Chronology & Timelines (also a work in progress)
APORIA
Okay, so most of this timeline is based off personal theories worked in with bits and pieces of evidence from the anime. I am not advocating this as canon in any shape or form; it's just... a vague skeleton outline of how I imagined Aporia's life to look like.
Lucciano and Child!Aporia
We'll assume the child Aporia who had lived before the time of the Machine Emperors was a relatively happy and most likely innocent kid. I mean, sure, there are a lot of challenges a prepubescent kid has to face but I think we can all agree that watching your parents explode in front of your very eyes takes the cake for harsh trials a 12-year-old has to experience. As Lucciano is suggested to be around Rua and Ruka's age and also put in the same class as them in Duel Academia, we'll take a wild guess that Aporia was around 12 or 13 when his parents were killed. Being exposed to that sort of cruelty at such a young age in addition to this being the first bout of despair they’ve experienced in their short life, can really fuck up a kid's head. In peering down the giant crater where his parents used to be, the innocent child!Aporia metaphorically died and in his place, 'Lucciano' was born. Being the representation of the Aporia who was driven mad after his parents' deaths, Lucciano is a combination of an excitable, playful young boy and a manipulative, cruel, sadistic pile of insanity reveling schadenfreude.
Placido and Adult!Aporia
Note that Placido's flashback showing his human self was the only one which depicted Aporia actually smiling. This would suggest that what came after 'Lucciano' was not 'Placido', but an Aporia temporarily vindicated from despair. Sometime after the death of his parents and probably in his late teenage to early adult years, Aporia met the nameless girl who he eventually fell in love with. The arrival of the girl in his life signified the end of 'Lucciano', the child Aporia driven insane from the death of his parents and the start of the adult Aporia who was able to put away the despairs of his past and look towards the future for the second time.
If you look at the timeline, you may notice that the pre-despaired adult Aporia and 'Placido'-have a significant variation in the number of years of individual existence. The adult Aporia who assumed his parent's deaths being the worse thing that would ever happen to him and tried to find a new happiness in his lover - that Aporia barely existed for three or four years. As robot!Placido looks no older than 25 at most, and taking into account most of the 5D's characters are in their late teens to early twenties coupled with his rash, still immature attitude and the fact this is an anime, we can say with a certain confidence that 'Placido' came into existence pretty early on in Aporia's life.
Jose and Elder!Aporia
Unlike the previous two despairs, there is no specific event that triggers the existence of 'Jose' to come into being, thus that's why there is no solid line that distinctly splits 'Placido' from 'Jose' in the timeline. The creators of 5D's are incredibly vague about the details and only showed us a scene that sometime during Aporia's elder years, Aporia came to the realization he was the only human left in the world. I'm going to assume that 'Jose' came directly after 'Placido', because without evidence from the anime to give us any sense of direction, we are in all likelihood to assume that Aporia simply never interacted with anyone significant between the years following his lover's death and before he meets his fellow old people friends-and that it was intentional on the creator's part, rather than them being too lazy to animate additional flashbacks to fill in the numerous gaps in Aporia's messed up history.
I am also going to assume that 'Placido' gradually transitions into 'Jose' somewhere between the years of 50 to 60, seeing as that's the age range when adults start to cross from the realm of being 'middle-age' into being grandparents.
Notice that it's not 'Jose', but elder!Aporia that is on the very end of the timeline. Because Jose is the embodiment of Aporia's despair of loneliness from being the last person alive on the earth, his very existence would have logically been canceled out once Aporia met Z-one and the others. The only thing that differs the two is the fact the elder!Aporia had companionship-the companionship that 'Jose' hadn't known for three or four decades, even if it was for only a short while before Paradox and Antinomy died as well.
ANTINOMY
Johnny as "Bruno"
Johnny as "Dark Glass"
Johnny as "Antinomy
Okay, so most of this timeline is based off personal theories worked in with bits and pieces of evidence from the anime. I am not advocating this as canon in any shape or form; it's just... a vague skeleton outline of how I imagined Aporia's life to look like.
Lucciano and Child!Aporia
We'll assume the child Aporia who had lived before the time of the Machine Emperors was a relatively happy and most likely innocent kid. I mean, sure, there are a lot of challenges a prepubescent kid has to face but I think we can all agree that watching your parents explode in front of your very eyes takes the cake for harsh trials a 12-year-old has to experience. As Lucciano is suggested to be around Rua and Ruka's age and also put in the same class as them in Duel Academia, we'll take a wild guess that Aporia was around 12 or 13 when his parents were killed. Being exposed to that sort of cruelty at such a young age in addition to this being the first bout of despair they’ve experienced in their short life, can really fuck up a kid's head. In peering down the giant crater where his parents used to be, the innocent child!Aporia metaphorically died and in his place, 'Lucciano' was born. Being the representation of the Aporia who was driven mad after his parents' deaths, Lucciano is a combination of an excitable, playful young boy and a manipulative, cruel, sadistic pile of insanity reveling schadenfreude.
Placido and Adult!Aporia
Note that Placido's flashback showing his human self was the only one which depicted Aporia actually smiling. This would suggest that what came after 'Lucciano' was not 'Placido', but an Aporia temporarily vindicated from despair. Sometime after the death of his parents and probably in his late teenage to early adult years, Aporia met the nameless girl who he eventually fell in love with. The arrival of the girl in his life signified the end of 'Lucciano', the child Aporia driven insane from the death of his parents and the start of the adult Aporia who was able to put away the despairs of his past and look towards the future for the second time.
If you look at the timeline, you may notice that the pre-despaired adult Aporia and 'Placido'-have a significant variation in the number of years of individual existence. The adult Aporia who assumed his parent's deaths being the worse thing that would ever happen to him and tried to find a new happiness in his lover - that Aporia barely existed for three or four years. As robot!Placido looks no older than 25 at most, and taking into account most of the 5D's characters are in their late teens to early twenties coupled with his rash, still immature attitude and the fact this is an anime, we can say with a certain confidence that 'Placido' came into existence pretty early on in Aporia's life.
Jose and Elder!Aporia
Unlike the previous two despairs, there is no specific event that triggers the existence of 'Jose' to come into being, thus that's why there is no solid line that distinctly splits 'Placido' from 'Jose' in the timeline. The creators of 5D's are incredibly vague about the details and only showed us a scene that sometime during Aporia's elder years, Aporia came to the realization he was the only human left in the world. I'm going to assume that 'Jose' came directly after 'Placido', because without evidence from the anime to give us any sense of direction, we are in all likelihood to assume that Aporia simply never interacted with anyone significant between the years following his lover's death and before he meets his fellow old people friends-and that it was intentional on the creator's part, rather than them being too lazy to animate additional flashbacks to fill in the numerous gaps in Aporia's messed up history.
I am also going to assume that 'Placido' gradually transitions into 'Jose' somewhere between the years of 50 to 60, seeing as that's the age range when adults start to cross from the realm of being 'middle-age' into being grandparents.
Notice that it's not 'Jose', but elder!Aporia that is on the very end of the timeline. Because Jose is the embodiment of Aporia's despair of loneliness from being the last person alive on the earth, his very existence would have logically been canceled out once Aporia met Z-one and the others. The only thing that differs the two is the fact the elder!Aporia had companionship-the companionship that 'Jose' hadn't known for three or four decades, even if it was for only a short while before Paradox and Antinomy died as well.
ANTINOMY
Johnny as "Bruno"
Johnny as "Dark Glass"
Johnny as "Antinomy