Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20150304021219/@comment-25926003-20150406203005

My point here is more that MA currently has no known reason to lie about Allen and Irregular, so there is no reason to doubt her word on that specific subject. She lied about Elluka and neglected to mention the key because she had good reasons to hide information about those topics (and out-of-universe mothy didn't want us to know it yet), but that doesn't mean she's lying about EVERYTHING.

Is she an unreliable narrator? Absolutely. But unreliable narrators don't lie about EVERYTHING, or at least they believe what they're saying, so there's no reason to assume EVERYTHING out of her mouth is false. Her word should be taken with a grain of salt, yes, but until proof otherwise comes up her word is one of the only things we have.

What I'm saying is, there's currently not much to prove if MA is lying about Allen and Irregular and those two specifically, and in terms of her character and motives she doesn't seem to have any visible reason to lie or omit facts about those two, so there's no reason to assume her word is totally incorrect.