Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33063265-20170910144543/@comment-2001:861:3381:E900:209C:4A37:B48F:AE39-20190913192100

Ok, so stumbled in here by chance while looking for theories and, since I have one of my own and I'm dying to share it, here I go!

So. Why does Satello love Subaru? My answer is that: she does and she doesn't. My guess would actually be that she loved A Subaru and, consequently, loves every Subaru there is.

Let's try to take this from the start. 400 hundred years or so in the past (or maybe more), there was this woman named Satella who had a Light in her life: Subaru. I say had, because he died/disappeared/vanished elswhere with Ul Shamac (why not?), which made the witch kinda crossed. Actually, so crossed that she took half the planet for her snack. Her Light gone, there was only Envy. An Envy so enormous of Gurren Lagann proportions that nothing could sasiate her. That is, except Subaru. But he's dead (let's go with that), and even in this world, the dead don't come back. So she thinks... why not take a Subaru from another world? And so she did take other Subaruses from other worlds, at different point in time in her world.

My take is that every Subaru was taken at the same age, the age her Subaru had and were given powers so that they don't die. Once you break something costly, you don't frak around and you get insurrance the next time. But this power is a work in progress. We can hypothesize that it began with Flugel, then continued with Hoshin, then Al and finally the Subaru we know.

This would explain a few things about Al as well. We know he's a summonee (is that a word?) as well, he has a kinda go-back-in-time power and only has normal human strength. Subaru means Pleiades and Aldebaran is that star following the Pleiades. It's veeeeery thin, but there's a connection. Plus, we never see his face, maybe because he has Subaru's? Also that strange moment when he talked about Ram. Maybe he was from a world similar to that one where he knew another Ram.

Also another connection, the names of the sin archbishops. They are named after stars. They also seem to crave Satella's love, but apparently she doesn't care about them. My guess would be that they name themselves after stars in order to please Satella (but then how would they know constellations not from that world?). Another guess, they're failed summons, or even completely different Subaruses!

And that's pretty much it. Maybe she's waiting for a Subaru that would love her and come and get her. Or maybe she's trying to "train" Subaru to become like the one she knew through various obstacles, getting the world moving thanks to her gospels.

I knows there are a lot of holes but it'd tie up nicely I think. We won't know before a while anyway.