*Internal Screaming*

Anyone who simplifies the Iris & Dahlia relationship can face my blade. sorry but they're SOOO interesting to me.

Iris was also the one who suggested the Phoenix switcharoo (to protect her sister from more sins). Sure, she says 'even if it meant my life or hers' about preventing Dahlia from killing Phoenix. but like. she KNEW about Godot (to know about the necklace). She was involved in the original plot with framing Fawles. I have to assume she also knew about Fawles' + Valerie's final fates (kind of relevant to why she used the necklace at all) and she still chose to OFFER to help!!!!!

Not to mention how FASCINATING it is that Dahlia- who considered Iris to have betrayed her by not assisting in faking her death as planned- STILL TOLD HER ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF!!! and TRUSTED HER TO GET KEY EVIDENCE BACK!!!!! for EIGHT MONTHS!!!!!!! and that's like. barely even subtext it's ockham's razor

And if you do want to read into it some you can also think on the claim that Dahlia got their father to send Iris away to a temple. Did Dahlia have as much as a say in it as she claims? Unlikely, considering they were children. Is she reclaiming something bad that happened to her (being split from her sister) as something SHE did? but also maybe she is this evil mastermind who manipulated her father- but was that really a bad thing? Iris doesn't think so. She WISHED Dahlia came with.

And wasn't the inciting incident to all these murders Dahlia's escape from the Hawthorne family? Was it just greed?

Sorry but boiling Iris and Dahlia down to "Iris was manipulated by Dahlia" is SO BORING. Iris wanted to save Dahlia. She knew Dahlia was doing wrong- and she wanted to help her sister leave that behind. Iris felt SORRY for her sister even during a murder plot she was actively trying to foil. Dahlia was gone- executed. It was too late to save her. She came back with murder and revenge on her mind. And yet Iris kept quiet. LET her sister be free. Maybe she thought she couldn't do much in police custody, but even so. Sat silently in a freezing cavern, letting people frantically attempt to rescue her in fear there would be another death to find. because she felt sorry for her. because she had no positive adults in her life. INSANE!!