Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26965399-20160928003947/@comment-4698889-20170214210403

This was brought up by Price, do we assume that the Graveyard waiter is Waiter? They have the same name (matsumono), and the Graveyard waiter's behavior in the JoC novel (pouting and shouting at Gallerian) is pretty consistent with Waiter's character.

There's also the fact that one of the Mirrors was in the Graveyard restaurant. In the EFEC novel, the Graveyard waiter teases Gallerian about his family being killed, which is consistent with Waiter's mean-spirited side (she plays a prank on the Theater inhabitants in the Evils Kingdom album booklet).

This is all technically possible since there's nothing stating that the vessels all awakened at the same time; we also don't know how they are awakened and who awakens them. All we know is that all of them, save for Envy, Wrath and Lust, were awakened by the time Handbeat Clocktower takes place.

The only counterargument for this is that we don't have a physical description of the Graveyard waiter in the EFEC novel. Gallerian, being the history buff that he is, should have recognized a Riliane lookalike immediately, but he didn't.