Bro…
Let's get one thing clear —
Echo isn't Aren's duplicate.
He's his mirror.
But in that mirror… you don't just see a face —
You see a whole life that never got to be.
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Who is Echo?
A broken copy.
A hero built to replace Aren.
But the moment he arrived in this world,
all he saw was rejection.
> "I'm more perfect than Aren…"
"Then why does everyone love him?"
Echo was created through an unstable experiment inside a Spiral time rift.
By Aren's future rival.
He was sent back into the past…
…but something intercepted him.
> Spiral.
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What did Spiral do to him?
When Echo fell through time,
Spiral hijacked him.
It didn't destroy him —
It rewired him.
His emotions were muted.
His memories were twisted.
And a voice was planted inside him:
> "You're better than Aren.
So prove it."
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What does Echo want?
He wants to be a hero.
But he doesn't become a hero.
He becomes a monster trying too hard to be one.
He has:
More power than Aren.
More control.
More calmness.
But one thing he doesn't have…
> A heart.
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What hurts Echo the most?
> "When I save people…
they don't even look at me."
> "When Aren does nothing…
they cry for him."
He wants to prove —
not just to the world,
but to himself —
that he's better than Aren.
And for that…
he'll break time.
Or even break himself.
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But here's the twist:
Echo is not a villain yet.
He's still confused.
Still bleeding inside.
Still being manipulated by Spiral.
He doesn't want to defeat Aren.
> He wants to replace him.
He wants the world to say:
> "Aren? He was the fake.
Echo was always the real one."
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The scariest moment of all?
There will come a future scene bro…
where Echo looks Aren in the eye and says:
> "You got love…"
"I got silence."
> "You got pain…"
"I wasn't allowed to feel it."
> "I'm more complete than you…
So why do they all still want you?"
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Final Thought:
> Echo isn't Aren's shadow.
He's the version of him who was never taught how to feel —
and now, he's trying to prove
that broken things deserve to be loved too.