Yomiel (in that japanese peekaboo event where Sekai is restored), seems to imply that closer to the Center, the gods are less talk and more "silently taking things without making a big show out of it":
That might be because Pareidolia (And maybe Himawari because she might be it) rather do things in secrecy, or out of the rules if they can.
I don't really think Pareidolia would be closer to the Center than the Wire god or HOPE, as it seems to not be accepted by the other gods:
I think Pareidolia is between those two, not the exact center. As i said it might be a driving force. It went from drooling Akira towards Hope. Might be the reason why it says (iirc) smth like "Do as i say and don't slip or things will go horribly wrong.", like him becoming full Hope.
and well, doesn't seem to want to take things so far, nor do so silently. Of course, could definitely be wrong. It being "The Dark" seems notable.
Yeah thats from the reset/Happy event with the books and so on right (Good boy/Lamb Legs smth like that)?
Can't say much about it. All i know is that "The Dark" is one of the Angles (Hope ones i think), the other being "The Light".
And one or two times there is an entity called "The Light and The Dark", or vice versa.
Considering the likes of Yasu's and Yomiel's god which seems to be HOPE is considered "very young", I'm thinking the Center might be more likely to be these so called older gods that Yasu has mentioned:
Hope might be very young because Akira not always was a predator. So Hope just recently came to be (due to what he did with Maya).
Older gods, or maybe older god might not exactly be the center.
Older god could be real Akira, the one that he was before Sekai's death, or at least "now Akira" that comes clean with it.
The state Pareidolia/Himawari wants him to become.
I imagined things like this:
It's a cross (because reocurring topic).
Right is Calm god.
Left is Hope.
Pareidolia is between left and right.
Top is "The Light" (not the Angel but like salvation also Nao).
Bottom is "The Dark" (Not the Angle but doom. Maybe also Hope even if it's left in my example.)
Pareidolia want's to go from right, towards left and hopefully reach top.
But it could slip and fall down to bottom because it went to far left.
Older god, i guess Nao, might be the real Akira. I don't no if it's also written down, but the soundfile says: "I AM YOU".
As someone pointed out it could also mean "Yuu", his supposed father (<- theory). But i'm not going with that in this case.
Nao is the manager of the wishing well/ the library. So she holds all knowledge. Another reason why she might be Akira.
Yet another thing is (that one i really don't know if i misremember) that she says she's fear incarnate.
Would also fit that she is former Akira. And now Akira fears his former self, because of the memories attached to it.
I mean, his now self is all about coping mechanics.
There's an entity that grew many friends iirc. This might be Akira imagining the majority of the Kumon'mi inhabitants and as a side effect different personas of himself, the gods (could also count for most of the girls tbh). Like, his lieutenants (the gods)(whom he's not aware of).
There's also Nao, stating that, if things need correction, she informs "the one/s concerned".
If we take that from a different point of view she might mean Pareidolia/Himawari.
Though, Himawari doesn't want to play by the rule book so much, so she does what she wants, if she can.
There seems to be some gods around that haven't been established just yet. Like the one Yasu smelled from Maya's shrine:
At least from the images you provided, i doesn't say if she knows or not knows that god. So could be Hope she smells.
Since Maya seems to be related to Hope, it'd be a 1+1.
There's possibly even 9 gods if we take the recent 'From the desk of the Ninth god' thing literally. Plus there's also "The World itself", "The Old One", and "Nao", who may be older gods. Nao even seems to have been hinted as being a god from a time that predates the current one:
I like this game, it's story, really.
But i hate religion. Even buddhism has some real shitty history as i found out.
So i dispise religion no matter what.
That means i really don't know how to incorporate religion on a meaningful basis.
Meaning: Even a single god would be just to much. Now we have at least four and 9 would make a total mess out of everything, so... i try to omit that shit as much as i can.
Sorry for this post to probably be a barrage for you.
