We don't know what Kiara has. That's what makes her the wild card in this Grail War. And note the timing on the check for telepathic contact: He didn't do it until he noticed the command seal and lack of mana. Plenty of time for her to jump bodies.
For one, this is neither the Kiara who works by manipulating a super-internet so powerful it can replicate Magecraft and brainwash people nor the Chaldea psychologist whose latent desires allow her to be possessed by Beast III. So drawing assumptions from those two sources are inherently limited in useful intel. Two... how do you think the Puppet-maker's remained alive after so many years? Touko Aozaki has hopped from artificial body to body before. And given she's already had her knowledge shared/expanded, we can't rule out that she's also involved with Touko's "partners". Similarly, we know Grey was made to be a container for Artoria's soul. And the Einzenberns' Homunculus' purpose as the Grail Container was to hold seven Heroic Spirits.
Okay but why on earth would Kiara be involved with Touko?
Well, like I said. She's the wild card. She was the last faction we investigated before the Endgame hit, so we know nothing in-story beyond the cult drug and the hypnosis of Olga. So from there extrapolations, identical to you did when you initially refuted me, must be made. From that acceptance of reality, all I have said progresses. Either Kiara had full confidence she'd kill Jeanne or she was stupid. The former makes more sense as a story and an analysis of the woman. Either Kiara is dead or is no longer connected to Arjuna post-command. We have refuted the stupidity, and know that the other path is being Hans' pawn. So the likley situation is she survives. Identifying her method of survival draws us to a Magus of great lineage of power made putty in Kiara hands by the disgrace of others, the trauma of near-death, and tainted whispers of vile healing. The method of transferring a soul to another body comes from a variety of sources, not just the Puppet-maker. She is merely the most well-known practitioner of it.
One point of order, Olga isn't hypnotized, just drugged. It's all the drug.
Believe what you wish. If this deliberate twisting of what I'm saying makes you happy, then go have fun.
How am I twisting it?
Because you act like I didn't explain the sequence of events:
My theory was the command happened, then the body jump, then Arjuna checks. And you claimed "oh, she'd have lost the command seals of Archer once she transferred", as if I claimed the command had been given after the switch. So you either didn't read what I put down because you got overly emotional, or you are twisting my words intentionally.
Believe it or not that part of your theory simply didn't parse for me.
Don't you dare belittle me for being invested in the eventual happiness of our characters.
I can sympathize. I actually took a break where I didn't do anything but vote for awhile when I felt I was getting too invested in the quest and getting emotional. I actually think that things went wrong in an interesting way myself, even if this wasn't a desired turn of events.
Oi. This isn't Re:incarnation, nor yet is it Re:loaded. Falsus Magica had twists, but never did we get shafted.
Actually no. If you guys really mess up and die I'll return you to a check point. After I make you go through the Chloe/BB/Skadi Dojo.
