Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24585682-20171212210412/@comment-10312571-20171212233952

Here's my theory I've had plenty of time thinking about.

Take notice of the small details; first, the name of her guns. It's IDENTICAL to Scarborough Fair, all the way to individual names and colors. BUT!! It's been dubbed Whittingham Fair. This is one point.

Second; where is her beauty mark? It's there during the entirety of the first game, but not in the past or when she awakens. Hideki Kamiya said that the beauty mark is symbolic, that it appeared during an important event in her life.

Some say that the trailer happens right after she has awakened, but I don't think that's possible. First, she gets torn in half by the ghostly being. Second, she awoke 20 years before the start of the first game. She couldn't have gotten her hands on a quartet of guns before even meeting Rodin, and he, on the other hand, wouldn't reuse a gun model 20 years later with the only change being the name of it.

Some say that this could be a Joy disguised as Bayonetta. But considering the fact that she used Witch Time, and bled, would make this theory absolutely stupid.

All of this brings me to my personal theory. This Bayonetta, whoever she is, is not the Bayonetta we know and love. She is an alternate timeline/universe Bayonetta. She hasn't experienced a life-changing event important enough to give her a symbolic beauty mark, and a detail as small as the name of her guns, that are obviously the same as before but very much different, makes a HUGE difference.

I mean, it's not beyond possibility. Time travel is prominent in the series, and honestly going back and forth in time could very well create paradoxes or different timelines.

All there is left to figure out is why that thing is after alternate Bayonettas, and what it exactly is. A purgatorio creature? We haven't seen the REALM of Purgatorio so far, just the visible dimension in the Human World.