KoshFan
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All the recent talk of First Ones brought an old question of mine to mind. My friend Christie who got me interested in B5 in the first place posed this to me: are Sheridan/Delenn/Sinclair First Ones?
Now I'm including them all because there's compelling evidence that they are all aspects of the same being, or at least very closely connected. Most of the evidence for the idea that they are First Ones, however, applies to Sheridan.
We have several hints here:
At one point Delenn tells Sheridan that they are "old souls." It might just be rebirth in the Human and Minbari races.
Sheridan's body was never found, and there's legends that Valen's body was never recovered either. Delenn we don't know about.
Sheridan, at least, gets to go beyond the Rim. That might be because of the bits of Lorien and bits of Kosh in him, though.
Perhaps the most compelling yet the least reliable, in Londo's dreams in "the Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" Sheridan turns into a ball of light and disappears, just as the Human does at the end of "Deconstruction of Falling Stars."
Now personally I believe that what this all adds up to is that these three, the future-bringers, were really among the first to reach the level that the First Ones did, but they were not First Ones themselves. If that makes sense.
Then there's another idea, even stranger, that Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair are in fact Lancelot, Guenivere, and Arthur, doomed to be reborn until they get it right, "getting it right" being that Arthur gives way for Lancelot. But that's even wilder.
Anyway, just a conversation-starter or two, I guess. What do people think?
Now I'm including them all because there's compelling evidence that they are all aspects of the same being, or at least very closely connected. Most of the evidence for the idea that they are First Ones, however, applies to Sheridan.
We have several hints here:
At one point Delenn tells Sheridan that they are "old souls." It might just be rebirth in the Human and Minbari races.
Sheridan's body was never found, and there's legends that Valen's body was never recovered either. Delenn we don't know about.
Sheridan, at least, gets to go beyond the Rim. That might be because of the bits of Lorien and bits of Kosh in him, though.
Perhaps the most compelling yet the least reliable, in Londo's dreams in "the Very Long Night of Londo Mollari" Sheridan turns into a ball of light and disappears, just as the Human does at the end of "Deconstruction of Falling Stars."
Now personally I believe that what this all adds up to is that these three, the future-bringers, were really among the first to reach the level that the First Ones did, but they were not First Ones themselves. If that makes sense.
Then there's another idea, even stranger, that Sheridan, Delenn, and Sinclair are in fact Lancelot, Guenivere, and Arthur, doomed to be reborn until they get it right, "getting it right" being that Arthur gives way for Lancelot. But that's even wilder.
Anyway, just a conversation-starter or two, I guess. What do people think?
