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Originally Posted by Oliver
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.  |
Or Beato hid it expertly because she didn't want Battler focusing on what he was doing. Genji is what Jeeves would look like if we only saw Jeeves and Wooster from Wooster's perspective. If he actually were a robot, it would mean Battler was right about something in EP2, and we can't have that, can we?
I agree that theorizing in the dark about Genji's motives is a waste of time. This is probably a case where we're going to have to first figure out what he was actually doing when he was off-screen, by scrutinizing the incidents he was involved in and picking the lies out of his testimony. Only after we have the full picture will a motivation for his actions emerge.