Make it so
I've been meaning to sit down and update for, no joke, the last three days. In every case, either fighting with Two, or shiny things on the Internet, or some other Life distraction has gotten in the way. So, here it is, again, approaching bedtime, but I'm GOING to post, darnit. Also, there's a 99% chance that tomorrow will be a snow day, in
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Anyway, to some of the specifics:
I was never totally clear on the extent/nature of Mori's abilities, either. I think he could "see" the future along the branching lines of probability and make use of that knowledge, but as certain lines of probability disapeared, his knowledge of them went away, too -- unless he had written it down and could refer to the hard copy evidence. Anyway, thinking about that made my head hurt, so I mostly didn't. I think it's also implied that the ether Grace is studying is tied to this ability, but as Mori wasn't interested in talking about it, this wasn't very clear.
The most obvious guess is that she feared he would create an "accident" to get her out of the way, too. And yet, what on earth was the point of stealing Katsu? Why would framing Yuki for a bombing do anything to Mori? Did she have that use for Katsu in mind when she took him?
I had to reread my write-up, but based on that, here's what I recall: I think she was afraid Mori would arrange an accident for her, too, if she didn't neutralize him first (but one of my quibbles with the book was that I never fully bought/understood her motivation -- there's discussion in comments, too, with different points people brought about it, which you might find interesting). I definitely think she stole Katsu explicitly for the purpose of using him as a carrier for the bomb -- because he is driven by random gears, his actions are (meant to be) truly random, and so not something Mori can foresee -- thus, a Katsu-carried bomb is the only kind of bomb that can be hidden from Mori (IIRC he is still aware of the after-effects of it, but can't actually track it, the way he can an assassin, or a train, or whatever). And I think she wasn't trying to frame Yuki for the bomb, but Mori himself -- I don't think she knew about Yuki at all when she made the plan? I'd forgotten about this, but my write-up has a bit where she actually tries to give Yuki an alibi/take him away from there, because she DOESN'T want him to be blamed. So her plan was to set a bomb that Mori couldn't find/disarm because of Katsu-randomness, have Mori blamed for it (because clockwork, and he was already under suspicion for the earlier bomb), have Mori jailed, and thus presumably safely out of the way. I don't think it's a very good plan, and like I said, I don't really understand why she jumps to that extreme, but I do think that was her plan.
Katsu: best character ever.
He was my favorite, too :D Did you find the "Katsu lives" drabble in your AO3 perusal? Now that was the kind of closure I needed!
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