>2. Vesper menhera arc, Tempus rift, and stealth termination
- Menhera arc (if we're just including the Japan fiasco) could have any trigger whatsoever and we'll never know. Whatever caused it seemed to have been brewing behind the scenes starting with his suspension. The fact that Axel later on said that he tried to dissuade Vesper from making this trip at all says that it was obvious he wasn't alright prior to that.
- The 'Tempus Rift' feels more like HQ losing what made it special, and it can easily be tagged by a lot of Vesper's fuckery. All 3 got blindsided with his suspension, as that stopped all the group things they were doing in their tracks. The 6th month anniversary was the breaking point, as HQ was never the same again, splitting into Altare/Axel and Magni/Vesper by the end. (The last actual collab with HQ was the L4D2 HQ vs. VG stream in March of 2023.) VG debuting helped immensely (whether anyone wants to believe it or not), but that also led to Magni basically monopolizing Bettel, splitting HQ even further.
- I still stand by the rrat that their graduation was extremely late contract negotiations that failed and since they weren't actually terminated (see Rushia and Mel's terminations), Cover decided to give them the graduation route. There's too much from around their anniversary period being held off/redone to remove the quitters [Vesper's removal from Woven Fates; both from Flex if they ever got that far (as it's easy to tell the song was written for 8 people to have a verse each); the Affection Overdose short being delayed with the later implication that the two/their mascots were removed (you can still see the edges of a Magmite and Vestea on the thumbnail art); the full Stars branch cover being delayed to remove the 2, meaning they had already recorded for it], implying that Cover had not anticipated this happening.
>3. Who the fuck was Omegatroon and did the talents really hate him so much that he got fired?
Probably one of the OG EN managers that got boosted up the chain around when the first management shift came along prior to Council debuting. As for their firing? I don't know if the talents caused it, but I wouldn't doubt that for him to get kicked, a solid majority of the girls AND guys would have had to have fucking hated him. All of Myth and Council/Promise seem to range from indifference to immense dislike of Omega from what I remember. More recently (in January of this year) Altare and Axel also hinted at having a lot of problems with management im the same time period as the girls were. So hypothetically, if Cover gave all the EN talents a survey on if Omega was doing a good job, all 10 girls and (at minimum) 2 of the guys in the first male gen saying he was shit would definitely make Cover want to drop him.
(I have a personal rrat that the only talents that liked Omega were Magni and Vesper. Mostly since, when the big EN management change presumably happened in mid/late winter or extremely early spring, all the girls, Altare, and Axel seemed far happier with the new situation, while Magni and Vesper became even bigger dickholes in general.)
