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What if flugel is Subaru's father?

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A few things lead me to this conclusion, and I'm not sure if this is a well known theory in the community or if I'm the first to connect these dots, but as we all know, it is very clearly made out that Subaru and flugel are intrinsically connected, which has lead many to believe Subaru is flugel, whether he be some reincarnation or that he lost his memories or whatever, but I have a different theory, being that kenichi natsuki, is infact flugel.

The thing that lead me to this conclusion first, was Subaru's name. Subaru is the Japanese word for the pleiades star constellation, which has significance in rezero since both the sin archbishops are named after astronomical stuff too, but also due to the pleiades watch tower, flugels library tower thing. And this got me thinking, Subaru obviously didn't make his own name, he's had it from birth, and it seems relatively likely that flugel had a hand in it since he's clearly familiar with the pleiades constellation, as he's already named his watch tower after it. So, that lead me to think of the person who gave Subaru his name, likely his father. And this at first seems a little far fetched considering how little he's been in the story so far, but it does serve to explain just as much as the Subaru flugel theory does if not more, as well as having a framework to add much more narrative to that I can't really theorise around since it's just unknown information. But this would explain why Subaru is so good st holding authorities, assuming stuff like this is inherent to a person, it's likely genetic, meaning he inherited it from his father, it could also serve to explain the time gap between flugels life and rezero better than the Subaru flugel theory can, since literally anything could have happened that we would have never been shown so far in the early years of kenichis life. Furthermore, after doing all this thinking, I went to check what kenichis name translates to, and I feel like this even ramifies the theory further, as kenichi is literally "wise one", which would be quite appropriate for an important historical and intelligent character like flugel. It could also perhaps go into explaining Subaru's summoning to the other world, since if his father has already been there, it's not far fetched to say the family attachment is what lead to the circumstances leading Subaru to lugunica. On top of this it also adds to the whole shaula deal, shaula said she recognised Subaru as flugel through scent, and while I have no explanations to cover over it being the overwhelming amount of miasma alone she used to recognise him, it also doesn't seem super far fetched that she recognised him also by some genetic trait present in both Subaru and his father.

Of course this theory has some gaps, it lessens the explanations around satella and Subaru's connection, if Subaru isn't flugel it crosses out that as a theory to how satella and flugel are connected, and I don't really have anything to cover that either, but this could be attributed to simply the lack of information we have as yet in the story.

Oh yeah, also, if there's anything I've missed I haven't read the light novels which is probably why, anime only

Posted Jun 3, 2026, 1:21 PM UTC

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