Rhen: Mia, Keep going! I'll hold him off!
Well… hmm… what's happening here? Theories?
If you don't know, then we're really screwed.
They aren't arguing. Must be a dream.
You're such a tease! I would agree this looks like a vision of some sort.
those look linda like pews, are they in a church? Or a movie theater? Funeral home? Not many places have benches that all face the same direction. Those pants really show off Mia's legs!
It looks like a train car to me. Also, if what she is seeing is what is currently taking place, it could be that her mind is putting her in Andrew's spot, and it's really Andrew that Rhen is protecting.
It could be a vision of the past, but with people she's seen taking the places of people she hasn't. I don't know if she's seen this bad guy before, though.
I think Kneon intentionally put the bad guy in the shadows, so we can't tell from him if what Mia is seeing is past, present, or future. He may have started balding decades before his hair turned grey.
I'm thinking a premonition is most likely what's happening though.
Hair's changed, clothes changed… could be future dream? Or she's switched bodies and the other is in her body at home? But she's definately connected to Rhen on a deeper level if he recognizes her in a different body.
Mia's hair is the same length, it's just not in a ponytail… it's hidden behind her.
Did Mia turn into a guy?
And she is dressed a little like a boy all the sudden.
Actually, if she were a female mage, then according to how it was explained previously, it would have to have been her great-grandmother who was the mage that travelled to Earth, not her grandfather. He probably just kept it in the attic, and then Mia's grandmother gave it to her. In fact, I'm almost positive that this is how it worked out, since only the mages in Belatyr have been shown to possess magical abilities, mages transmit their abilities to the oldest child of the same gender, and the last known owner of the ring was Mia's paternal grandfather.
Then again, we should have known from the beginning that she was a mage. All of the mages that we've seen have color names (Crimson[red] Rhen and Syd Black, for example) and Mia's last name is White. To me, the only real question is when are the characters going to realize this, and how will Mia have to change to accept this truth?
Personally I think that explains the story closer to the explanations we have been given than theories involving the Grandfather. It also explains why there are pages torn out of the book (Mia isn't ready to learn those things yet). Also why Mia gets teleported to Rhen (Grandma made the ring to do that so he could teach her).
Didn't Mia's mom say to her husband "Your mother brought her…" when she got the book? So, it would be her paternal Grandmother.
Yes. The grandmother that gave her the items is her paternal grandmother.
Well, if Mia's grandfather was the brother of that demented old lady in the basement, I believe her name is Sarah, wouldn't it be so that the magic passed on to the first female in the familyline? That is to say if Sarah had no children ofc.
If you go back to when the Grandma came over though, she said she found the book and the box in her Grandpa's old trunk. This is why I still believe it was pass down from him. If the Grandma was giving it to her to try and wake up the Mage ability in her than wouldn't she have just told Mia it was her old things? She could have lied to Mia about it but I doubt it. It just makes more sense that the way things work in that world were bent when he came to Mia's world which allowed the powers to transfer to her instead of following the strict male bloodline.
Wow a LOT of great theories!!!
I just hate to wait! The only thing I can think on is about if she is dreaming or what have happened since last time she was there if she not is dreaming! I think she is dreaming since her clotes is different and Rhen is not suprised of that she just suddenly was there. I think Kellys theory is interesting because I thout the same.
if these things weren't the case and her grandpa was the mage, then her little brother would be the mage – and her dad too.
but remember, the 'rules' were for how it worked in THAT WORLD. and they even said thats how it works 'NOW', meaning it might not have used to work that way. for all we know, in mias world, the laws of mage lineage could be that the oldest of the opposite gender, or even like i mentioned earlier dominant and recessive genes. and again, for all we know Mia's and Rhen's world could be the same one. she might just be traveling back in time instead of across dimensions. think about it – in rhen's world there are hardly any mages left – and there's someone going around killing them. her grandpa (or grandma) could have gone in hiding in the future (or a random mage friend/ family member sent them for protection) her grand(pa/ma) touched down in France, where they lived for a while and wrote the book explaining what happened. then got married and traveled to america or vice versa. i mean, if rhen's world was all pre-burning of Alexandria, we wouldn't know about it (which is legit because we just recently found out ancient people had gliders because we found it in ONE BOOK that wasn't in Alexandria when it burned – otherwise we would have never known) it could have supposed to have been the next mages job to go back in time and warn Rhen (and consequently everyone else on the ship, which would be very helpful seeing as i think i know who a certain blonde girl really is) about the upcoming disaster. (this could have even been in the book, but Mia doesn't speak french, so…) and now to help her out, shes having (/being sent?) visions of who the person behind everything is.
I say a "possible future" vision. Mia may be dressed as a boy (w/ her ponytail stuck inside her shirt) as a disguise (of which totally fails), because Syd is (either) hunting Mia, or the Princess (who's in a train car further up the line).
I'm sure this isn't right, but the first thing that came to mind was that Mia was somehow imperfectly reliving a memory of the last owner of the ring/notebook, hence the different clothes and hair.
I thought the exact same thing as well! Especially because (I'm assuming this next part) the character that looks exactly like Mia is a boy (due to the flat chest and short hair).
Yes it is Mia. Yes she has short hair and yes she is dressed like a boy. But I can't say why yet. But there is a reason.
If Mia was a boy, her name would be Milo. Or Mike. Possibly Melvin.
Perhaps the family didn't want people to know there was a female child. Last female mage and all that.
My question is are Mia and Rhen brother and sister?
I can answer this one. No. Rhen is not Mia's brother. We figured one annoying brother was enough for anyone.
Is Rhen at least his own father then?
No one is gushing over Mia's outfit?!?
We need to see the shoes 😉 I think she lost her cap earlier in the scene. The shirt is a pin-stripe with cuffs that need cuff links. The back of the vest is stippled (stippling is a type of quilting stitch), front of vest may be cotton, back may be silk or something similar.
yes..she did lose her cap earlier.
She may be dreaming of a male ancestor. Because this is her dream she has placed herself in "his" spot in the dream… she may even go so far as to hear his name called out as her own name (in order to be recognized by her own self). As well, the Rhen shown may not be the current one, but an ancestor of his as well… though she believes it to be the one she recognizes. Dreams can be pretty complex and strange as this LOL!
Perhaps this dream is more a vision to show her more of the family history, and why things came to be.
I know… I have weird ideas LOL!
this could even be something out of the theorie of multiverse- that this is a prophetic dream that is a warning of one of the ways the future will go depending on the way she acts from now on or of a decision to come and it either may or may not come to pass depending on how she reacts to it or shes getting so they can be ready when it does happen. maybe shes wearing that outfit because after this she mentions to the crew about the dream and they then decide to put her in hiding either for safekeeping or they tell her that precognition is a mage power and all this other mess, so shes in hiding because of that .
she could be a fem!mage from Rhen's world, purposefully transported there by the ring when she was a baby. when she was adopted the ring and book where given to the new parents, saying that the stuff belonged to Mia from her real parents. the new parents either didn't want her to find it until the time was right and it was kept at the grandparents house, or the new parents wanted to get rid of it but the grandpa kept it and ended up looking into and becoming interested in the book. this would explain why Mia's grandfather was explained as being really interested in research and old books too. if all this happened when she was a baby then its possible that they've either forgotten about or didn't recognize the book, or it was decided that she would be given the book at some point and this seemed like the least suspicious time. the original reason for the book could have been to either allow her to know about her past, or to bring her home when she was old enough. this all makes sense if the new parents didn't tell her she was adopted, especially if they don't want her to know.
Actually I kind of asked about this early on, it turns out she is from our earth and dimension, however the ring is activated by mage blood technically speaking so she is a mage, yes, however she is from our world where magic doesn't have the power is does there and she is totally untrained.
oh really? well thats defiantly something to add to my headcannon 🙂 thanks for telling me!
Does it extend from your head, all FLCL-style, to blast things?
We wish we could update every day as well! Maybe someday, if we ever can do this full time.
I'm a bit late to the party but here's my theory! WARNING: It be LONG.
Okay, so it's obvious Mia is a mage. Between the color as a last name, the fact she's dressed as a boy in this panel, the ring, hearing those shadow things, etc, etc, etc. However, I'm guessing she's some sort of 'mind mage'. Seeing the future in dreams, possibly some sort of mind influence? The Ring seems to be mentally inclined as well – after all, it requires mental orders. Not like Rhen, who is Elemental, and not like Syd, who's magic seems to include weapons – which makes him surprisingly powerful, considering most Mages seem to use their magic as a crutch and don't bother to learn much else – which is probably why Mia's family has been able to stay under the radar for so long.
Who Mia got the magic powers from is really ambiguous and there's several possibilities. I don't remember which parent is the child of Grandma and Grandpa, in fact, I don't even think it's mentioned, but I think it's probably the father – Grandma has the same hair color as Dad – and I'm not entirely sure how the magic came about. It's possible there was a Great Grandma – who after tearing out the pages in the journal, gave it too her son, who couldn't be magical but perhaps knew the family history anyway? And then he had Mia's dad…it's possible they both had latent abilities. If Mia is indeed a 'mind mage', I point out that Mia's dad seems to be very good at Marketing. Possible ability for influence?
That's one of the many possible theories. The other one is – as someone suggested – that transferring to this world changed the line of inheritance so Girls could inherit form males.
Oh! If that theory is true, we have no idea how Grandpa 'died', and it's a possibility he went back to Rhen's world. Possibly another ring?
And..I think that's it. SORRY GUYS FOR THIS BEING SO LONG.