I can’t help but wonder what Allen’s reaction would be if it turned out that the souls of the Akuma he and other Exorcists slay won’t get purified and saved by the Innocence but get devoured the same way and on top of that lose their sense of self too.
You know, I’ve thought about that too. And boy, that would absolutely wreck Allen…but at the same time, it would also give him motivation to walk a different path. That path being, perhaps, the third side of the war?
I also have a long-running theory that the Heart of Innocence is planning to wipe out humanity the same way the Earl is, just for a different end. (Which falls in line with why people keep teaming up with Nea to fight for the third side.)
For now it seems that the Earl is ready to wipe out humanity for the sake of his family, but it’s not his main objective, he’s much more focused on “killing the false god (Innocence)“ than a full massarce. The Noah are way more powerful, it would actually be much simpler if they eradicated humantiy with the Akuma and then the Innocence wouldn’t have hosts, which means no Exorcists and no matter how powerful Apocryphos is I doubt he could take on the whole Noah Family on his own.
Then the Innocence – with Parasitic Innocence it was clarified that it eats it’s users life force to destroy the Noah. Ironically, the tool to save humanity is ready to sacrifice humanity to destroy the Noah. And maybe that’s how Innocence sees its host: as feeding grounds and humanity as cattle that produces it. The role of humanity is to birth hosts, powerful souls, so the Innocence would become Independent like Apocryophos. If your soul is not strong enough you Fall and get eaten up, but the Innocence still won’t evolve. Actually until now Innocence evolved the same way as Akuma: it induced despair in the hosts then when they made the decision to fight it fully accepted them and bound themselves closer (Crystallisation plus Allen’s and Krory’s development).
Noah souls are the most powerful, powerful enough that they reject the Innocence and are capable of destroying it, they won’t get devoured like normal humans, but Innocence is still powerful enough to hurt and destroy them. Basically it’s a tag of who kills the other first while human population is used as resources.
My concern, though, is less what they do to humanity during their war with each other, and more so what they’re planning to do with humanity once the war is over. If humanity survives the final battle…what is their fate?
The reason I think the Heart may want to wipe out humanity is because the current iteration of humanity is descended from the original Noah, and thereby tainted. It’s why any seemingly random person can end up awakening as a Noah, and why it’s nearly impossible right now to kill the Noah for good–they can simply reincarnate into a new body, and they have millions of people to pick from.
On the other hand, the Earl has stated explicitly that the akuma serve a higher purpose than simply being war machines. And it’s been theorized more than once that their evolutionary process has an end that will create a new species altogether–perhaps one meant to replace humanity in the world after?
Long story short, regardless of the specifics, I think humanity will get the short end of the stick if either of the major powers wins the war. Which is where I think the third side comes in–which I believe has the ultimate goal of destroying both Noah and Innocence, thereby saving humanity.
I think that’s why Lvellie so quickly and fanatically attached himself to the third side and proclaimed it was for humanity after hearing whatever Cross had to say. I think it’s why Cross helped Nea despite his obvious reluctance to sacrifice a child for the cause. I think that’s why Past!Allen offered his body to Nea in the first place.
(This actually directly ties into my theory that the Heart and Apo have sabotaged Nea’s reawakening–which is why Allen is not his Allen, and Allen mysteriously has Innocence. But that’s another theory for another time~!)
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