Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20151223075113/@comment-146.113.79.217-20160128222908

There is a reason that Kayo wasn't acting like herself, and it relates to a reveal of some information she learned after the swap technique. Servant hasn't gotten to that so I'm not going into it but suffice to say that no, Irina is not inside Lukana's body post-swap supressing Kayo's soul. She's still merged with Elluka and Eve as Ma. Kayo's crimes are definitively her own, with her own motivations and perceptions of them.

Irina has never actually displayed the ability to swap bodies or supress someone's soul with her own. Everything she's done has been controlling the body using puppet-like magic while her soul was contained in the cat.