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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

07/15 is the supposed Battler's birthday date. If you claim this is not the real Battler's birthday date, because he's not really Asumu's son, shouldn't it be clear then that this is Asumu's son birth date?

Yes, pretty much, except replace "son" with "child". There is no guarantee the baby Asumu replaced for the boy that is to be Ushiromiya Battler was male.

Why would they tell to Battler (and the rest of the family) that his birth date is the date when Jessica was born?

Because the child Battler is replacing already has a birthday (and hence Battler, who is now assuming that child's identity, must take the same birthday, discarding his own, in order to assume its place.

For example, there are two babies. One Baby A is born in 07/15, while another Baby B is born in 08/16, barely a month apart. Say Baby A is taken away, with the concession that the mother will get Baby B in exchange, and call it Baby A. However, the world already knows about the birth of Baby A. The world knows the mother gave birth in 07/15, and that the baby was alive. This is in contrast to the mother of Baby B. Baby B is still unknown, possibly just given birth. There's no news yet of its status. The mother might not even know, because childbearing is generally painful and you tend to pass out. So Baby B is taken and replaced with a dead baby without the mother knowing, and given to the mother of Baby A. The mother of Baby B wakes up and thinks her baby died.

However, the mother of Baby A cannot just have her new baby have an entirely new birthday, not if she wants people to think it was her old baby, because people already know she gave birth in 07/15. It stands to reason, she will celebrate the birthday of Baby B on 07/15, as what people expected of her *old* baby, and people are none the wiser.

Baby B (Battler) will, naturally, believe his birthday was Baby A's his entire life, but this will be false. His real birthday is 08/16.

Baby A is still around, and still has the real birthday of 07/15. This Baby A could be Jessica.

The natural problem with this theory is the sex of the baby. However, after birth, contact with the mother and child to the outside would have been limited (being admitted for medical care). So the specific sex of the baby could have been limited to the staff of the specific medical institution (and what do you know, Nanjo owns a clinic), while the fact that a birth has taken place at X date would have been known to just about everyone the date the mother was admitted.

As to the effort this would take, remember that Kinzo would be behind this, and Kinzo is... nuts. I would not put it beyond him to recognize a female born of Ushiromiya blood right after the death of his Beatrice as her "reincarnation", then arrange for said child to be in the family located in the house where he lives. He would even favor said child for the headship, seeing he loves Beatrice more than he loves any of his children (which is why if this were true, Jessica would still be above George, even if her real parents, Rudolph and Asumu, were lower in rank).

And why would they give to Jessica another birth date? Since, apparently, her official birth date is different.

Simple expediency? A story would have to be created for Natsuhi giving birth, after all, and it would be just as strange if Natsuhi's new baby has the exact same birthdate as her sister-in-law's child. Especially if she never had any indication of being pregnant to begin with.


The entire theory is of course a Jessica = Asumu's child scenario. It would not apply in another implicating scenario, that of Jessica = Beatrice's child.