[Kylon99]

Originally Posted by Raiza Sunozaki

Following this since it's birth, I'm pretty sure it's something like this:

Culprit - The one who orchestrates the murders of people before the endgame explosion wipes out any survivors. Not Natsuhi, Eva, Battler, Nanjo or Beatrice.
Bomber - The person who plants the explosive device which inccurs the devastation of the endgame explosion. Possibly, and in my opinion, very likely, Beatrice.
Beatrice - Someone deeply involved in Battler's life on the island six years ago. Almost certainly Jessica or Shannon.
Author(s) - For the sake of the Author Theory; yes, a being which writes one or more of the Episodes.

Actually, I forgot.. Beatrice is now at least two people, right?
- Legend of Beatrice
- Moetrice
- 10th Twilight Beatrice

I'm reluctant to make whoever set up the bomb or the conditions for the 10th twilight 'Beatrice' herself. This is because we've been told that she is an illusion made up from the 'rules' of the game board. In that way, I see it as that someone else can set it up and she claims it is her because she encompasses all the rules.


By the way, I was thinking about this metaphor:
Beatrice as an illusion exists only in the space where there's lack of truth. With real people like you or me, (even though I *am* just a guy on the internet) we exist when we are validated. But for Beatrice, the lack of validation of surrounding truths can give rise to her existence. For example, if there's a Gaap () of knowledge of what happened in a certain event, people can 'validate' Beatrice's existence by claiming she was active. But if ever the truth was exposed, she is damaged.

Spoiler for Long, but interesting. I think.:

Because of this, I am declaring the following:
All magic scenes of where she is shown to be injured are times when she was in danger of being exposed. Or things she decided was 'holding her back' or 'getting in the way of her magic' were things that one day could've exposed her.
- Virgilia fight
- Eva-B fight
- Battler's final truths.
- The shrine mirror <--- ???? but why?
- The 1967 Beatrice <--- ???? (she said it was like a 'cage' to her)
- Beatrice of Legend being hurt by Kinzo's scorpion charm? <-- ???? She didn't seem to be really all that bothered though...
- Moetrice being hurt by the mirror? <-- ???? This one was more serious


As an analogy, Beatrice as an illusion is like a shadow puppet. The shape of the shadow suggests that there is an object shaped like Beatrice. But in reality we know a shadow puppet could also be made from various different objects of different distances to the shadow. I believe the conspiracies are these 'objects' which cast the 'Beatrice' shadow. I think there are 3, following the 3 Rules that Bernkastel were talking about. Rule X is the bomb.

If the characters are able to view any one of these objects, the illusion of Beatrice disappears.

I believe the conspiracies are the 'objects' which are casting the Beatrice 'shadow.' The 10th Twilight bomb is definitely covering it up allowing the tale of the witch to be told. And I think the First Twilight Fakery, including the servants hyping up Beatrice's existence prior to the game is the 'source of magic' Bernkastel alluded to. Let me put it into a chart:

Rule X <-> Beato the Bomb (or her heart) (last riddle of EP4) <-> 10th Twilight Bomb <-> Bomber conspiracy
Rule Y <-> Beato of Legend <-> First Twilight Fakery + servants pranking <-> Beatrice conspiracy (i.e. all the servants telling Battler she exists.)
Rule Z <-> Moetrice <-> ???? <-> ????

Of Rule Z, Bernkastel said that it's like a 'maze-like existence putting haze over the truth.' Can Moetrice be connected to Rule Z? We know Moetrice is connected to the love duel; we know she has something to do with love with Battler. We know they kept saying, "without love it cannot be seen." Is Rule Z something about the love of the characters on the island? Something that makes them do bad, bad things? And if we believe George (and maybe Shannon knows) is the one behind the betrayals and these betrayals are central to Beatrice... then, their love IS causing a huge problem. How is their love causing randomness in the episodes?


By the way, there are a lot of other conspiracies that don't have anything to do with Beatrice:
- The Kinzo conspiracy
- The conspiracy to blackmail Krauss
- Possible Kanon going rogue conspiracy
- Possible Kyrie - Battler mother conspiracy
- etc, etc.


Anyways, what do you guys think?

Also, like someone said, just because we can 'out' Beatrice doesn't mean that we'll get the truth that she wanted Battler and the readers of the bottle messages (and by extension us, I guess) to know. There may be an even greater puzzle after this even if all of Beatrice is laid bare.

Mmmm....