Rayman Headcanons

[Master]

A cardiovascular system? So the Glade of Dreams is like a Time Lord?

[Haruka]

I mean in the terms of: a person has got a illness in the heart; with this illness, the person will be very vulnerable, and this vulnerability can be fatal, killing the person. I imagine the same thing for the Glade: the heart of the world is broken, the planet becomes vulnerable. Not fixing quickly the issue could definitely end with the stability of the planet and having no possible repair.

[spiraldoor]

That seems complicated. They serve exactly the same narrative function: magical glowing thing that gets attacked at the beginning of the game, causing cosmic imbalance, and is restored by Rayman at the end. It's much neater for them to be same object than part of some esoteric binary system. The same goes for the valley and the archipelago really – these minor references were never really meant to be distinct or important geographical locations. Every game is set in the same vague place. We're the ones who took the distinctions to heart and tried to craft something meaningful and specific out of them.

[Master]

Maybe the Glade of Dreams is exactly that, one large dream, a bunch of tales woven with a thread of supposed continuity, yet as inconsistent as dreams can be.

[Haruka]

Unless the Great Protoon was transfered to the Fairy Council at some point after the Rayman 1 events and before the pirates invasion. It is a shame the fact of the Protoon/Heart was never officialy proved to be the same object or not.

[spiraldoor]

Unless the Great Protoon was transfered to the Fairy Council at some point after the Rayman 1 events and before the pirates invasion.

How do we know it wasn't there all along? Rayman 1 can't even agree with itself on where the Great Protoon is located.



If you're trying to patch up these contradictions with hard logic you're probably overthinking it.

[Haruka]

I wasn't remembering the pictures fact. The object hasn't got indeed a specific place to be stored. I believe like this both objects can be perfectly the same one.

[Bionichute]

Maybe the Glade of Dreams is exactly that, one large dream, a bunch of tales woven with a thread of supposed continuity, yet as inconsistent as dreams can be.

Basically this. It's a dream world with dream logic, nothing really has to make sense.

[Serza5]

That the Great Protoon and the Heart of the World are the same thing.

I believe the Great Protoon is what powers the Heart of the World. Like they just took the Protoon, and coated it in a force field which still gives off the energy of the Protoon, in the hopes that someone won't steal it again.

[Bradandez]

Since the Valley and the Glade have merged with each other and have become one. I like to think the Desert Of Didgeridoos is the aftermath of Band Land when Razorbeard invaded. I dunno, I had this headcannon for awhile.

[Julia_Patti]

I'd like to think that Razoff is part of Inspector Grub's species. They have some similar qualities to them.

Why not? My headcanon is that Razoff's ancestors (who supposedly live in Tyr-Kainkou - a place mentioned in his bio) actually belonged to the Murkin teensie tribe (which was cut from the final version of R3, remember?) and for an unknown reason had to move to a different place from where the Bog of Murk is now. Moving took years, so on their way they grew and changed so much they barely resembled teensies and lost a big part of teensian magic.

Same thing probably would happen to the Aeropolians, only they might've evolved in a slightly different way, less adapted to aquatic life.

[THEdragon]

New headcanon I just thought of.

During the Rayman 3 era (including Raving Rabbids), Rayman went through a 2edgy4u teen-rebellious phase. That's why he started styling his hair spiky and wearing a hooded jacket and pulling that smug, frowny-eyed look all the time. And also, he started wearing orange eyeshadow because he was feeling adventurous and experimental, that's why he had orange eyelids.

[Rulez]

New headcanon I just thought of.

During the Rayman 3 era (including Raving Rabbids), Rayman went through a 2edgy4u teen-rebellious phase. That's why he started styling his hair spiky and wearing a hooded jacket and pulling that smug, frowny-eyed look all the time. And also, he started wearing orange eyeshadow because he was feeling adventurous and experimental, that's why he had orange eyelids.

"It's not a phase, Betilla, it's what I truly am!! UGH"

[THEdragon]

Sorry guys, I just had to draw it. This is my best headcanon yet.



I dare someone to come up with a better explanation for those orange eyelids.

[Rayman fan2000]

Maybe he got a cold which was why his voice sounded different from Rayman 2.

[THEdragon]

Another headcanon I have is that the Musician has two children, one with brown hair and one with purple hair. That's why the one you see in-game has purple hair and the one in the credits has brown hair. You just never see them both at the same time.

[Dart]

my headcannon's that polokus started listening to groove armada's madder and the world changed while he listened to it on loop for a few days

[spiraldoor]

I like the idea someone had that Rayman's universe is kind of undefined because Polokus's consciousness keeps shifting. It's especially interesting if you apply it backwards. I mean, if there's no real logic or consistency, all sorts of weird counter-intuitive stuff is possible. For example, Polokus wasn't part of the original cosmology. He was retconned in by Rayman 2. Did he really create Rayman's universe, or did he just dream that he did? Is what we see of Polokus just how he dreams himself to be? Are all the characters in the games just aspects of the dreamer's mind, like some people think figures in dreams are?

[Haruka]

Good questions. Maybe what we see in Rayman 1 were stuff he dreamt during his long sleep.

[Rayman fan2000]

I have a headcanon that R3 Rayman went back in time to Rayman 1 and wet his hair and put on a hat so nobody could see his face and he became the magician.