Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
People are trying to come up with fun possible theories based on next to no information pulled from pictures with basically no context. Let us have fun, jeez. This is the only time we have to come up with wild and crazy ideas for the expansion that are in the realm of possibility before the mystery is revealed.
And personally, I dislike that these 'wild and crazy ideas' about the Ascians are not only just... the same idea constantly, so they're honestly not all that wild or crazy, but that they overpower any other ideas very quickly in this community.

I look at the Enigmatic Maiden and instead realize that her name is basically a thesaurus-ized version of 'Mysterious Girl', which is actually a name that's been pulled twice in Final Fantasy; once in IX for the one Genome with a soul who also has a kinda-similar hairstyle to the Maiden, and once for the Maenad in IV After Years, who were artificial agents of the Creator who dress similarly to the Maiden. And I can't help but notice that both of those are artificial humans made by major villains to in some way replace important party members, and that maybe we're looking at some connective tissue there.