Alright lads buckle up and put on your tin foil hats because i’ve been trying to think of a way that this whole thing wasn’t just key jingling.
So first things first bo4 ending, we all know it at this point Primis and Ultimis ( First and last ) versions of our characters had to cease to exist so nikolai would be able to send EVERYTHING the aether touched to the DA, thing is he never mentions that other versions had to as well, which got me thinking do we know any other versions of them? WE DO! well not know ab them but we know they existed which is the group that consists of a nikolai and takeo that have clothes similar to their primis counterparts and a richtofen dressed as his ultimis counterpart which are from the comics image i put on this post.
Now here is where things get interesting i went back to bo4s ending because i recall seeing this image on the kronorium and during Nikolai’s monologue i noticed something really interesting, i tried attaching the video i cropped from the cutscene but don’t know how to, at around 3:22 on the ending we can see a page containing the dark mechanism being slowly erased after Nikolai destroys the multiverse, but right after that scene at 3:28 we see the page containing this image but unlike the other page its NOT being ERASED its being REWRITTEN!!!! which could mean that the crew there didn’t get erased but sent to the Dark Aether alongside everything else! we saw already the Kronorium rewriting itself on blood and it wouldn’t be impossible that the crew there got their fates changed and continued to fight in the DA.
Now i know this might be all wrong but if im correct in this it makes A LOT of sense on what happened at reckoning and even explains why the characters look like that mix of primis and ultimis. we never got to see what happened on that page or why they went to the house but if it is indeed THEM we might get a chance at seeing some loose ends bo4 supposedly retconned. Plus this also makes the reckoning ending not sound like a rabbit out of the hat thing u know?
Thank you for listening to my crazy man rambling hope some people see this so we can go back to that theorizing tin foil hat era of zombies lol