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Originally Posted by Squirrellord
...we then have to ask for a definition of a trap...
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I brought an expert on that subject:
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Originally Posted by rogerpepitone
Spoiler for Chess:
In her speech late in episode 4 loaded with chess metaphors:
- There are now holes opened all over your ramparts, and I was able to send in
not a bishop, but a full queen!! Do you know what kind of piece a queen is? --> The witch's pieces (or just the Siestas) were bishops. Beatrice is a queen.
- That is why I have progressed through this game by sending in various pieces so
that you cannot stay on a white square, forcing you out in front of me, the
one who controls the black squares next to you. --> Battler has been standing on white squares. White squares are anti-fantasy; black squares are anti-mystery.
- You will finally become covered with pitch black, and surely become a black king...! --> Battler is the white king.
However, a king starts on the square opposite his own color. If Battler is the white king, he started on a black square.
Was Battler born anti-mystery, but has long been converted to anti-fantasy?
Another thing. Look at Maria's crown. Then look at the way the black king is depicted in chess problems. Also, the two kings will always stay on the board until the end of the game. (In episode 3, Virgilia's duel at the first twilight suggests that the game continued well after checkmate occurred.
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The observation with the chess pieces is remarkable. Certainly it's possible that the reason Battler is so obsessively vehement about denying magic and supernatural, because his own "mom" (at least that's how he knows) was unaffected by Battler's attempts of preventing her death via trying to perform
alchemy magic. I mean he was 12 at the time, It might be explainable he was desperate to do everything to help her, and It's safe to say he has a very vivid fantasy (i.e minibombs, and how according to him, the victims shoot each other at the same time). He also might have been influenced by Kinzo sometimes in the past, whether intentionally or not.
At least Asumu never comes back as a Homonculus Heh... Better not state such things. One never knows with Ryukishi.
It would also explain why the hell Maria wears such a silly crown, if she'd be the
"queen" black King?.