#edea florence

“Do you know how hard it is to put that on? Plus, that outfit is strictly for outings. You can’t wear something like that indoors”.

Ok, everybody who read Witch Hunter (or Witch Buster, lol) know that Edea Florence and West are very very similar to each other in more than just appearance. Their personalities and quirks seem to be the exact same, which is weird, because how could it be that there are two witches, who act exactly in the same manner, look the same and have even the same quirks, as well as powerset, and they would not be one and the same person in the end?

From the chapter where East tells us how she started working againts North we learnt that she has something/someone called Sorella, an entity, which shares East powerset. We also learned that her capture led to North obtaining East’s powers through absorption of Etwal’s mana, whom she killed afterwards.

This whole thing made me wonder if Edea and West weren’t in the same type of relationship as East and Etwal. It could explain a lot, if it was the case, especially considering that Edea Florence never had human apprentice and if she was indeed West, she would remember Ryunwah. This difference between West and Edea Florence points out that they are two different people, but Ryunwah himself says that Edea and West share basically everything, are like copies, which lived separately, but had the exact same personalities.

Sorella hipotesis seems to fit... at least untill you read their description:

Sorellas appear to be humanoid manifestations of a witch hat and are considered a rare sight among witches. This means that if their witch master dies they to will die. A sorella’s body and personality differ from the witch they are “born”, sometimes causing surprise with others for the extreme differences between the witch and her sorella (difference in personality for South and Peony and differences in body for East and Etwal). Because of these differences sorellas are treated as a different entity with a name of their own.

This seems to point that Sorella’s always are somehow different from their masters, so if West and Edea were indeed Master and their Sorella, they would have to be different from each other in some way, but till now we didn’t learn anything which would indicate that West and Edea are different. They look the same, they have the same powers, they both raised human apprentices, they both owned a doll which looks like a Pumpkin, from which one was Princess Mordred and is currently Tasha’s Supporter, which considering that Morded was sent to kill West makes it clear that Edea and West should be one person.

And yet they aren’t, because there would be no Tasha if they were.

One could also make a hipotesis that West and Edea are twins, but it also doesn’t explain why they are exactly the same. We already have a triplet in the manhwa and every single one of the Bairong brothers is different, so I don’t believe that author of the manhwa would try to sell us the story that twins are copies, which develop the same personalities, ideas, skills and quirks.

There is even more mysteries around the whole topic. Neptis’ compatibility with Edea’s/West’s mana, which is highly suspicious, considering that she is the only one who could stabilise Tasha after magic rebound and save his life in the process. The fact that North knew that Aria will awaken as a witch and sent Varete to look over her. North having a spy in Godspell’s house in form of Neptis, which helped Tasha and Aria meet and later manipulated Tasha’s foster father to actually sell Aria to the slaves, so Tasha would go after her in order to save her, which eventually made her awaken. Aria has too big role in North’s plans to ignore that, because it’s suspicious that she needed Tasha and Aria to meet. Also the very North is suspicious, because just as West, she is associated with the cold. It means that her powers could be similar to West’s. Not to mention that she has similar hairstyle as West, but her hair are black. Mysteries pile over one another and make it impossible to say, how Edea, West, North, Neptis and Aria are all connected to each other, ouside of the fact that Tasha is West and his mere existence, as well as North’s plans, connect them all.