So does anyone have any theory about why the color of the gears 06, 10, and 12 are different from the rest?

They have a slight brown tint, which is different from the other black gears.

CL6 is Capriccio Farce. CL10 is Banica Concerto! CL12 is Song of the Third Period

With the recent infomine for the original sin, I've relisten to the evilious chronicles playlist.

We don't know Maria face's for now or what actually happenned to her. But we know that somehow, she has a connection to Seth and that she's in a state that would horrify other characters. We also know that she "gave birth" to twins Adam and Eve. And that the MA project was asked to be done in order to "give bodies" to Levia and Behemoth following a "prophetie" that Maria made, it is implied that she might not say the whole truth in Queen of Glass and that she made Adam.

So here's what I think. I think the current Alice Merry-go-around worked with Seth in order to develop the Ghoul children and that she's the one singning Full moon Laboratory. The result of her own research gave her Adam and Even, thus why she had a virginal fecondation. I also think Maria Moonlit is an HER, maybe because of Seth, maybe because she considers Levia and Behemoth her parents, and somehow might have infected her. Also, maybe, they can only communicate mentally with those who have been infected (even if they are cured) with the HER sydrome..Why I think she's an HER? Well, I think either she succeded to make Adam and Even and impregnate herself during Full moon Laboratory or she tried again later but hurted herself so bad she was no longer a fonctionnal being. The thing is that, she clearly kill or hurt stuff during Full moon Laboratory. 

Whatever the reason, she couldn't fonction properly. I think she's probably a corpse in the white house in the labyrinth of glass or a shell horribly wounded. Whatever the case, we'll see with punishment. But I think think she's conscious anymore.

And I think Seth transfered her soul into the ghoul child Irina. I don't know if HER can be soul transfered, but I think Seth didn't want Irina to have all of Maria's memories and would serve as an experiment based on her past desires. Also it would make sence if they discovered how to make inheritors during the time Maria was working with Seth in the laboratory to perfect the Goul children formula. Thus explaining why Eve would have been an Inheritor in the first place. Why not make Adam the same? I don't know. Would the processus have impact with Eve psychy? Maybe.

So yeah, what do you think?

I was thinking about in what order would be the seven main contractors of the vessel of sins from the strongest to strongless. Requirements: Considering how they used the powers and abilities acquired before or after contracting with demons.

I think, 1st place would be Nemesis Sudou, she being Levia Barisol herself who helped to created the world of Evillious, and managed to destroy it years later with Grim the end, and the irregular, Punishment. Also, has skill with wielding a revolver, although she had skill with other kinds of guns besides, and while had contract with the demon of wrath, was unable to be killed and can kill others cotractors

2nd, Banica Conchita, she was a duke of Beelzenia Empire, was a practiced food enthusiast and a major contributor to Beelzenian culture. When was possesed by the Demon of Glutony, and managed to don't eat her child by eating the demon and absorving his powers and replacing him in the glass. In the end of V pierrot novel, she was able to defeat levia, Behemo, Eve, Gumilia and Irina. 

3rd, Kayo Sudou. she was born with the powers of the demon of envy by her mother, since Rahab Barisol used the body of Nagare Sudou and have a child with a human. And after she switch her body with MA / Elluka Clockworker, that in first time belonged to Lukana Octo, she got the powers of purple dream.

4th, Margarita Blakenheim. Actually, Eve Moonlit, one of the most powerfull witch in Evillious, and assumed her identity. As Margarita, she was very well-versed in chemistry and medicine due to her work for her father, earning a medical license while still a minor. Due to her sleepless condition, Margarita never tired and could constantly be on the move even during night hours, though lacking any exceptional athletic ability.She similarly possessed a rather impressive intuition as a result of her subconscious familiarity with the people and places Eve had encountered over the centuries.

5th, Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche. As an irregular, she has the power of reincarnation, and of recreating the world by re_birthday, but the last one only can be used when she is with her twin. When was possesed by the Demon of Pride would have their skin turn black and grow long, sharp claws and teeth, as well as six feathered wings. The Demon of Pride's transformation was the most powerful of all the demons; however, unlike the other Demons of Sin, the transformation did not provide its host with any other unique abilities. As a queen, she had authority over her kingdom, but lost it after the revolution.

6th, Sateriasis (Cherubin) Venomania, after taking his brother's appearence and place as one of the Dukes of Beelzenia, in the territory of Asmodean. With the powers of the vessel of Lust, he had the ability to undergo a physical demonic transformation; this gave his host increased speed, strength, claws, horns, birdlike legs, and bat-like wings to fly.

7th, Gallerian Marlon, he had authority as the Supreme Court Director, he could warrant anyone's arrest under the pretense of investigating a crime and confiscate evidence as he saw fit. He was able to collect almost all of the vessel of Sin, and used the Marlon Spoon to talk to the Doll. The spoon could also capable of conjuring flames at its wielder's bidding.

Desert Blue Bird tells a story about two siblings searching for the blue bird, that has the power to fulfill any wish to save their world. When They find the bird inside a Lucifenian state-run factory, the brother is hesitant to go inside, the girl "packs her heart full of courage" and enters the building in his stead. She was able to catch the blue bird, but she falls ill because of the radiation in the factory. The boy begs the bluebird to restore his sister, and the bluebird disappears as the girl wakes up again. After that, They found the ocean while walking ahead, and near there, the world will be rebuilt by the hands of its inhabitants.

I had a theory that it may pass in the past of Evillious Chronicles, sometime after the catastrophe of Levianta, remember that Levianta had excavated a lot of past technologies and prospered, so, is possible to them get a car. The twins in the story may be one of the irregulars from the project MA, besides Hansel and Gretel, the only twins that survived after their birth were the Lucif twins. Also, when the brother was making a wish to the blue bird, a lot of people noticed that his mounth moves a like when sings “ lulila, lulila…” the clockworker lullaby, besides of spending the wish to save his sister, the world was going to be rebuilt. Would makes sense if they were irregulars, and the blue bird may be a first form of the seven deadly sins, or Held, since he was know to manifests in the form of a bluebird, sometimes. The "Blue bird", somehow, may have told about the spell of RE_birthday that only the irregulars could do The radiation symbol may have inspired the Lucifenia’s flag, being first time used to this story that became a legend passed from generation to generation to the inhabitants of Lucifenia, and used as their symbol after the independence from Beelzenia.

From a comment on The Weathered Head at Onigashima:

"The depiction of Kayo's severed head being on public display is similar to Akame Ga Kill! character Chelsea (at least in the anime, idk if it follows the manga exactly, though it appears to differ largely from the manga). In the anime, Chelsea was ambushed by Kurome's "puppets" Natala and Doya (under her control via her imperial arms Yatsufsa, which allows its user to control those killed by the sword), her right arm and the fingers of her left hand were cut off by Natara to prevent her from using her imperial arms (which allowed her to disguise herself, even in a second's notice, and change her physical appearance to pretty much any living creature or person), and was shot in the back by Doya. As she laid in a bed of flowers, she lamented that she would be the one who received retribution, shortly before Natala severed her head and later stacked it on a pole in the center of a nearby town.

Only difference is Chelsea didn't kill in a jealous rage from assuming her husband was cheating on her. She killed to eliminate the bad people of The Empire, while Kayo, under the possession of the demon of envy, killed to eliminate the woman and two young girls her "husband" was "cheating" on her with. Both essentially met the same fate, death via beheading, and their heads being put on public display, Kayo for to serve as a reminder of her crimes, and Chelsea to serve as a reminder that she was a member of Night Raid and the Revolutionary Army, a group and army who opposed The Empire and its tyranny, and aimed to take down the corrupt empire"

- Anon 96.41.238.220

Yeah terrible name but that's the more explicative thing i've found in two words.

I don't believe it was ever stated clearly, and my knowledge of the heavenly yard novel is a bit shaky, but I wonder. does the third period take place in a simulation ?

We know that the second period was a simulation and that it is why magic was a thing. We know that the third period takes place on Earth, where first period occured but there is also magic.

There are many others hints about this possibility.

-The gods comes from the second period. If Earth was a physical place, they could never have came to existence.
-Those gods created the world with weird "rules" just like how you would program a procedural simulation. Stating how people should exist and some others should not, "Irregulars" were not suposed to exist but the "why" is blurry. They were just not planned in the code, just like a dark oak tree is not supposed to spawn in the desert biome in minecraft.
-There is also the "four ends" rule. Putting rules on fate doesn't make any sense except if you are in a really advanced chaotic simulation.
-Re_Birthday looks a lot like a terminal command or something like that
-In the same fashion, the BLACKBOX chapter in the song MOTHeavenY makes clearly reference to this nature of reality. 

"People’s souls are after all
Little more than pieces of data"

"That’s an unchanging program of the gods
Because there is no one aside from a god
Who can stop it"

If you change "god" to "admin" it immediatly makes more sense no ? :p

-HER to finish, is a genetical/magical condition but I always had the headcannon that it was a computer virus.

Well that's all-
Maybe everybody already knows that and i'm just a fool, but I have never seen this theory anywhere. Also maybe i'm completely missing something, if that's the case please tell me what :)

Wanted to make my own thread for my Mysterious Rin theory. I'm sure this is the blandest one out there, but: I was thinking that each of the Mysterious Rin songs could be song by Irina at the different stages of her life.

Wordplay: Representing the perspective of Alice Merry-Go-Round, who is relatively new to the world and naive. She experiences happiness and evil, and feels abandoned by Levia and Behemo. But she knows she will always remain here (she was powerful enough to know the body-swap and may have considered herself immortal, or may have been immortal, that way.)

Full Moon Laboratory: Representing Irina after she begins to fulfill her purpose as an HER, experimenting with the world and trying to "recreate" Seth, who left her behind in Lunaca Labora, in the sense of spreading HER Syndrome. She is eternal in her cat body and will thus always remain. This one is most supported by Song I Heard Somewhere and the fact that Irina conducts experiments throughout the series.

Clockwork Lullaby: The latest version of it makes me feel like, although it was released right after Wordplay, it takes place chronologically at the end of Irina's life (or at least the Key of Word version does.) This would make sense as the song with a parallel PV to it, Re_birthday, is also most relevant to events at the end of the canon ala the Re_birthday mechanic.

Having unleashed terrors into Evillious (opening pandora's box) and then become the miniature garden girl, and then regained all her memories at the world's end, Irina realizes her life as the doll was a lie (as well as possibly remembering her time as the false prophet Alice) and that she was "no one". 

She gives a retrospective on the world she lived in from start to end as portrayed over the course of the Clockwork Lullaby series (which would also fit with the PV showing all of the song gears.) She wonders if the Clockwork Lullaby will save the world as she prepares to loop it all over again.

Someone also suggested to me that when she says

"The flower-like memories/And even the mud-like traumas/They continue to turn and melt/All of it inside of me"

it could hilariously refer to how the Re_birthday that loops them all back again takes place literally within Irina's body as she was possessing Evil's Theater at the time.

Since there seem to be theories popping up of the identity of the girl from WP/CL/FML I decided to write my own.

This theory is gonna go over the possibility of the mysterious girl's true identity to be that of Maria Moonlit. Hopefully I get my details right and I don't miss something that completely messes up this theory but we will see. 

The basis of this theory starts with Karma of Evil Will Not End. After Irina becomes caught in the time loop she goes back and becomes Alice under unknown circumstances. I say unknown circumstances because Queen of the Glass shows us that Alice believes Levia and Behemo to be her parents which puts into question how she was even born if she truly believes them to be her parents. 

Anyway theory doesn't go over her birth so I'm gonna skip that. Karma of Evil implies that Alice retained memories of her life as Irina and as the Doll. 

"What I saw with my own eyes/ And what I heard, all of it/ I shall convey as a prophecy"

To me this line gives the implication her prophecies were her own memories from her previous lives. This serves as the basis for the theory.

I'll start with her connection to the song Madam Merry-Go-Round. This song for me is symbolic of Irina's fate to constantly repeat time searching for utopia or "True salvation for the world." as she says in Karma of Evil. Full of Merry-Go-Round symbolism but what gets me is her line near the end "Even if the world is destroyed/ I will be here." 

How I interpret it is essentially just that she will never stop existing and will always be repeating time. She will always be there no matter what. 

This brings into her connection to Wordplay. Sadly for this one there isn't much to go off besides her final lines at the end of the song "I will be here no matter what." This along with this songs connection to Full Moon Laboratory is why I believe all three songs are connected. I believe more will come out with this song soon based on what I know of the Clockwork Lullaby booklet story. 

Moving on the Clockwork Lullaby, like Wordplay the connection is shakey with there not being much to go off of for this until the newest addition to the song of the girl referring to herself as the "Girl of the Miniature Garden" a title that till now has only been attributed to the Doll. The only other connection I can find is Alice referring to herself as a doll and the lyrics "If you don't turn me/ I'll stop forever." I believe this song could be more symbolic of her journey through repeating history but still shakey.

Finally the biggest connection is Full Moon Laboratory. This song itself has already been tied to Irina since Song I heard Somewhere and now with the timeloop more things in this song can be explained while also being possible for someone who isn't Irina. 

Based on what Levia and Behemo told Alice in Queen of the Glass we know that Adam was created by Alice similarly to how the twin gods vessels will be made ergo, he is a Ghoul Child. I believe Full Moon Laboratory was Alice creating Adam. Rin in the song sings the exact words that were told to Irina when Seth left. These words before could've been seen as a parallel but with the time loop and Alice possibly keeping her memories she could be reciting what Seth had said to her as Irina.

This song also keeps it's many connections with the previous songs and the final line of mentioning she will always be there which ties back into all the others. Next part is gonna be kind of messy cause my thoughts are all scrambled but I'll try to get down what I think Alice was doing in OSS. 

I believe Alice herself was working together with Seth from the beginning of his experiments so that she could create . We know that Alice is the one who appointed Seth. I believe Adam was her own attempt at creating Seth. Why? I think we'll need more info for that. Anyway, Alice continued working with Seth and possibly seperated herself from Adam and that it wasn't all Seth and the Senate. Eventually Alice became pregnant and I believe this came as a shock to even her. She thus tried to protect the children possibly for her own belief that they were the salvation she sought. She was captured and we know from there one was drowned. The other I believe may have went on to become the "boy" but there isn't really any basis and is my own theory. 

After this I don't know much of what happened but I believe she and Seth attempted to create the twins and it failed horribly. Or they were trying to replicate Black Box L. Not big right now but, Alice died and her soul was somehow transferred into the newly created infant Irina. 

That's all. This theory went kind of off the rails but I hope the basic idea is down. Ehh.

EDIT: I forgot that Alice establishes the EC Calender. I know it's a lazy explanation but the Senate took over everything and hid her death from the public. I don't think it is ever said when Adam was seperated from Alice but that could also be why they were "seperated"

So.

In Wordplay or Full Moon Laboratory, the "lu li la" song isn't present. There's only parts of it - first, in Wordplay:

la la la lu lu lu

And then, in Full Moon Laboratory, first:

la la la la la la

and then later:

la la la lu lu lu

Only in Clockwork Lullaby we hear the words "lu li la" in that order  for the first time. I think this is because in Wordplay and Full Moon Laboratory the song/spell doesn't exist yet. In fact, that could be what the girl in Wordplay is trying to create. After all, she sings about learning words and adding them to the song. She "adds" the syllables "la" and "lu" to the spell. Later in Full Moon Laboratory she - or someone else - experiments with them and tries out different combinations. And finally in Clockwork Lullaby the spell is finished and has the final "lu li la" form.

I also think that the singer in Wordplay and Clockwork Lullaby are not the same person. In fact, with FML!Rin saying "that person created me" it seems to me that they are clones. Wordplay!Rin created a clone of herself - FML!Rin - with the same technique that Behemo and Seth used. (Interestingly, this could mean that Wordplay!Rin is Levia. It would make sense, since in Wordplay the girl is learning about the world - first good and then bad things - and Levia also wanted to understand the world and people, to find out why there is evil in the world. In this case the "words" wouldn't mean actual words, but knowledge of the world and of good and evil.) Then she leaves her clone, telling her that she cannot return, and tells her to continue the experiment. FML!Rin then continues to research the Lu Li La spell and also tries to create another clone of herself/Wordplay!Rin ("This time I'll create that person"). Because she is a clone of Levia, she has HER and thus doesn't mind using human test subjects and immoral ways to reach her goal ("The lab coat is growing redder"). This could have happened in Lunaca Labora, because Levia had access to there. Later Worplay!Rin/Levia thinks back to how she invented the spell and wonders if it could heal people of evilness/HER. She also remembers leaving her clone aloe and throwing her away like a toy.

The only thing that doesn't really support this theory is the line "In the end I of the miniature garden wasn't anyone". I can't see how it could refer to Levia.

TL;DR: Wordplay girl is Levia, who creates the lu li la spell and makes a clone of herself (FML!Rin), later leaving the clone alone to continue her research about the spell.

From an anon on the CL song page:

"Put my thoughts on the forum, but will put here too in better aspect: the one who thinks the unknown singer is just Clockwork Lullaby/Music box itself. I am aware people have tried to identify her as a "character". However if you were to decide to set her as "a matter of form", majority of what is linked to them actually makes better sense when thought thoroughly.

There is no EC point in time because CL is everywhere in the story. The greedy hearted one would be deemed as not a single entity, but rather in all levels of those who come into contact with it (and there is a few of them). In order for a music box to sing, you must give it gears/words. In order to create something out of the music box, you must experiment with with changing it (and LuLiLa has seen its mix of changes). Who is giving them the gears/words? Ones who decided to make music boxes or want to harness Clockwork Lullaby magic (I would put Kiril for that personally, however I'm betting he's not the only one / original maker).

And lastly, this idea has been thrown at us twice now, even the quote above can practically be a solid answer as "This singing voice is the clockwork lullaby." and the new version "In the end, I of the miniature garden, Wasn’t anyone". The clockwork lullaby cannot learn words for emotion, which are the words it questions to find (Playing with Words), because she is in object form. I do not find it unusual that a song would be about an aspect rather than a character. So unless there's input from the CL Album booklet relating to them, this is about as logical as its going to get."

So the master of the heavenly yard pv has come and gone, and while there have been some decent revelations and cool moments, the one thing that still irks me is the fact that mothy never directly addressed "Re_birthday" (Ironic given that part of the song and novel is named Re_birthday Truth)

I have some theories related to the song that I wanted to talk about.

Firstly, who I think the singer is suppossed to represent. I believe that the singer of Re_birthday was originally supposed to be Irregular, a reincarnation of Allen, though now this is not the case, since Irregular is actually Adam's reincarnation, the twin of Eve's reincarnation born from the Master of the Court. I think that at this point, he is supposed to just be Allen

My main reason for believing this is not only the mentioning of Riliane's message, but also the references to the song found in Cloture of Yellow. In the final chapter's prison scenes after Allen is imprisoned while pretending to be Riliane, the song is referenced several times. This parallel between Allen in prison and the singer in the box is purposeful and something not to be ignored. Another set of parallels are in the more recent motheavenly song, in which the song is referenced several times in relation to Allen.

Secondly, what I think Re_birthday is about. I think that instead of representing a single series of events, Re_birthday symbolizes the entirety of Allen's existence.

The first two verses of the song are a reference to Allen's imprisonment during the Lucifenian Revolution, as referenced in Chapter 4, Scenes 1 and 3. 

Now the third verse is where I make some more speculations: I think that the Miku voice in the third verse is possibly Luna Hadzuki. I believe that, if Luna is represented by a vocaloid, it could be Miku, as he last name is not only the japanese name for August, Miku's birth month, but also begins with Ha, the first syllable of Miku's surname.

During his time in Sickle's black box, Allen may have somehow managed to speak with Luna. Though what exactly was said is not clear, I think Miku is supposed to represent Luna and her role as a mysterious, omniscient voice who knows of Allen's sins in the song, much like her role as the secret, all-seeing goddess of the Third Period.

The fourth verse is Allen remembering the pain he caused as a human during his time in the black box and understanding how he is not supposed to meet his sister ever again. The fifth verse is a symbolic overview of both his killing of his adoptive father, the red armored soldier, and the sorrow he caused for many other people, including the blue haired king.

The sixth verse refers to the moment before his execution when, from a mysterious source, Allen heard the Clockwork Lullaby sung on the wind (I think by Michaela's spirit but I am not sure on that one). The seventh verse refers to the prison cell once more, as in Cloture, Allen describes hearing what sounds like Michaela's lullaby (heavily implied to be the Clockwork Lullaby) coming from the window in the ceiling of his cell.

The seventh verse is one I am a little iffy on because I feel like it is refferring to the still unclear connection between Allen (Re_birthday's singer) and the singer(s?) of the other two vaguely connected Clockwork Lulllaby songs, Wordplay and Clockwork Lullaby, and mothy's other related song, Full Moon Laboratory. Someone probably has a better theory than me about his verse, but for now I am just going to leave it be.

The eighth verse is referring to the events of master of the heavenly yard, when Allen finally receives Riliane's message in a bottle she cast to sea. It also references Wordplay. The ninth and tenth verses refer to what I believe to be the re_birthday incited by Allen and Riliane, which rebirths the world, creating the Fourth Period. Allen is finally able to be forgiven of his sins, with the shackles of his past falling off of him, and enter the new world.

The final verse refers to this, with Allen saying that as the world fades to white, he knows that he shall meet Rilliane again soon in the new world. Overall, this song describes how Allen goes from a sinner who may never find redemption to finally being able to be forgiven and be reborn anew, not only through the re_birthday of the third period into the fourth period, but also through his own inner re_birthday.

Wooh. That was a lot. Again, this is my theory about the song based on what I know about the series, so I am certain there are things I am wrong about. I just wanted to put it out there to get the rest of you guys' feedback.

Alright, have a good one.

I've been trying to do research if these characters are real, but I can't find trace from all the Vocaloid versions. If you know if its true please tell me. :)

So yesterday, I was on the wiki, and I started wondering about what the importance of Futapie was, because usually, names have hidden, important meanings in this series. So I thought about it, and I think I found the pun.

Mariam Futapie's name is written as マリアム＝フタピエ in Japanese. フタピエ backwards is エピタフ, which is the japanese transliteration of epitaph, which is a short sentence written on someone's gravestone in order to honor them after death.

Mothy was foreshadowing Mariam's past the whole time, and I don't think we ever noticed.

I couldn't find anyone else mentioning this, so tell me if I'm either late to the party, or just insane. 

We all know the similarities there is between FML and The Song I Heard somewhere, or Hanbeat/Heartbeat Clocktower. Maybe there are a couple more that share lyrics or themes that way but I dont have it in mind right now, anyway.

A couple weeks ago i was humming Swear an Oath on that Bridge and without noticing how or when, I ended up on the Heartbeat Clocktower tune. I searched how it was possible and I figured out that both were in fact very similar, and that in the Clocktower duet there was in fact a third song.

Since it happened I searched and found more of this so here is a list of what i found, sometime it's obvious when you think about it for a second but for some of them this is only the same patern without real connexion in the melody, and sometime ot's only based on a thought that I couldn't really explain.. So, let me know what do you think about it, feel free to add or remove some songs of the list, maybe we'll find some cool signifocation stuff eventually (ho and excuse my english, i'm working on it to improve it but y'know, frenchs arent good at this kind of stuff..8"D)

1) Heartbeat Clocktower Handbeat Clocktower Swear an Oath on that Bridge That King was Born from the mud Red Shoes Parade

2) Judgment of Corruption Master of the Court Madame Merry-Go-Round

3) Wordplays Screw Gear and Pride ... The Ode to Joy ?

I was thinking: who of disney' villains would fit with the seven sinners? I think Rilliane would be evil queen or Cinderella's step sister. Venomania would be Gaston, from Belle and the beast.Nemesis could be Maleficent, of all the villain she looks like someone with rage.

Could the Rin from Wordplay be related to Irregular somehow? (I'm assuming that the "Wordplay" Rin and the Rin from "Clockwork Lullaby" are the same as I write this, since that seems to be the general consensus from what I've seen anyways, though I don't really know if there's any evidence to back that up.)

For my actual theory, I think that the one who "frees" Irregular at the end of RB is WP!Rin. For example, in Clockwork Lullaby she says "Obtaining the key known as words" and "this singing voice
I wonder, who will it end up reaching?" Towards the end of RB, Irregular says, "That day I found out
The meaning of truth of that song And it's a lullaby for me." I think she's the one who "adds" the words to the lullaby, since adding those words is what frees Irregular and in Clockwork Lullaby she describes her words as a key.

The lyrics "I wonder, can it heal your heart? Carrying the sin known as desire Now you will keep dreaming" seems to be connected to the part where the spring begins talking to Irregular and basically says "You're not forgiven, but let's add these words to the song." Maybe the lullaby is healing Irregular's heart of the sin of desire. The words "We will make those changes to the song" in Re_Birthday also sort of seem to connect to "Tell me the words as usual And I will change those into a song," which are the first lines of Clockwork Lullaby.

Also somewhat unrelated, but the reason I think this Rin is the same as the one from Wordplay is because of all the talking of adding words and songs and stuff.

Sorry if this theory is really stupid or outdated! I'm sort of behind on the series and this theory just came to me one day while I was listening to music in the car. If nothing else, I hope this helped give you a few more connections to things in EC.