Who Do You Think the Big Bad is? (Major spoiler for current issue # 9)

[Kean]

Did you notice this from your link?



Apparently all-caps isn't just Celtic, it's a time period. I wonder if that matters? Again, because they always use all-caps in Buffy 8 it would be hard to attach significance. I wonder though, if maybe that's why they didn't capitalize the a. Do attract our attention to it, and give us something else to drive us crazy trying to figure out. 🙂

No I didn't see that, I was just browsing quickly, didn't really have time to explore...see I don't know if the A is caps or not. It looks like its in lower case but it also looks like it could be in caps depending on the font and since we can't seem to find the font it's kinda up in the air, but in that font A linked to, the A in the comic is a capital.

To be honest I think it's a mixture of a couple different fonts, it seems it is all fairly traditionally celtic except for the u and m and of course the letters that ddon't exist in the Irish and I would presume Scottish alphabet since the languages are basically the same. But I agree, it's definitely something else to drive us crazy!

 

[nerd4hire]

I just remembered one I had to add to the poll. The Immortal.

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In fact the more I think about it, The Immortal goes to the top of my personal, suspects list. He fits the profile on all points.

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I was just joking with Buffy Obsessed Fan in Karma comments, suggesting maybe it could be Andrew, because of the jacket, but ya know...coud it be?...Nah, surely not.

 

[Tranquillity]

I was just joking with Buffy Obsessed Fan in Karma comments, suggesting maybe it could be Andrew, because of the jacket, but ya know...coud it be?...Nah, surely not.

I laughed when i read it then started to think 'mmmm....what if' - i mean as pointed out, he does have the jacket and he does absorb evil like a mushroom and he has a history with meglamania. Not sure why he's be anti-magic or how he got so bulked up but still....:hehe:

 

[Clem Rocks]

Here one that no-one's mentioned: Adam, with newer body parts and a wanting to get rid of magic because it was magic that killed him

 

[tommy]

Buffy's shiftless absentee father.

 

[nerd4hire]

I found This site but I couldn't copy the text but if you have it scanned onto your computer you could try it. I browsed through the some of the Celtic and Viking fonts and found This Font. It's still not perfect, the W,U,M,Y and V are abit off but there are no V,W,Yand Q in the Irish language but that doesn't explain the differences with the M and U. But like you mentioned the text was written completely in caps which was an Irish tradition, including the A, it just has a longer head on it I think.

I kept looking too. This is the closest I could come.

I think you and Goldenboy are right though - Celtic influence. This one's called Alba Celtic Text.

http://www.fontcraft.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=alba

 

[The Chosen]

I personally think it's a male Slayer.

Think about it.

Voll is an extremely misoginistic character and he's talking about women taking ove the world. Creating a "master race."

Who better to combat a female Slayer than a male one?

Whoa!

What is civil twilight?

I looked up the roots of Twilight on Ask.com and this came up! It talks about SUNSET. The big bad is introduced in A BEAUTFUL SUNSET! (Kinda.)

Holy crap!

- TC

 

[Kean]

I kept looking too. This is the closest I could come.

I think you and Goldenboy are right though - Celtic influence. This one's called Alba Celtic Text.

http://www.fontcraft.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=alba

That kinda looks Scottish to me,duh!, Alba is the Irish for Scotland! If I had a brain I'd be dangerous!

There is still a lot of differences though. Some letters fit and others just look wrong! Is there any more idea's about what Twilight is exactly? I was thinking along the celtic line because of the font, them being in Scotland and Roden was Irish too now that I think of it. There is so much written about Celtic Gods and Twilight, I think we are going to need more info before we could give any reasonable suggestions.

But since this is floating around in my head I'll say it anyway. Once we started throwing ideas around about the font and all that, it reminded me of Yeat's Poem Into The Twilight and that's taken from his collection The Celtic Twilight. This whole collection deals with The Faerys and their magic which reminded me of the Tinkerbell we encountered in The Chain, which struck alot a people as weird.
Now I could be adding 2+2 and getting 13 but I think maybe it's all connected somehow.

 

[Clem Rocks]

If Twilight is the big bad, what's Amy & Warren? (And i know this probably doesn't belong in this thread, but i couldn't find one to put it in, the guard from Star Wars in Buffy's dreamspace, Warren is a Star Wars fan, so him and Amy must be litteraly connected and it was from their dreamspace!)

 

[Allycat]

Amy & Warren were probably just the villain of the week. This season's Sunday or Dracula... something to get the season started with. I'm pretty sure they'll return in some way shape or form, but not as the overall villain for the season.

As for the Gamorrean Guard in Buffy's dreamspace; I'm not sure it meant anything. It could be just a silly nod to Star Wars, like the Serenity-shirt on Buffy and the Fray comic one of the Slayers was reading. On the other hand... this IS Whedon!

 

[Ashxking]

I have a feeling that Amy and Warren will be dead soon. Think about it like this. Why kill Eathen Rayne? He was a wiz with magic. If Twighlight is trying to end "The Age of Magic" Why not kill off the second most powerful witch in the world

 

[Allycat]

I doubt very much that Amy is the second most powerful witch. Having said that, you still can't end the Age of Magic without ending her (and Warren). On the topic of Ethan Rayne however, I get the feeling that he might not have been killed as per Twilight's direct orders. I think that was just a decision on General Voll's part.

 

[Cordelia Chase*]

i dont know if anybody said this but doesnt Twilight look like the robot that was Wesleys Father!!!!!!??

 

[alexa]

Yes I mentioned this when #11 covers came out, but nooooo noone pays attention 😉 heh.

I still think the androids and Twilight are connected... be cool if they were anyway. Might go watch Lineage now. The masks look the same.. but Twilight has his own distinctive mark. Can he only come out at Twilight... he seems to just appear then. Being a designer I've seen that font around here and there.. looked Irish to me. Not sure if it matters though, Warren has his own font as well.
Why does he want the age of magic to end though? And who is stupid enough to work for him inside the slayer camp?

 

[alexa]

Hmm maybe changed my mind. Watched Lineage and their masks look pretty different... still Twilight looks familiar to me.

 

[LittleMissLikesToFight]

personally, im not sure WHAT to think. but i WANT it to be someone we know behind that mask, because i love heavy reveals like that, that make you go whoa! Someone we havn't seen in a long while... that'd be awesome.

 

[nerd4hire]

That's an interesting bit of cryptic there, in what Twilight says.

How does separating Warlock from Watcher, and Slayer from Slayer help to bring about the age of magic? Is it just about separating Buffy from her support, or is there more to it?

Does it offer a clue to who Twilight is? Does (s)he have a working knowledge of how the inner circle of Buffy's camp works? He does have an inside man, but how did he get one in there? I'm starting to get suspicious of Andrew, not for Twilight, but for inside man. Possible connections to Andrew - Warren, or the Immortal. Again, Andrew is the only one other than Spike who we know has a jacket like that. He wouldn't have to be wearing it. He could have given it away.

Also...was the giantizing of Dawn part of the "split the scoobs up" plan? Would that mean Kenny the Thricewise is in on this dastardly plot, whatever it is? There's a cool irony about making Dawn a giant. It makes her more physically powerful, but it robs her of her true power within the group as "junior watcher". Only somebody intimate with the scoobs would know that.

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Oh, and here's another thing about Andrew... Up until now we've thought Andrew put the Doppleganger Buffy together with the Immortal, just to be funny, but what if there's more to it than a prank. It effectively separates the real Buffy from Spike and Angel's support.

Edit:

I just thought of another one. Kennedy doesn't like magic. She doesn't like Buffy much either. Her parents are rich, and could have connections. She's a recruiter, and could have met Gigi.

 

[alexa]

Got to say I think it's clearly a male.
But what sort of 'person' would need to cover up all of their skin?
I hope Andrew isn't the insider.. right now my money is on Renee. They really do need to clear up the 'Damage' stuff.. also whether or not Buffy knows Spike is alive..

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although I suppose he's in hell right now.

 

[Kean]

Got to say I think it's clearly a male.
But what sort of 'person' would need to cover up all of their skin?
I hope Andrew isn't the insider.. right now my money is on Renee. They really do need to clear up the 'Damage' stuff.. also whether or not Buffy knows Spike is alive..

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although I suppose he's in hell right now.

Actually where season 8 is set is actually the same time of season 5 of Angel...so he is at W&H and I would say she doesn't know, not yet anyway

 

[Kemy]

After the Fall is set right after the end of Angel, so the summer of 2004.

Buffy season 8 was meant to be 12-18 months after the end of Chosen, meaning Fall of 2004. But Faith makes reference to "Arctic Monkeys", an English group Joss wanted very much to mention but yet again ignored any proper research of anything English since the band formed in the middle of 2006, putting Season 8 of Buffy around the end of last year, Winter 2006.