by RobRobRobRobRob » Wed Jul 25, 2018 5:59 pm
- Motto: "Manners make the man."
- Weapon: Sonic Umbrella
I think we all noticed (as someone stated before) that it looks like Rung can interact in some way with the Magnificence while in his Alternate Mode, and we have been told that (at least according to Shockwave's speculation... and Agonizer) that the Magnificence is a Knight of Cybertron who relinquished their body. So I was thinking... what happened to the body?
My theory: The body is Rung. After the Knight gave up his body and 'became' the Magnificence, perhaps his body was (somehow) given new life, mind-wiped (possibly through mnemosurgy), and was (somehow) returned to Cybertron before the Functionist rose to power. After all, Rung did say that he recognized the Grand Architect's motto from 'a long time ago.' We've seen before that wiped memories can be regained thanks to phrases thanks to Skids (granted, it was a Nudge Gun), so it's not without president for Rung to remember the Motto and nothing else. Perhaps it's a memory from when he was a Knight, or perhaps it's something that the Knight had imprinted on him. In addition, it seems that the Magnificence was able to 'talk' to Rung without anyone else hearing, and even take control of his body to force him to tranform, as if they have some kind of further connection. Robert's doesn't usually bring up legends unless they're important, and his deliberate mentioning of Shockwave's hypothesis is suspicious to say the least. If this isn't right, I see this little bit of dialogue being important later.
This even works with the Functionist Timeline: If my memory serves me correct, the Knights disembarked long before the Functionists rose to power, and there was more than enough time to get Rung back to Cybertron to be captured.
I could be completely wrong, but I just wanted to throw it out there.
On a slightly more sketchy note, I had a thought that perhaps The Grand Architect's 'vision' was actually the same one as Drift's only in reverse. The idea is that the Architect couldn't see everything behind him, meaning that he didn't know who to trust. All he saw was ahead of him, and he saw Drift standing before something... like maybe the Fleet we see at the end of the issue in front of the portal. Maybe that's why the Grand Architect let Rodimus on the ship - he didn't know Drift was part of the crew and therefore doesn't know if they're in league with the Fleet (unless they were in the vision, which puts a whole in this theory). It's a bit of a messy idea, but I could see there being drama between Drift and the Architect in issues to come.
but I do think that randomhero may have been on too something when he said about the functionalist council...after all, they did also sprout off abut 'till all are one'. They could easily be a single gestalt mind now (which in a biblical/red dwarf reference should reveal a true name of Legion)
