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 Post 1919 if the IDE theory thread in the forums. It has some things you may not have noticed.

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You meant post #1909, forward through #1920.

The first part of the theory seems to give reasons why Caliborn might steal Jake’s body, appearance, or place, down to jealousy of his relationship with Dirk and the golden pistols of Jake’s referencing Face/Off.  Nothing objectionable, there; we’d already figured that Lord English’s immortality has a chance of involving body-swapping, stealing the body of anyone who manages to ‘defeat’ him.

The second part ties into the theory that Calliope’s dreamself took the form of her troll persona, and further extrapolates that Caliborn’s dreamself might resemble Jake English.  It might be the case; I mean, Caliborn did say:

IT IS A VIEW OF MY DEAD SISTER. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SIGHT.
SHE REALLY MAKES. A MORE BREATHTAKING CORPSE. THAN I EVER IMAGINED. 
Whatever you say, weirdo. 

However, personally, I subscribe to neither of the second part of the theory (yet).  To me, it looks like Calliope’s dreamself is wearing slightly larger, slightly widened “clown shoes” that could hide those Cherub-like feet, just like the flying Sarcophagus’s widened footroom in [S] Caliborn: Enter.  But it’s definitely something to think about.

hakureiryuu replied to your post: Post 1919 if the IDE theory thread in the forums. It has some things you may not have noticed.

i WAS sort of wondering why we didn’t get to see dream!calliope’s face even though we know what calliope looks like now…

But here’s the thing:  Andrew never drew the rest of the page in the first place, because we weren’t supposed to see what cherubs looked like, and then simply copied it to the monitor.  "Not showing it", merely the discretion shot of her lower body, might have been the natural course of things; after all, the mystery of Calliope’s appearance had already been revealed, and he didn’t need to put in any extra effort to show us more of an earlier view of her.

Is the obfuscation one of convenience, or intentional?  You can’t tell.  Perhaps the obfuscation was one of convenience, but he realized as he was doing it, “Heh… come to think of it, this will mess with some people.  I’m so glad I chose to do it this way”.  We have no way of telling yet, and despite such a tempting theory I’m not sure at all of his narrative intent.

2012-11-24