I dunno, I still feel there is something looming. We still know fuck all about Bella's past. The episode 8 prologue gave us nothing.
I have a guess about Isabella's past. It has something to do with n0cn1l's post and Isabella's age.
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There are also hints ingame, her hellweek was something like 18 years ago and when she said she is twice MC's age
The number 35 is used in a conversation between Sage and the MC and funnily enough it refers to Dawe's age. (EP2)
Dawe in turn bears some resemblance to Rox, and at this point it reminded me of the intro to EP6 when a guy and a girl came to Rox to buy drugs. We can't see the girl, but her posture resembles Isabella's in her college flashback. The man could be James.
This tells us Quinn's age at this point in the past. Quinn hasn't been in college as long as Sage or Jill. So I assume Quinn is about 20 years old in the present. If we subtract 18 years now, Quinn was about 2 years old. Consequently, Jill and Sage were only about 3 years old.
This leads to 2 possibilities. Either the girl on the mattress is not Lana or Lana is already 20-21 years old at this point and Lana would be Quinn's mother. Rox implies that the girl on the mattress is Quinn's mother. If this is the case, Lana would have been about 24-27 years old when she said goodbye to Jill (7-9) in EP7.
Accordingly, Lana would have been 38-39 years old in the present, which puts her in Lynette's age range, since Lynette would have to be at least 38. Perhaps this is where the connection of Lana and Lynette lies. Perhaps Viv, Miranda and Lynette were visiting Lana and Lana is behind the camera in the photo and not in front of it. They were all 4 about 18 years old at the time, perhaps in the same high school. The photo was probably taken before Lynette left because Viv and Miranda gave Lynette the photo album after her visit.
Now what does all this have to do with Isabella? There is a 4-6 year age difference between the EP6 flashback and the EP7 flashback to Lana. In that time, Isabella and Lana should have become friends or more. It would even be possible that Jill met Isabella through Lana. Someone must have taken the photo of Jill and Lana.
And what about Quinn now? What if Lana only got out of the drug scene because she ratted Rox out to the police? What will happen to Quinn then? What if Quinn was the child Isabella and James lost? They take Quinn in because Lana has passed away and Rox, their' father is in jail. But eventually he is released and takes his Quinn to live with him. Quinn would have been about 6 to 8 years old at this point.
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