#wt nevermore

We also know that Lenore presented herself as a man to Annabel's father to see her again. That Annabel's father wants her to marry, and leaves her a reasonnable berth in who she will marry as long as she does marry.

And we know that Annabel was killed just before her wedding, betrayed by those closest to her.

So I've got two theories:

Either somehow, maybe through Thaddeus Vandernacht, everyone found out that Leo was not Leo but a girl, and Annabel's father "betrayed" her by forcing her to marry someone else, and then Annabel either killed herself, or was accidentally (or not) killed by Lenore in one of her fits of anger...

Or Annabel and "Leo" were about to get married when something was disrupted and, through the indirect fault of either Lenore or one of the families, or like... killed by Thaddeus, both die before the wedding.

I'm also conforted in the second because if "Leo"'s real identity was not discovered before her death, it explains why she woke up in the male uniform of the Nevermore Academy instead of the female one. If she died in man's clothing, she woke up in man's clothing and all. Annabel died in woman's clothes, she woke up in woman's clothes.

Either case I think it'd be very interesting if Lenore ends up being the one who killed Annabel, or the one who "betrayed" her at any rate. Given that Annabel seems to remember more than Lenore does yet ("why do you call me annabel?" "that's your name" "yes, but..." <- to me, indicates she was expecting a pet name that Lenore came up with later) and also was shown to manipulate everyone and see them as expendable, AND had no plan to get out, just "use the others as fodder as we get out" although she didn't know if there was an exit, I could see it all being revenge for killing her.