All Acheron Theories Explained | Penacony 2.0 Honkai: Star Rail Lore | Emanator status and red text

Is Acheron an Emanator of Nihility or Finality? Is the red text her Emanator form speaking, or her using her powers on us, or her jumping realities, or rewinding time? All of these ideas are possible, and evidence for each is gone into detail in this video.

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00:13 Is Acheron an Emanator of Nihility or Finality?
00:20 Evidence that Acheron is an Emanator of Nihility
03:03 Evidence that Acheron is an Emanator of Finality
05:17 What does the red text mean?
05:49 theory 1: The red text is in reference to canon events
- 06:11 sub theory 1: everyone is forgetting past memories
- 06:27 sub theory 2: we're in a time loop
- 06:56 sub theory 3: alternate realities
- 07:14 sub theory 4: fragments in a timeline
- 07:31 sub theory 5: all of this happened in a dream
08:03 The red text is Acheron using her powers on us
08:47 The red text is an alternate form of Acheron's

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timestamps!!
00:13 Is Acheron an Emanator of Nihility or Finality?
00:20 Evidence that Acheron is an Emanator of Nihility
03:03 Evidence that Acheron is an Emanator of Finality
05:17 What does the red text mean?
05:49 theory 1: The red text is in reference to canon events
- 06:11 sub theory 1: everyone is forgetting past memories
- 06:27 sub theory 2: we're in a time loop
- 06:56 sub theory 3: alternate realities
- 07:14 sub theory 4: fragments in a timeline
- 07:31 sub theory 5: all of this happened in a dream
08:03 The red text is Acheron using her powers on us
08:47 The red text is an alternate form of Acheron's

[raidenmakoto]

In regards to IX having an emanator, “If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you”

[Ultimate_Hater]

Frebass = Fish name = Tuna = Kiana. This Mei lost her Kiana.

[Ultimate_Hater]

The name Acheron is from Greek Mythology of the River going to Hades. The motif of the deep diver set, the diving into the actual void lore, fits the name based on the river to the Underworld.

[sword]

Speaking of Yae Sakura in HI3, iirc she had Aponia use Discpline on her so that when she sheathes one of her swords she'll forget everything she did while the sword was unsheathed. Possibly done to make it so she won't remember any traumatic or politically questionable work she does with it because she draws that sword against humans and she's an assassin. Could Acheron being reluctant to draw her sword mean something similar ? That a 'different' Acheron exists that is only in full control when she draws her sword ? Maybe drawing it is a self-destructive act(memory-consuming even) that aligns with Nihility and she loathes it.

[ThSppy]

Penacony is so mysterious and i really love the red herring theme. Acheron could be a time traveler. She could lead path to Firefly's death. Maybe the red text is forgetting key moment in the past timelines she goes through. The red text are questions to remember what happened and maybe tweak it so it happens differently.

[TheCaliMack]

The red text made me panic coz it reminded me of Umineko's Red Truth

[silk]

One interesting fact: if IX is a black hole, then he indeed should warp time, since that what black holes do. In reality black holes warp the fabric of space-time so much that time and space switch places, so that if you cross the event horizon and enter a black hole, its center literally becomes your future and the event horizon, the entire universe become your past, there's no way to escape this black hole, because you'd need to move backwards in time to do that, which means there's no way to escape your future - the center of this black hole. By entering the black hole, acheron maybe bounded her fate to a predetermined path and a predetermined end, while at the same time making the entire universe with all of its history her past, so this may explain the weird time stuff. And interestingly, terminus and IX seem to be really similar or related, as I said, you can only escape the black hole, if you can move backwards in time and that's precisely what terminus does. So what if terminus escaped IX but it affected him somehow?

[ThisIsAHandleOrSomething]

It was cool how red dialogue was completely random. I had restarted the dialogue multiple times and it would always change despite picking exact same dialogue.

[AndreaBelli-uf]

Wild prediction: the watchmaker is going to rewind time to bring back Firefly/Robin. It’s up to us trying to change their fate and Acheron red text are canon events. Also Acheron = meme death

[NiaTheMilkTank]

Here's another theory

She's both an Emanator of Nihility AND Finality

Current timeline (our) Acheron she's the Emanator of Nihility but in the Future she becomes an Emanator of Finality and That Version of herself is influencing her past self to reach her future self and whatever the Aeon is trying to do

[rafaela]

Nice to see you made another hsr lore video!

[oo]

My Acheron theory is that I’ll win 50/50 (I’m delulu)

[araarashinigami]

If you’ve seen the leaks of her abilities, you can see that she’s heavily inspired by the movie Interstellar, which popularized the specific depiction of a black hole that you see in her ult. Specifically she is not inspired by black holes, but by the science fiction interpretation of black holes held by this movie, which revolves around using black holes as a method to freely and intentionally traverse the fourth dimension of time — which is bullshit according to real science, not fiction. If you look at her skill animations, you can see that she has the ability to control time, allowing her to be in several moments of time simultaneously.

As for her being an emanation of Ix, nothing we know about Ix or the Galaxy Rangers would back up that theory. Ix is nihilism personified, and the Rangers are seigi no mikata personified, lone rangers of all that is good in the world, one man armies against evil. This would explain why Acheron has it out for Ix — and predictably lost.

The only link to Acheron being an emanator of Ix is us reading between the lines from a proven liar who wants something from the Trailblazer. Aventurine is as credible as Nigerian princes. Taking what any character in this arc says at face value is a guaranteed way to fail.

As for the red text, I treat it as internal monologue. The only person who ever responds to it is the Trailblazer, and the only way the Trailblazer can hear it is because they are sharing the same dream.

If you want a possible thematic explanation for alternating red texts, think of it as a quantum wave function collapsing every time you the player makes a choice/measurement of the quantum wave function that is Acheron,

[amaliasara]

if you interested to re-play to the early games, this red text also exist from some side characters and even in main story

[xotoexmw]

I think her white hair red eye is her original personality, she remembers everything and has all her powers, she cries when transforming cuz she pretty much is depressed, then she switches to the goofy ahh personality so it doesn't take a toll on her body

[ItzaMystri]

Great well thought out theories! Enjoyed the video. You deserve more views!

[Crystalwizardtrue]

I was thinking the crazy idea that shes an emanator of both, she was finality first and thats how she didnt self anihilate when she fell into IX and held on, thus turning into an IX emanator too just by surviving

[SPrintF]

"O you who turn the wheel and look to windward,  
Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and 
tall as you." --- The Wastelands by TS Eliot.

[KITE_]

my personal theory (which is born from the idea of other theory from other people) is that Acheron is an Emanator of Finality

BUT, this is only true to her alter self. The Acheron we know is moving normally to the future while her alter is moving backwards and towards the past.

When, for example, there is a red text, it means that the alter somehow either answering us through Acheron or Acheron herself is using her alter's memories. I guess this also can explain why Acheron somehow has her mind all over the place and is getting lost is probably because of her alter's memories mixing up.

When Acheron first met up with us, that also means that this is the alter's last meeting with us. Whatever she experienced and know of the future, probably forced Acheron and the alter to cry in blood as Finality is now set in stone.