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so. at the end of AND, it's complicated as hell. pacts end when a contract is fulfilled. but we don't KNOW coco's terms for the pact. and if you're erased in ug, then a sync ends. your partner dies quickly too, unless drastic measures are taken like what happened w rhyme and beat
it's time for... BEATNEKU SYNC NEVER ENDED THEORY THREAD! ✨🎧🛹
this theory is based upon the line in w3d7, when beat says he's been synced with neku for 'years', when in reality they were only sync'd eight days (including a new day), and MAN WHEN U LINE IT UP... IT TRACKS!!!
WAIT SORRY WHAT, EXCUSE ME @neo_nekubot ?!?!?!/1/1/??!
now that it's canonically confirmed that rhyme actually can't remember neku, this has me extra 😭 beat really did just talk about neku for a solid three years nonstop to her, to the point she can TELL WHAT NEKU IS SAYING FROM BEAT'S EXPRESSION?? nekubeat CANON 😭🥰🎧🛹
a thing that gets slept on ALL THE TIME is that BEAT has like. off the charts Imagination and Soul?? like he's EXTREMELY POWERFUL, please remember that coco legit picked HIM alongside neku for her plan, it's only thanks to hanakoma that beat WASN'T in shinjuku along with neku.
GAY PEOPLE GAY PEOPLE GAY PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...proving to himself he doesn't need to live up to anyone's expectations but his own. ABOUT TO GET BEATNEKU SORRY BUT IM FOREVER EMOTIONAL ABOUT THE WAY THEY BOTH LEARNED AND HELPED EACH OTHER GROW. neku told him to be true to himself, and helped him realise that's who he IS.
...pushed to the point of letting yourself be you, but still deeply angry and hurt at being pushed to this point. 'i'd rather be the villain, long as i know it's right' representing that decision to become a reaper, because it's the only way to have rhyme in any shape or form.