Is Tim Cosing/ the Scion that aided the heroes Parse?

Games Sentinels of the Multiverse
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Simple question: Is our friendly neighborhood puzzle maker/ hero aide actually the hero Parse in the Net?

In the art livestream, Christopher made an interesting comment about Parse along the lines of: "People who are interested in Parse should look at her backstory, then look at her incap art, then look at her back story and incap art again

So in the interest of more story I did just that and here's what I found:

Parse worked on the Omnitron Core Project with RevoCorp after its original iteration had been defeated. With the "cosmic entity" we now know as Oblivaeon affected Omnitron to give us Cosmic Omnitron, Parse was in the same room, and saw the "overflow of information." This overflow also gave Parse enhanced mental capabilities. It also seems that Kim was "updated" in order to accept some sort of code into her system.

The implication (and the explicit statement =P) being that Parse's natural powers were amplified by OblivAeon to get her superpowers.

That's cool enough on its own.

On her incap?  Well it shows Kim's Glowing eyes and glasses, with a blank expression. There sees to be code running across her eyes. Both her eyes and her glasses (which are on top of her head) emit some pale blueish light. The code in Kim's eyes also looks like it is flowing through/from her rather than something that Kim/Parse is staring at. 

So, is the implication that Kim has gone even more digital? Enough that she is now able to become data?

Going one step further. Does this mean that she can now communicate to others through code and data?  If she can, that brings me to my final thought: 

Was Parse Tim Cosing/the Scion?

Parse had a noticeable absence in the ARG comics, being one of 3 heroes not mentioned (the others being the naturalist and guise).

In the second-to-last comic in the ARG, the Scion pretty much owned up to giving the Heroes messages and clues to lead them to the Scion.  

The heroes's describe the voice of the Scion as "not-unfamiliar but unrecognizable" Could this be a way of point us to look at some one we already know as the Scion?

Depending on how the Power-Granting of OblivAeon works, does that mean that OblivAeon took control over Parse at some point becuase of her power? The scion says that it met OblivAeon "outside space and time"; Could this be Parse's subtle nod to being data? Outside normal space and time in the net? In the art that Adam drew of her recently, she also has a distictive circlet on her head, and the scion mentioned being granted a collar in exchange for the power given by Oblivaeon; this could also help tie the two together.

So can our friendly neighborhood Parse be a unwitting villain in OblivAeon? Is this just a way to give her a fancy promo? Who knows? Christopher knows. I guess we all will Feb. 9th

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Hopefully, it's not the case as that doesn't strike me as very interesting.

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Why does it not strike you as very interesting?

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Sorry, I specifically meant her being the scion wasn't that interesting. The first half of your post struck me as pretty cool, but having Parse be a villain just bothers me.

More specifically, the scion in Scion's Aid doesn't sound like someone who would normally be an ally, and it seems to me that said scion is more likely to turn out to be an adversary in the future, or simply become irrelevant to the Sentinels franchise if the scion does indeed absorb Oblivaeon's power. There's pretty much no risk in allying with the scion if the scion turns out to be a hero, and I don't want to see Parse become irrelevant to the franchise.

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Since Adam just drew the art yesterday for a promo Parse I don't think she becomes a villain. 

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No reason you can't have both. I'd wager that "Hero" Baron Blade is going to get a variant!

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But Parse does show up with Chrono-Ranger and KNYFE, Chorno portal them all in.

I also belive Parse has some cosmic powers as well. We now need to decode the numbers in her eyes and look for sign language. . .

Baron Blade a Villian, yeah sure. But in the Obliveaon pic he was pink power lines, those that mostly relate to Unity, the shirt and gogglw scream Unity. Is that a Baron Blade form a diffent world, A Unity-Blade?

Also that we decided the enviroment thing. very interesting. A vote going to be part of the kick starter?

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The Baron Blade in the final image immediately made me think of his appearance in Tactics.

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Where is this? Are you talking about Nightmist portaling people in? I think that was an alternate Parse.

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I don't think she necessarily becomes a villian either. I think if she is the Scion, she's starting to break whatever control OblivAeon has over her, hence the calling together of heroes, and saying that she'll join them eventually. She wants OblivAeon not to suspect some sort of outside help. 

Even if Parse is not the Scion, I still think that was the Scion's purpose, helping the heroes in a way that OblivAeon didn't notice

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The Scion comes across as kind of dodgy. The comment about the heroes not being as dense as they seem suggests arrogance (as does its smugly satisfied comment later. The voice having a "dangerous, threatening" edge suggests some antagonism. The desire for the entity's power is pretty classically villainous. That is, pretty much everything the voice says suggests that it is a villain or at least has an adversarial relationship with the heroes. 

The comment about being found beyond space and time leaves us with basically one Sentinels character we're familiar with - Voss. Parse's incap art doesn't suggest that Parse herself is beyond space and time. IIRC Nightmist pulled Voss out of this universe with the mist. That's the art on Mistbound, after all.

I would argue that Voss is more likely than Parse, as he would certainly fit the voice's attitude toward the heroes as well as his own lust for power. Is it Voss? I don't know, that's just my best guess.

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This was on the first cover image, http://sotm.wdfiles.com/local–files/sotm-arg/genocidal.jpg, and nothing in that text suggests that these three are alternates. "Be the gate" is the seventh cover.

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Ah good catch, I completely missed this. I don't know. After this she isn't spoken of again, however. If I am correct, her "Reveal the Flaws" card shows her in her original outfit. Maybe something happened in the fight against Progeny? The comics did say how most of the heroes got beaten against him (maybe this is her incap art). 

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Parse isn't pictured on Reveal the Flaws. Looks like Progeny, Captain Cosmic, and Harpy(?) are on it.

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I think the mystery scion is Apostate. 

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Was Apostate banished outside of time and space? I probably missed something important somewhere.

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frankly who knows. Apostate is the only villain we know exactly nothing about. Motives, where he came from, relation to fanatic, what the "host" is, why or what he is an "emissary" to, why his card art back has a globe on it. 

Iv said it for years. But the reason we know none of those answers is bc it is too critical to the end story and big bad. Look at Fanatic in tactics and tell me something big doesn't happen here. 

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It is here 

http://sotm.wdfiles.com/local--files/sotm-arg/genocidal.jpg

 

Edit: too late

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Parse and Haka are sillhouettes in the foreground of the picture

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Ah, I missed that due to somewhat dim lighting.