Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140612134000/@comment-6986530-20140911204212

Those of you saying there's nothing explicit enough to say Master of the Hellish Yard is Nemesis, even given the bulleted list of evidence, I guess my only question is do you not believe, given all these hints and narrative cues, that Mothy wants us to think Master of the Hellish Yard is Nemesis? Do you believe that is not the conclusion he wants us to come to? Explain what you think mothy wants us to see here, given all the evidence above.

I, personally, cannot see any other conclusion he would want us to come to given everything stated already. I am sure that a lot of you would agree, but I'm seeing a couple arguments that we should hold off anyway in the event that it's "a bait and switch." My argument is that we already are on the "switch" part of the bait and switch.

The "bait" was the idea that the Master of the Hellish Yard was a supernatural entity, that she ruled over a hell and damned Gallerian. The "switch" was that the Master of the Hellish Yard is actually a dictator, and her great power is a bomb. It's an atomic war horror story that makes the scariest "satanic" character to be the most mundane one, fitting in with the theme of "humanity's desire is the most evil" and that magic becomes increasingly irrelevant as the centuries go on.

This also fits with the actual Hellish Yard song--the twist ending was that the Hell she was talking about was Evillious. (No matter what we have to acknowledge that Hellish was in Evillious, not Hell, doing the exact same thing Nemesis was doing. At some point it just starts looking like we think Hellish is an AU character.)

If you want to hold off on the assumption mothy is making another bait and switch, then by this logic we must remove all information from our articles that is not backed up by a mothy interview. We must remove everything we've agreed upon in the past and not add any more info to articles until the whole series is over, because mothy can pull a bait and switch with just about anything, it doesn't mean he's going to.

It's not to say there aren't ambiguities at all. It's just that what there is can be covered in a trivia point and it would be enough; like us not stating for sure that Gallerian is Nemesis' biological, adopted, or perceived father.