Imoto wrote:The simple reasons for this are as follows,
1. People don't age in Dream Estrana.
Lyrra was apparently in that castle for years. Rhue is shocked by this, likely because she loks exactly the same, but doesn't dwell on it.
Who says people dont age in Dream Estrana..? I didn't notice anything that suggested lyrra had been there for years, at all. The rest of the people there seemed to suggest that the whole Estrana blowing up thing was quite recent.
Imoto wrote:2. The only way for Rhue to have the aura of Serena in dream estrana would be if he absorbed it through Jeruh's sword.
Jeruh's sword likes to kill children.
There are almost no children in Dream Estrana.
If Rhue's sword had absorbed the aura's of Jeruh's sword, DE would be filled with kids.
As for the aura, who can be positive the phantom slasher didnt manage to get it somehow? And who says it hates to kill children...? Or that Jeruh's liked to kill children? If i recall correctly, he didnt pull it out of a couple of kids, but rather, a couple of grown men. I really think its as much up to the owner as the sword itself as to what's preferred.
Remember that Rhue and the Phantom Slasher are not the same. (Talking about its projection, or whatever... the shadow figure) Neither really affects who the other wants to kill. Rhue doesnt kill everyone he meets the way the projection does. Similarly... look at the Landorin scene. The boy wasnt a projection from the sword, or a shadow figure. He was just killing people he was mad at, much in the way that Rhue himself solves his problems.
There were a few children there in Dream Estrana. Shrug. I always though that the hero picked the sword up sometime after jeruh lost it. Or that Jeruh still had it.
Imoto wrote:Serena's aura cannot be in Rhue's sword, because the phantom slasher, whom the sword attempts to make Rhue believe is Serena, and attempts to make in her image, has no face. This is because the sword doesn't have Serena's aura, only Jeruh's messed up mind to generate the image.
... Wha? The phantom slasher NEVER HAD a face. If it did have one in that case that resembled the girl, well, that would just make things waaaaaay too obvious, and that's not exactly Lun's style, anyways.
There are a few reasons why she has to be serena.
1. She knows Rhue. You dont see this girl any other time in the game, however. She was absorbed some time before the game.
2. Again; her name is intentionally left out. There has to be a reason, and that reason was that if the hero just knew flat out that it was Serena, that really would've changed things.
3. "Didn't you know? Her hair color was the same as her sister's.", or whatever that message is. It was already theorized that Serena was Scatha's sister. This message, along with the fact that she's blonde, and that scatha is too, is just too big of a coincidence.
4. I love this picture; it's something you can call IRONY:
You know what Lun was thinking when he wrote that line? "LOL". Yes. He thought "LOL". Now, look at that picture and tell me he didn't mean something by it. This would be another coincidence too big to just mean nothing.
5. She doesnt know what bad words mean. This seems to suggest that she has a childish mind to not have heard the meanings of those kinds of words. She was also kind enough to let Rhue just sit in her house. Maybe this is a bit of #1, too, but she's pretty naive overall like you'd expect out of a kid.
6. I dont recall, but doesnt the ending show Serena with blonde hair, too?
7. If you've done the phantom show sidequest thing and then talk to the phantom thing, you need to find the other piece of the picture.
Consider what he says, in broader terms. He has a picture with a big piece from the middle missing. THE MISSING PIECE IS IN THE GIRL'S HOUSE. Do you get it? I think Lun made it quite obvious.
Some other fun things:
In the right side of the painting at the girl's house, lun has a note saying "A picture is worth a thousand words", when rhue says he doesnt know what the picture is.
Anyways, i really think the phantom deserves more attention than the girl. If the phantom were understood a bit better, it would make the girl be understood better at the same time, i think.