User blog:Malice Twiright/A Disscussion on Irregular.

So, let's talk about Irregular.

With the release of Deadly Sins of Evil: Fifth Pierrot, the longest running mystery in the fanbase has been concluded, the identity of Ma. However things continue and, of course, shift.

With this blogpost I hope to explore one of the more noticeable mysteries. Sit back kids, let's look at how we found ourselves at how we found with this mess. This will be quite long, so sit back

LET'S BEGIN

The Beginning
So, to begin with, in order to understand Irregular, one needs to understand where he first appeared. Which is actually part of the problem, in that Irregular's nature means that we don't know where he first appeared. So let's start at the start.

So, in April of 2008, Mothy released The Daughter of Evil, his third song. This was significant for many reasons as, while the first two songs were just vague espousals, this was the first to tell a proper story. In said story, Rin is an arrogant tyrant princess who everyone hates. Likewise, she loves the blue haired king of another land, but he falls in love with a green-haired girl, leading to her having girls country burnt to the ground. Eventually, a swordswoman in red armor leads a rebellion, captures the princess in the night and has her executed.

So, later that same month, mothy released the latter half of the story, the "true" version of events. Entitled The Servant of Evil, it tells the story of the Len character alluded to in the previous song, who is in fact the princesses long lost brother turned servant. He goes on about how, for her sake, he became evil, despite his guilt over the matter. Eventually, when the palace is overrun, he switches places with her and dies in her place, letting her live on.

Another month from there, we got Regret Message, which continues the story from there with the princess packing her regrets into a glass bottle and sending it out to sea. Moving on.

Finally, in December, as the 1 year anniversary of the Kagamine twins, mothy released Re birthday, entitled the "response" to Regret Message. It tells the story of how a boy (represented by Kagamine Len) who, trapped in a dark chamber, is held down by red and blue chains (represented by MEIKO and KAITO respectively), who the narrator theorizes are holding him down with rage and tears respectively. While this happens, he informed by a voice (represented by Hatsune Miku) that he is in there for his unforgivable sins and will never leave. Eventually, he hears a melody being sung and eventually comes to understand the meaning. With that, the chains dissipate and receives a "message", leaving on his new birthday. At one point, a piece of The Servant of Evil can be heard.

From this, one can probably put together the points on what this song means. The Len character is the one from The Servant of Evil, who is trapped in there for his sins and is eventually freed as he receives his sisters message. For years, this was common interpretation and it is very likely that that was what mothy wanted us to believe.

Of course, things are that never that simple in the land known as Evillious.

Actual Beginning
On August of 2010, mothy released The Daughter of Evil: Clôture of Yellow, his first light novel and beginning to the franchises ongoing story, giving everyone their canon names. And with it came the first of many instances of mothy revealing things that change ones perception of the songs. For starters, he made the morality much grayer. For another thing, he revealed Michaela and Clarith were in love, which is wonderful and amazing and not currently relevant. Actually, what is important for later that, unlike what the song implied, Allen did not kill Michaela. Keep that in mind for later.

Four months later in December, mothy released his first full-length album, Evils Kingdom. This was basically a users guide to understanding the series establishing of mothy's songs were interconnected, complete a guide wherein Ma shows portions of the series as "films". Re_birthday is included, inserted between The Daughter of White and The Tailor of Enbizaka. When asked about it, Ma gives this explanation:

''The gear was removed. That outcome is in the dark.'' The black box buried in the sand will never be found.

The boy awoke in a dark room. ''What awaited him there was loneliness and darkness. And a huge spring'' The days of atonement begin.

This is the story in the box. Whether this is the end or the beginning of the story, nobody knows.

How very vague, Sorceress of Time.

Evils Court
So, in 2011, mothy released Evils Court, an album that, for the most part was focused on the denizens of Evil's Theater, with booklet being a set of "court cases" conducted by the Master of the Court and several vague anecdotes written by Gammon Octo. Irregular isn't mentioned in the booklet, but in two songs he is.

In Master of the Court (song), Irregular is mentioned as being the entity that Court is "pregnant" with, of whom she sings the Clockwork Lullaby to she prepares for his "birth". Likewise, in Capriccio Farce, Irregular appears in bit largely unconnected to the rest of the song, where he, represented by Kagamine Len, states that he dwells inside of Court as he does the Lullaby.

Two months later, Capriccio Farce got a PV. In it, Irregular appears and we see that he is in fact wearing Allen's clothes and is shackled to a large gear with red and blue chains. Not just that, his profile also states this:

He's living within the womb of the Doll Director.

His true identity is unknown.

By now, the evidence should be point in one direction. Irregular is Allen and the star of Re_birthday. The facts are practically staring us right in the face! This has to be the answer!

The Problems
Yeeeahhhh, not really. The thing with Irregular is much the same as Ma. The most obvious answer is one that becomes increasingly less functional the more one thinks about it.

First off, the events of Re_birthday are vague. Very, very vague. Making any kind of presumption is a bad idea and there are contradictions raised if we do assume it's Allen. If the chain are supposed to represent Germaine and Kyle, then Kyle has no business being there Allen didn't kill Michaela, nor does such a punishment really in any way fit Allen and his character arc. Likewise, for Irregular, there is no indication that the voice speaking to the boy is the Judicial Doll. She is also only referred to singing to him, and in no way would she be telling the being she treats as her child that he was a sinful boy who'd never leave the chamber he was in.

Secondly, not half a year after the Capriccio Farce PV was released, Allen had made no less than three confirmed appearances as a spirit, one of which having him clearly retaining his own personality and freedom. Not much like what we have glimpsed of Irregular.

Third and most significantly, Allen being Irregular raises numerous questions about he somehow got from a free roaming spirit to some boy in Court's "womb". Every detail about Irregular dances around the matter of what he is, with both Ma's explanation about Re_birthday and Evils Court just vaguely avoiding the topic of his existence. Surely, if they were the same individual, mothy would of established a stronger connection.

The God, The Hell Master, The Box
In December of 2013, mothy released Waltz of Evil: The Deadly Sins of Evil Guidebook, the first databook for the second novel series. One of the stories, Heavenly Yard (story), changed the course of the series forever.

In it, we get to meet Sickle, the top god of the Evillious world, functioning as its "observer". While much of the story focuses on Sickle observing things and some commentary, the important things happen at the end.

There, Sickle goes to Heavenly Yard to meet with his good friend Held and ask him why he appointed Michaela his successor. Held dodges the question and instead asks Sickle why he is keeping the boy with "irregular" existence in a large Black Box. Sickle says he's not telling if Held isn't either and Held leaves, after which we see Sickle use a golden key to open the box and, yup, the person inside is Allen.

"So Allen is Irregular!"

Again, no. If anything, this just kills "Allen=Irregular" even more.

First off, Allen being of "irregular" existence isn't some ambiguous line coughcoughSoulOfAdamcoughcough that goes completely unexplained. We how something that ties into Allen's existence. As Banica observed, Allen literally can't be influenced by demons.

Likewise, this creates even more questions. After all, this would require Allen to somehow get from a large black box in heaven being watched by god, to being in the womb of a 70cm doll on the ground. That isn't something that just "happens".

So, in 2014, mothy finally released the Wrath song and an accompanying album, The Muzzle of Nemesis (album). In the first song (additionally added to by the booklet), we have Master of the Hellish Yard (song), where Nemesis Sudou prepares to put a key into a black box and activate Punishment, destroying the world.

"Ah, the Black Box must be Irregular!"

Whoh there partner, before you make those sort of declarations, one must explain how Irregular somehow got from Court's womb to being the activation device for a magic nuke. Again, that isn't normal.

Mounting Confusion
In December of the same year, mothy released the prologue to Seven Crimes and Punishments (story) and this is where things got complicated.

At the start of the story, we see Allen, who says what he's been doing. Basically, not much, as he's spent much of past 500 or so of his years living in the Black Box under Sickle's tutelage. This includes the Theater era. Yup.

So, Allen is let out because the world has been destroyed and Third Period is merging with the Hellish Yard. And Allen is assigned the mission of talking to the Sinners and goes on his way.

So, to recap, Allen has largely in the Black Box while Irregular was around. He also doesn't recognize the Clockwork Lullaby, even though Court sung it regularly to Irregular and the boy in Re_birthday explicitly memorized it.

Clearly something isn't here.

The Explanation
In the final chapter of Seven Crimes and Punishments, Allen and his new sorta-buddy Hänsel go down to the Grave Yard to find Nemesis. While chasing after her, guess who they bump into.

Irregular.

Turns out that Irregular is a recently born entity from Court's womb. He's egoless, has the personality of a baby and is described with empty eyes. After Hansel has Irregular follow him around, they catch up with Nemesis and we have the even briefer appearance of an even more mysterious entity. Punishment, the boy who Nemesis used to destroy the world and ended up murdering her. We learn absolutely nothing about him.

And now we learn the answer...and we have a bunch more questions.

Conclusion
So, what do we know?


 * Allen and Irregular are not the same individual.
 * Irregular is an egoless being who Court was pregnant with.
 * Re_birthday is completely ambiguous and doesn't fit either boy.
 * Punishment is a something used to power a magic nuke. It's also lightly implied there might be some clones of him running around.
 * Hansel is involved somehow maybe.
 * There are a ton of Len's and a ton of Black Boxes.

So, as you can see, there's plenty of ambiguity on where this going. There are constant contradictions as we see here and nothing thus far really adds up. With the confirmation that Allen incarnated in Jakoku during Kayo's time, opening up the possibility of a confrontation between him and Ma, anything's possible.

In the end, we can only speculate.

Thanks for reading.