Headscratchers / Requiem Vampire Knight

• If Merlin was afflicted by Merlin Sickness in life, wouldn't it have been more logical to have him a fantastically old dragon in the inverted world of Resurrection?
  • Everyone who aged normally on earth has Merlin Sickness on Resurrection, so Merlin will have the reverse: aging normally and starting very young.
    • Time works differently in Resurrection so it's possible Merlin is aging normally, but is a relatively new arrival to the world (or his own very long life causes him to age extremely slowly), so he has not even hatched yet.

• How did Dracula know that killing a specific Doomsday Man would destroy most of an army of Lemures? Hitler was responsible for a lot of deaths, but not most deaths in history, so statistically, the effect should not have been that drastic. Does Dracula, as the lord of all vampires, have an innate ability to sense the killer of a Lemure simply by them being in the vicinity, and was thus able to realize that this particular attack consisted mostly of Hitler's victims?
  • The way this troper read that occurrence is that the Lamia's only real advantage was their numbers. Expiring Hitler would make a sizeable dent in those numbers, which would be enough to turn a threat against them into a rout.

• Additionally, how does the world of Resurrection decide whose "victim" a Lemure is? Rebecca was a casualty of World War Two, her killer was a Nazi, but the expiration of Hitler does not affect her, yet it affects millions of other Lemures, even though Hitler never personally went out in the battlefield and killed anyone with his own hands. Is it a question of who morally owns the death? Otto was a right bastard in life and took pleasure in killing, making the weight of Rebecca's death weigh on him personally, while the average soldier who is Just Following Orders would have the responsibility for the act shifted on the one responsible for the orders? Alternatively, is it possible for a Lemure to have several killers, all of whom must be expired before the Lemure can pass on?
  • This might have to do with the victim's own emotional bonds. A person that died in the inhuman system of death camps wouldn't have one single person that they felt strongly about that actually enacted their death, so would most likely attribute their deaths to Hitler the most. Compared to what we see of Rebecca, Otto was her personal torturer and executioner, so she links her death to him and not Hitler.

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