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Originally Posted by SeagullCrazy
The adults (except Rosa) should all be dead at the first twilight, so what does it mean when the stakes are killing people after that? Is it possible for the adults to still be alive, or should it be interpreted as something else?
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Not with the context of the red anyway.
If we represent the stakes as people it causes all kinds of problems. In episode 2 for example Battler George and Rosa are in the chapel the whole time, and it's not even 5 minutes after they get back that George says Jessica is missing and they go look for her. The only people who can enter Jessica's room and lock it are the servants and Nanjo unless you think like Beatrice suggested and she locked the room herself and faked her death.
Episode 3 would be even weirder with those representations. Whose left to attack them? Nutsuhi, Krauss, Eva, Nanjo, George, Jessica, and Battler.
Thinking that the stakes represent killers makes it so we have to move people around all the time, and it gets really hard to do that when the red requires them to do certain things like close the window when George leaves and such.
I just don't like the stake idea. It's convoluted. It's been around forever. And like I said before if it had any merit it would've been hinted in Chiru by now. Virgilia and Ronove are different. They appeared to give Battler hints , and they seem to represent something in their representing character's memories. The stakes were used originally to get Battler to beleive in magic and stop thinking. Maybe they could represent people who create closed rooms and people who hold the stakes, but not anything too complicated.