Impossible wrote:
Secondly, it's impossible to say that you don't recall Midian dying by Rhue's sword if you have no idea how he died - he obviously WAS killed by that sword.
I said "I don't recall" in the first person, just in case you are making that mistake, as it seems you might be. Not from Rhue's point of view. And if Rhue actually is Midian, as some people postulate on this board, then no, he *wasn't* killed by the sword. It's just Rhue's original aura. It's not obvious; that Midian was killed is at best an inference, even if evidenced, as you simply dont know.
Midian inhabits Dream Estrana but saying DE is the phantom slasher victim-ville only makes sense if you accept a host of other things, rightly or wrongly, about DE. For example, the nameless girl has to be serena, the woman with red hair would 99% be traziun's mom, etc. Now these examples have evidence in the storyline, but what about Midian? You just have to assume because everyone else died in so and so manner, he did too, but while this may be reasonable, it is a glaring hole in the story nevertheless and it casts doubt on the victim-ville idea. Also, there are LOTS of people who ARE in DR that Rhue didn't kill, just not main characters. Charlatans of Justice, for example. Plus there are no Blood Lyn that I saw, but plenty of those die by Rhue's sword.
Although this is something I missed until I saw a screenshot thread, Alan doesn't explicitly die... you just see his legs, as far as I can tell, and when the PS attacks, he cuts up Sacrifa and his friends in that scene, but Alan doesnt appear to be there. (Why would he be anyway?) That Alan is in DE is a mystery too, because the circumstances that got him there are a mystery. Plus why Alan is killed - what sins did he commit - is open too. I dont think that scene with Slade is meant to show Alan to be bad so much as to show Slade to be caught up in his women-defense routine, as Alan is just flirting.
I think that DE is PS victim-ville makes sense considering the aura part of the story, but Midian, as noted, is not explained *via this.* You include him on the basis of an overarching generalization. It's "painfully obvious" that this is a logical error, whether or not Midian was actually killed by Rhue. In anycase, I would appreciate answers to the questions that I still have rather than debating what is or is not obvious... the fact that it is debated makes it not "obvious," and according to many posters/posts, even your own, several things listed here are debated and up in the air.