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I would think a more likely scenario, if HOPE isn't the original USER1, is that he interited that title from Nozomu. It would make sense after all for both Wires and Pareidolia to have older accounts, since HOPE is the youngest.
However, the order of users may simply have to do with users for this particular cycle, in which HOPE was the first, since it began in summer.
And about Pareidolia faking a HOPE, he probably was the one that controlled Yasu on that one event where she pissed herself. That's because not only Akira recognizes that it isn't HOPE, but Akira also pisses himself after Pareidolia shows fear regarding Wires (tsuneyo naked event).
Given that when Pareidolia was passing as HOPE it was recognized by Akira, I think it's unlikely he's also been doing it successfully on the side. An important point is that one does not have to fake being HOPE to talk to Yasu. She's such a powerful medium that she would be able to answer the world itself if she wanted to.
Also important to take note is that HOPE doesn't care about her at all - that can be seen during Glossolalia, in which he's very aggressive. The thing about his change is tone is that he gets progressively pissed at Akira, which is fair enough of an explanation to me. Yasu also points out that he's highly temperamental and behaves like a child sometimes, so that tracks.
