Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24.182.180.104-20130717022549

I've been thinking about this one, about how all the kids of Ed, Edd, and Eddy (except the Kankers) are all dead and trapped in a customized limbo. Well what if Peachcreek, their town, was Hell itself?

In Dante's Inferno, Limbo is the uppermost level of Hell, where the virtuous pegans and unbaptized go. Basically people not good enough for Heaven, but not bad enough for hell. It is said that the punishment those in Limbo suffer from is stagnation. That they are doomed to repeat the same actions time and time again. No change, no diviation, just the same thing over and over. This could be present with how the kids never change in appearence, attitude, or personality. Eddy keeps coming up with scams, Kevin keeps calling them dorks, Rolf continues to work his farm, etc. They are doomed to an eternity of repeated actions.

That being said, it's also possible that other parts of their town represent other circles of Hell. One such circle is the second circle, the first one after Limbo, being the circle of Lust. This is personified in the Trailer Park. The second circle is described as being a place where violent winds blow the souls of those who sin for carnal desire back and forth in a great storm. The Trailer Park could be a play on the old cliche of tornados and twisters ravaging trailer parks. There three succubi, the Kankers, reside.

The next circle is the circle of Gluttony. Here sinners lie in a vile slush, sightless and heedless of their neighbors. All the while they are guarded over by the three headed beast Cereberus. This circle could be the Garbage Dump. The vile slush being the disgustingly colored sludge that makes up most of the dump. Cereberus could also be the car crushing machines that frightened the Eds off in the episode where Ed narrated the whole episode as if it was a scifi movie.

This circle is one that convinced me of this addition to the theory. The fourth circle of Greed is none other than the Candy Store. In Dante's Inferno, this circle is described as a place where sinners push heavy stones up a never ending hill in a Sisyphus manner. These heavy stones that everyone persues are now the Jawbreakers that everyone covets.

Now the Kankers didn't appear until after the Eds' first visit to their trailer park (The circle of Lust). These three demons found that these souls had the ability to traverse the various circles of Hell and are fascinated by this when they see it first hand. They now continue to follow these souls throughout the surrounding circles. Simply to torment them and try to figure out why it is these souls have this ability.

This not officially a part of the theory, but this could be an interesting addition. What do you think? 