Board Thread:Theories Discussion/@comment-4698889-20180824070147/@comment-4698889-20180824070222

"I think this theory has a bunch of nebulous and vague connections.

How are gears equivalent to words? How does one "come into contact" with a song? Are you talking about people who listen to it? Who sing it? Which variation of the lullaby are you referring to? Are you claiming this person is a song, or a sentient music box? (you seem to conflate the two). And also, you don't...really need to experiment on and change an existing music box to make it play. They play just fine once they've been made.

If you're trying to argue that the Clockwork Lullaby is a sentient entity, this is entirely unsupported by anything in the actual books. It's a spell song. It has 12 different varieties that have different uses. And you're disregarding stuff in the actual song that disproves the notion that it's an abstract entity and not a real person, such as mentioning having ''physically thrown a doll from a window. ''Not to mention the whole part in Wordplay where they reference having been abandoned (how does one abandon a song, exactly?)

With the "I of the miniature garden" line in particular, most people take that as evidence that it's either referring to Irina (who has clear references to Full Moon Laboratory in her history) or Ma (who "wasn't anyone", because she didn't have a soul or story of her own).

I'm not against saying the song is intentionally vague and could be applied to any number of Evillious characters and scenarios, but to say it's from the perspective of a sentient piece of music seems a bit of a stretch to me."