[The Chaos Entity]

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Originally Posted by ringkun

What, I... I was hoping that M was the human and Emu the bugster, but it's Parad who is M? And Emu is just the doctor? What this episode ending suggesting really confuses me. I was hoping it'll be the route where Emu was the competitive gamer who lacked the humanity that M, the bugster, has provided. Considering how the theme of harmless bugster in this series, that will be the biggest plot point to cement that idea.

Maybe Parad was the initial virus created by Dan, but it escaped the body and manifested itself to a physical being, while Emu is really the antibody created after infection. This might explain why Emu is far more humane and empathetic, while before M wasn't. And the reason why Parad desires to fight Emu was because he believes M's body is his rightful host.

I really, really liked that idea too, trust me, but there's no way it's canon. It's been stated before that, before he was infected with the Bugster Virus, he was...well, the Emu we have now, who was sweet and wanted to be a doctor. After he was infected, he slowly turned into M, and that, after his Bugster Virus was harvested, he returned to being Emu. This was confirmed back during Nico's backstory episode and the episode where Dan infected himself with Shakariki Sports.
So it's more likely that the big 'paradox' about Parad is, simply, that all along, he's been in two places at once, because not all of Emu's Bugster Virus was harvested - most of it was, and that became Parad - but the little that remained is still M.
So I suppose, if Parad/M is the Buster of any game in particular, it's probably Mighty Brothers XX, at least symbolically.