I think the similarity between Malleus and Grim might be because Grim is Malenoa's phantom.

To preface, I'm assuming Malenoa overblotted because of the scene in Sleeping Beauty where she snapped at seeing Diablo turned into stone? 

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Diablo (Maleficent's birb) in TWST, is Levan right now and in recent updates its said that the latest news about Levan is that he's missing and there's rumors about him fighting Knight of Dawn; the strongest of the Silver Owls.

Right now, the Silver Owls are ambushing the Land of Briar castle where Malenoa is. 

If it goes like this??? I think they kept Levan as hostage to officially take the land or something—

All I know is that someone must've harmed Levan because in the movie, Maleficent only attacked the kingdom or used all her powers to kill Prince Philip upon discovering the fairies turned Diablo into a stone bcs they want Prince Philip to escape and save Aurora.

From the words of Lilia about Malenoa, Malenoa is undefeatable– so I really don't believe she was overpowered by strength, but rather she was caught off guard by emotional turmoil (or for this theory, consumed by her own overblot).

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Going back to Grim might be Malenoa's phantom… Grim is always assumed to be a phantom labeled as a direbeast for now... Its heavily theorized like that because of how, in his feral state, he devours blotted magic stones.

And, blotted magic stones are what supplies a phantom to live because they carry the magic power of a mage.

But phantoms can't be born without an overblot first... so who's mage is he a phantom of?

We know that the phantom's strength is a reflection of a mage capabilities when they were at the right state–

Malenoa was a really powerful mage so if we consider the destruction of NRC (and possibly the Sage Island? The entire sky was black out too) that we've seen in the prologue as the power of Phantom Grim, then Phantom Grim must originate from a formidable mage like Malenoa, because he easily beaten all mages on the island effortlessly and even plunged the surroundings in darkness.

If Grim is a phantom then he's a powerful one because he's ancient (assumed from his diagnosed curse from STYX), he has the intelligence of a human, and has immense destruction power (if he's not sane as shown with how he easily destroyed his cage room at STYX).

Also even if Overblot Grim is composed of different parts from the main 7 phantoms, his form is majorly resembling a dragon. And, Malenoa's a dragon.

(long post ahead)

Twisted Wonderland Theory! May have future spoilers so please skip this post if you don’t want to risk getting spoiled.

I accidentally posted this before it was finished before, that’s why this might seem like a repeated post, whoops sorry. Edit: Also I tumblr keeps on messing up the format and making me edit it again ;-;

Anyways, It seems like a bunch of people are interested in learning more about this theory circulating among JPN twisted wonderland fans so here I am to display the possible evidence/hints. I had to use google translate to look at some of their claims and although it’s easy to just confirm on your own the claims I have to admit I couldn’t list some of their claims simply because I couldn’t understand what they were saying. Please keep in mind this is only a speculation and has no in-game proof or foreshadowing that I’ve seen at the very least proving it, so take it with a grain of salt. Now, onto the theory!

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                Twisted Wonderland - Theory Chapter 7

After reading Twisted Tale “Once Upon a Dream” i begin to think that Malleus will throw us or the whole school into a deep sleep, making us live an alternate reality. In the twisted story, Maleficent gives Aurora a completely different life, from the day of her baptism to well beyond her sixteenth birthday.

(Basically in the honorary world Aurora is more than 16 years old because time passes quickly there than in reality). In the dream reality, Maleficent blamed Aurora’s parents for causing an “apocalypse”, and with her power she erected a barrier of thorns around the castle.

With the excuse that nothing but dangerous creatures exists outside, Maleficent has kept the makeshift Aurora in the castle. It turns out that Maleficent needs to keep her alive until midnight on her 16th birthday in order to come back to life. But in the meantime she kills many people, all people present at the castle who ended up involved in the dream world after the three fairies put them to sleep. Not knowing that he has condemned an entire country to be a prisoner in the dream world of Maleficent. The same happened to Filippo, who after kissing Aurora falls asleep being dragged into the dream world.

An important role is played by the minstrel, yes the drunken minstrel, who somehow understands that what they are experiencing is not real, and thanks to him Aurora begins to collect the clues that will lead her to understand that she has more power than she can imagine. In fact, the dream world is her world, Maleficent can limit herself to making some changes, but only Aurora has complete control. With only the power of her mind she can change her surroundings leading her to win against Maleficent.

And here the intervention of Idia and Ortho could become DECISIVE, we know that Ortho can easily create realities, and Idia used simulations on the boys to examine their accumulation of blots. They both wanted to reset the world!!

Another important factor to keep in mind is the lack of knowledge and presence of technology in the Valley of Thorns, Malleus himself seems unfamiliar with machines, this could prove to be his weak point. Technology is wonderful! The Shroud brothers might think of countering Malleus’ moves by imprisoning him in virtual reality, which he might be able to distinguish from reality(?) Will Technology Defeat Malleus(?) The distorted story also reminded me of Madara’s ability to make everyone fall asleep by making them dream of the life they always want to want, but also to the film “Doctor Strange: Multiverse of madness”. Could it be that loneliness becomes unbearable for Malleus to the point of transporting everyone to his “ideal world” where he can finally have friends and no longer be alone and misunderstood? Malleus may also suffer from the duties and responsibilities of his status, and like Idia and Ortho, he may wish he were a normal person. Aurora in both the original story and the distorted versions, when she comes to find out about her true identity and her arranged marriage, she is completely devastated!

A moment before touching the spindle Aurora no longer seems to be hypnotized, she hesitates to touch the spindle, almost as if wondering if that could be a solution to escape the sad destiny she would meet. Mind you Aurora is a teenager, and teenagers can be prone to making extreme decisions to solve problems. In Aurora’s case, she sees death as the escape route to reality. In the distorted story, Aurora claims she voluntarily touched the spindle to escape the arranged marriage, she wished to die rather than marry a man she didn’t love. In Maleficent’s version of the story in “My Side of the Story - Maleficent”, Aurora asked Melefica for help in escaping the arranged marriage and she suggested that he fake her death. If that had happened the story would have ended as “Romeo and Juliet”. 

Now Malleus may well be a fairy, he may have lived for many centuries, but he is still very immature and the accumulated stress could push him towards a single solution: to sleep everyone in a death-like sleep to live the life he has always dreamed of.

I certainly have high expectations for Chapter 7, and i can’t wait to cry and spend a sleepless night thinking about how this story will turn out…😭 I absolutely recommend that you read Twisted Tale “Once upon a Dream”! Let me know what you think, and share your theories!