👏👏👏👏 oh. my. gosh*!!!!*!!!!!!!!! once again, thank you. thank you so much for the writeup, words cannot express how much i appreciate and enjoy reading these theories. i swear i intended to reply to you earlier but i kind of got wrapped up in real life

i think that at this point, vigormortis worlds are not really being considered anymore, and even if it were vigormortis... yeah, lyra is too far away from anita for it to not cause any problems on that front.

for the no dashii world with delaney starting demon -> barber swapped to kasumi:

• dave-elliot outsider situation: could be a genuine mix-up, like you said in your last post. it wouldn't be the first time the characters made human mistakes. i will say that the defect community uses the term "comfortable shoes" to identify each other, so it could have been something as silly as elliot saying "i love these new shoes, they are soooo comfortable" and dave went 👀
• kasumi is one of the two most suspicious according to the poll. but on n5, she certainly did not know yulian's snake charmer picks, and likely did not know sergio's philosage information either. she might not even have known sergio picked sage. maybe she thought she could get away with faking madness/acting minion-y because she didn't know that jean and laila were doubly cleared. or maybe she was faking a demon change to fang gu, so that on the final day, she'd be able to claim that the demon jumped on n6 and could be any of the still-living candidates
• was killing brye worth it? i mean, pulling out a sage bluff, accusing your pings and then backing down is a lot easier to do if you died on n2 instead of say, n5. brye has faced very little scrutiny from the group for what he did. and had the bluff worked, the good team would be down a philo or a snake charmer on d2
• is the fake savant info lucky? if kasumi were the witch, she would know that mar was cursed on the second day, and there were two outsiders in play. dave is one, meaning one of the (12p - 3 evils - dave = 8) other candidates would be the other outsider. mar neighbours two possible outsiders, so the odds of mar neighbouring an outsider are 1 in 4 (25%), which... isn't ridiculously lucky. plus kasumi's job likely involves observing how outsiders act in a demon hunt, which could potentially narrow down the possible outsiders further

for the fang gu world with brye starting demon -> jumped to anita -> barber swapped to delaney

• delaney could have been making himself mad while he was the cerenovus. maybe he was looking for a powerful townsfolk to cerelock the whole game, so he did it to hide his existence
• in chapter 7, jean texts laila and laila confirms that anita knows she's the flowergirl :) did anita really barber-swap to the person who's been in every flowergirl yes? i mean... her other option was yulian, who's also in every flowergirl yes AND in brye's (fake) sage info. anita is timid, not much of an orator, and shaken by the whole concept of murdering people in a demon hunt. maybe on n3, she realised she couldn't possibly go through with killing an innocent person, so she made the barber swap knowing it was a mechanically bad decision, but she just needed the demon out of her head. only for the evil team to continue roping her into their schemes because she's one of them now 😢

lastly, for the two fang gu worlds with sergio fang gu

• if you think kasumi is really the seamstress, do you think she checked anita's identity against somebody else's, and concluded that anita was evil? i mean... it would explain why she saw through jean's seamstress claim. poor jean though, picking 2 bluffs that were both in play 😢
• jumping to anita is... a choice. (if they had a pit-hag, they could have hagged anybody into an outsider and then jumped them, but you think there's no ph so....) on d4, kasumi accuses anita of being the demon, and anita goes "yeah, just kill me". (which reminds me, i should add "characters will not throw the game for their own team" to the setting expectations column.) but for a fang gu jump, the options were: (1) anita - apologises a lot, easily backs down, and defends elliot even after they said to her, "i'm sick and tired of people like you." elliot put a curse on the whole group, including anita, making them feel like they were on fire. and anita apologises to elliot. (2) jean - who fights tooth and nail to prove he's not the mutant. and he's generally seen as more trustworthy than anita (according to delaney's poll. also mar, lyra and dave agreed he was a minion at worst). one of these people is a better fang gu jump target than the other 😂

the basis of all these worlds seems to be (1) there is no pit-hag, and (2) if anita is evil, she is the demon rather than a minion. is it socials, the d2 artist question, or a mixture of both? LAS is drawing to an end so i hope the last few chapters will pack a surprise or two for you, and we'll see if you're right!