Alexander.   Maybe Sam’s parents got dusted by the Snap so Rider takes care of Sam and trains him to be the new Nova.   Sam is a character that works best when he’s with Richard Rider, IMO.  They compliment eachother well. Sam learns from Richard while Richard remembers what it was like to enjoy his powers. 

If Marvel goes this route, then the best case scenario is Jared plays Richard who is not long for this world, so that could work with Jared’s schedule on Walker.  Honestly Richard was cut off too soon in the comics and he was young enough that he shouldn’t have needed a legacy character in the first place, but we’re stuck with Sam Alexander now.

Speculating Wildly About Liliandil's Parentage

In the VDT movie, Liliandil is a star and comes down from the sky. However, in the books, Liliandil is described as the daughter of Ramandu, a star, and that "the blood of the stars flowed in her veins", but she's never called a star herself. In fact, when she first appears (walking very normally out of a door), she's described as carrying a candle for light; when Ramandu comes out, he's not carrying a candle, because he's glowing himself. All this implies Lili isn't a star, only the daughter of one. Which raises the question: who is Liliandil's mother? Some random theories:

Liliandil's mother is one of the Sea People

Liliandil's mother is a sailor or shipwrecked traveler who found her way to Ramandu's island and fell in love

Liliandil's mother is another star. Lili was born in the skies but chose to accompany her father down to earth when he retired

Liliandil's mother is another star, and assumes human form to visit her husband in the world below sometimes. Lili was conceived and born during one of these visits, and because of this the form most natural to her is human, not whatever a star's normal form is. She has to live with her father until she's older and more skilled at transforming

We shouldn't make assumptions about Ramandu's gender or star biology. Maybe he was pregnant when he retired and didn't realize until he'd already come down to land

Stars don't need a partner to reproduce. Ramandu is Liliandil's only parent

Ramandu is Lili's father in that he gave her life and raised her and loves her but she wasn't "born" per se. He created her magically somehow

Coriakin is Liliandil's mom

Had a weird thought in regards to how Decepticons treat those Decepticons who take on non-military land vehicle modes in Earthspark as opposed to those who have flight or war machine alt modes. Like, in stark contrast to like Shockwave, Soundwave and the Seekers, it seems like Swindle, Hardtop and Breakdown seem to be in the lower rung of the Decepticon hierarchy. Breakdown downright doesn't even seem like a classic Decepticon, as it's like, he's so much more interested in racing than the "cause." I mean, I don't even think he was in the flashback in Warzone. Albeit, he was okay with "blasting a few humans" but he literaly ASKS Bumblebee first?

I don't know, maybe it's just me, since it seems like non-military alt mode Decepticons are literally of little or lower concern among the other Decepticons and so far, we haven't had one Autobot (outside of the Terrans), who has a flying alt mode, so I don't know if we're following through with the "Autobots can't fly" rhetoric of TFA and the Aligned continuity.

Hmm, that does raise a lot of questions and I can totally see it, and considering the Aligned influences it makes sense

EPISODE 9 PREDICTIONS GO GO GO

AHHHH oh shit hi!!

Predictions for Casper & Nova are under the cut! ✂️

-I think that we will see the same flashback of Simon and Betty from episode 8, except that it will be recontextualized from a non-biased point of view. Like the true context without Simon's rose-tinted view of it.

-I feel like on Simon's side of things, it will in general be flashback-heavy. Mostly stuff from his and Betty's relationship, but it'd be cool to see even younger Simon just for fun!

-I think it's very possible that we will see AU versions of Simon and Betty. Perhaps as a way to show what-ifs and add more layers to their overall relationship.

-The synopsis states Simon's mind will be transported through time and space while Fionna and Cake have to fight for their world. I don't think F+C will be fighting due to Simon putting on the Ice Crown or anything like that. I think their world will be in danger because Simon's brain is going to blue screen from all the pain he's going to inevitably be subjected to. He's just going to reach such a dark state of mind that his inner world literally starts crumbling.

-Betty is going to reach out through Golb and break up with him, officially. I feel like this is where the narrative is heading and will be the main reason Simon enters such a state of distress.

-Something will inevitably snap Simon out of it. I'm not clear on what it could be, but something to remind him or give him a lightbulb moment that there is life after Betty and he has a place in Ooo, despite what he thinks. The episode might even end at Simon's darkest point, while the final episode 'Cheers' is where he snaps out of it.

Farewell to Nova Scotia

So... this tweet came out.

Could this be awesome? Sure! Do I think it's accurate? Highly unlikely. Would I love to see AA's lose their collective minds if Jared were cast as the lead in a Marvel project? Absolutely!

Question to those who headcanon/theorise Eelai to be Kaos’ mother, what kind of mother do you headcanon her to be? She didn’t appear in any flashbacks so it’s up to our imagination and deduction.

Also this is one of the planet things mentioned in the video, and I don’t think I need to tell you that it reminds me of the Strawberry Jam Sword, with its red and black lightning

So is whatever this update is going to reveal that the Strawberry Jam Sword came from space, and is possibly a space parasite, perhaps similar to the way the symbiotes are in Marvel?

I mean that’d be cool, don’t get me wrong, and we’d finally have an answer about the SJS, at least in Ovenbreak since I don’t know if Kingdom would plan to follow that continuity, but I can’t deny it being from space feels like quite the left turn. It’d still be cool though, and I’m waiting for whatever this update is

okay but if that big 100 people scene really is a big party deal at the firehouse for the entire extended firefam, potentially including a ceremony, I am really curious now whether they are filming for ep9 or ep10, because if it is ep9 that they are doing the big happy family get together in and NOT ep10, that very much heightens the possibility of them going for a finale cliffhanger instead of the way they usually tie up season finales, now that they have another season confirmed before they are done filming 👀 if they move up the happy family moment to ep9, that means there specifically isn't one in ep10 probably, which has me 👀👀👀

(on the other hand it is probably also not unlikely that they are already filming this if it is an ep10 scene, because it sounds like a logistical nightmare so they probs have to film it whenever they somehow manage to get all of these people in the same place and it probs takes aaages to film, but adkjflasdfkha I don't know enough about any of that xD)

https://twitter.com/comicodigy/status/1686794034600177671?s=21&t=iZRi3R7b33lgpbt79Uu0BQ

Think this rumor is legit?

LMAO if Jared is cast in a Marvel or DC project before Jensen. AAs will lose their shit!

I just answered it (scroll down). I think the rumor is legit but Richard Rider may not be the lead character. Anyways, hopefully my speculation is not due to wanting to see AAs cycle back to the 2nd stage of grief: anger. If that happens, I get to add their fun reactions to this (X)

Do you think it's possible Singularity F is being used as fuel for Chaldeas or something else? In Babylonia ep. 0 we see that Marisbury and Solomon won the Grail War in a burning Fuyuki. In Singularity F Olga says no fire has been recorded in Fuyuki in 2004. So this means Marisbury somehow covered up the fire, likely by turning the burning Fuyuki into a Singularity. The only reason for this would be to either not get caught by the Mage's Association or because Singularity F has some sort of use.

Tinfoil theory-

I think the timeline didn't have Marisbury winning 2004 because he summoned the wrong Servant. There was never Chaldea, and somehow gets pruned in 2016. Like we know from Qin's interlude that someone from a pruned world can create singularities using rayshift to create a singularity which can affect later into Panhistory and become a belt or become the new Panhistory perhaps (Qin gets his singularities recurrence in case Guda fails, so means it can be done). IMO, Sion using Marisbury's theory modified the past so Marisbury can create Chaldea since she has the computing access (Chaldea does not have it initially and only does when it's completed in 2015, without activating Chaldeas, they don’t get Tri-Hermes, leaving only Sion as the prime suspect, she had access to Marisbury’s theory). There's something shifty about it pointed out by Qin and Morgan.

Fuyuki Singularity is a data crash of the previous failures of 2004, whether is Marisbury's or others. There's a bit of a hint in First Order of many data/servants reaching for the Grail and failing until a ringed brown hand does (Solomon).

It's not the issue here. Sion or whoever modified this past, did it because Chaldea could avoid the pruning of the timeline maybe. By partly solving Fuyuki, the crisis is averted but still humanity fails, and somehow now it's stretched out from a pruned timeline to the main record. There were some cases in Part 1, like USA chapter (singularity V), that Roman worries a Singularity ("point") expands in a "belt" so it def. can be done. Qin's failsafe too. Morgan also shows you can travel within a fabricated timeline and make it 'real' (from lostbelt to singularity and lostworld and hopefully to the main record, but she failed last step).

That said the cause of the crisis is not Marisbury, Chaldea, or Sion, but humanity. Their attempts to save the world just added to the doom. The Beasts manifested as a response to this. It's roughly a possibility. There's the implication the Earth now cracks possibly in 2117 at the latest, and 2017 at the soonest, depending if they switched world's eggs with Chaldeas. U Olga's black hole move is metaphorically earth after its death (that's what black holes are, celestial bodies that die and collapse on their own weight). Since part 2 is a story of a battle against the future, Kirschtaria's solution was objectively positive (mats), and the God and the Bleaching aren't as bad as we're assuming (Kirschtaria only objection isn't toward Olga, but toward Olga-as-Beast):

(IMO, He was willing to accommodate her if she had another idea).