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Old 2012-09-01, 12:03   Link #30295
LyricalAura
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Originally Posted by Patchwork Chimera View Post
Ikuko is regarded as an oddity. For all we know, she's a real witch that tought funny to try and spread Rokkenjima's cat box. Ikuko=Yasu is less likely that Yasu stumbling around as an amnesiac -because, you know, she was in the Rokkenjima big boom and she couldn't have so swiftly gone and buy a house, identity and all that jazz in so little time-.
"So little time" was the two years that she had the gold where we have no idea what she was doing. She didn't think either of her relationships with George or Jessica could work in the long term, and we know that a mysterious incident would have occurred even if Battler hadn't returned to the island. I don't think it's a huge stretch to think she was contemplating vanishing from the island long before the incident actually occurred.

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Originally Posted by Patchwork Chimera View Post
Yasu wouldn't have escaped of the Big Boom even if she could. Because that's all her character is about and is been hinted for the enterity of the series: that she was all for dying with them if nobody solved the epitaph.
She may have considered actually blowing up the island, in the way that Kyrie considered murdering Asumu. We'll never know if she really did consider it, or whether she would have gone through with it, but we can at least conclude from Battler's behavior toward Beatrice and the epilogue of EP8 that she didn't actually kill anyone herself during the murder game.

So yes, she felt guilty enough to commit suicide over the deaths that occurred, but that's not quite the same thing as being determined to blow everyone up along with herself. In the former case, she might choose not to commit suicide if she had the opportunity to save somebody else. For instance, what if Battler was responsible for the murder game escalating into actual murders, and he tried to commit suicide out of guilt himself after learning the truth from Yasu?
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