Anyine else thinking that the title Double Dealing Character Have something to do that the characters so far has both Eastern and Western (AKA double) charactersitics?
-Wakasagihime is a ningyo, also identified as a mermaid.
-Sekibanki is a rokurokubi that's also identified as a dullahan
-Kagerou is a werewolf, but of a Japanese wolf type
Good for Sakuya, but next in line to go from Stage 5 Boss to playable is Rin, so I'm kind of anxious so see if the trend continues.
I think the trend ends after the Moriya Shrine arc begin to be honest. I certainly won't expect playable Orin or Shou anytime soon. Just look at the pattern:
Sakuya - servant of Remilia the final boss, most likely to go out of Scarlet Devil Mansion
Youmu - servant of Yuyuko the final boss, most likely to go out of Hakugyokurou
Reisen - servant of Eirin and Kaguya the final bosses, most likely to go out of Eientei (there's Tewi but Tewi probably prefers doing her own thing rather than solving incidents)
Then look at the second arc:
Sanae - servant of Kanako the final boss, most likely to go out of Moriya Shrine, becomes playable after one skipped game
Orin - servant of...Satori the 4th stage boss? Likely to go out of Former Hell, but to gather corpses. She doesn't seem the type to solve incidents.
Shou - servant of Byakuren the final boss. Doesn't look like to go out much
Futo - servant of Miko the final boss. But I think Miko is the type to go out herself rather than sending servants.
That's an interesting speculation, didn't hear it before. But in that case Reisen was skipped (I can't consider PoFV) so it's more just a coincidence than an intention to make them playable.
Reisen still got included in the trend, though somewhat. She's one of the five initial characters of PoFV, with the other four being previous playable characters.