🚨 Maasverse spoilers! Don't read if you haven't finished TOG series!🚨

**TL;DR:** I have a CRAZY crack theory that Nox Owen is Nyx from the future, traveling to the past/world-walking to help Aelin win the King's Champion Tournament and complete her timeline as we know it so she or others from her timeline/future can help in the crossover war.

####Hear me out...
Well first read the descriptions of him given in TOG that I compiled. Plus look at that portrait by madschofield 👀

####Okay so, to review those and explain where my brain went— 
* *dark hair, gray eyes, charming smiles* » first from Rhys, second from Feyre, third from both
* *calloused hands, skilled, fair share of action* » by training with his dad/uncles in Illryian custom
* *better at archery* » Mama Feyre (could he also be downplaying knife skills so he doesn't win outright?)
* *swearing colorfully* » Feyre
* *knows what to do with women* » uncles and Mor influence
* *not sexist* » entire IC influence
* ***betting his gold on Celeana to win*** » **like Rhys did with Feyre UTM!!** 😮
* *dances elegantly* » Nesta+Mor training 
* *silent, well-trained, more lethal than he appeared* » Daddy Rhys
* *kindness* » Mama Feyre, Mor, Elain
* ***laces wine for people to sleep*** » **like Rhys gave Feyre UTM!!** 😮

####Thoughts
💭 Isn't it odd that he never meets with Aelin on page in KOA? That's the main comment I see when searching his name in the TOG subreddit. That would've provided such amazing closure, but instead he met Lysandra impersonating Aelin, and she didn't know of him. And nobody knows where he went off to at the end of KOA...back to Prythian/his time via the Harp or a fellow world-walker?

💭 Nox changed the subject quickly when Celaena first asked about him being from Perranth. Could Elide and Lorcan show up in future crossover to help somehow (squeal)? Nox also had immunity if he lost the tournament, and his sponsor (conveniently?) died, he told Lysandra.

💭 A friend told me that allegedly SJM scrapped a KOA chapter in Nox's POV. If that was the case, why would she have considered him important enough to have one? (I can't find this to verify/wasn't in the fandom while those books were coming out)

💭 I made the connection from a random post about SJM names, and someone said Nyx and Nox are Greek/Roman equivalents. And the name Owen means **noble-born** or "young warrior." Noble-born, like having a High Lord and Lady as your parents...

####Caveats
1. I checked ACOTAR for when Nyx was born and the Bone Carver impersonated him, and Nyx had crushing blue/violet eyes, not gray. For Nyx=Nox, I'm gonna assume he can change his appearance like Feyre and made his eyes gray as to not scare Aelin with Maeve-y eyes. 
2. In that same vein, he was born with wings and Nox Owen does not have any. But since both of his parents can summon/dismiss their wings, it wouldn't be a big stretch for him to be able to as well.
3. Although I am hoping for time travel in future series, I don't love the idea of a time-jump in ACOTAR to give us an older Nyx's POV, but it has been done before (see Outlander). And who knows how SJM is planning her future books.

...Sooo is it totally unhinged? Possibly. But man, I can't let this one go and had to share! I'm putting it on my *Twilight of the Gods* bingo card that we won't get to play for another 3+ years probably.🥲

(Crack!) Theory Thursday: Could Nox Owen be _____ from the future?