Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-30530552-20170125025920/@comment-30530552-20170125184853

Arkantos95 wrote: Well Neptune is the God responsible for earthquakes, and who created horses so he could get laid (long story that also involves the creation of a half dozen other quadrapeds), so his allusion could point to either of those.

I frankly don't understand why so many people think he has to be water-based just because of his name. The boy is terrified of and refuses to be near knee-deep water. His hydrophobia is so extreme that honestly anything that didn't involve removing water wouldn't make sense if it has to be attatched to an element. 1) That's something I hadn't considered, but thanks for bringing that up...I remember the story now about that too.

2) Neither do I, unless his Semblance did involve manipulating water and he lost control of it or something, hence his fear of losing control, and by association, fear of water. He does very much seem like the kind of person that cares about being in control of his appearances, at the very least. Might've been part of the reason why Weiss is like "this maniacal ship known as 'Titanic' shall be leaving port tonight and setting sail, whether they like it or not."

I detailed most of this in a Pre-V4 Theory with my friends about his entire backstory, actually, which only exists on a Google Doc as of this post.