Just to clear a thing on the phone spyware, when Rachel brings it up Ashe confirms she never took any nude pictures on her phone or really discussed being a duplo over her phone with anyone. All someone could have gotten from her phone would have been her porn habits, which could at most confirm a suspicion, but not be enough in itself to give her away as a duplo. Also I suppose it could have somehow enabled her camera randomly at some point, but again she never took nude pictures so it would be really difficult for it to randomly catch an angle that would expose her as a duplo.
I didn't comment on other suspects before because I was tired and they aren't the main ones for me, but I will go over them now:
This is more conjecture than anything I can say for a fact, but one important thing to notice is how uncaring the blackmailer has generally been about what they have been getting out of the blackmail so far. Namely the almost non-reaction to Ashe's first picture in her underwear (and how long it took them to escalate it into anything else) and how they seemingly did not notice it if Ashe decides to send a fake picture of her wearing the buttplug (she can send a porn shot from Ruby Phoenix where the buttplug isn't quite the same but similar enough). To me this indicates two possibilities:
a) The blackmailer does not personally care about Ashe, Ashe is just a tool to further other goals and the basic sexual demands have been more about making sure Ashe will be obedient rather than about any sexual satisfaction so they aren't paying attention to the details (gives more credence to the Moira theory).
b) The blackmailer does care about Ashe, their goals are not to hurt Ashe or just extract a cheap thrill from sexually blackmailing her, but rather something more long term. The basic sexual demands and threats are more of a smokecloud, distracting from the manipulations that are meant to move Ashe in a certain direction with her life, so they won't be too strict with the requirements so the game can keep going (gives more credence to the Delilah and Rachel theories).
I just don't think Delilah has in her enough of a sadistic streak to actually hurt Ashe for any reason, even as part of a greater plan. Her hacking Ashe's phone previous to the blackmail starting wouldn't have helped her learn Ashe is a duplo, and she was still acting completely normal the morning after the slumber party for everything to have kicked off from seeing Ashe with Zoey and then only slip up so much later on.
I do think Delilah has a "white knight" thing going on, but I really think she only knows Ashe is being blackmailed, not that she is doing the blackmailing herself. She is sneaking her way to the party to keep an eye on Ashe and try to figure out who the blackmailer is and be Ashe's heroine, but it will probably only blow up on her face because Ashe will now suspect her and she's probably gonna get caught in the crossfire of whatever mrs. X and/or the blackmailer are doing.
Moira does probably know her daughter better than we give her credit. Even if Ashe was originally just a tool Vanessa was using, she does have some genuine infatuation for Ashe considering they went on a second date. Also the messages started like 1 day after the dinner where Moira met Ashe, you don't do a "thorough background check" in that short of a time to know the exact nature of interpersonal relationships, even with all the resources in the world, the most you can get are things that leave a paper trail (student records, medical records, family certificates, etc). If Moira actually wanted to get something from Ashe then I'd agree the methods taken by the blackmailer don't seem to fit her very well, but if Ashe is just a tool then the threats and the details are not as important, you just need to know Ashe will do what you tell her out of fear when you need her to do something, and so far the main focus of anything the blackmailer commented on or asked of Ashe was related to her date with Vanessa.
The bathroom masturbation is a good point, but even if Moira is the blackmailer and parts of the house do have hidden CCTV, I really think bathroom cameras on your daughter's house for her university housemates might be a tad bit too much, she'd have to be a real sick fuck XD
I didn't comment on other suspects before because I was tired and they aren't the main ones for me, but I will go over them now:
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a) The blackmailer does not personally care about Ashe, Ashe is just a tool to further other goals and the basic sexual demands have been more about making sure Ashe will be obedient rather than about any sexual satisfaction so they aren't paying attention to the details (gives more credence to the Moira theory).
b) The blackmailer does care about Ashe, their goals are not to hurt Ashe or just extract a cheap thrill from sexually blackmailing her, but rather something more long term. The basic sexual demands and threats are more of a smokecloud, distracting from the manipulations that are meant to move Ashe in a certain direction with her life, so they won't be too strict with the requirements so the game can keep going (gives more credence to the Delilah and Rachel theories).
One of my running theories is that she's got this "white knight" compulsion going on, in that she justifies what she's doing because she's trying to show up and be the white knight for Ashe's distress. It gives a plausible reason as to why she randomly blurted out that she knew Ashe is a duplo and lying about how she found out, trying clumsily to instill the whole "you can trust me, I am here for you because of who you are" while emotionally isolating her.
RE: DelilahHow is this for Deli:
She somehow hacked Ashes Phone because she has a huge crush and wants to feel close to her. So she knows Ashe is a Duplo.
Might not be too far of a stretch that she could obtain the Software. She is pretty smart after all.
She goes to the interview for the job she really likes and wants to get.
She blows it by being clumsy and spilling coffee.
Panicking and fearing she will not get the job she reveals to her boss she might know a Duplo which could make an interesting interview.
The newspaper boss smells a headline and tells her she only gets the job when she can bring her a good Drama and wants pictures or proof of this terrible Duplo Monster raping innocent girls.
So she gets the job, feels like shit. Sits on a bench in the Park and the first person she meets is the one she loves and just betrayed.
Would explain her reaction in that scene.
I just don't think Delilah has in her enough of a sadistic streak to actually hurt Ashe for any reason, even as part of a greater plan. Her hacking Ashe's phone previous to the blackmail starting wouldn't have helped her learn Ashe is a duplo, and she was still acting completely normal the morning after the slumber party for everything to have kicked off from seeing Ashe with Zoey and then only slip up so much later on.
I do think Delilah has a "white knight" thing going on, but I really think she only knows Ashe is being blackmailed, not that she is doing the blackmailing herself. She is sneaking her way to the party to keep an eye on Ashe and try to figure out who the blackmailer is and be Ashe's heroine, but it will probably only blow up on her face because Ashe will now suspect her and she's probably gonna get caught in the crossfire of whatever mrs. X and/or the blackmailer are doing.
Moira:
Moira has always been the candidate with the most means, since she's rich and powerful. The motive seems weak to me. If she did a thorough background check, she'll know Ashe and Vanessa barely know each other and could likely infer that Vanessa was using Ashe. So the blackmail would be a pretty big and extreme step, when Ashe likely isn't the lever to move Vanessa in whatever way Moira wants. Also, the nature of the blackmail challenges don't really fit Moira that well. She seems authoritarian, 'my way or the highway.' The blackmail seems to have an underlying aspect of sexual pedagogy to it that doesn't fit her relationship with Ashe. The blackmailer seems to want Ashe to become more open and sexually liberated, and why would Moira care enough to help Ashe grow as a person? She'd just try and control her actions, not her motivations and psyche. Possible, but feels thin.
RE: MoiraI'm guessing there are cameras in Vanessa's home if they were able to see what was happening there and Ashe takes off her pants and masturbates both ends in her bathroom so maybe there are cameras in the bathroom too and that's how the blackmailer found out.
Moira does probably know her daughter better than we give her credit. Even if Ashe was originally just a tool Vanessa was using, she does have some genuine infatuation for Ashe considering they went on a second date. Also the messages started like 1 day after the dinner where Moira met Ashe, you don't do a "thorough background check" in that short of a time to know the exact nature of interpersonal relationships, even with all the resources in the world, the most you can get are things that leave a paper trail (student records, medical records, family certificates, etc). If Moira actually wanted to get something from Ashe then I'd agree the methods taken by the blackmailer don't seem to fit her very well, but if Ashe is just a tool then the threats and the details are not as important, you just need to know Ashe will do what you tell her out of fear when you need her to do something, and so far the main focus of anything the blackmailer commented on or asked of Ashe was related to her date with Vanessa.
The bathroom masturbation is a good point, but even if Moira is the blackmailer and parts of the house do have hidden CCTV, I really think bathroom cameras on your daughter's house for her university housemates might be a tad bit too much, she'd have to be a real sick fuck XD