Forum:Lucrezia and the Other

Two possibilities are that Lucrezia simply was the Other or that the Other is some sort of entity that somehow possessed her.

Here's another theory, just for consideration. Lucrezia was completely sincere in her desire to change (she says she's determined to, and Klaus doesn't think she can -- she has too much of a dark side). Lucrezia figures out that Klaus might be right and she's finding it very hard to be good (or as good as she wants to be -- for the sake of her son and her next child on the way) and not try something bad. So what does she do? Mad science of course! She builds a sparky device to separate her evil side from her and transfer it into some kind of construct, possible Enigma. This makes perfect Spark sense. Want to be less evil? Build a de-evil-ification device. Problem solved. This backfires in some horrible way, and the Other is born, gets loose, blows Castle Heterodyne and kidnaps (the real) Lucrezia.

This would explain why,

1. The Other does seem to be Lucrezia is some way. 2. But the Other's devices are more advanced than Lucrezia's ever were (her pure evil side might also be somehow sparkier or mechanically enhanced). 3. In Vrin's flashback, we see a clearly pregnant Lucrezia (pregnant with Agatha) and on "her" next visit we see a scary mechanical arm (which looks like Enigma's to me). We also know that the "Lucrezia" persona that gets zapped into Agatha's mind hasn't had a human body for a long time. So it looks like Lucrezia becomes a construct well before being copied into Anevka's body. 4. If Lucrezia-original and Lucrezia-Other-Enigma were two different versions of Lucrezia, this could explain the rebellion of Milvistle and some of the other Geisterdamen -- they accepted Lucrezia-original as the goddess, and the others were following (at this point) the Other. 5. We know from the Lucrezia-copied-into-Anevka's body incident that Lucrezia has machines that can "copy" personalities -- and has had them for a long time, since Sturmvoraus has had the machine for many years. Maybe the original device was the machine to transfer her evil part into someone/something else. 6. It isn't likely Bill and Barry and Klaus could all be so completely fooled by Lucrezia for so long and miss the extent of her evil, if she were always the Other. Even Klaus claims to "know how dark a side she has" but only *reluctantly* concludes that she was the Other after studying so many of the devices.

So that's my guess. The Other is very advanced construct into which Lucrezia tried to transfer the evil side of her personality, and failed to realize how dangerous her purely evil side would be, not held in check by her good side. Kretzer 06:29, 9 April 2009 (UTC)