Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34160983-20180102031655

There is speculation regarding Subaru and Satella. Time travel has been one suggestion. Existing since her time is my preferred viewpoint. There is an annoying plot hole to that: how could Subaru be in the same tracksuit, with his still-charged phone and snacks from the convinience store after all that time? There is explaination however.

Subaru, of course, has no memory of being there for all that time. That would mean his Memory was consumed. Nobody recognises him other than Satella. That would mean his Name was consumed. From what happened to Rem, we know that someone with Name and Memory consumed goes into a magical coma, removed from the movement of time, and also that physical indications vanish (Rem’s belongings in her room, the words she wrote on paper)

Subaru is a special exception. In recent chapters, his memory was taken. Unlike Crusch, this doesn’t leave him with amnesia. Instead, he remembers everything up to leaving the convenience store, and nothing of the other world. Earth, its memories, are outside the power of the other world, outside Memory of World. Thus, anything that might pysically change would also be unable to physically affect anything of Earth. Thus, instead of going into magical stasis, Subaru’s body, like his memory, return to his state of entering. His Return to Zero where the story we know begins. 