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Feb 2021

What I like the most about stories in general is that they can be interpreted in multiple ways.
What's a theory made by your readers that you just thought: Oh shit, that's so smart. How I didn't think of that?

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Best theory I keep getting is that my protagonist Ivolice is going to get together with her friend Faris. Readers and their imaginations

Got 3 revolving around my main character and her surrogate brother/best friend being endgame ship for the one shot.

Yeah.....

I had a friend who figured out the entire development of my comic, starting her theory with
"Salamander has pineapple shaped ears!"
Which is some complete nonsense, but after this she made in depth character analysis of everyone which let her figure out how characters would react to the current situation.
I sadly can't go too in detail about her theory because it was pure spoilers, with how accurate it was XD
I spent one full year trying not to let her know she was right until I gave up and said "yeah, you've got it figured out..." XD

I was planning on creating a BL subplot in one of my books that would play out over the course of 100+ chapters until it finally became relevant, or abandon it if I didn't think it was worth it, but readers started acting like the characters were going to get together starting with like, chapter 5. I was absolutely floored because I hadn't even added the first inklings of this subplot yet.

One theory I got that I absolutely loved was about Adrian's wife being one of the bad guys. While that didn't turn out to be true, I actually thought it was pretty neat and kinda regretted not coming up with it first :'D

My favourite was definitely that Sarin was going to draw excalibur in the prologue. It certainly would have been an unexpected twist, literally the last person you'd think would do it!

....Now that would be a weird and possibly terrifying offshoot timeline right there! :doggo_shook:

For a comedy, my comic, Rocky the Rock, has a surprisingly large ammount of fan speculation.....Not sure how to choose the best one tho.

Some people theorized that Rocky (shown above) was secretly alive.

Also, a reader guessed that some characters were related.

Also, there is this hillarious joke example from a thread involving wild theories XD

I've only had one theory presented to me. Which is exciting, because I've hidden a lot of things in my comic, yet there hasn't been really any speculation until the last episode came out. Thanks @DiegoPalacios for being the first!

It's referencing one of the villains who has cyborg augmentation, and an ability to steal powers.

I got one where someone mentioned "if things can come out of the tv, does that mean things can go in?"

I ain't saying if its true or not, but that is a pretty good theory...Maaaaaaaybeee

As part of inksgiving my prices were a special drawing and a secret from Amorte.
Secret: there is a God hidden in the prologue, and dear Jens was so damn close, he even theorized about this character's instrument.

Ok, these theories require me to spoil the entire thing so bear with me.

So this story is basically about a girl called Eurydice who had a compulsive habit of lying and a peculiar smell, similar to the one of rotten oranges (that's why the name "the unbearable smell of oranges").
Basically, the plot is about the relationship between Eurydice and the protagonist and the reason behind Eurydice's scent.

Near the end this happens:

As years passed by, Eurydice’s starchy whiteness started to become more spectral, and her body acquired more translucent properties. Her coal-black hair had grown so much it dragged like the tail of a dress, and when she bent her head to kiss me, I felt like a black rain poured on me. Her sentences didn’t even make sense anymore, and sometimes she would call me by strangers’ names.

She didn’t even remember who she was anymore. Sometimes Eurydice would stay still looking at something that didn’t quite exist. She was tired, a Quijote tired of hunting imaginary giants and offering love poems to Dulcineas.

And just like that, she stopped existing…

…. if she ever existed.

I intended to make this sort of a metaphor of Eurydice forgetting who she was in reality after lying so much for such a long period of time (or something like that, I know this sounds really pretentious), but when the time came to adapt this into comic format I knew I had to take my own descriptions more literally.

This, plus the conclusion to the story, made a lot of people think that either think Eurydice was either a figment of the imagination of the protagonist or a ghost; which it's hella cool!

When she was gone, I started repeatedly reading the badly written book that I read to her the day of my return to the house. Always the same story, always the same place. And just like that, one day I again felt Eurydice’s scent now merged together with the scent of the house. I felt the weight of another person in the hammock, but I didn’t care to see who it was as it is useless to talk with those who have already left.

Just then I understood that Eurydice’s scent was the perfume that loneliness wears.

Here are some of my favorite theories!

If you happen to be one of the commentators above I just wanted to say that you're really cool and thanks for reading my sloppy-acid trip-horror story.

If this sounds interesting to you, or you want to get to your own conclusions here's the complete comic: