Board Thread:BlazBlue: Centralfiction/@comment-8695373-20161009092113/@comment-32497834-20180807173839

There's a weird amount of either misinformation and/or confusion regarding the true nature of BlazBlue, The Origin, Saya, the remaining Murakumo units, and Ragna that I'd like some clarity on, so correct me when I'm wrong:

Firstly, it's the realtionship between The Origin, The Murakumos, and Saya. People keep saying that Saya is The Origin, but that's not entirely true. Saya is PART of the Origin, and by extension so are the Saya-based Murakumos as well as Izanagi. Izanagi is a special case, because not only is she literally Saya, who's part of The Origin, but she's also Izanagi, which is the will of The Origin. Izanagi the character is as close to being The Origin than anyone else in this game. The Murakumo Units 11-13 are all based on Saya's soul, which by extension makes them parts of The Origin as well, though they eventually develop their own identities. That latter fact doesn't change that they're parts of The Origin though.

Secondly, there's Ragna. Who is he? What is he? From my understanding, Ragna is someone who was created specifically to become The Origin's savior, and lacks any existence beyond that...though I gues that goes without saying since I think only The Origin existed before the C-series BlazBlue world. Anywho, if Ragna was created to save The Origin, why did she create Saya? Considering that Saya has the power to increase the magic element, I think Saya was created to strengthen Ragna to further the goal of saving The Origin.

This aspect is where I believe all the misinformation and confusion comes most of all, because it's incorrectly considered that The Origin is actually Saya, but it's the other way around even though The Origin is repeatedly referred to as "Saya" in the end. Even though that's partly true, since Saya is part of The Origin, it's incorrect. (On a side note, I would like for there to be some expanded lore in the future where it shows that Ragna is based on someone who was close to The Origin before she reached the Master Unit or something. That'd be neat, imo.)

The last thing I wanna mention is that the BlazBlue world as a whole, at least within relevant canon, is an artificial reality--not artificial like a "virtual reality" or otherwise "fake," but artificial as in it was created to follow a certain identity's whim--that being The Origin. There are many questions of "why did this happen" or "what about this" but those questions don't really matter when you consider what everything involved is. There's a bunch of reality-warping and time manipulation that makes much of these "inconsitencies" moot points. Even when Ragna goes to the other side with The Origin, it's too far a stretch to say he's "dead" though that could logically be assumed. Speaking of, Izanami is also not "dead" but was absorbed into Mu. Some might say "well might as well say dead" but that's not the case because, again, they're both parts of The Origin. Izanami and Mu are both parts of the same identity, so it's most correct to say that they recombined.

As I said, I could be wrong with a lot of this. I'm just looking to clear things up and gain clarity of my own.