During the dinner with sushi ep 20, Elaine asks MC if he is willing to give her the house where she now lives and there are be three alternatives all different from each other depending on the positive or negative answer.
Everything suggests that Elaine has learned that she is not part of the will at all. If this hypothesis of mine is true, it would suggest that Bella and Elaine are working together to get MC out of the will.
I am not 100% sure, but I seem to remember the lawyer confirming that Elaine is one of the persons in the will and also got the information about her conditions.
There are a number of slightly strange things in game that may or may not play a role in future, but that is not one of them.
Well speaking about two things that have been niggling at me for quite a while. Though now it seems either Elaine was the emailer or that she is framed to seem the emailer, one of my original suspicions was that the email was sent by someone at the order of dad before he died and that Elaine throwing MC out was also at his order. It seems I might have been wrong or maybe not. Though that is not the main thing that I was wondering about. ( I was also assuming that dad would be quite sure there was no way in hell, Monica would not offer MC to crash at the least).
We know that MC's main condition has to do with Monica and the girls. The question though is why? Yeah I get that Dad might not have wanted MC corrupted or protected by a mothering Monica or supported by semi-sisters in Katie or Jenna. The thing is though that if we go back to start of the game MC has not had contact with them for years, Monica also had not seriously tried to contact MC for years even when older, despite the fact as far as we know dad had not gotten a restraining order out on Monica for stalking. From reaction of MC based on her offer he is glad about it and chance to reconnect, but before her offer he had not even thought about her as an option to crash.
Now if that relation had been completely watered down over years, why would dad put that condition in, that without the email and her offer if dad was not somehow the architect of the mail and putting him on the street, that would remind MC that there are people he had a relation with through his Mom? If he just did not want MC weakened by possible family like figures, reminding MC through the will conditions he had those would not help in the first place for that goal. So I suspect he wanted to create hurt and mayhem out of it and would either through the other two conditions or an independent party instructed by him, make sure his plan would pan out.
The other is Elaine's defence of the dad when it comes to Monica and his view. Now I am also very inclined and predisposed to think the dad was lying, since he was a manipulative controlling conniving bastard and Monica seems a sweet woman. Thing is though that besides the cheating part, Dad is not really shown as a liar, a complete bastard yes and he did seem to feel pretty deeply about it. It might just be two different views of situation, also has to do with MC , but the dad's dislike of Monica seems to have gone further as a mistaken tryst attempt or even a failed one. Now I am not sure if that secret is a bad one for Monica or even good one, but something did happen that MC most likely is not aware of between his Mom, Monica and dad and that both Elaine and Monica is not able or willing to talk about and may play a role in how things pan out.
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