(999) Lotus and Alice

[NoonyCurt]

Am I the only one who has assumed that Lotus would turn out to be Alice? According to the true ending for 999 she is not, although I thought that was a given...

(I have not started VLR yet, so please do not spoil it, in case it is relevant to my question.)

[Bulldogg6404]

(Neither have I played VLR yet)
Most of the game before reaching the true ending, I was under the impression that she'd turn out to be Alice, or at least related to her, if for no other reason due to her appearance. She never did have so much of a direct relation to the Nonary game - supposedly she had kids that were involved in the first game, but that didn't seem like it was a solid reason for her to be selected as a participant in the new game.

When you think about it, everyone on board had some reason to be selected due to their affiliation with the previous game. A lot of those reasons centered on revenge or in Junpei/Akane's case it was to keep the timeline intact, but Lotus was the only person to have neither. She was just a filler character in my perspective.

I think it would have been a solid twist to suggest that she was related to Alice in some way, perhaps to suggest that they were a morphogenetic field pair.