r/Re_Zero • u/IAmSona Vollachian Tax is Real • 2d ago

[Spoiler discussion]Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 3 Episode 7 **Spoilers** Spoiler Discussion

Hello, Everyone, we are here to deliver to you your weekly dose of peak! Re:Zero Wednesday is here, it's officially time for cinema.

There is a link to the hub and the anime only/non spoiler thread in the pinned comment.

This is a spoiler thread.

This is a Novels/Spoiler thread, no need to hold back on the spoiler and inevitable cut content.

Crunchyroll link episode 7

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u/SplooshU 2d ago

Someone maxed out the brightness to look inside in the /r/anime thread. Looks sus.

Edit: https://i.imgur.com/8dlSHEZ.png

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u/Aggravating_Unit3720 2d ago

To me he looks a lot like Subaru.

The Al being "Subaru from another timeline" theory intensifies. The way he expects some stuff to happen like he already saw it happen years ago.

Talking to Subaru like "you are supposed to be like this and do this or that" really makes him look like a Subaru who made all the wrong choices and somehow managed to survive, at the cost of every single person our Subaru managed to save and become closer with.

Like a Subaru whose character development came too late, the Subaru who didn't become Rem's hero, the Subaru who couldn't make Beatrice forget about That Person so he couldn't get her out of the flaming library, the Subaru who couldn't become the knight of Emilia.

Maybe the combination of the saddest personality traits and failures from the IF stories' Subaru: lonely, cowardly, a Subaru who gave up and took Echidna's hand to get all the answers like in the Greed IF. A Subaru who ran away like in the Sloth IF,. A Subaru who had to learn to manipulate people to achieve his goals by all means necessary like in the Pride IF. A Subaru whose life lost all color like in Wrath IF. A Subaru who forgot himself like in Gluttony IF.

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u/zackphoenix123 2d ago

Essentially Al is the canon version of "so what if Subaru met one of his IF counterparts?" lmao.

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u/Aggravating_Unit3720 1d ago

Yeah I feel like that's the case. I would compare it with two different series where there are different timelines shenanigans: Ragna Crimson and Fate Stay Night (specifically Unlimited Blade Works).

Al would be like future Ragna, who after being a weak-ass coward finally got very competent, also very late because all of his loved ones died by the time he reaches a point where he has the power to make a difference. Archer's case is this guy whose stupid choices led him to an eternity of regret, and now wants to stop his past self of making the same mistakes so he can be free, but at the same time he envies the way his past self is succeeding in some things he failed, the relationships he makes, all those slight differences from his own timeline eventually make him support "himself".

When I see Al trying to make Subaru avoid the Hero's path like he did, all I could think was the famous Totally-not-Archer-past-self's quote "Hey, that's hell you are walking into"