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And Chell is an Immortal. Getting shot at by turrets, she loses her weight in blood throughout both games only to be healthy and unhurt a moment later. The only logical explanation for her insane HealingFactor is that she's an Immortal!

Possibly, his first mentor [[spoiler:and fellow Immortal]], Rene Paharmadeus Brinvilliers, in the 1934 events is a head researcher for the recently (at the time) built Lab: ''Nebula Sky Laboratories'', financed by Senator Beriam himself and with the main subject of research being the Homunculus and Immortals. Taking into consideration that Huey is [[spoiler:on the run after the Alice in Chains novel]], maybe this might trigger Nebula Sky's growth and eventual shorttening of its name to ''Nebula''.

The alchemist was trying to distilling immortal blood to make the immortality potion.

* If there's only one thing fandoms prove, it's that it's possible to care about fictional characters while stilling knowing that they are fictional. Instead of [[TheGodfather the Corleones]] and [[{{Alias}} Sydney Bristow]], Claire just prefers Those Lovable Mob Brothers and [[CuteMute Sexy Mute]] KnifeNut.

[[WMG: The series takes place in an alternate universe, perhaps one where France won the Seven-Years War]]
There are an awful lot of weird names in the series, but in particular, a lot of them are vaguely-French sounding (i.e. Isaac Dian) and there's also the odd thing that Huey is imprisoned in Canada seemingly under orders of American government officials. So, my conclusion is that in this universe, French Canada took over the United States. And for some reason, Alchemy works.
* Newfoundland didn't join confederation (IE become part of Canada) until the early fifties, until then it was a separate Dominion under the British Empire. Besides, he could be under a kind of joint arrest between the Empire and the US, or a sort of Guantanimo Bay (technically in Cuba) setup.

[[WMG: Baccano takes place in the same universe as EternalDarkness.]]
Because.

[[WMG: Baccano takes place in the same universe as FullMetalAlchemist]]
No one's said this one already? I thought it was obvious, with the alchemy and all...
* Not to mention the presence of homunculi.
* It could also explain Kimblee's own outfit: he was obviously working with Ladd besides being in the army... at least before getting thrown in jail.

[[WMG: Baccano takes place in the same universe as ChronoCrusade.]]
...It's not that much of a stretch.
* When you take into account the not neccessarily evil demons (sorry, "Devils", as is the common parlance of both series) and the perversions of science and scripture (Devil Summoning/Alchemy)

[[WMG:Claire Stanfield will die on July 7th, 2007]]
Actually, "die" isn't the proper term here; rather, he'll decide that he's tired of being Claire Stanfield and decide that he wants to be [[TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]].

[[WMG: Claire Stanfield IS Haruhi, who has become aware of his/her powers]]

Haruhi eventually learned the truth about her self and decided to make the world more interesting. Her first action was to create aliens( the demon) espers (people like Ladd and Graham) and time travelers (the immortals, via TheSlowPath). She also decided to genderbend herself, because why the heck not? Its mentioned that Claire is adopted, and since he's so willing to throw away the name 'Claire' its probably not the first time he changed his name. And all those stunds he does? He's more badass than anyone else in the series. In short, he wasn't kidding when he said 'the world is mine'.

[[WMG:The world really DOES revolve around Claire Stanfield]]
After all, we already know that Baccano is just a fictional story. Maybe there's some kind of self-referential thing going on.
* The world will end in 2012 because that's the year Claire finally kicks the bucket.

[[WMG:Specifically, the world is a video game, and Claire is the player character.]]
While he knows none of the other characters are really real, he’s still taking a basically “[[KarmaMeter good karma]]” route. Thus, he responds well to friendly characters and those invoking VideoGameCaringPotential (particularly the “family” and “love interest” [=NPCs=]), yet easily responds with the [[HeroicSociopath traditional]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill player]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential response]] to unsympathetic /antagonist characters.

This is also why he’s an [[BadassNormal ordinary human]] who can still effortlessly take on hordes of mooks and ostensibly more powerful bosses. On top of the usual player character advantages, he’s either good at the game, or simply reloading when he screws up (or both). This is why, despite his ostensible mortality, he’s never worried that he might die- if Claire dies, he can simply reload from last save and do it right.

[[WMG:Claire Stanfield is an ancestor of [[TheWire Marlo Stanfield]].]]
Okay, Marlo's a CompleteMonster, Claire isn't, but they have a name and a lot else in common. Marlo is separated from previous kingpins due to his lack of remorse or mercy. What's more, he is completely obsessed with himself and his own reputation, he has utterly no conception of any other life but what he's doing now, and he shows impressive fighting skills against multiple armed opponents. Marlo is Claire distilled through generations of Baltimore drug culture. Maybe Claire had a fling with a black girl in Baltimore in the '20s, LamarckWasRight, and the rest is history.

[[WMG:The Heiwajimas of ''{{Durarara}}!!'' are descended from Huey Laforet, possibly through Chane and Claire.]]
Huey's descendents have an established tendency to look just like him. Except in eye color, Kasuka Heiwajima looks... a lot like Huey, and almost ''exactly'' like Chane and Claire's great-grandson [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/12_013.jpg Charon Walken]], a fact pointed out in-universe. This ancestry also helps to explain Shizuo's SuperStrength.

[[WMG: Isaac and Miria are actually fae.]]
The two of them clearly have no real understanding of human behavior, as evidenced in the haberdashery scene. They hold onto a weird orange and blue mortality in which crippling a family's finances is a good deed that will make up for the evil deed of stealing chocolate bars. They also fail to understand thresholds, thinking that no one will be able to cross into the museum without a door.

[[WMG: Chane isn't Huey's daughter, she's his homunculus.]]
Pretty simple: she's ridiculously adept at fighting, something Ennis also was, she doesn't seem to have a mother, and most importantly, he's able to affect her to the point of taking away her voice. At no other point in the series do we see immortals being able to affect anyone like that except with Szilard and Ennis. I'm American, so I haven't read the books at all, so I don't know if she ever ages. I assume she does, since otherwise this point would be more obvious, but it could be simply that Huey wasn't as adept at creating his homunculus as Szilard was.
** Chane does age along with Claire, so she isn't an immortal (or at least a perfect one); her abnormal combat abilities is not a valid reason to consider her inhuman since many killers and assassins in the series have CharlesAtlasSuperPower in their veins: Ladd, Graham and Claire are all ridiculously powerful while being just human, especially the latter as he is the strongest character in the whole series. Most of all, spoilers are scattered through this article to confirm why Chane was born, and who might be her mother, and even Chane herself has kids of her own as the time goes. I say it's completely {{Jossed}} the idea of her not being human in any way.

The alchemist was trying to distilling immortal blood to make the immortality potion.

[[WMG: Ladd's promise to kill Lua is rooted in insecurity from his past.]]
It's possible that due to the murder of his former fiancee, Ladd is afraid that if he doesn't kill Lua himself, someone else will and he doesn't want to go through that again. His constant reminder to her that he's going to be the one to kill her is as much a reassurance to himself as it is to her.
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The two of them clearly have no real understanding of human behavior, as evidenced in the haberdashery scene. They hold onto a weird orange and blue mortality in which crippling a family's finances is a good deed that will make up for the evil deed of stealing chocolate bars. They also fail to understand thresholds, thinking that no one will be able to crossinto without a door.

[[WMG:Immortals are actually Highlanders.]]
Baccano! takes place in the same universe as highlander. The alchemist was trying to distilling highlander blood to make the immortality potion.

** Chane does age along with Claire, so she isn't an immortal (or at least a perfect one); her abnormal combat abilities is not a valid reason to consider her inhuman since many killers and assassins in the series have CharlesAtlasSuperPower in their veins: Ladd, Graham and Claire are all ridiculously powerful while being just human, especially the latter as he is the strongest character in the whole series. Most of all, spoilers are scattered through this article to confirm why Chane was born, and who might her mother, and even Chane herself has kids of her own as the time goes. I say it's completely {{Jossed}} the idea of her not being human in any way.

** Chane does age along with Claire, so she isn't an immortal (or at least a perfect one); her abnormal combat abilities is not a valid reason to consider her inhuman since many killers and assassins in the series have CharlesAtlasSuperPower in the veins: Ladd, Graham and Claire are all ridiculously powerful while being just humans, especially the latter as he is the strongest character in the whole series. Most of all, spoilers are scattered through this article to confirm why Chane was born, and who might her mother, and even Chane herself has kids of her own as the time goes. I say it's completely {{Jossed}} the idea of her not being human in any way.

** Chane does age along with Claire, so she isn't an immortal (or at least a perfect one); her abnormal combat abilities is not a valid reason to consider her inhuman since many killers and assassins in the series have CharlesAtlasSuperPower in the veins: Ladd, Graham and Claire are all ridiculously powerful while being just humans, especially the latter as he is the strongest character in the whole series. Most of all spoilers are scattered through this article to confirm why Chane was born, and who might her mother, and even Chane herself has kids of her own as the time goes. I say it's completely {{Jossed}} the idea of her not being human in any way.

** Chane does age along Claire, so she isn't an immortal (or at least a perfect one); her abnormal combat abilities is not a vaid reason to consider her inhuman since many killers and assassins in the series have CharlesAtlasSuperPower in the veins: Ladd, Graham and Claire are all ridiculously powerful while being just humans, especially the latter as he is the strongest character in the whole series. Most of all spoilers are scattered through this article to confirm why Chane was born, and who might her mother and Chane herself has kids of her own. I say it's completely {{Jossed}} the idea of her not being human in any way.

While he knows none of the other characters are really real, he’s still taking a basically “[[KarmaMeter good karma]]” route. Thus, he responds well to friendly characters and those invoking VideoGameCaringPotential (particularly the “family” and “love interest” NPCs), yet easily responds with the [[HeroicSociopath traditional]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill player]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential response]] to unsympathetic /antagonist characters.

[[WMG: Isaac and Miria are at least semi-responisible for everything that happens n the series from the 1930s onwards.]]

* Not to mention the presence of homunculus.

[[WMG:The Heiwajimas of ''{{Durarara}}!!'' are descended from Huey Laforet, probably through Chane and Claire.]]
Huey's descendents have an established tendency to look just like him. Except in eye color, Kasuka Heiwajima looks... a lot like Huey, and almost ''exactly'' like Chane and Claire's grandson [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/12_013.jpg Charon Walker]]. This ancestry also helps to explain Shizuo's SuperStrength.

Huey's descendents have an established tendency to look just like him. Except in eye color, Kasuka Heiwajima looks... a lot like Huey, and almost ''exactly'' like Chane and Claire's son [[http://i726.photobucket.com/albums/ww262/CapZiggy/12_013.jpg Charon Walker]]. This ancestry also helps to explain Shizuo's SuperStrength.

Huey's descendents have an established tendency to look just like him. Except in eye color, Kasuka Heiwajima looks... almost exactly like Huey. This ancestry also helps to explain Shizuo's SuperStrength.