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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
Yeah, and how that isn't magic? How do you explain people being controlled by supernatural entities from an anti-fantasy perspective?
From an anti-fantasy perspective you can't say that, you need to imagine they did all those things by their own will, but those behaviors are completely at odd with rationality.
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Not necessarily.
Let's say that a nearly infinite number of kakera exist, each with a different possibility. If the witches have some leeway to choose which kakera the games take place in, then they can "control" certain actions as long as those actions could possibly be logically consistent. Though the characters' behaviors might not seem consistent at a glance, there could be hidden factors and missing scenes that explain most of them.
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Originally Posted by Jan-Poo
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Well, I don't think it's quite that simple. Again, remember what Ronove said at the beginning about this game "having no love".
Put that together with my meta world
theory. There's a chance that Ronove was referring to the large number of "falsehoods" in EP5. That means there's likely to be several scenes that are simply not true (probably every scene where pieces talk to the Meta World). However, I'm pretty sure that a huge part of the game is at least close to the truth, or Ryuukishi wouldn't have made a core arc out of it.
Here's a bit of my crazy theory to try and explain Erika's actions in EP5. Again, just a theory. (Sorry it's a bit rushed, busy with translation stuff)
Spoiler for Erika is the 'culprit' theory:
"Frankly if it wasn't for that "Erika isn't the culprit" I wouldn't think twice: Erika is the culprit. This would be the only way to explain realistically her behavior."
I think you're exactly right. Erika planned to kill four people and use her getup as a detective to pin the murders on Battler.
She probably knew the answer to the riddle before coming to the island, but realized that the odds of an outsider getting the gold by solving the epitaph were about zero. Kinzo's supposed 'will' where he left the inheritance and the gold to the discoverer was never written down, so Kinzo's children would almost certainly never let an outsider get their hands on those. With the other siblings' money crisis, Erika could probably get their support, but Krauss would almost certainly win the legal battle (this is Erika assuming Kinzo is alive).
Solve the riddle along with Battler. Kill some people and frame Battler with an elaborate closed room, then spectacularly solve the case. Then claim the gold since Battler is no longer a worthy candidate. (And maybe she's tried to kill Krauss by now)
By this point, the siblings have practically decided that Battler should be the next head. With Battler removed from the equation, it all goes into limbo. Since everyone is confused, in debt to Erika, and has already agreed that the gold's discoverer should be head, she's in a much, much better position than she was before.
Or, for all we know, she plans to kill everyone and tries to frame Battler and then Natsuhi to confuse everyone.