Student of Story
Responding to PhiSat's theory on the previous page.
I'm a big fan of this theory. I recently saw it somewhere else and it felt like I got hit with a bolt of lightning. And the second I saw it, it made so much sense as a twist.
My best guess goes something like this: on either a trade or religious mission, there was a white woman of some standing who was part of it, for some reason. Enough so that she had a household to attend in Japan. When she had a child with a Japanese man, it was scandalous to both the British and Japan, and after Mizu survived the attempt on her life briefly depicted at the start of Episode 3, it was this white woman who paid her former maid/Mizu's fake mama to keep Mizu hidden and safe.
However, when foreigners were expelled from Japan either she had to leave too (without the child) or something happened, maybe some falling out among the Europeans, that resulted in her being killed. It was at that point that the money to keep Mizu safe and in hiding dried up, as Fowler put it, and before long the maid/fake mama decided to split and take her chances herself after the fire that burned their hut outside Kohama.
Edited by TheWanderer on May 10th 2024 at 7:50:18 AM
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Oh I know, hence only coming across him second hand.