Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20170327230407/@comment-25926003-20170418222013

The current theory is that either Irina, Maria, or both together somehow ended up in the Clockwork Doll. The Maria part because of the parallels in Queen of the Glass to Miniature Garden Girl and Master of the Court the song (and basically "Michelle"/Court's whole storyline), the whole Madame Merry-Go-Round thing, and because every Kaito in the series thus far has been either an asshole or an Oedipus, and having Adam mistake his own mother for his wife is just the sort of thing mothy would do at this point honestly. The Irina part is because the doll can use magic blue flames, and that's apparently something only Irina can do.

My gut says that it's probably Maria who's dominant given how we have a pile of thematic evidence VS one single piece of direct evidence, but the whole "Elluka is Levia&Behemo standing on top of each other like a totem pole in a trenchcoat" thing, we have precident for two people incarnating into the same body, and one being dominant while the other is just... chilling. i guess. so it COULD be both. How'd Maria get there? We don't know. We probably won't learn that unless mothy goes back to the theater plotline after five whole dang years, which we're kinda due for. (seriously mothy, go back to the theater already, it's been way too long....)