Talk:Bayonetta 3/@comment-24833974-20141124020210

Alright, I'm calling it now: I think the rival in that game will be a Jormungandr character.

If one of you has read the comments on the Masked Lumen page, albeit a long time ago, you may remember a set of comments that talked about the serie's ties to Norse Mythology. For example, we concluded that, among others, Rodin is Heimdall, Bayo is Odin and Loki is, well, Loki!

But think about it this way: Loki had three children: Fenrir, Helle and Jormungandr. I've concluded recently that Helle is Jeanne (Because, in the first game, she was a bit like Helle's appearance: Dark Powers and Controlled by Light, just like how Helle is half light, half dark. If this sounds like Bayonetta, no, it should not, since Bayonetta's a perfect hybrid of light and dark, but Jeanne has Umbra powers and shows her strange alignment with the Lumen. This is proven in the Epilogue: Requiem, before she gets on the rocket, she shows her eyes with different symbols in the flash back.).

Plus, in that discussion, we also concluded that the Masked Lumen was Fenrir (Because of his Beast Within and that he's after Bayo and tries to kill her a lot. Hell, he almost succeeded once.).

In addition, I said those three were Loki's children. Loki's other name is Loptr, and, in the games, Loptr "possessed" Balder, which then spawned Jeanne's attitude and alignment in Bayo 1 and he manipulated the Masked Lumen in Bayo 2, which spawned his rivality with Bayonetta. In other words, Loptr's ambition fathered Bayo's rival characters.

So, going with this logic, the next rival has got to be the Jormungandr rival. Plus, in Bayo 1, one of the places in the Valleys was called Jormungandr's Staff, so maybe we're gonna get some time-traveling again in Bayo 3. Then maybe some old rival in Vigrid 500 years ago coming back to kill her or something. I dunno!

This is a theory I had while taking my shower, so it might sound weird. If so, it's alright.