Phainon Doc

PHAINON INVERSE DOC (credits to @YaronYeager for a lot of the below scans) Before I begin I want to give a breakdown on where I stand and what I've seen in regards to this character. I love Phainon and his story, and I think it's one of the best hoyo has made, yet, despite my love for the character the amount of misinformation being spread in regards to his standing in the verse has been overblown beyond anything reasonable. Which is what I want to try and clear up there. General Arguments The most common argument for Phainon and his position inverse are two things. Him supposedly destroying several galaxies, and him scratching nanook. I want to start with Nanook because of how overblown the feat is in general. Not only did this feat require him to burn through all of his hatred (leading to him collapsing the second after) this also isn’t nearly as impressive as people want to make it out to be. People assume that the developers confirming that it was the “Real Nanook” means that it was the Aeon’s true form, which no. The scans below show that Aeons interact with the real world through avatars and projections, just because Nanook’s avatar is there doesn’t mean Phainon scratched the actual Aeon. He just scratched his projection. There is nothing suggesting otherwise in the cutscene, or in the entire game for that matter, that this Nanook wasn’t a projection. The aeons live on an entirely higher plane of existence inaccessible by anybody in the verse who isn’t another …