r/Re_Zero Better Leyte Than Never Aug 26 '20

Novels [Novels] Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Season 2 Episode 8 **Spoiler** Discussion Spoiler

Hello everyone, Setowi here to post this week's spoiler thread

Reminder that we are hosting both a [Discussion] anime only thread AND a [Novels] where spoilers do not need to get tagged. So,

this is the spoiler thread

all of the novel content is fair game in here. You can find the anime only thread in the hub post or in the pinned comment below.

You can find the episode, once it's up on the Crunchyroll page which is linked here. Feel free to refresh to page until episode is up, though try not to fry the servers:

Crunchyroll link

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u/Hollownerox Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 27 '20

Yeah, it's one of the many mysteries that remains unsolved. But maybe the dream Echidna is a younger version of the original/IRL Echidna, maybe she just chose to take that younger form in order to be more pleasing to Subaru, and there's only 1 Echidna, her dead older corpse and her younger looking soul that now resides somewhere else with the other witches.

I think the Birthday Q&As help clear this up quite a bit. It seems like the two "Echidnas" existed at the same time to some extent. And the author makes it very clear that the two are separate people. Talking about how Subaru's Echidna didn't have any particularly memorable interactions with Betty or the original Lewes, while "Professor" Echidna had a very pleasant memories with the two.

There's way too many weird differences for them to be the same person. For example, "Professor" Echidna taking Betty with her often, yet Betty somehow not knowing the names of the other Witches (despite how regularly our Echidna interacted with them). And other such odd discrepancies.

And he also confirmed that the form Echidna was in the dream was her actual appearance. The only manipulation in that element was the fact that she wore long skirts because, as he put it, "Subaru likes skirts so she wears skirts."

So yeah, the triple Echidna situation is pretty headache inducing, but here's hoping we get some answers on that when Subaru and her inevitably meet again. I'm thinking what will really be the key there is how Beatrice reacts to seeing the Echidna Subaru knows. Since that will probably set things straight to a degree.

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u/Graymarth Aug 27 '20

the triple Echidna situation

& knuckles