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Originally Posted by belatkuro

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One thing I noticed when Sam and Acheron were talking, at least in the JP voice over, is that Sam was using keigo(polite language) at times when talking to her. His rough exterior doesn't fit the polite tone of his voice so that's probably also a clue, maybe. Wonder how his combat kit and voice over is. Is Firefly the main personality or is it Sam? I'll pull for her/him still.

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Yes, I noticed this too in the JP dub. I heard some of the cutscenes in videos too, and in the English dub I don't think this really comes across at all because they really gave Sam a much more belabored and almost "angsty" sounding voice. When you realize it's Firefly, you almost wonder if it's because her voice is being synthesized by Sam, or if she's just trying super-hard to sound over-the-top cool in her Sam persona. The JP dub it much more plausible as Firefly with a voice change via the mecha.

My guess is that, now that we know who Firefly/Sam is, in future scenes it'll be more clearly "Firefly talking in Sam's voice" rather than seemingly like a different persona to us. But at least if we assume what she said about her condition is true, outside of the dreamworld it seems like she always has to remain inside Sam as a sort of cryo-capsule. (In the dreamworld, she can "magical girl transform" like that.)

Originally Posted by belatkuro

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And connecting to her still being alive, this raises more questions about Robin's "death". Given how she's playable next patch, and obviously she's not dead yet even with the story painting her as such, what is up with her then? Did she set up her death to do something else? Something about the legacy of the Watchmaker and the whole Penacony thing I guess?

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My strong guess, based on what happened to Aventurine, is that she "crossed over" into the "true dreamworld" (or, what Acheron calls "The Waking World") where the truth of the Watchmaker is going to be revealed. I suppose we can assume that the reason Firefly got killed by SUD (beyond motivating the TB) was also so that Silver Wolf could figure out the coordinates to this secret place. And I'm guessing that this is where Firefly is going to take the Trailblazer in the next act, and Acheron will lead to the rest of the Express crew to join them.

Originally Posted by belatkuro

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Sunday mentions something about a Master so I'm guessing there's another mastermind around. He didn't look like the true mastermind of this story at all, plus he got taken down by Gallagher like that at the end. Screams more of mid-boss. Though I didn't expect that about Gallagher(didn't get a copy of him given how I got Acheron in just a 10-pull.) Why are 4 stars so sus?(Tingyun, Gallagher, and maybe Misha). I guess the Hounds asking who is Gallagher is the big clue that he's sus. There's still more mysteries about the Watchmaker's Legacy and we're not close to knowing it yet. There's still the thing about Clockie and the power it gave to the Trailblazer that they used several times in the story. Probably next time we'll know more about it and how it connects to the truth of Penacony. Which will lead to Harmony Trailblazer as a new form given how things go with them and Aeons and Paths.
We didn't get a Hunt Path TB in Luofu but that story arc was a mess already which doesn't seem to leave room for it. We'll probably go back in there again to get the new form.

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In the dialog when Sunday talks about Gallagher's master they use what is basically furigana to overlay The Watchmaker. So, at least Sunday believes that The Watchmaker is the true master behind all this. The insinuation is that Gallagher is not actually even a real "person" but a sort of amalgamation of Family traits created by the Watchmaker to be a sort of vessel for the Watchmaker to act in the dreamscape. He also claimed that his age was 13, which beyond being the tarot card for death (as I saw pointed out), could actually truly be his "creation date." His skill at mixing "concepts" to create drinks in the dreamworld could also stem from the Watchmaker, who is basically the dream master.

I personally still think it must be connected to Misha, as you suggested, because in the dreamscape that had the lines about Mikhail it sounded absolutely like Misha's voice, and it seems like no one can see Misha except the TB, in the same way that no one can see Clockie -- and we now know that Clockie and that whole Hanu story are directly connected to the Watchmaker and the origin of Penacony as they know it. That doesn't necessarily mean that Misha is the Watchmaker, but there's definitely a strong connection.