Talk:Ma/@comment-201.141.99.82-20140214194420/@comment-6192846-20140407200336

And to put my position on the table, I'm 80% sure that Elluka was the one who body swapped with Kayo, throwing out an arbitrary number.

As for your question, it would be the same thing as with Recollective Musicbox, Kayo's Scissors, EFEC (though I'd argue this has a retcon), TLoDV, etc. all mothy playing with expectations. Chrono Story provides visual information. mothy makes no statement for or against. It's meaning is as we, the audience, interpret it from our limited understanding of the context (which he, the storyteller has full control over). He makes no outright lie nor outright confirmation to anything, so:

"why include MA in the sequence at all if she's NOT Elluka?"

is potentially wrong because that's assuming what we are seeing is Ma and not just plain Elluka (as you previously iterated), a combination of them both (as some theories have iterated), Irina influencing Elluka and/or using her body (as some other theories have iterated) or something else.

In contrast to that, the EK booklet (my original reply to you stated: "from Evils Kingdom, particularly Ma herself, and the timeline", so no, I'm not arguing that Ma is the only definitive source but EK in general) has written information where one in-universe (fallible) perspective states it was indeed Elluka, which the following timeline also reiterates to a lesser degree.

At this rate, we will probably be making this longer than the Rajih comment train. XD I'd be more than happy to continue this discussion on my message wall or in a thread, whichever you prefer.