Barret was supposed to be Barrel?

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I must admit that there are way too much of a coincidence for him to not be Barrell:

1) He is old-fashioned and well-versed in the art of digging. Why would he old-fashioned? Plus, why would he be so knowledgeable in the art of digging?

2) Same type of eyebrows and faceplate.

3) In the character concept sketch, one of Barrett's poses had him standing the same way Barrell usually stands (the one where he clenched his fists tightly).

4) Barrell is missing.

5) Barrett having a connection to Roll and the Bonnes, yet not Barrell. If the one theory that he was Roll's brother were true, why wouldn't he have a connection to the Bonnes.

I have a theory that Barrell becoming younger had something to do with the Klicke Lafonica. Dunno how the Pyon stand would fit in the entire thing either, unless it just allowed Aero and Barrett to meet the Bonnes?

As for Barrett having all of his memories: Maybe he does have them all, but decided to keep them to himself?

As for Aero x Barrett, I think that it's a one-sided romance from Aero's side. Barrett either notices, but decided to ignore it or is oblivious to her crush on him.

[rivers]

Aug 14, 2011 0:10:44 GMT -5 @adrian2040n said:

EDIT: Not only that. It also says that "much of Barett is an enigma". He needs to be special in some way.

Enigma doesn't mean special. When they say "Much of Barret is an enigma", they're saying "Much of Barret is a mystery".

[Avegodro]

If I may bring this into the discussion, the picture at the bottom of the article.

kobun20.interordi.com/2010/12/13/more-fun-than-a-monkey-of-barrels/

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@avegodros: You have a good point there. But, there's also a possibility that they had redesigned younger Barrel's look. Or maybe that was Barrel when he was older than 15?

[karkatvantas]

What if he's some long lost family tie to Barrell, like a distant cousin (5-6 times removed), whose family could have cut ties with Barrell's family long before Barrett would remember anything?

I mean, to me, that seems like the most likely possibility, and even then, it's an extreme long shot.

[pressstart]

I think there's too many similarities for this to be anything but coincidence. The developers most likely intended for Barrett and Barrell to be related. But even then, there's too many possibilities.

1. Same person, young-ified
2. Relatives
3. Red herring (meant to look the same, but no actual relation to throw off the players)
4. Scrapped idea (Meant to be related/the same, but changed in development to have no relation story-wise while keeping the design >This sort of thing happened for Chrono Cross)

We'll never know the truth unless the game gets revived though : (

[aguy]

Wow...i wonder are Sera and Eureka from E7 related? Nope...Sera's human-robo-hybrid Eureka...well that's spoiler but she's not robo.

My point? Most of this is based on look-a-like facts...for Pete's sake look at Goofy and Max from Disney: duplicates, but blood-kin.
Message? Simple: the design may hint at the fact they could be, ad Dr said, distantly related...and the Knowing the Caskets and Bonnes hints at that as well. Bonnes Especially.

How?
Bonnes - not really well known outside of the story of the games, but Barrel knows them thanks to such, so any family-contacts he has to write to would indeed hear of them.

Point is case: they're related somehow, be it by blood or something else.