[Marion]

Originally Posted by Rei-Tenshi

The only way that she can't violate the No more than 17 people on this island rule is if she's a Meta-World/Fantasy char. I mean, every single person added after EP1 didn't add to the 18-person(Kinzo included) cast on Rokkenjima, why should this new character suddenly be any different?

Remember Eva-Beatrice? She had a portrait, but she didn't add to the count either. She's probably just like Virgilia or Gaap, representing somebody else on the game board.

OR Shannon=Kanon might be real and she's the 17th Person X.

Well Eva-Beatrice herself, in my opinion, can be just Eva's imagination completely. Technically we only see Eva-Beatrice in fantasy related scenarios and every time she killed someone Eva was normally sleeping or something.

Spoiler for EP 5 screenshots:

But the whole thing is in one screenshot they're talking about someone who came onto the island from a shipwreck and in another screenshot they talked about someone having a fever. If they're referring to the new girl then she could very well be real. Of course, the biggest proof is if she appears in front of Battler since no magical characters have ever appeared in front of him. We'll just have to wait until that moment comes or not though.