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Originally Posted by NarkNarks
Overall Genji seems too much of a decoy culprit though he to be involved somehow, mainly through his connection with ronove. Idk maybe hes not particularly keen on the murders but is bound to assist the culprit in some way? etc a contract or blackmail?
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The problem with Genji being the culprit (or indeed,
playing any active role at all) is that he is very much a non-character.
There is nothing that he says or does that doesn't express loyalty and consideration, but that's all that it ever expresses. He does a lot of suspicious things, some with rather bad excuses, but the motives for those are completely blank. The absolutely only unusual and interesting thing Genji does that gives any indication he's anything but a butler is throw knives in Ep2 in a clearly magic scene.
Even if we explicitly meld Genji and Ronove, that doesn't add all that much. Ronove is far more colorful, and obviously a more interesting personality, but while he
talks radically differently, he still does exactly what Genji would if Beatrice was his primary master, with very few (if any, actually) exceptions. Neither Genji nor Ronove say much about their own past, nor about the past of other characters, nor about what they personally want which isn't the same as what their masters want...
So there's pretty much nothing to lean onto when theorising about blackmail, contracts, other duties and debts, and any theory requiring them stumbles on Knox rules about evidence, for there is pretty much none... If anyone is 'furniture' in the truest sense it's Genji, if there is anything seriously human in him, he hides it expertly.
Compare to Jeeves, who, while being a model butler in words and visible actions, runs circles around his master behind the scenes where lots of invisible actions come out.
