History Fridge / Arcaea

* There are no males in the realm of Arcaea. There is Tenniel, but TheReveal in Alice's story showed that he was only an illusion. Does Hikari happen to be a [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]]

* Nami believes that she was in a dream when she gets deported to Arcaea and she intends to stay there forever because Arcaea was a pretty little paradise for her. Aside that from what we know, it isn't and she's dead. It's likely that she died in her sleep for any reason imaginable and doesn't know anything about it. Makes a really tragic thought to even think of.

* There are no males in the realm of Arcaea. There is Tenniel, but TheReveal in Alice's story showed that he was only an illusion. Does Hikari happen to be a [[DoesNotLikeMen misandrist]]?

* While some players criticize singer's accent in "Testify" as {{Narm}}, if one thinks about it, it makes somewhat sense story-wise. The speaker can be assumed to be Hikari, who was pushed into losing her mind courtesy of Tairitsu's unrelenting assault, the odd pronunciation could be chalked up to her losing her sanity.

* Alice & Tenniel and Vita get affinity bonuses in "Overdead."'s world map. Those two are the only characters (bar Tairitsu) with a confirmed reason of death. They're pretty much over and dead.

* While some players criticize singer's accent in "Testify" as {{Narm}}, if one thinks about it, it makes somewhat sense story-wise. The speaker can be assumed to be Hikari, who nearly lost her mind to positive Arcaea in Entry 1-8. Doubled with the conflict she finds herself against, the odd pronunciation could be chalked up to her losing her sanity.

* Tairitsu is associated with towers. In the story, she wakes up inside a ruined tower and eventually collapses with one in ''Vicious Labyrinth''. In Tarot readings, TheTower represents future disaster and tragedy, very much like what happens towards the end of the story.

*** Her Fracture form has a gauge that starts off as Easy before switching to Hard upon full recollection. This represents her changing demeanor towards Tairitsu. In the main storyline, she initially tries to befriend the latter and refuses to fight her. When she realizes that her life is on the line, she stops playing nice and starts to fight back.

** Future: The future has no happened yet and thus, it is difficult to tell what is to come. This makes it a hard difficulty.

* Lethe is a [[GrimReaper reaper]] and thus cannot die, but she still gets beckoned into Arcaea. It's most likely because she's a reaper residing in the afterlife, so Arcaea can trap her in.

*** Hikari's Fatalis form has the unique drawback of locking the player out from World Mode after a play and doubles the stamina cost in exchange for her abnormally high allover stats. Her special recollection gauge also gives less and less room for error as the song goes until it can cause a Track Lost after several misses. The former represents how her existence heralds the destruction of Arcaea or at least irreversibly change it, and the latter represents her ruthlessness when being increasingly pushed into a corner. Her high-risk, high-return nature as a partner, in addition to being able of increasing her stats beyond usual parameters also mirrors Tempest Tairitsu (see below), symbolizing how she became no different from the unhinged Tairitsu by killing her, at least in her viewpoint.

* Vita's home planet destroyed in an inter-galactic war and moved to a supposedly "neutral" planet that was later revealed to be behind her home planet's destruction and aligned to [[GalacticConqueror the Imperium]]. This planet also has children awakening special talents from the age of 10, is mostly consisted of WeakButSkilled people, and has entertainment like audio drama, concerts and comic books. It's most likely a dystopian version of Earth.

*** In the other hand, Hikari's Zero variant contains a "Danger" gauge that instantly causes a Track Lost on losing one note, and her initially high stats decrease all the way to 0 for each level up. She nearly goes catatonic because of positive Arcaea overdose, only breaking out after she wishes upon an anomaly shard.