Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31190419-20170130180218/@comment-31190419-20170201033529

Harostar,

I understand your stance on deceased vs. unknown, but what I fail to comprehend is how what I am proposing is "speculation" and "fan theory" and somehow on some sort of level below the fan theory that is based on fan interpretations and speculation, that is currently being used as basis for Tatara's status in the wikia. I feel strongly that my analysis does take into consider multiple possibilities, and is grounded in concrete facts that can be viewed in the manga, and is quite a bit less speculative than the arguments I am seeing presented for Tatara's death. Obviously this is my own original analysis and it can be difficult to sway people. I can respect your policy, being based on a procedure which involves subjective judgments of staff, and apologize if anything I said came off harsh.

One thing though: to say my entire argument is based on a single panel is categorically false, as I have brought up numerous pieces of information in my post, some to illustrate the speculative nature of labelling certain events as "death scenes" and the like, and some to further show that the clues in general just don't really add up to (what I feel is) anything resembling a conclusive answer. I can accept that there is a lot of subjectivity in analyzing such things, and accept that different scenes and pieces of information can be fit into arguments for multiple narratives. However, as I am not arguing that he is alive, yet you and the rest of the staff argue that he is dead, I see these conflicting, subjective interpretations as good support for an unknown status, particularly in the ambiguity department, as a lot of the subjective interpretations built into the conclusion that he is dead, are derived from ambiguous information.

Well I guess that's about all.