#Every previous cycle had nine bishops. This is Tyler's first cycle with a new "major"/prominent fear

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drowsy tulip
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All of the previous nine Bishops - representing things like doubt, anxiety, depression, etc- were major constants in the mental struggles that Tyler's faced throughout his life. The entirety of the city of Dema is built around this nine-fear symmetry, eith a 3x3 grid in the center and everything spiraling from there.
RAWFEAR, at least to me, is about Tyler's newest fear since becoming a father: the fear of time, the inevitability that the days will keep on ticking and that it only gets faster (the "sounds of empty uzis" being the ticking of a clock).
"You've met my fears, they're all regulars. Wait, who's the new kid?"
All of the other bishops have been around fir a while and are here to stay. Clancy specifically represents the fear of the future, and officially breaks the symmetry of the cycle.
I wonder how Dema would be restructured...?

oblique aurora
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the Nove bishop boxset card mentions Vulturism i think. He's definitely ushering in a new religion onto the city and i think all the lyrics of Tyler realizing life is about the endurance of the pain not overcoming it (bc there's always something else)could lead to prolonged suffering but not necessarily death becomes the way to salvation in Dema

orchid pollen
sage spire
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you know how every bishop previously was named after a combination or a weird algamation of words?

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wat if clancy's bishop name is rawfear, i know it sounds a bit off but maybe?

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although yea i know its prob officialy known as nova bishop

hushed turtle
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This would make so much sense given how much rawfear shows up in digital remains and seems to have been given priority over other songs on breach

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Also how it made the cut for tour when otherwise (before tally) it was only the album singles