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Sparkle upon meeting Aventurine: I know what you are.

Aventurine: Uh— a Stoneheart?

Sparkle: Oh, you're not aware yet. That's okay.

Aventurine: Aware of what?

Sparkle: [walking away]

Aventurine: AWARE OF WHAT!??!

Part 2 Part 1

I'm so in love with the 2.1 story quest like hoyo really outdid themselves ❤ Some personal highlights (spoilers ahead!!):

Aventurine bbg ilysm my unfixable wife.

This boss fight is kicking my ass wtf. How do you beat him??? stop insta-killing me with your rich boy gambling. (Edit: I was saved by bailu, March, silver wolf, and preservation trailblazer)

Aventio AND Avenpaz too??? Beautiful.

Boothill and Blackswan interaction!! + Duke inferno kids cameo

Siobhan you gorgeous lady how are you just an NPC??

Sparkle just living her best life lmaoo

Sam = firefly was not on my agenda but now everything makes so much sense. Same with Ifrit being an actually somewhat good dad despite also being an intergalactic war criminal.

Welt + raiden mei acheron omgg

GALLAGHER AND SUNDAY HOLY SHI-

From what I've noticed, sparkle spoke slower than the way real sampo usually would and was rather deliberate to frame her words in a way that was close to the real sampo but not entirely.

Even though sampo is a very unserious person in most conversations, sparkle leaned in a bit too much into that which made the conversations somewhat distinct from the real sampo.

This detail is again pointed out in the companion quest where sparkle says sampo is on the more serious side of the masked fools, which is pretty interesting and might explain why sparkle impersonated sampo in the way that she did in that she wants to see sampo be more unserious.

I feel like this is reiterated by the voice acting, where fake sampo had slower and a slightly forced way of speech compared to real sampo.

All in all, the VA did amazing and I'm really interested to see how the story unfolds.

More discussion with spoilers mentioned below:

Regarding the story and whatnot. I'm gonna have to listen to the dialogue again later. Tbh I was too busy gushing over Mr. Rose's voice in general and the fact that "Sampo" was there to notice the differences between how he speaks and how Sparkle portrayed him! I was blinded by love and deceived so easily 😩

penacony game night! 🍕🎮 (zoom in for a bunch of easter eggs :])

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sparkle came home yk what that means (puts her on my team just for the sole purpose of making sampo shit himself)

— ᛝ　 “ A thousand faces in a thousand places . . .

Can you find the answer ? ” . 𓏵

25.3.2024

Sparkle!!

+ sketch

small thing I wanted to finish

also please zoom in for gods sake tumblr has fucked over the quality once more

THEORY FOR SPARKLE: MONODRAMA TRAILER

The popular theory for Sparkle right now is that in the trailer, her red masked version represents Aha, her white and red masked version represents her current self, and her white masked version represents who she used to be. Whilst scrolling these theories many people pointed out inconsistencies, but I think I have a theory that gets rid of those.

The crucial part to this is that in the scene of 0:28 to 1:12, you have to view it as a conversation between two seperate people.

For the purpose of this theory, the red mask will be referred to as Aha, and white mask will be Sparkle.

In the scene shown Aha shows up to play a game of Russian roulette with Sparkle, with an unknown wager. It’s important to note that the reason they likely approached Sparkle is that their personality from then to now is probably quite similar, and her manic behaviour possibly intrigued Aha.

Sparkle takes the bet and does her first shot (1/6), which doesn’t fire. She gets interrupted by enemies and starts to take them out, commenting on how they’re in her way. She throws the gun over to Aha who responds with “so what?”, who then catches the gun and takes a shot that doesn’t fire (2/6). They aim to take another shot before being attacked, and dodge the attack, taking a third shot in the motion which doesn’t fire (3/6). Aha comments on Sparkle pretending to be smart, and asking what a fool is, and saying that it is knowing when to act clueless, like they do. They take another shot after taking out the enemy, which doesn’t fire (4/6). Aha then passes the gun to Sparkle who looks visibly shocked.

The scene switches and it shows Aha forcing Sparkle to point the gun at their head. Sparkle tugs away, looking frustrated, and the reason for this is that this has come down to a 50/50 chance. If Aha takes the shot now and it doesn’t fire, Sparkle is guaranteed to have lost the bet.

Aha takes the shot, and the lines of colour pour out, indicating this was not a shot and they have won the bet. This is further backed up by the scene at 1:35, with Sparkle being forced to take the final shot, with a line of white representing the direction of the bullet.

Now it’s unclear what was actually wagered in this bet. Since it’s Russian roulette it’s heavily implied it’s her life, but she’s still living and the difference between the red-white mask and the fully white mask seem to represent her leaving behind her past self –with the red-white mask representing her path of elation– instead of losing her life itself.

Back on topic, it’s unclear if she willingly went into the path of elation because of what Aha taught her during the game, or if she was forced to by the bet. It’s more likely she was manipulated emotionally or psychologically into accepting the path of elation since she seems like she enjoys it, instead of being physically forced, and therefore garnering hatred for it, which she doesn’t seem to have.

In summary, the theory is that Aha and Sparkle engaged in a game of Russian roulette, with Aha coming out on top and Sparkle joining the path of elation as a result. Sparkle likely was mostly manic even in her earlier days but still held onto her own frustrations and humanity; the death of the white-mask represents her letting go of that humanity and embracing the path of elation.

I don’t know if others have already come to this conclusion but this is what I gathered from it! :)