Board Thread:Theories Discussion/@comment-24158566-20141231235231/@comment-6192846-20150101022412

AFlowerMustNotBeUnsightly wrote: I'm assuming Mariam was a smart cookie, but Gast was sixteen at the time, and Mariam nine. Again, nine-year olds' brains are very different from sixteen-year olds' brains. And I don't find it hard to believe that Mariam obediently followed the orders of her mother, went to Lucifenia, and found other authority figures who she liked better than her mother. Seems like a legit thing for a mistreated child. But it still doesn't seem very smart considering Lucifenia's position. You're saying this under the assumption Mariam went to Lucifenia as a double-agent, which you already pointed out yourself makes little sense. My reply is in relation to Mariam defecting from her unit during that mission through the mountains on the spot.

She's a nine year old general. Whether she's just following orders or not, jumping ship mid-mission to the enemy side is an extreme change in behavior. I can't see it.

It sounds possible to me that a young girl might choose another side to fight for to escape an abusive parent, but maybe I'm wrong about them.

Then, maybe Mariam's mother is just an all-around bad person or wants Mariam to succeed her in aiding I.R. and Mariam didn't want that... I can believe that, but it seems more likely she'd use the resources already available to her. Trained spy/assassin and general of her unit? And there was no other option she could turn to except defection? It would need more elaboration for me. The idea she discovered something in relation to her mother and Abyss is believable to me, if she never learned the name "Abyss I.R." was who her mother collaborated with.

To be perfectly honest, I'm waiting for a more valid reason to join Lucifenia. I'm hoping one is to come. But the coincidence seems pretty great. I'm always hopeful we'll get more, but I feel it won't happen for a long while, simply because The Daughter of Evil is by and large done with its story and the war era is too far removed to ever get any elaboration in the manga adaptation.

Fingers crossed, all the same.