YMMV / Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • Estella Almera is shown to be an Ax-Crazy Yandere who murdered the object of her obsession when he rejected her and maintained enough jealousy towards the woman he did love to try to torture said woman to death more than a decade later. But her family (and the town at large) apparently saw her as normal and Sarah (who is admittedly an extremely Unreliable Narrator) claims that Estella treated her with genuine kindness without any coercion. Most readers interpret these as Estella maintaining a Mask of Sanity, but some see it as her being a mostly normal person with two very specific targets of obsessive affection/hatred.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the major premise of this AU is that in Katarina's orginal world, Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware decided to make a dating sim in place of what we would now know as Bloodborne. A hilarious idea in its own right, due to how far-fetched it sounds, until the release of Elden Ring, which features at least 1 romancable character and another implied, with the former even being the main focus of its own ending.