Filian is lost ARG - Venus is the origin; Mercury is her corrupted carrier
I might be too schizo to attempt to participate in the ARG here, I just thought I might try to help even if what im about to say already exists or was attempted. I couldn't find any other ideas like this online, so I did my best to gather as much as I could. Worth a shot in the dark I guess...
What the story actually says
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Taken at face value: Mercury = evil carrier, Venus = destroyed innocent.
Why we think it's flipped
The story literally warns you: "They will use all sorts of tricks to make you a part of their group." A story that flags deception and then hands you a suspiciously clean "this one's bad, this one's a victim" is inviting you to look under it.
You don't even need the text to be lying. Mercury is the vector — the thing that travels and spreads. Venus is the origin — the one who corrupted it first. The narration tells you what travels, not what started it. Mercury is the infected messenger; Venus whispered first.
Venus fits nearly every beat. Mercury fits one.
- "Seduction… the more dangerous method" → Venus's entire domain. Mercury doesn't seduce.
- "Full of pride… present themselves as judges… pretend to be friends" → Venus = the Morning Star = Lucifer: the beautiful one who fell through pride, the deceiver in a friendly mask.
- Venus is literally called Earth's "evil twin" — a world that looks good and is hell underneath = "manipulative and hypocritical."
- Venus spins backwards (retrograde) — inversion, the thing that runs opposite to everything else. (Ties into the story's own "particle / antiparticle" line.)
Mercury's only real hook is "trickster/messenger." That's it. Everything else — seduction, the fall, the false-victim framing — is Venus.
The "devil plays the victim" structure
If Venus is the real seducer, then the "destroyed good planet" line is her own cover story. The narration = the antagonist's propaganda. That's a far stronger piece of fiction than the surface reading — and it makes the story's "beware tricks" warning actually pay off.
Why this may be why we're all stuck
Deception that requires outside research to see through is the hardest kind to crack as a crowd. If the intended read is "distrust the narration and cross-reference Venus = Lucifer / evil twin / Asura-guru," most people won't get there by staring at the text.
Likely author source-pool (where the flavor came from)
Reads like someone who researched planetary occultism: Lucifer/Morning Star tradition, Vedic Jyotish (Jupiter/Brihaspati = teacher of the gods vs Venus/Shukracharya = teacher of the demons — natural enemies), and Agrippa's occult philosophy (Venus = desire/seduction; Jupiter as the cosmic "vacuum cleaner" ↔ the story's clean / unclean wording).
Yea idk, probably just another schizo theory to add to the pile of existing ones