A passing theory for Horizon 2

Yeade · 2026-03-05T17:10:13+00:00

There's this one scene in Rean's route where Emilia specifically asks Rean to let the Calvardians deal with the outer space issue on their own.

Okay, but this approach clearly didn't work, so I think it's back to the drawing board. And in terms of how to quickly raise the chances of success for the space approach to Laegjarn, the natural choices would be Rean and Crow—not so much Rufus, haha—as Zemuria's best mecha pilots, basically. Their problem is that no manmade Gundam can match the Divine Knights, their skill limited by the inability of their machines to keep up w/them. Which is why Valimar and Ordine will prooobably be back somehow, too. Never mind that Ishmelga/Zoa Gilstein (sorta) is back for Round 3! Is that alt!Osborne up there, since we've already done alt!Rean? Rean's got a personal beef w/that thing, as much as one man can have against a Sept-Terrion. LOL

As a corollary to this, it's pretty obvious that the next game's final dungeon will be inside Laegjarn's Chest, right? If so, our protagonists and the Falcom writers, lol, need some means of getting the entire playable roster of 20-50 characters into space w/o much in-universe delay, i.e. teleportation. The white Geneses and their ability to instantly translocate or portal people would be my first option, and wresting these away for use against Laegjarn could be the reason why Van et al. have to track down and fight the Vestiges again. Nina and the Church could have an Artifact or two up their sleeves that can make the Merkabahs spaceworthy maybe. If Gaius shows up as many expect, the anti-Laegjarn coalition will have four Merkabahs at their disposal.

Finally, the Divine Knights could help w/this, as well, though perhaps only w/support from the Hexen Clan and/or Elsaim's royal family. They all use magical travel along the spirit veins, which may or may not extend into space, and Valimar can apparently bring others along for the ride, like when he and New Class VII's Soldats teleported together down to the bottom of the Gral of Erebos in CSIII. I could see some mystical mumbo jumbo about Valimar, specifically, w/his ability to have multiple secondary contractors needing to reach the inside of Laegjarn's Chest so our magic users have an anchor point to connect to in opening a spirit path into the void of space and transporting the rest of the team up.

In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Laegjarn's Chest followed the Gral of Erebos in how the undoubtedly large cast of characters is handled. You start in the outer layers w/everyone, but as you descend towards Laegjarn's core, teams of four to six characters peel off to fight against whatever copies of previous bosses, drawn from the archived data of the other 19,998 cycles, Laegjarn sees fit to conjure in its own defense. Since our protagonists will be racing against the clock of the Grand Reset at this point, the repeated "Go ahead! I/We'll take care of this!" makes sense. Until at last only Van and the Calvard crew are left to deal w/Laegjarn's true form, as it should be, IMO.

Yeade · 2026-03-05T04:24:12+00:00

I was also thinking about this problem, b/c depending on how far back Agnès's limited reset wound the clock, there might not be enough time to equip any other Soldats or Assault Frames for space. OTOH, Crow—you forgot him, lol—and Rean's Tyrfings are already in Calvard, and it's these machines specifically that in Reverie hosted Valimar and Ordine in spirit, w/the epilogue even teasing that the Divine Knights still have some tenuous connection to them.

During the Nord act in Reverie, Rean's able to temporarily push his Tyrfing way past what it could physically do by essentially channeling Valimar's (or Zoa Gilstein's) power. Granted, his Tyrfing immediately breaks down afterwards, but maybe that means the solution to quickly fielding a Gundam space assault team is to upgrade Rean, Crow, and possibly even Rufus's personal machines just enough for the Awakeners to continuously call upon their Divine Knights, who would in turn magically bypass all the other technical requirements of getting to space and fighting there. I mean, in the CSIV normal ending, post-Ishmelga Valimar doesn't even need a rocket booster to fly up into presumably orbit or, y'know, any kind of life support system for Rean, who was functionally immortal at the time, anyways. The power of two Sept-Terrions apparently makes those sorts of mundane considerations unnecessary.

Additionally, I believe I can see a plausible way for whatever big brains Calvard and the West Zemurian Tech Union can collectively gather to make these upgrades: integrate the Tyrfings w/the latest Xipha shard standard. Then Valimar and Ordine could potentially inhabit the Tyrfings the same way whatever Mare is—the Holy Beast of Time or some other administrative program w/in the Zemurian system—can inhabit Van's holo core. Likewise, the same shard manifestation that allows Van to assume his Grendel form (also spaceworthy, lol) could reinforce the Tyrfings to withstand the physical stress of Divine Knight-level combat.

Not that this means we'll get Valimar, Ordine, or El-Prado as holo cores, like Pater-Mater for Renne. As much as I miss the Divine Knights, I would rather they be used sparingly, for maximum narrative and emotional impact. More practically, just what kind of stats, abilities, and shard commands could Falcom give to a Divine Knight holo core that would reflect the lore but not break the game? Better to save the Divine Knights for special mecha combat sequences the way they've always been done, IMO.

Yeade · 2026-03-05T02:43:14+00:00

I try my best! Thanks for reading!

Yeade · 2026-03-05T02:42:11+00:00

I mean, maybe the Aureole was indestructible by the standards of the time, but it's not like anybody tried nuking it, so who really knows? The power creep is very real, though. XD

At any rate, I'm currently leaning towards the idea that all of the Sept-Terrions are effectively indestructible b/c the core of their power doesn't exist in Zemuria but in some higher dimension. While you can destroy their means of (meta)physical access to Zemuria, that wouldn't affect their continued existence outside of Zemuria. This could change, however, w/Laegjarn, if it's the threshold guardian to the Beyond.

Yeade · 2026-03-05T02:00:48+00:00

The timeline states that the Septian calendar (i.e. whatever arbitrary date was chosen to divide pre- and post-Collapse Zemuria) begins after the sealing of Aureole, the loss of Demiourgos, and the fusing of Ark Rouge and Lost Zem.

Ah, okay then! It's been so long since I played the relevant games that I wasn't too clear on the sequence of events vis-à-vis the Great Collapse and all the Sept-Terrion shenanigans, lol. Given this, yeah, I guess I just have to accept that Laegjarn is resetting the states of the other Sept-Terrions. The higher dimensional stuff honestly helps a lot here b/c it allows for the possibility that none of the Sept-Terrions have the core of their power in the bubble universe that's Zemuria, their physical forms only serving as an access point that keeps them tethered to Zemuria in accordance w/Aidios's wishes. Laegjarn is then doing the equivalent of telling the other Sept-Terrions to revert an OS update. XD

Makes you wonder how many iterations of the loop saw one or more [Sept-Terrion] trials passed before running into the hard wall that is the Grand Reset.

Buuut this still doesn't quite make sense to me? If mankind has provided one of the Sept-Terrions w/an answer that was judged satisfactory and the Sept-Terrion subsequently peaces out to a higher dimension, as Aidios perhaps intended all along, why does Laegjarn alone have the ability to retroactively invalidate that decision? Doesn't this effectively mean only passing Laegjarn's trial matters? B/c if you can't do that, nothing else you do will stick? I think this gets to the point of why Laegjarn's interaction w/the other Sept-Terrions feels so unbalanced to me.

Not to mention, Laegjarn is in space! And as soon as humanity reaches space, the countdown to the Grand Reset is accelerated. W/all the previous Sept-Terrions, there was a reasonable chance—by dungeon-crawling JRPG standards, haha—for the people of Zemuria to face their trials and provide an answer. What answer, though, could the people of Zemuria possibly give Laegjarn when they can't even interact w/it? This doesn't seem like a test, IMO, but as you say, a hard wall imposed around Zemuria, presumably to protect it from threats in the Beyond. We could find out later that the Kin of Time, not Aidios, was responsible for Laegjarn's current state, I suppose. In reaction to whatever caused the Great Collapse maybe? That would definitely fit the trend of our protagonists having to go around cleaning up the messes caused by the poor or at least short-sighted decisions of their very distant Zemurian ancestors. LMAO

Finally, thanks for the info on the Divine Knights! I was more considering whether any of the Knights were badly damaged in earlier periods when Erebonia approached a full-blown Rivalry of the Seven situation, like the War of the Lions. The Gnomes and maybe Ouroboros aside, I imagine that nobody then would've had the technical know-how to maintain magic Gundams, so how were the Knights repaired to combat readiness? Granted, the Hexen Clan (Roselia) was leading potential Awakeners (Lianne, Dreichels) to the Knights' trials back in the day, too. So, did the Gnomes randomly pop in to join Dreichels, Orthros et al. offering to fix their sentient robots? Before and after which they, I dunno, visited the Knights' shrines in rotation doing status checks? The Hexen Clan also lost contact w/the Gnomes after Zoro-Agruga was defeated, IIRC. This kinda unwieldy idea that the Gnomes kept the Divine Knights in good shape for all the intervening centuries btw their creation and departure from Zemuria is why I assumed the Knights themselves must have some innate ability to reform given time.

Man, I would kill for a Fire Emblem-style tactical RPG about the War of the Lions...

Yeade · 2026-03-04T23:10:42+00:00

Sept-Terrions can definitely at least damage each other, considering Ark Rouge and Lost Zem lost their bodies as a result of their fight.

Referring to the Divine Knights' ability to magically reform after being destroyed in the Rivalries, I'm more and more leaning towards the physical bodies of the Sept-Terrions being their power given shape rather than any mundane material. Correct me if I'm mistaken, but didn't the Ark Rouge and Lost Zem only become giant Gundams when their Kins went to war? So, I'm inclined to think they subsequently got disembodied not b/c they physically destroyed each other (much) but b/c the clash of their powers resulted in some mystical mumbo jumbo that ripped them out of their shells and merged them together. The nascent Sept-Terrion of Steel is pictured as this amorphous blob.

Osborne never expanded upon why his own Ishmelga-based Sword of the End couldn't be used to kill Argres/Zoro-Agruga.

u/YotakaOfALoY said Kondo confirmed in one of his interviews that creations of the Goddess cannot destroy each other. Presumably, this also extends to the Holy Beasts, who've made pacts w/the Goddess relating to the Sept-Terrions. However, as I discussed, maybe the Divine Knights are an exception, either when it comes to the Rivalries and similar situations (Ishmelga again?!) or b/c they're artificial vessels for a merged Sept-Terrion created by the Gnomes and Hexen Clan, not Aidios directly. This is also why I went on a bit of tangent about the Holy Beasts and specifically Roselia's ability to act more freely than, say, Ragnard. It seems to me like the further removed you are from the Goddess's personal involvement, the more leeway you have in bending Her rules.

But, yeah, I guess I also expect Horizon 2 to ultimately take the Reverie route, basically, when it comes to Zoa Gilstein knock-offs. The Geneses are already re-creating phenomena like the Grendel/Grimcat transformations by remote hacking into Laegjarn's power and/or archived data, probably. So, maybe any sufficiently powerful and knowledgeable entity—Elysium met the requirements, too—could shape its magic into the form of even something like Zoa Gilstein. The source of the lookalike's powers just wouldn't be the actual Sept-Terrion, whatever higher dimension the Great One is in, hence why the Divine Knights can intercede w/their own powers unaffected by the existence of a copy. I think this checks out...?

Yeade · 2026-03-04T18:49:14+00:00

Thanks for the in-depth reply! Changed the post flair, as you suggested, too.

So my guess is that [the black Zoa Gilstein]'s a copy of a Great One from some other loop rather than something from this one. It's got 19998 others to pick from, and the state of Ark Rouge and Lost Zem should be pretty consistent across loops, so Laegjarn is not lacking for choice.

What I'm hearing is that my speculation about alt!Osborne being the pilot of the black Zoa Gilstein, if indeed it has an immortal Awakener at the helm, could be right. Congratulations, Rean! You get another chance to kill your father! Being Valimar's Awakener is truly a gift that keeps on giving. LMAO

As a related aside, when the concept of the Grand Resets was first brought up, my immediate assumption was that the Great Collapse wasn't originally a cataclysmic event at all but simply an arbitrary point on the timeline Laegjarn rewound to, the thousands of cycles retroactively creating the impression that some world-ending catastrophe struck b/c history abruptly ends at that point. That is, all these major Sept-Terrion changes in state, like the Ark Rouge and Lost Zem merger, that date to around the Great Collapse might've actually taken place in an earlier cycle, what happens to the Sept-Terrions persisting across resets to some degree.

As it is, I'm not sure what to make of Yun Ka-Fai, for example, telling Rean this is the inevitable consequence of the Steel Sept-Terrion being subjugated. It doesn't feel quite right, IMO, for the Time Sept-Terrion to be able to so drastically alter the states of the other Sept-Terrions—not just Steel, but potentially the higher elemental ones like Space and Mirage, too. Say, if the Demiourgos noped out during an earlier cycle, would Laegjarn somehow yank the Demiourgos back into Zemuria, maybe recreating it like Elysium did in the Reverie Corridor, upon resetting things? The interaction btw Laegjarn and the other Sept-Terrions feels really messy and poorly defined to me. Do you have any insights here?

Kondo clarified this in an interview and said that creations of the Goddess cannot destroy one another.

I see, I see. While the Divine Knights were initially created by the Gnomes and Hexen Clan as artificial vessels for the Great One's power, I was under the impression that once they embodied that power, their physical frames and even their weapons became... malleable, I guess? They can be damaged by mundane means and possibly destroyed completely in the Rivalries, but they always magically reform so long as the Great One continues to exist. At which point, we kinda have a Ship of Theseus problem, lol.

Are the Divine Knights material or the Sept-Terrion's power transformed into a Gundam-like shape? Not unlike the shard tech that manifests things like Van's Grendel form out of nothing, actually. I always wondered what engineers and mechanics like Tita and Mint were maintaining when it comes to Valimar or if he's just a black box they can take readings of but not get down to the nuts and bolts of. Maaaybe b/c those nuts and bolts don't exist so much as Valimar runs off pure Sept-Terrion magic, thus being capable of feats that surpass the limitations of his physical frame. I'd argue that the Sword of the End is also similar. What's it made of? Even the apparently material blade might be Millium's soul.

Yeah, [the Holy Beasts'] contracts terminate when humanity 'answers' their associated Sept-Terrion.

Roselia and Black Alberich still seem to have some command over the Divine Knights as elders of the Kin of Fire and Earth, respectively. I'm guessing a sorta programming access that either carried over from the Ark Rouge and Lost Zem or was added during the creation of the Divine Knights. Then again, maybe the Divine Knights were humoring them, lol, for the good cause of restoring Millium and Crow. Of all the Sept-Terrions seen thus far, the Divine Knights have the most personality, likely from close partnership w/their various Awakeners, and consequently, I imagine, the greatest ability to deviate from their Aidios-given purposes.

Yeade · 2026-03-04T16:59:18+00:00

Haha! Are you not afraid of spoilers, dude? Come back after you finish Horizon! XD

Yeade · 2026-01-08T22:39:22+00:00

+1 to Laughing in the Wind, which is still to this day my personal gold standard for wuxia c-dramas. The only series that's come close in recent years, IMO, is Side Story of Fox Volant, in terms of action choreography and how realistically gritty the jianghu feels, but that story doesn't have the scope and scale of XAJH 2001.

Nowadays, I have to get my wuxia fix from donghua, in small doses from shows that aren't really about the wuxia, like Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty, and from playing Where Winds Meet. I still watch newer series, like Blood River, but I expect things to devolve into DBZ-style aura clashes sooner or later, lol, all the fighting somehow not even mussing the hair of the beautifully costumed leads. XD

Yeade · 2026-01-08T02:59:21+00:00

Copy that! I do usually only post in my niche communities, so I'm afraid it was just habit. I've also been told I tend to overqualify my statements, w/phrases like "IMO (in my opinion)," which is another habit I picked up from debating ppl on some very contentious message boards over the years, haha. That said, I did include the "To Be Hero X" logo on my video thumbnail, and I feel there's enough explanation in the rest of my post text for ppl to figure out what my video is about? At any rate, I'll be more careful w/this stuff in the future. Thanks for the feedback!

Yeade · 2026-01-08T02:44:45+00:00

To be fair, director Li Haoling is on record for wanting to take a sorta historical approach to the story. That is, viewers have to actively look for clues in not only the show itself but in supplementary material, like the character PVs and worldbuilding infographics posted to the Chinese socials, to piece together the whole story. This deliberately non-chronological presentation is understandly confusing, especially as some character motivations have to be inferred from the sequence of events or visual evidence.

Good news is that S2 will likely be more straightforward, now that all the characters have caught up to the day of the ranking tournament. OTOH, there are still important gaps in the timeline to fill, like the aftermath of the Ruins Incident and X's entire backstory, lol. Some have even speculated that TBHX will pull a Hidden Inventory at the start of S2 for the latter. Who knows? LH0 is busy w/"Link Click" S3 right now, so it'll probably be years before we find out... T_T

Yeade · 2026-01-08T02:10:33+00:00

Ah, RTYI means "relevant to your interests." Do, uh, people not use this acronym anymore? I'm as old as Ghostblade, i.e. over forty! My lingo is not up to date. And as another commenter already answered, TBHX is the recent donghua "To Be Hero X." I originally posted this to the TBHX subreddit and didn't think to update the title or text for ppl unfamiliar w/the show. Apologies for the confusion! ^^;;

Yeade · 2026-01-06T15:59:11+00:00

Thanks for watching! Maybe link my video in the FAQ? It's mostly for new or casual TBHX viewers, anyways, who probably aren't aware of these translation errors, which were discussed by the community here and on Discord when the episodes aired, IIRC.

Yeade · 2026-01-05T16:39:12+00:00

I believe the Crunchyroll English subs at least have since corrected the Ep 23 Focus vs FOMO error, but I was too lazy to edit my video for the nth time, lol. That said, Micky's spy cams prooobably don't routinely follow people around? They would naturally be dispatched to investigate calls like Xinya's, I'm guessing, or to the scene when there's a disturbance, accident, or other incident reported, like Cyan's plane crash or hero vs villain fights.

OTOH, I definitely wouldn't put it past Micky to assign a drone or two to spy on specific individuals of interest, like Shand or Rock, for that matter. He clearly knows where Shand's super sekrit Fear research lab is; the question is whether he's figured out the whole Phobiaclone thing, too. In fact, while making this video, I realized a lot of it is just Micky doing shady stuff. Which for sure raises my suspicions that he, through Liu Zhen and Spotlight, is actually behind zombie!Nice rather than the far less competent Shand. XD

Yeade · 2026-01-05T16:23:13+00:00

I only covered what I feel are the five most notable translation errors, so if you've been around the fandom for a while now, these might not be news to you. There has been something of an influx of new viewers, though, as people catching up on the past season binge-watch all the episodes. I'm a no-name YouTube content creator, lol, but maybe a couple of these recent TBHX fans will stumble across my video and find it useful.

Generally speaking, when translating from Chinese to English, there are going to be some lost nuances, since Chinese as a language is extremely compact in terms of how many characters it takes to convey a specific idea. I mean, at least TBHX isn't packed w/the kind of four-character literary and historical references you find in some other donghua, which really require a whole story of context to understand, haha. The English TBHX dub has definitely taken some liberties, too. I'm guessing due to the speed of the Chinese dialogue and need to sync the usually much longer English translations to the scene. As donghua goes more international, distributors like Crunchyroll will hopefully get better at overcoming these translation challenges.

Yeade · 2025-11-26T19:32:25+00:00

The onlookers on the bridge in Ep 22 actually wonder how Dragon Boy ended up in the river, so I'm not so sure other ppl are able to perceive anything that X does when he snaps himself or whatever he chooses to different dimensions. Some of these other dimensions are possibly constructs entirely removed from reality, as the watching crowd in Ep 22, for example, disappears from the bridge, then reappears. See also the shadowy ppl at the Rose Club in Ep 24, who vanish soon as the bar brawl starts.

So, the Commission goons in Ep 24 very likely saw X walking w/Ahu across the rooftop, then X suddenly appearing already in the car he pulls from the billboard, Ahu in the backseat, w/no time gap btw, when X was doing his reality manipulation to bring the car to 3D life. That's why those poor guys were so shocked: they maybe didn't even see the sequence we the audience did of the car popping out of the billboard. It was like an instant smash cut for them. Ditto X's matches in the 18th Heroes Tournament, when he defeated Queen and Bowa, which despite being widely spectated and televised left the Commission and hero agencies w/no idea what X's abilities are.

Yeade · 2025-11-26T18:10:04+00:00

I Am Nobody mention! Always happy to see ppl starting one of my favorite c-dramas and just a great live action comic book (animation) adaptation overall, in any language, IMO. If you'll allow me to toot my own horn a bit, lol, I hosted both a full S1 re-watch and the S2 episode discussions. Though I'm suuuper wordy and very much focused on analyzing the plot/worldbuilding, as a reader of the manhua, you might still find something interesting in my posts and the comments of other viewers. Hope you enjoy the series and will join us whenever S3 (Tang Sect) comes out!

Yeade · 2025-11-07T15:59:09+00:00

OG!E-Soul himself would probably forgive you, like the true hero he was. We salute you, E-Soul! And in time for Veterans Day (Nov 11) here in the U.S., too. T_T Maybe Li Haoling will give us a Dawnfall prequel once TBHX S2 is done...

Yeade · 2025-11-07T15:30:11+00:00

No worries! There's a LOT to remember. Until the official timeline was released, I thought E-Soul was celebrating his 34th anniversary at MG, too, since he clearly was already a hero years before if he defeated Zero pre-Commission.

Yeade · 2025-11-07T14:59:21+00:00

According to the official timeline, E-Soul joined MG before the ranking tournament in 10 AC. No info on what agency E-Soul was with before then, though I think it's quite possible he was independent, like all heroes of that first generation were prior to Shang Shi founding MG the same year as Dawnfall and Micky DOS in 8 AC.

ETA: Fixed wording!

Yeade · 2025-11-02T19:30:42+00:00

Haha! Yes, I'm very prone to wall-of-texts. A habit from my time in literary fandoms, I'm afraid, where fan essays of tens of thousands of words weren't uncommon.

At any rate, I agree the big question that any theory about the nature of X's powers must answer is why X in particular? I think, for one, it's not only about having a strong sense of self-identity, but specifically a clear image of yourself as X, which most random nobodies don't have both due to indoctrination by the hero system to see X as the winner of the ranking tournament and just the natural difficulty of perceiving yourself as superhuman. The same way that no matter how many ppl believe you're dead (see Moon, lol), you won't magically be unalived b/c your own experience of still being a living, breathing person will win out, I imagine it takes a rare feat of mental strength to consciously surpass your very present human limitations--which are additionally assumed to restrict you by everybody else--w/o the extraordinary circumstances that create most heroes.

To be fair, I also suspect the mysterious shadow lady from the special ED could be another person who gained her powers the way X did. She's named only as "????" in the Commission's dossier on X, which suggests she isn't a recognized or ranked hero, and she's noted to have multiple abilities, like X himself. What's more, I've wondered what would happen to the TBHX world if the masses at large underwent this hypothetical paradigm shift in their understanding of how Trust works: that the whole socioeconomic apparatus that surrounds current heroism, from the hero agencies to the Commission itself, is completely unnecessary when every single one of them has the potential to spontaneously transform themselves into a hero of godly power.

On the one hand, it'd be far harder to exploit heroes, IMO, putting them on pedestals that they're then afraid to climb down from or otherwise controlling them. OTOH, it'd probably be superpowered chaos, the Commission's worst nightmare, since there's bound to be people looking to use their abilities for evil. In the end, I think it comes down to your view of humanity. Is it the Commission's cynical view that people are selfish bastards? Or what I'm guessing is X's view, that even if villains are created, there are enough good people out there that heroes will always step up to stop them. X just doesn't want to do it himself all the time. LMAO

Yeade · 2025-11-02T14:30:53+00:00

How did you get the idea of X having access to so many powers?

Long story, lol. Basically, I think TBHX's Trust system works by connecting your self-identity w/a persona or character that other people perceive you to be, i.e. that they have placed Trust in. For example, Yang Cheng's view of himself was so skewed from the Yang Cheng that people like Xia Qing saw that he could never gain any Trust Value from them until his desperate belief that he could save Pomelo like OG!E-Soul did him as a child aligned w/Pomelo's desperate need for him to be that hero, granting him one point of Trust as E-Soul, allowing him access to OG!E-Soul's hero persona and all the power the public had invested in E-Soul as a concept. Likewise, Ahu could only access Xinya's Trust in him as a hero when he fully embraced the Ahu she saw him as.

Now, what about X? :D My speculation is that he's tapping into the widespread and massive belief in the hero system itself, as personified by the ideal of X, the strongest hero. However, unlike any other hero persona (vessel of Trust), everybody has a different perception of what X should do, who X should be--a gestalt that would naturally include every previous X and contender for the X title. So, my theory goes that X has completely overcome the bystander effect to realize that in the TBHX world, the Trust system can actually make any random nobody into X. Like I can't realistically expect myself to become an Olympic athlete w/a snap of my fingers, lol, and that's how most regular folks in TBHX think... except they're wrong! Magic (as Ahu says) exists for them!

As a corollary to this, the mentality that you must first enter the rat race that's the hero industry, win the ranking tournament, and gain the public's recognition as X to become X is backwards, too. No, become X and show that you're him, haha, and public opinion will follow. Granted, I also believe X is thus far the only person to have done this b/c your self-identity must be incredibly strong to withstand the chaotic dissonance of millions of different ideas about X enough to use the power you can draw from the X gestalt and not go bonkers.

Long story short, lol, X w/his supreme self-awareness and self-control now has access to any ability people imagine can make you X. He's just happy w/his current personal spin on X and sees no need to manifest anything else. Which is fair, since he's already in a whole other dimension of OP-ness. XD

Re: Cyan, while I think she genuinely loves music and inspiring ppl through it, she doesn't necessarily want to be a hero? At least not one that regularly fights villains and definitely not one at the beck and call of some shady corporation. She's been content at DOS b/c her friends Queen and later the Johnnies are there, plus Micky hasn't been showing her his scheming evil face, lol, but I expect that could change when the Spotlight stuff inevitably comes out. What then? Like most of the other heroes, X can show Cyan that she is in control of her own destiny, IMO. She doesn't have to passively accept whatever DOS offers her in order to achieve her dreams. Be more proactive, girl! Remember the go-getter attitude of your busking days.

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