u/umnaui

hi everyone,

i posted once before here around 1-2 months ago, and that was when i had just finished episode 5 (which was peak), but my main issue was the fact that i had no working theories and didnt understand alot of what was going on, i simply had way more questions than answers. Now that i have completed episode 6, i feel like i understand alot more things and have alot more working theories/answers to the mysteries of this story.

THOUGHTS
this episode was insanely good, i loved it from start to finish, the ost was amazing as usual, the vocal version of fishy aroma was so good. i'd give it an easy 10/10, its tied with episode 4 as my favourite episode so far (maybe a little bit behind ep 4 tbh)

THEORIES
before i start spewing every theory i have, i think shannon is the culprit/beatrice
ive believed this for a while now, but it used to be just a gut feeling, now i feel like i have some understanding for it now

when seeing the flashback of battler, speaking to someone (i think shannon) about his preferences in a girl,

shannon realises she isnt the perfect girl for battler so her feelings are unfulfilled, so she creates another personality that being beatrice, where she is the perfect girl for battler, but she separates this from herself, and first believes wholeheartedly that Beatrice is her own person

“Without love it cannot be seen” means that people without a true understanding of love will not see the the true beatrice and who she really is (shannon), battler must feel love towards beatrice so that he can see the true beatrice (shannon)

So by her splitting her soul with beatrice she became furniture (sub human)

this also coincides with the red truth beato said in episode 4 that "no human could've possibly killed kanon" so this to me shows a non-human, a sub-human, a furniture can kill kanon without contradicting the red truth

beatrice was already known before shannon created her, so when i say shannon "created beatrice" what i really mean is she used the alchemist beatrice that was shown on the painting above the epitaph, and created a new persona from that, and from there, she played many pranks on the other servants which lead them to believe in this witch, which is where the magic comes from (i think lol)

i also think, that after the duel between shannon and kanon, after kanon died, beatrice "died"/disappeared not because shannon and george won, but because kanon and beatrice are apart of shannon, and all they were doing is returning back to her once shannon killed kanon

i say this because the 2 beato's in episode 6 tried to merge with each other to make the true beatrice early on, but it didnt work, i think in order to create the true beatrice, one will have to die by other hands, so shannon killing kanon, and beatrice killing beatrice

this also kinda answers the question that young beatrice had about why shannon and kanon are so adamant on dueling to the death, because they realised that they wont become beatrice until one of them dies by each others hand

i also think that once shannon "split her soul" into beatrice, she put the part of her that loved battler into beatrice, making this furniture shannon different person with the ability to love someone else, which answers how she fell in love with george and all of that stuff

This conversation that kanon and beato had is shannon realising her true self, and becoming the true beato, that convo was all in shannon’s mind as she is now remembering everything as beatrice and kanon (i think) were created by shannon using magic (in a human method sense she created them in her head and everyone believed them through pranks for beatrice (idk about kanon he still confuses me), to be true people, so they became real, but the one who knows love will see the truth of who they are)

so ig you could say shannon and kanon are the same person

this thought just came to me now so it might all over the place, but what if when shannon "becomes human" she becomes free of the shackles of being tied to beatrice and becomes her own person with love for george, whereas beatrice becomes her own person aswell with love for battler

and maybe the events of episode 2 with shannon breaking that seal thing (i honestly forgot alot of about that part) had something to do with her splitting her soul, (this might not be right because it was done after beatrice had already been "created")

and maybe battler's sin is making shannon "split her soul" and create beatrice, as people die due to beatrice's actions

also battler's first love left him for another man, is that shannon leaving him for george??

that should be all my theories rn, which now that i realise, are all related to shannon, so if she isnt the actual culprit everything i thought of was useless T-T

QUESTIONS
i still dont know who are the witch counterparts to everyone:
beatrice = shannon + kanon??
virgilla = kumasawa
ronvoe = genji?
gaap = ??? (maybe gohda, or george even though i was sus of them before of being the culprit)
erika = kyrie?? (ill get into my thoughts on this in a bit)
do bern and lambda even have human counterparts?
maybe im just overthinking and some of them arent meant to have human counterparts?
with my theory on erika being kyrie, that was a thought i had from the start of ep 6, as erika's love life seem awfully familiar to kyrie's one (i might not be remembering it perfectly) but i dont know if erika will even come back into the story following the end of episode 6, so it might just be an incorrect theory on my end

i still dont know who the man from 19 years ago is
i have no idea about who battler's mom is
why could kinzo move around and interact with the family during the start of ep 4 when beatrice said "kinzo was dead throughout the start of all 4 games"
who is the alchemist beatrice?
who is the beatrice that rosa met in ep 3, she acts similar to the young beatrice we met in ep 6
how many beatrice's are there, im genuinely so confused, are they the same person?
who and what is kanon? i have some theories as i said above on who he is but im still confused because i feel like they might not be right

reading through all of this and you all will probably realise i dont have that much knowledge of what happened during the questions arcs, i unfortunately just read it all without trying to solve anything, as tedious as it is, i might skim through the murders of the previous games to get a clearer understanding and set my theories in stone before starting episode 7.

also, PLEASE NO SPOILERS FOR EP 7-8
thank you