When Arthur said the 3 of them had "it", I think it meant the three of them possess some kind of otherworldly power; his power probably has something to do with "reading someone's heart" (as mentioned by Louis), Amelia's is being able to remember her previous lives, and Louis – while a lot of people seem to guess he is Amelia's original lover – I would really like to guess has some other power, maybe related to seeing someone's memories and/or messing with them. He obviously knows her, but they haven't ever met (Amelia mentions having never seen someone quite like him in all of her lives), so he's probably become some weirdo stalker (rip homegirl) in this lifetime after catching a random glimpse of her OR he somehow tampered with her memories. If he did tamper with her memories, that means he *has been* tampering with them, and he could be messing with them so that Amelia think's everything will end in tragedy even if they never did – this way she will willingly stay away from William.
He seems wayyy too invested in her – seeing as he planned this whole engagement just to get to her – for him to be someone who's known Amelia for multiple reincarnations and just now has decided to try to get her. So I think it makes more sense to not have him as another "reincarnating" character. If he had been the one orchestrating everything in all of ther lives to have Amelia and William end miserable, he would've shown himself a little earlier than this, me thinks??? Since it's been a long time.
But, on a side – but not completely unrelated – note, Amelia says it has been exactly 100 years since their first lives... but that's not really a long time, considering the average human lifespan? From the flashbacks, she has lived at least 6 other lives-- which would mean she has been barely hitting 16 every time before inevitably dying. Which is, sure, plausible in this time-frame, but also just kinda weird bc it means she has never really been an adult, despite her flashbacs seemingly being staged as having Amelia and William meet in wildly different circumstances each time. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
Anyways, I just hope William really is Elliot, bc it just doesn't really make a lot of sense, narratively speaking, to get everyone invested in this guy only to have him be a fake. If that were the case, there should've been more foreshadowing to point to this– but to not have nothing substantial 12 chapters in is a huuuge gamble on the author's part.
When Arthur said the 3 of them had "it", I think it meant the three of them possess some kind of otherworldly power; his power probably has something to do with "reading someone's heart" (as mentioned by Louis), Amelia's is being able to remember her previous lives, and Louis – while a lot of people seem to guess he is Amelia's original lover – I would really like to guess has some other power, maybe related to seeing someone's memories and/or messing with them. He obviously knows her, but they haven't ever met (Amelia mentions having never seen someone quite like him in all of her lives), so he's probably become some weirdo stalker (rip homegirl) in this lifetime after catching a random glimpse of her OR he somehow tampered with her memories. If he did tamper with her memories, that means he *has been* tampering with them, and he could be messing with them so that Amelia think's everything will end in tragedy even if they never did – this way she will willingly stay away from William.
He seems wayyy too invested in her – seeing as he planned this whole engagement just to get to her – for him to be someone who's known Amelia for multiple reincarnations and just now has decided to try to get her. So I think it makes more sense to not have him as another "reincarnating" character. If he had been the one orchestrating everything in all of ther lives to have Amelia and William end miserable, he would've shown himself a little earlier than this, me thinks??? Since it's been a long time.
But, on a side – but not completely unrelated – note, Amelia says it has been exactly 100 years since their first lives... but that's not really a long time, considering the average human lifespan? From the flashbacks, she has lived at least 6 other lives-- which would mean she has been barely hitting 16 every time before inevitably dying. Which is, sure, plausible in this time-frame, but also just kinda weird bc it means she has never really been an adult, despite her flashbacs seemingly being staged as having Amelia and William meet in wildly different circumstances each time. But that's more of a nitpick than anything.
Anyways, I just hope William really is Elliot, bc it just doesn't really make a lot of sense, narratively speaking, to get everyone invested in this guy only to have him be a fake. If that were the case, there should've been more foreshadowing to point to this– but to not have nothing substantial 12 chapters in is a huuuge gamble on the author's part.