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== Mai accepted the Obsidian Lord's proposal. ==

This technically doesn't contradict anything: she received the power to rebuild the world as she wanted it, with all her friends alive and happy. As an added bonus, her acceptance of the Obsidian Lord is now a [[Ret-Gone]] event, leaving her free to do whatever with her love life.

If you want a [[Downer Ending]], this option is for you.

== ''The whole series after episode 8 is Akane's delusion.'' ==

== Episode 15 wasn't [[The Worf Barrage]] for Kagutsuchi; both it and Mai did indeed die, but they were resurrected by Mashiro. ==

Note how, after Artemis fires at Kagutsuchi, it is engulfed in a fireball and drops from the sky... until Mashiro, having recovered from her shock, whispers "Mai-san", after which the fireball stops falling, Kagutsuchi emerges and regenerates, and a stream of fire detaches from the fireball and transforms into Mai. Presumably, both Mashiro and the Obsidian Lord were stacking the deck in Mai's favor for the [[There Can Be Only One]] Festival; she was one of the primary chess pieces of their dueling [[Xanatos Roulette]]. This is also why she's allowed to change her Most Important Person.

* It does have a blatantly obvious phoenix theme going in that scene.

== Nagi is a representative from Earth's local Hell who brought Mashiro with him. ==

== Natsuki's original "Most Important Person" was her mother. ==

However, with her dead long before the Festival began, Natsuki kept insisting that she had nothing to fight for, since, like Mai, she was [[Celibate Hero|trying to avoid getting romantically involved with anyone]]. Therefore, another one was chosen for her in {{spoiler|Shizuru, the one person on campus who supported her unquestionably. Unfortunately for Natsuki, Shizuru has chosen ''her'' as her MIP}}.

* If Shizuru were brainwashed, why would the series {{spoiler|explicitly show Reito ordering Nagi around to indirectly order Shizuru around? That doesn't make any sense. If Shizuru's state of mind was ''anything'' like Mikoto's, complete servitude would just come naturally for her. She wouldn't need to be manipulated by Nagi.}}

== Could it be an AU of [[Metal Gear Solid]]? ==

== It was all Kiyohime's fault that Shizuru went [[Psycho Lesbian]]. ==

We know that it's possible for a CHILD to carry across Festivals, passing from one HiME to another, since Kagutsuchi was Mashiro's CHILD in the previous festival. Shizuru also got one like that, the one who in some previous festival had formed the basis for the Kiyohime legend. Tied to a Child with that much history regarding [[Woman Scorned|scorned women]], she naturally went nuts at the faintest hint of rejection.

== The Obsidian Lord is [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Akio]] ==

After {{spoiler|Anthy left him}}, Akio started the HiME Festival (which is essentially a duelling tournament) as a method of creating a new Rose Bride, using the same method of tempting the winner with whatever they desire in return for their servitude.

* As a possible explanation of this, it may be that a HiME's powers rely not the person for whom they ''care'' about the most, but the person about whom they ''cared'' the most when they released their powers for the first time. And Mai used her powers for the first time to save Mikoto's life, as well as her own.

** When Yukariko first manifests her Hime powers, she's defending Aoi from the vampire Orphan, yet Ishigami becomes her MIP. Similarly, while Natsuki was already friends with Shizuru when she got her powers in "Natsuki no Prelude," Shizuru wasn't anywhere nearby when she first accepted Duran; Natsuki ran into Akane on the way there, but otherwise, no one except Natsuki and Nagi were present. Nao and Midori's most important people were unlikely to have been anywhere near where they were fighting Orphans during the time in which the show took place. This theory is thus unlikely.

== The person Nao wanted revenge on in the Blu-Ray special was Yukariko and/or Ishigami, not Shizuru ==

* While the girls are force-feeding Reito spicy food in revenge for what the Obsidian Lord did, Natsuki sees Nao and Yukino sitting it out, and Nao points out that she has someone else to seek revenge on. Natsuki assumes that this is Shizuru, but given that Yukino (who also lost her Child and most important person to Shizuru) apparently disagreed with Nao before going off to give Reito a spicy hot dog, it's possible that Nao had someone else in mind. Since Nao knows why the Hime attacked her in the battle in which she lost her eye, she might have wanted to go after Yukariko ([[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|for faking her injury]]) or Ishigami ([[Manipulative Bastard|for making her do it]]).

 

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