Talk:Flugel/@comment-118.70.81.209-20160920054759/@comment-84.196.13.127-20161011202632

No. Flugel is most likely Subaru's dad; not Subaru himself. Subaru's dad would have Subaru's verbiage, and Subaru might have copied his tics from his dad

First of all, though Return By Death can terminate timelines, it is never shown to be capable of generating paradoxes.

Subaru's dad entered the world by unknown means, and started to collect the witch genes in order to become the sage; he did so alongside Satella, who fell in love with him (He is after described as having a way with ladies) to an obsessive degree; of course, due to Subaru's dad erasing most knowledge of his existance, to most people it seems like Satella was the sole agent of this. However, in the end, when he was faced with the prospect of killing Satella after he was done with Echidna, his heart refused. He had fallen in love with her too, and they tried to concieve a child.

Under normal circumstances, incompatible genes would make no attempt to integrate with the person taking it in, but this was quite different. Satella concieved a twin, which would later be named Subaru and Aldeberan (Aside from the glaring fact that they both have an authority-like power which have a lot of things in common, they also are exactly the same height. It just isn't at all obvious due to Aldeberan now being much older than Subaru due to unsynchronized timelines), and through this, the incompatible genes of her near-sage fetusses were forced into her.

The result? Maternal instinct gone mad. She would destroy the entire world to assure the safety of her children. Subaru's dad would have to prevent it, and enlisted the Sword Saint and the Dragon to do so. However, due to the Subaru being in her womb, nothing seemed to be capable of killing her, since it would trigger Return By Death. Due to it being triggered numerous times, Subaru ended up being intertwined with a part of Satella's soul, while Alderaan remained relatively untouched by her soul.

Ultimately, Flugel figured it out, and seperated her body from soul, keeping his unborn children alive but eliminating the crazed Witch of Envy. He decided to name his children after constellations, and then, build the Pleiades tower on top it of Satella's grave and shrine. He cut his children from the body of his lover, noting that they were both extremely powerful, and noted that there was a fragment of Satella in Subaru's body. However, this act of desecration was felt by Satella's spirit and her rage created a deadly miasma around her shrine which would drive all who stepped into it into a craze. He bound the World Memory to the tower, and when looking into it he discovered that his children would be called in the world eventually, and even his knowledge of this didn't alter this (to quote a movie "everytime you look at the future, it changes, because you looked at it"). Knowing he couldn't prevent them being summoned, he took precautions.

He altered the world memory to give certain characters the names of certain stars, giving him a backdoor to give his children intel without having to reveal the world of Re:zero. He also altered the name of Betelgeuse to Petelgeuse to give away that in the puzzle of his tower, Betelgeuse was the wrong stone to move, and he altered Shaula's name to that in order to indicate that Orion was correct. He altered Regulus his name to give hints to his weakness, and there will probably still be other hints. Finally, he dumbed down Shaula's intelligence to forget most of the things that happened by swallowing a lot of her memories (essentially making her regress to a child-like state) and disabling her capacity to grow, and programming her with his own habits and tics to remind Subaru of him, or, indirectly, of himself, and lastly he planted Flugels Tree in order to give his son a way to actually beat the whale, and wiped most information of his existance off the map, leaving only Flugels Tree as a direct reference hoping Subaru would understand. Then, he left the world, gave up Al up for adoption and took up a wife to care for his tainted son, hoping he was able to prepare him for the ordeals he was destined to face and postpone his summoning for as long as possible.