Spoiler Question About the Characters' Identities

[Yerc2]

Warning, there are spoilers for where the game currently ends.

At this point in the game, I believe it's pretty heavily hinted at that the Limbus Company crew are reincarnations of the Lobotomy Corporation members.
But we currently have more characters than librarians or whatever they were in Lob Corp.

So my question is-
Do you think that the left-over characters will also have their own form of reincarnation, or are they looking like new characters who just got roped into the same group?

[Reptiloid]

Idk where did you get all of this from. If you're so into this lore thing, have you read the comic and vn?

[Mastema]

A lot of wording you used is confusing but i'm guessing you're asking if Limbus characters will go through similar "realizations" like Patron Librarians did in LoR. Maybe? I mean the chapter endings don't exactly end on the characters having some sort of revelations or moving on entirely so it's a bit of a grey area if they're gonna expand on the Limbus cast character growth.

[Yerc2]

Origineel geplaatst door Reptiloid:

Idk where did you get all of this from. If you're so into this lore thing, have you read the comic and vn?

I have, but those aren't particularly relevant to this game apart from general worldbuilding inferences.

Origineel geplaatst door Mastema:

A lot of wording you used is confusing but i'm guessing you're asking if Limbus characters will go through similar "realizations" like Patron Librarians did in LoR. Maybe? I mean the chapter endings don't exactly end on the characters having some sort of revelations or moving on entirely so it's a bit of a grey area if they're gonna expand on the Limbus cast character growth.

I'm not quite talking about gameplay mechanics. Rather, the games' story/lore, and how they tie together.

You know how the department heads from Lobotomy Corporation also turned into the Library heads in Library of Ruina?
It's very heavily hinted that they also turned into members of our crew in Limbus Company.

But the number of characters don't add up. We have more crew members in Limbus Company. So I'm wondering what their origins are like.

[Mastema]

Origineel geplaatst door Yerc2:

Origineel geplaatst door Reptiloid:

Idk where did you get all of this from. If you're so into this lore thing, have you read the comic and vn?

I have, but those aren't particularly relevant to this game apart from general worldbuilding inferences.

Origineel geplaatst door Mastema:

A lot of wording you used is confusing but i'm guessing you're asking if Limbus characters will go through similar "realizations" like Patron Librarians did in LoR. Maybe? I mean the chapter endings don't exactly end on the characters having some sort of revelations or moving on entirely so it's a bit of a grey area if they're gonna expand on the Limbus cast character growth.

I'm not quite talking about gameplay mechanics. Rather, the games' story/lore, and how they tie together.

You know how the department heads from Lobotomy Corporation also turned into the Library heads in Library of Ruina?
It's very heavily hinted that they also turned into members of our crew in Limbus Company.

But the number of characters don't add up. We have more crew members in Limbus Company. So I'm wondering what their origins are like.

...where are you getting all this from exactly? Barely ANY limbus characters are similar to LoR patrons personality and story wise, plus they are still in the Library in the Outskirts, they didn't disappear or anything nor like they can. How exactly are sinners connected to them or their "reincarnations"? There's a big round zero of any evidence to support that at all.

[優月妃]

Origineel geplaatst door Yerc2:

Origineel geplaatst door 人間失格:

Why don't you atleast try to explain your sch1zo theory?

*vaguely gestures to the entire game*

At first i thought that this was written by someone mocking OPs post for not being comprehensibe at all, since OP was incredibly vague about every part of his theory. But then i realized it was actually OP themselves that answered me. You better be in 8th grade still. Please don't tell me you're an adult.

Question: "Explain the motives of the main character and why he decided to do A in situation B at the end of chapter 4"
OPs answer: *Vaguely gestures at the book" "i don't think i need to explain any more, right?"

[SmallGespenst]

The Sinners are based on Literary characters, not the LoR cast. This thread is basically "tell me you didn't pay any attention to the characters without saying it"

[Cthulhululu]

I don't see how that could be possible given the timeline of events. Outis and Gregor are both veterans of the smoke wars which happened before Lobotomy Corp was even properly founded.
Some of the Sinner may turn out to have various relations to the Sephira but I don't think reincarnates is where the story is heading

[Nope]

All of them seem to be too old to not live through Smoke War, that happen roughly a decade ago

[CarThief]

Yeah that seems like a overreach, sadly. You'd think those poor sods get some rest after living three "lives" (Pre-Lobotomy, Lobotomy, Library). Besides, they're not dead, they're just somewhere in the Outskirts. Why would they be dead and re-incarnated?

The only one that would make sense is if Ayin survived the events of Lobotomy and LoR somehow (well, he likely did become one with the Light, but it wouldn't be impossible to return), and lost his memories and became Dante.

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This does bring one question of my own though... Many backstories have them referred as The Child this or The Child that. But one stands out. L-Corp Faust.

Mentioning specifically "My Company", suggesting this may be the commentary of Carmen, Ayin, Angela or Dante (if he was involved in L-Corp pre-memory loss, possibly being post-Lobotomy Ayin, we're yet to know for sure on that one though).

[SmallGespenst]

Origineel geplaatst door CarThief:

Yeah that seems like a overreach, sadly. You'd think those poor sods get some rest after living three "lives" (Pre-Lobotomy, Lobotomy, Library). Besides, they're not dead, they're just somewhere in the Outskirts. Why would they be dead and re-incarnated?

The only one that would make sense is if Ayin survived the events of Lobotomy and LoR somehow (well, he likely did become one with the Light, but it wouldn't be impossible to return), and lost his memories and became Dante.

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This does bring one question of my own though... Many backstories have them referred as The Child this or The Child that. But one stands out. L-Corp Faust.

Mentioning specifically "My Company", suggesting this may be the commentary of Carmen, Ayin, Angela or Dante (if he was involved in L-Corp pre-memory loss, possibly being post-Lobotomy Ayin, we're yet to know for sure on that one though).

L-corp Faust is straight up Yuri though. the IDs that are actual characters from the story are that character, with limited connection to the sinner in question.

[Kagarita]

I swear this guy has a screw loose, his theories make absolutely no sense

[⇜SOVEREIGN⇝]

Literally the most crackhead theory I've ever seen for anything ProMoon related ever and that's saying something.

There's 0 chance they're reincarnations, the sinners share very little to nothing in common with the Sephirah, several sinners we know for a fact were present for the smoke wars which took place before anything concerning the Sephirah themselves.

Even ignoring that, the idea that they DO share personality traits to the point where it's even remotely plausible that the sinners ARE reincarnations of the Sephirah ignores the fact that all of the sinners have distinct backstories for themselves and all of them are named after or share heavy themes of novels and stories. Like Sinclair's entire backstory that we've been told is pretty much a 1/1 retelling of the events that happened to Emil Sinclair in Demian.

TL;DR the theory is plausible...
If you failed at basic reading comprehension in school.

[Alcatraz David]

Nah, I dont think so, they are still in the outskirt of the City. If you read the game story from the main Steam page, or in its Wiki you might come across a mention that the game takes place after the true end of LOR. So, no chance in hell they are incarnation or whatsoever.
Beside, I trust in Project Moon abilities to craft us a whole new story, and a based one no less. They never failed to impress me in their last 2 games.

[優月妃]

OP what do you think about the moonlanding?

[Yerc2]

Perhaps "reincarnate" was an incorrect term, because the people didn't start their new lives as babies. As we've seen in LC and LoR, they can start new lives at a later age.
The magic school bus also has the ability to extract personalities from different dimensions or timelines or whatever, so it makes perfect sense that the fourth-lives of the LC crew would have different memories.

They were librarians and/or books, now they are based on characters that have prominence in literature.
Coincidence?
With the amount of foreshadowing and hinting, I think not!

Origineel geplaatst door 人間失格:

OP what do you think about the moonlanding?

I don't see how it could safely land without causing a lot of destruction to the Earth.
Even if it was what wiped out the dinosaurs, we'd have some giant hole in the Earth from it.
Perhaps a hole that would fill with water. Like an ocean.