u/MadisonDissariya

Aside from potentially performing a few TPK songs like they've now done with Fake Your Death and War Beneath the Rain, and the way they used elements of Dive and Paper Swords, I think they probably weren't going to put out a full new album. Instead, I think they were going to do a version of what they're doing now, but smaller. A costumed live performance with stories told mostly through imagery, not music, combining visual theater and traditional rock concert structure. Gerard once said that he wanted to revisit TPK but he wasn't sure if it'd be in the form of music, and we know from a statement made by the tour backdrop company that they were originally going for an angelic, magical, heaven-ascendant theme before COVID happened and they pivoted to SWARM. I think we were going to get a Paper Kingdom staegshow, hence all the visible and auditory references to things we now know are TPK, like how one of the members of the band said the imagery for marketing was going to be orange and they used a fuckload of orange in the tour promos, plus the obvious details of the Paper Swords chant.