Desna, when Copen first encounters her, is given a warning that goes like this: "Your life will be forfeit unless you turn back. Your path will lead you to abject misery. And you will take with you all you hold dear." And she's a known fortune teller. This proves true when by bringing all the muse shards to Zonda who had Mytyl, he (indirectly) facilitated her amnesia and transformation into an adept.
Just how did Desna know about that? It's not mysticism and has nothing to do with her fortune telling. Zonda (Desna's boss) infiltrated Sumeragi beforehand to access their secret files and found out exactly who to capture and what to get for her group's goals. Therefore all of Eden knows exactly who they are going after, and Desna's warnings are most likely just based on common knowledge amongst the group.
See the abundance of the draconic/serpentine theme of Gunvolt's guns? Come the second game, he's called "Azure Dragon".
Gunvolt gets a new "Clip" system in the second game that has the Theme Naming of archangels. This starts to makes sense once you think back - he was called "an angel" by Joule before, and he gets that again in this game a few more times.
Gunvolt being "an angel" makes it more hilariously symbolic when Copen, in the end, after realizing that the path he took is wrong but is unable to turn back, calls himself "a demon". In keeping with the above, Gunvolt can also craft the Lucifer Clip, which brings his gameplay more in line with Copen's (high damage shots with reduced emphasis on powers). The item is somewhat fittingly named after the archetypical Fallen Angel.
Joule's appearance in Burst has her, without Anthem, be one of the weakest characters in the entire game, but also one of the most powerful whenever she does use it. Even in her home series, she's got no power except when she's singing.
Teseo is said to have a power rivaling those of Gunvolt and Zonda in terms of destructive potential - with that power he could had been did things like creating EX weapons designed against Gunvolt from nowhere. So why he's just beaten by Merak without a Grimoire and with a Grimoire, beaten by Gunvolt or Copen like any of his other comrades? He's not using the Septima to its maximum potential. His Smug Snake tendencies could had been prevented him from utilizing his powers beyond what was shown, or made him hold back and underestimate his opponents (shown when he didn't take Copen or Gunvolt seriously when he meets them).
Xiao being unable to see Joule despite being an Adept makes sense as his septima is not related to electrons. The reason Gunvolt and Carrera can see and hear her is because their septima is related to electrons, and Zonda is able to see her is due to her mirror septima that can see ghosts and spirits. Since the G7 all possess Grimoire's powered by Joule's shard, this enables them to hear her presence.
If Copen hadn't gone adept hunting, or had listened to Desna's prophecy on the Babel level, then he would have been able to prevent Mytyl from being captured by Eden, leaving Gunvolt and Joule free to take down Eden and Zonda. This in turn prevents Mytyl and Joule from merging, taking Joule from Gunvolt, and turning Mytyl into an amnesiac, and an adept, forcing Copen to leave.
The hidden bosses accessible through Moebius' Limit Break basically represent 2 alternate possibilities that Gunvolt could have taken after the events of 1 seeing that they are both super bosses with radical ideologies who have maximized the Azure Striker Septima:
Nova represents the lawful extreme of the spectrum, where GV uses his powers to completely subjugate adepts since there is virtually no hope for coexistence between them and humanity. Gunvolt actually came close to embracing Nova's ideology in "fleeting memories" after Joule's death and very likely would have acted on them had he not met Quinn.
Asimov on the other hand is full on chaotic, where Gunvolt decides to use his massive powers to bend the world to his will and nobody can stop him. Gunvolt is only kept in check because of the people like Joule, Quinn and Kirin, and if nobody is left, then he may very well end up like Asimov. For emphasis, to access Asimov's boss fight in the first place, Berserk GV must be the one to get hit by Damnatio Memoriae meaning that, Kirin has to die.
Of the countries that discriminate Adepts, China is the nation that treats them the harshest; Adepts are hunted down just after they are born. China (since being run by the Communist Party) is defined by their tight, iron grip, control of the population to the point they never tolerate any form of dissent, as such it makes sense for them to view Adepts as a threat - non-Adepts, after all, are much easier to control. As Adepts may possess extra-ordinary powers (especially if they can gain a septima that can control electronics, mind-reading, alter reality, etc.), they are not bound by the same restrictions that China imposes on its muggle citizens, therefore they serve as a potential challenge to the Party's power.
Adepts are obscenely powerful. Just the boss (powered by a Transformation Trinket) and main character Adepts are each individually a One-Man Army that can outright destroy entire areas and tear through enemy forces like a hot knife through butter, and some of them outright dip into localized Reality Warper scale. With the right power-ups like a proper Anthem or a Primal Dragon transformation, this escalates to world-scale threats through sheer evolutionary potential. It's no wonder the entire world shifted seemingly overnight into warfare and discrimination; a single Adept driven to violence would make the collateral made by a random Mutant look downright family-friendly.
Imagine if Asimov had succeeded with his plans? What would have happened to Moniqa...? The answer is she would most likely be killed. And in Luminous Avenger IX, the consequences of him winning are clear.
Zonda presented herself as a pair of highly sexualized, innuendos-spouting figures despite apparently being a child, and her general behavior was incredibly unchildlike and disturbing at best. According to Tenjian however, she and Tenjian were orphans left out from an abandoned orphanage and were constantly rejected adoption because of adept discrimination and then were purposefully fed poisoned apples by an old man who feigned kindness. Combined with the fact that she basically won the Superpower Lottery, there's absolutely no wonder why she ended up completely insane.
With the revelation that Gunvolt became a Primal Dragon within a couple of years in the mainline games. What are the chances that Blade (an Artifical Adept in the same vein as Gunvolt, with GV’s own Septima implanted into her) will become a Primal Dragon herself in the alternate timeline?
With the implication that Gunvolt 3 and iX 1 take place in about the same period (albeit in different timelines), one has to wonder: What happened to iX’s version of Moebius? Was he killed before Sumeragi and Asimov could find him? Was he never born at all? Or is he somewhere inside a Sumeragi base, being experimented on and abused in the same way Mytyl was?
Alternative Title(s):Azure Striker Gunvolt, Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
