Oooh now that's interesting. International Mother's Day is the second Sunday of May, so that's what the "Sunday school" sign is referencing. Cellsai you sly dog.
It's from Lab Zero's Reddit AMA from 2015, after all the "Season 0" DLC characters had been released. But yeah, being related to Mother's face would make sense; Double, Lamia and the Mother seem to be closely tied.
I wonder what he meant by "forgotten", though. Double forgot what she used to look like? When there are statues and stained glass of a nearly identical woman all over the cathedral?
Perhaps it means that Double does not know/remember her true origin, and something happened or was done to her to make her the way she is right now. I wonder how much she knows about the time before she was Double, and how much of the truth the Trinity are telling her.
There is no rule that the Skull Heart respawns every 7 years, just that it has been observed that Skullgirls appear approximately every 7 years. It seems more likely that Double knew Nancy's wish was going to take around 4 years to "incubate", so to speak, so she offered it to her early in order to ensure the Skullgirl cycle stay on schedule.
Makes a lot of sense.
We need to know more about Nancy's deal with the Skull Heart. It was never outright depicted. No information about how, when and where it happened.
I don't know. I always saw the ending of Eliza's story as a bit of a weird dubiously-canon sequel hook that was meant more to say, "Don't worry, guys, Marie will stop Eliza from this really bleak ending", than it being definitive proof of anything the Skull Heart could do.
I think it's completely plausible that the Franz and the ASG Labs would have snagged the Heart, but Parasoul's SGM story seems to imply (at least to me) that Nancy was coerced into wishing on the Skull Heart by Double under the impression that Double or the Goddesses would intervene with the war. So my assumption would be that Double had reacquired the Heart at some point and passed it along to Nancy (which is what she would have had to do with or without it being destroyed along with Selene).
I can see what you mean but unlike the obviously joke stories such as Robo's, Eliza's is a pretty serious story and I don't see why they would have made hers a valid what-if scenario only to add an "impossible" ending. Seems more straightforward to me if the whole story is lore accurate.
Some of the Labs' higher-ups (like Brain Drain) would definitely want to get the Skull Heart. At least, it feels like that, based on Robo-Fortune's story and some deleted endings.
We need some official information on this.
I thought it was a sort of an emergency respawn, because there wasn't any other candidate available. The Skull Heart usually has a lot of "human material", and Double seems to have a hand in choosing the best possible candidate. But this time the situation was completely different, and they had to use what they had. Marie wasn't even the "suitable" one, but there were no other opportunities in sight.
Plus, and I forgot earlier since it's been awhile, Marie confronting Eliza was a post-credits stinger.
Before Eliza met Double in her story, she probably didn't even know that Neferu/Sekhmet was still alive. Double seeing Eliza was the only time she lost her cool and caused the Lamia personality to emerge. It certainly wasn't a normal situation for Double.
In Painwheel's story, Brain Drain orders her to retrieve the Skull Heart and return it to Lab 0, so yeah it has always been their goal and not something created for Robo's story.
I don't think it being post-credit makes it any less "literal" than the rest of the story. Squigly, Annie and Umbrella's stories all have post-credit segments and far as we know they can be taken literally.
