Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29781768-20170826175552/@comment-2A02:2788:106:14FA:6428:D032:C867:719-20171007202904

I don't think it's time travel.

I do believe Flugel and Reid to have a friendly relationship, Tappei did state it was kind of a Gian/Suneo kind of relationship (from Doreamon). Gian kind of is a bully but I'd still say Suneo and him are friends. Their first meeting may not have been smooth though as Reid has a.. strong personality. (But much like Julius became a really good friend along it's far from impossible they became friends)

For Satella to love Subaru so much, for her to state he has saved him, for Subaru to have underlying feelings he can't explain towards her, there's no way they've never actually met.

It's however likely the Dragon has no friendly relationship with any of them, you'd think if Volcanica was hanging out a lot with Flugel Shaula would come to like him. Volcanica doesn't seem the kind to even want friends, as you'd expect from a dragon I guess. But again there's so few information.

To say Subaru and Flugel have no common traits is.. a strech. To be a sage candidate, to have knowledge of the constellations, to be linked to the cult in such ways, to meet all 7 witches at once. I'd say these are fair signs to be taken into account. It's also important to note Tappei did say the sage is one who can save all the people dear to them by sacrificing everything which suits RBD like nothing, even Al's budget RBD doesn't really allow him to do that much.

Multi-dimensions theory, brought up by Echidna, can be debunked easily through the fact that Satella and more importantly Echidna can remember what happens inbetween continues. That Satella remembers could be bypassed by the usual "she's dispersed on all timelines" and such but Echidna would not be, she's simply sealed right there in the coffin.

As for a time-loop, well don't you think the witches would recognise him as being younger Flugel, a lot can be explained with a time-loop to an alternative time-line but not this. If the witches have met together with Flugel then recognising him, even younger-looking, would be a given.

Echidna also does make a difference between Emilia and Satella, when she won't make one between Satella and her witch personality (Which is fair but denotes from the other witches). You'd think if Emilia was Satella she wouldn't count them as 2 different people (refering to her stating the people she hates).

After all Yin magic requires a LOT of mana to use time-travel (see fan-questions) so I doubt going back 400 years is anywhere in the real of possibility and no one authority presented interferes with the past in such ways (If Pandora could do it I'd guess she'd have done it already). Obviously blessings don't work like that either.

Such intricates theories are difficult and need to be worked on a lot, a lot of people have a few ideas but before posting it as a good theory you need to combine the facts, check for facts you may have missed and check that these facts are right.

You can also work with the stars and myths related to every name to make links but again, very difficult.

Making sense of the authorities may or may not be a dead end, I think it's definitely worth giving it a shot but it really isn't obvious or easy. I too am still working on that so I wish you good luck and hope to see you publish your theory.

To OP, it's still nice that you tried. Sharing with the community when you think you've made a finding is a good move but don't point it out as linking everything before you're sure of that. It was a nice try if you didn't know about the other fan-theories though. (I feel like out of the very few theories that make sense, fewer even are in English).