Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-24891101-20141201054902

Then if we accept the dream theory, we need to come up with an explanation as to how Yang came to know the face she's not seen of the woman she caught a glimpse of.

We have two options: either Yang isn't projecting "mom" onto Vermillion (I'll draw the distinction, from Yang's perspective), in which case her subconscious is generating a face. This means that the face in the dream is completely arbitrary, and bears no relation to Raven's actual face. This is a dead end, and meaningless.

Alternatively, Yang has sufficient subconscious suspicion or desire to project her mother onto Vermillion, in which case all of her memories, hopes, and fears are tied up in the figure, and the face provided is essentially the Transient Princess, which is an old photo of her mother. These thoughts include her own years-long search for her, including whatever information she's found out, as well as fantasies about her mother showing up and consoling her. Previous dreams, even. The classic "stare into a mirror and have dead relative stares back". Given Yang knows, via the TP, about her mother's hair, and given that that's one of the more prominent things she saw before she disappeared, it's likely that Yang is projecting her mother. Moreover, the dream dialogue suggests that Yang feels this figure can reveal a lot.

Yang doesn't know what face is behind the mask. Either she dreams a random face, or she thinks Vermillion is her mother. If the latter, a whole host of subconscious thoughts come to play to create the face and the dream.

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