KLK THEORY: Ragyou's Tragic Tale

"Ragyou's Tragic Tale"
A KILL la KILL THEORY

Spoilers for KILL la KILL Episode 21 & Onwards

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First of all, I must apologize - since I know that after this latest episode, nobody wants to feel bad for Ragyou. Hell, I don't want to feel bad for Ragyou. If you're alright with feeling bad for what may be the worst mother/parental figure in all of anime, please keep reading. I'd love to hear all of your thoughts.

This theory is based around the fact that Life Fibers can alter memories and thoughts - to the point of rewriting all of Ryuuko's memories in Episode 21.

What if Ragyou has been under these effects of indoctrination for the last 20 years of her life?

What if she honestly believes that she was a good mother, and is simply trying to reconnect with them, blind to what the Life Fibers don't want her to see?
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Revealed Plot

Let's start at the beginning. Life Fibers - a type of symbiotic life form - came to earth while mammals were still evolving. These life forms coated the most advanced species of mammal on the planet at the time - early humans - and sped up our evolution into what we are today.

During this symbiotic evolution of both our minds and bodies, they implanted in us the emotion of "embarrassment," which came into effect when we no longer retained the fur of our ancestors. This emotion led us to clothing ourselves in fabrics and furs laced with the Life Fibers to continue the symbiotic relationship they so desperately wanted to continue.

Fast forward millions of years, and the Kiryuuin family has found the "Original Life Fiber," the core of the original fibers which had come to earth so many millions of years earlier.
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Theorized Plot

At this time, a younger Kiryuuin Ragyou starts hearing whispers in her head. She starts to go into fashion, feeling it may be a good fit for her, even though she has no past experience with clothing or design. She thinks the whispers will go away with time, but they don't.

The whispers get louder.
They make her bolder.
They give her ideas.

Soon enough, she's created a brand for herself with those ideas. Revocs. What an odd name; it "just came to her," she says.

Her brand grows, and grows, and grows - soon enough it becomes known worldwide. Being a young woman by now, she has eligible partners lining up out the door for the chance of her hand in marriage. She meets Souichirou.

The whispers get louder once more.
They tell her its love.
She cant ignore them anymore.
They must be her subconscious, she thinks.

She marries him.

Eventually, she gives birth to a lovely little girl she named "Satsuki." She, Souichirou, and Satsuki have a wonderful life together for their first year, as a family.

She personally goes out to buy a crib for her newborn daughter.
She and Souichirou even work on decorating it together.
She even designs the blankets with the cutest designs she can think of.

Everything's happy - they're a family. A happy, joyous family.

But one day - after singing Satsuki to sleep like they always do, Souichirou seems different.
He talks a bit less, but tells her he's fine.
She tells herself he must just be overworked, and lets him doze off by Satsuki's crib while she heads to bed.

"Everything's fine. I'll make him breakfast in the morning~" she says.
Her life has turned out so well, she can't help but be happy as she heads to sleep.

One year passes, and they add another child to the family, little "Ryuuko."
Souichirou picked out the name - she couldn't help but stifle a giggle at how odd it sounded.

Everything's happy - they're a family. A happy, joyous family.

Until one day.

Souichirou says he's leaving her.
She doesn't know why.
They've always been such a happy family together.
He says he's leaving the kids with her.

How could he leave them alone without a father?
Why now?
They'd just sang little Ryuuko to sleep - just last night!

"You don't need him." her subconscious cries out.
She listens.

After a while, she calms down. She needs to be strong for her girls.

She calls Souichirou's voice mail to leave a good-bye message.
There's no answer.

She steels herself and prepares to be as good a mother as she can be to her two daughters.

Getting what little sleep she could, she wakes up the morning and already finds herself back on her daily routine - first step, check on the girls.

Satsuki is asleep in her crib - as usual. She's a heavy sleeper - she tells herself.

Little Ryuuko is... Not there. She panics. She had just started crawling recently, she may have gotten out!

She calls her butlers and has them look around for her.

No luck. Souichirou must've taken her.

A year passes.
Two.
Three.
More.
There's no word or sightings of the two.

Satsuki's all grown up now. She's 18.
She raised her all by herself.

"You did a good job." she hears.
She can't help but nod.

Satsuki visits her, every now and then.
Satsuki's decided to become class president at the school she founded.
It makes her proud to see her daughter follow in her footsteps.

Whenever Satsuki finds free time, she comes home to tell her mother about the new things she's learned, and how things are going.

She can't help being overprotective of her when she visits.
She may be 18, but she's her precious daughter after all.
She has to take care of her.

One Day.

She visits the school.
It's the day of their Sports & Culture festival.

She cant wait to see the festivities and meet her daughter's friends.

She greets the little girl Satsuki befriended in pre-school,
Nonon.

She sees the half-american boy whom Satsuki befriended in middle school,
Gamagoori.

She sees her computer class mate,
Inumutua.

As well as her Kendo Club sempai,
Uzu.

She smiles happily at them as she passes them in order to stand beside her daughter at the opening speech for the first event.

Nothing prepared her for what happened next.

Satsuki slapped her.
She slapped her infront of everyone there.
Her own mother - who did nothing but love her.

She begins to cry.
She feels tears run down her face, down her cheeks.
Down her chin.

"Hey! Stop that, Satsuki Kiryuuin!" shouts some female voice from within the crowd.

She looks up - she sees a girl with black hair, a disheveled look, and a red highlight in her hair

Through all the tears, she could swear it was her. It looked just like she remembered her.

"Ryuuko..? Is that you..?"

"It's her." the voice inside her says.

"My daughter..."
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Reasoning

First of all, sorry about the long text. I meant to make the theory more "normal" - but I got carried away and it ended up like a fan-fic. Anyway, the first thing that tipped me off to this possibility was the lyrics of "Blumenkranz," which in German, means "Floral Wreath." Blumenkranz is Ragyou's theme. One that plays almost every time she is on screen, to a tee.



Secondly, with episode 21 taking the turns it did - it raised the question of how far the powers of Life Fibers go. They were able to ENTIRELY erase and replace Ryuuko's memories. They replaced them with memories she's wished for since she was born. She's always wanted a normal family, but never had one. The Life Fibers were able to completely and utterly "rewrite" Ryuuko into Ragyou's faithful daughter.

Thirdly, they spoke in episode 18 about how nobody else even saw COVERS, due to the fact that the Life Fibers were devouring all unnecessary information in their brains. Tsumugu said it best with his quote: "They have eyes but they fail to see, and ears but fail to hear, huh?"

Add all of the above 3 facts, and what do you get?

Life Fibers can indoctrinate those who are not already immune to them - making them see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear, and do what the Life Fibers want them to do.

What do you all think?