[Patchwork Chimera]

Originally Posted by Captain Bluebeard

The fact that Bernkastel is depticted as a black cat does not prove her hair is also black. Black fur does not necessarily imply black hair. Minerva McGonagall can transform into a cat but its fur has no relation to her hair colour.

The black cat aspects are of Bern are just put in there for fanservice and possibly to trace back to Rika's punishment game outfit. The tail proves nothing.

(We should really be ending this, I feel like we're eating up thread space by being stupid )

Yeah. Let's end it.
But Minerva McGonagall is a gray cat. And her hair is gray... argh! Enough!

Originally Posted by Captain Bluebeard

He didn't necessarily drift to Nijima. The sea can lead to an awful lot of places.

The shortest the time he spends in high sea, the larger is his possibility to survive. Especially if he was... y'know hurt in anyway that could casue amnesia. Or worse. From Rokkenjima to Niijima are a good coulpe of hours in a high-speed badass boat, so in the little thingy he took to escape it'd pass at least half a day. He could be in one of the nearest islands too, but not anywhere. And the fact is that any of those islands would limit his posibility to escape to another part of Japan.

Originally Posted by Wanderer

No... I don't think it's ever made clear. In any case, what you are saying is counter intuitive, since it would seem that Rokkenjima memories are the most difficult for Touya and memories of Battler's life before the incident are the easiest.

But, even if we assume it's as you say, it's still strange that Touya would remember the backstories of other people better than that of himself...

He used Yasu's bottle messages to sketch his own forgeries, adding things here and there from his own memories. The same can be said about the backstories of the family members: that could be investigated from the people that knew the Ushiromiyas by the Witch Hunters and periodists, and Ikuko herself helped him with what little bits she could grab.

After all, Tohya wouldn't be able to write anything about backstories if he had just his own Battler memories to go by, by the simple fact of the six years he was away from his family. The personalities, on the other hand, could be taken from his scarce memories of the Rokkenjima incident and before, Yasu's letters, etc.

Besides, I'd think is easier to remember his past before Rokkenjima that the traumatic experiencie lived in that island that caused him to lose it.