Lucrezia Mongfish/Mad

Lucrezia and the Other
Lucrezia Mongfish is acknowledged by the Geisterdamen as their leader, and, as the Geisterdamen are the custodians of the Slaver Wasps, this means that she is also the Other.

However, at one point, Lucrezia {{GG_link|20041210|drugged)) Klaus Wulfenbach's drink, rather than merely poisoning it, and then went to some trouble to dispose of Klaus by having him transported to some area from which it would be difficult for him to return (quite likely Skifander, as he has been seen to {{GG_link|20061201|speak Skiff)) and an incident involving Gil in his infancy apparently {{GG_link|20070716|happened there)); we also know that Klaus {{GG_link|20040804|returned with Gil)) from the place of his exile by Lucrezia). This implies that Lucrezia's claimed resolve to "become good" was sincere, which is inconsistent with her being the Other at that time.

However, the Lucrezia/Other personality that possessed Agatha {{GG_link|20060208|remembers)) having exiled Klaus. Agatha and the Lucrezia personality posessing her do not have access to each other's memories. Also, it was not expected that Agatha's own personality would be able to regain control of her own body once the Lucrezia/Other personality was transferred to it.

A {{GG_link|20060920|remark)) by the Lucrezia/Other personality within Agatha to the effect that Aaronev Wilhelm Sturmvoraus and the Geisterdamen had made errors in the reconstruction of the mind-transfer device could account for this. If the Other had existed long before Lucrezia was born, and at some point was transferred to her by a properly-working mind transfer device, then in her case the effects could have been different: irreversibly eliminating the original Lucrezia, but giving the Other personality posessing her access to her memories. The result could also have been a merger of the two personalities, that of Lucrezia and the Other.

This theory, however, encounters one obvious difficulty. It implies that the transfer of the Other's personality to Lucrezia took place at a fairly late date; possibly, as would seem to be required, before the attack on Castle Heterodyne, but after the marriage of Lucrezia to William Heterodyne.