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DaBackpack · 2013-09-08, 14:52

At some point, we realize that the character of AUTHORSHIP of the stories is more important than the characters of the stories themselves. This is probably after EP4 when the focus turns to "Who is Beatrice?" Once we realize that Beatrice is telling these stories to show something to Battler, we have to know that the narrative is subject to bias. So instead of asking "How come Kinzo did such-and-such here but something else there?", we need to ask "Why did the author choose to change the character of Kinzo? What does this say about the author/Beatrice?"

The problem is further complicated when we realize that Beatrice isn't actually the one writing "what WE see" and that all but EP1&EP2 message bottles are Forgeries in 1998. Yet, Battler and Beatrice both acknowledge, in EP4, that Beatrice has changed in both character and game strategy since EP2. This is why I subscribe to the theory that even though EP1 and EP2 are based on the message bottles, the same author of EP3-EP6 adapted the message bottles into Episodes that falls in the same continuity as the others. The author analyzed the writing of the message bottles and decided "This is a love story", created the motive he/she thought was indicated in the message bottles, and wrote EP1-EP6.

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DaBackpack Blick Winkel Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Gobbled up by Promathia	At some point, we realize that the character of AUTHORSHIP of the stories is more important than the characters of the stories themselves. This is probably after EP4 when the focus turns to "Who is Beatrice?" Once we realize that Beatrice is telling these stories to show something to Battler, we have to know that the narrative is subject to bias. So instead of asking "How come Kinzo did such-and-such here but something else there?", we need to ask "Why did the author choose to change the character of Kinzo? What does this say about the author/Beatrice?" The problem is further complicated when we realize that Beatrice isn't actually the one writing "what WE see" and that all but EP1&EP2 message bottles are Forgeries in 1998. Yet, Battler and Beatrice both acknowledge, in EP4, that Beatrice has changed in both character and game strategy since EP2. This is why I subscribe to the theory that even though EP1 and EP2 are based on the message bottles, the same author of EP3-EP6 adapted the message bottles into Episodes that falls in the same continuity as the others. The author analyzed the writing of the message bottles and decided "This is a love story", created the motive he/she thought was indicated in the message bottles, and wrote EP1-EP6.