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Hello, Tenno, and welcome to FRAME THEORY
With today's DevShort talking a bit about our next update, and how more is gonna be revealed around Sept 26-29 at Tokyo Game Show about our next Mainline update, especially about our new frame Koumei herself, something keeps nagging me...
Over the last few DevShorts, Steve and Rebb have been calling attention to the community's pleas for a Spider-themed frame, and how one isn't currently being worked on (X to doubt).
The first few times I thought were coincidental, but today, Steve talked about it IMMEDIATELY after Rebb revealed Koumei and the update would be explored further at TGS, and it hit me: what if...
Koumei is a Jorōgumo?
Koumei & the Five Fates is already gonna be HEAVILY inspired by Japanese culture, and gets revealed at Tokyo Game Show to boot, but with a late-September reveal and 1999 coming in winter, it might mean that Koumei is our 2024 Halloween frame!
Last Halloween we got Dagath, inspired by celtic culture and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow's Headless Horseman, so what could combine:
• Spiders • Halloween • Japanese culture
The Jorōgumo. A type of spider Yōkai that desguises itself as a beautiful woman, luring, ensnaring and drowning men to consume them.
Maybe Koumei is a beautiful frame, that transforms into a spider for her 4th? Maybe she spawns and controls spiderlings, as many Jorōgumo control fire-breathing spiders?
If we wanna extrapolate further, many cultures have stories about the weaving of fate, so, Koumei might as well have weft 5 fates?
Idk, just wanted to throw this idea out there. Rebb and Steve have been mentioning a Spider-Frame a lot, and especially how one is NOT being developed (🤔), so I wouldn't be surprised if Koumei was it. Watch her be a kitsune and make this post age like milk kdvsldbd
(jorōgumo art by Mona Finden, credit also in image)
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