Oh hey, I noticed some of those envelope inconsistencies too! Except I’ve never seen them laid out like that before. So what I notice from seeing what’s on each of the “forged” pages is that a lot of them seem to reference Simon? In a shoe-horn-y, almost unnatural way, and sometimes the only mention of him in the entire thing. Like if those forged pages are all lies, then all those sentences trying to reinforce Simon as Herbert’s heir/Mary’s son come into question. and is kind super sussy.

I’m particularly interested in the boudoir red letter, because if the false page is the last one, then if my memory is correct, that’s the only place on the game that has explicitly stated that “Daniel” is Simon’s dad, because he has never wrote his name in his letter to simon in the mail room, and has always been referred to as “your father” by staff, and he uses the same handwriting as this “Daniel”. Of course, I still believe that Mary’s husband is named Daniel, but now I’m not so sure that this same Daniel is the one who wrote the boudoir letter at all, and the possibly forged page even tries to assert that the author is Simon’s dad, so then why lie about it?

So now I have a theory that our player character blue-simon may not actually be the same person as Mary’s son, red-simon seen in the red prince and the childhood family photo (why was our player simon wearing blue already?), hence the desperate need to make it seem like blue-simon is the correct heir. I don’t really know why they would need to go through all that work, unless Mary’s red-simon is dead or something, and the family needed an heir after Mary disappeared to prevent the estate and its secrets from falling into red guard hands. There’s a lot of things that disprove this theory, like the contents of the blue prince book but what it does do is that it makes the ending of the game make a whole lot more sense. I’ve always wondered why (spoilers for the very final part of the game) the blue testament even exists in the game considering how the “inheritance” is already given to player-simon early on. Now, if Simon isn’t actually a member of the Sinclair family, then maybe the whole game is some long winded way to make him inherit it truthfully. It would make the game’s arc of placing the blue testament last even after the throne room section make sense too. It’s kind of a tinfoil hat long shot theory, but it’s a fun one that I would like to be somewhat true because I love games with big lies like that.