2010-10-26, 08:25 | Link #4861 |
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Basically, it's to no one's advantage as we've been told in the storyline to have Kinzo's body preserved and accessible. And even if he were kept in that state, keeping him in the house is both impractical and risky. I find it hard to believe anyone in that supposed conspiracy group wants a corpse to produce.
Unless, as Jan-Poo suggested, someone has a different reason to want to keep the body in some kind of appreciable shape (as opposed to immediate burning or dumping him in a hole in the forest). It's a fairly short list of people who would benefit from doing it, and the top of the list would be Kinzo himself (for whatever crazy reason you care to insert here). But that seems like something of a dodge, since Kinzo is a boogeyman to whom we can attribute just about any property. More telling would be to think of who among those aware of his death would have any possible reason to keep him "around." And why. Blackmail to keep the conspirators in hand? A twisted form of respect? Leverage against the entire family to some end? Servants or Nanjo come immediately to mind because they're the ones most likely to be "given" the body to get rid of. Natsuhi would find it distasteful and disrespectful, and Krauss probably wouldn't get his hands dirty. Unfortunately, pretty much the entire rest of the alleged conspiracy is Nanjo and the servants, so it doesn't narrow it down.
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2010-10-26, 08:47 | Link #4862 | |
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I had a theory that combined Battler's sin (which I believe to be pride) and Kinzo's possible will. Kinzo tried re-enact the madness that brought the Ushiromiya's fortune back by nominating the least apt person to be his successor.Battler is incompetent so kinzo chooses him as the successor. Becuase Battler renounced the Ushiromiya name until shortly before the game starts (because of his pride) and since kinzo is dead since before the game begins, a second person is chosen, this person orchestrates everything since before the game starts with the help of its new servants. Now we need a person that stands to gain from orchestrating closed room murders, that isn't as incompetent as one though in the beginning, that doesn't attract that much attention,etc. I wonder who would fit that bill? Kihihihihihihi.... |
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2010-10-26, 14:06 | Link #4864 |
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That would be awesome, but I have a hard time accepting that Kinzo has a lesser regard of Battler than, say, Maria, who he's outright badmouthed (even if it was fantasy).
Plus, Kinzo's death has the narrative purpose of making us conclude that Kinzo isn't really consciously responsible for what's going on. Incorporating his will seems to defeat this. |
2010-10-26, 16:16 | Link #4865 |
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There is a significant business value in keeping Kinzo "alive," just as there is a meaningful economic benefit (to the Ushiromiya Group's enemies) if he is "revealed" to be dead.
If Kinzo disappears, as Natsuhi and Krauss intend, he can never truly be said to be dead; he will legally be declared such eventually, but that is a significant amount of time to plan ahead (because it's predictable; he will be declared dead at a specific date from whence he "disappeared"). The economic danger is sudden death, at a time when the family is economically vulnerable; this is exactly the situation in 1986. Sudden death necessitates a corpse; no body, and Kinzo is "missing." Produce a corpse, however, and immediately the economic calculus changes. Looked at that way, Kinzo's body is a serious weapon for anyone who wants to threaten, coerce, manipulate, or gain control of the family (though this person need not want to do all of these things at once or even at any point). It is the ultimate bargaining chip, because it guarantees the disastrous affair of inheritance at a time when no branch of the family is capable of weathering it. Kinzo's corpse can, quite literally, utterly destroy the Ushiromiya family. Who, if anyone, would use it for this purpose (or threaten to do so)? And to what end of those above (or any you can think of) would they do so?
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2010-10-26, 16:21 | Link #4866 |
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How about this (not really serious I guess).
Kinzo died. Japanese taxing laws makes his death being something official a major loss for all the sibblings. They made a deal (last year) to hide his death permanently. Uppon learning of the deal, Genji decided to keep Kinzo's corpse to eventually get the upper hand on all the Ushiromiyas, which is what really occured in arc 4. |
2010-10-26, 16:23 | Link #4867 | |
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2010-10-26, 16:28 | Link #4868 |
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Well to be more serious tho, I think ... well I don't even know what I think of arc 7, but if anything about Kinzo said in it is true, there's very little needs to think beyond "I wouldn't put it past Kinzo's... will" no matter how much it angers me to use that sentence.
Going back to very early arcs tho, Kinzo keep saying he knows that "nothing will be left" after his death and he often mentions that if he doesn't win a "certain bet" he'll let them use even his carcass basically. I know there's the whole nuke thing, but well I think many of these scenes can be equally seen as Kinzo being aware his corpse would "vanish" once he died. |
2010-10-26, 17:37 | Link #4869 |
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The only problem I see with this is Knox's and Dyne's laws, if the games are bound by them I mean (but that particular one is omitted here so it might not matter.) Any of the family members that would try to use Kinzo's corpse as a method of leverage is putting themselves on the line as well, since the family as a whole would feel the ramifications of it. Unless its a form of revenge perpetuated by the culprit that doesn't care about this like in EP 5, but those two possible culprits where struck out with red.
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2010-10-26, 18:03 | Link #4870 | |
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Kinzo holds the Ushiromiya name in high regard, and values magic and whatnot. Battler threw the Ushiromiya name (status) away (But didn't claim it back until after Kinzo died) and spends a longass time denying magic. Maria, at the very least, has the same interest as Kinzo. If the theory is right, it just strengthens the parallel between Kinzo and Battler even farther than it already is (Which is about the length of a football field right now). |
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2010-10-26, 18:06 | Link #4871 | |
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It also opens the possibility of someone truly evil manipulating the deal. Burning Kinzo's body after "murders" have begun, for instance, destroys the leverage; Kinzo has now been murdered along with many others, which is a far greater problem. It also permits a killer in a pattern perhaps similar to ep4 who engages in the following speculation: "So, you have told me where the gold is and revealed Kinzo's corpse?" "Yes." "So if I kill you and get rid of the body, I can have the gold and not accede to your demands?" "...crap."
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2010-10-26, 18:15 | Link #4874 |
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He's not even mad at Maria, to my recollection. He's just mad that she has lowborn parentage and (what is at the time presumed to be) a deadbeat father.
Given what little we know of Maria's father, he was not a very respectable man. At least not to someone like Kinzo's taste.
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2010-10-26, 18:17 | Link #4875 | |
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I really liked the idea that battlers sin is Pride and started this whole mess. You can see a lot of the symbolisms and scenes in the game revolving as Battler being a white king making the first move and everything else a response to that. If the king had never made that move the game would have never started. If battler is the white king then who is the dark king? Beatrice? The writer states that she is a mere pawn until promoted. Who promotes her then? How about someone that can make a 0 into a 1? Who wears a dark crown over her head and whose eyes (although darker) are shared by many of the witches and demons that she might control.
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2010-10-26, 18:37 | Link #4877 |
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EP 6 actually solidified this concept on me, even when controlling the pieces as the game master his pride gets everyone killed off anyways and Erika calls him out on it. I like how even in this game he cant seem to escape the Sin that causes that many people to die!
I actually have a theory revolving around meta battlers actions and a lot of foreshadowing (red herrings? Possible truths!) in EP6. An alternative truth that might have occurred had battler not repeated his sin. But it requires some knowledge of the events in EP7 so Im not gonna say it yet. |
2010-10-26, 18:40 | Link #4878 | |
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Plus, I don't think Kinzo's ever talked to either of the two of them, really, so how would he know anyway? I mean, shit, has he ever even met Maria, if the cousins keep getting pushed to a guestroom before Kinzo even shows up? |
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2010-10-26, 18:57 | Link #4879 |
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If Kinzo didn't care about his name/status, then why does he give a shit about making sure his children marry into families that could benefit him?
Also, if I believed magic could revive my dead lover I would totally be insulted by someone denying magic. There are plenty of times he could have meant Battler and Maria before he died. Still, he could also be forming opinions on them solely on what he hears/heard from other people. |
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