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Shkannon is the popular theory right now, and pretty much everyone hates the idea of a DID meido.

But why assume that the reason for Shkannon is a mental illness? It raises more questions than it solves. For example, why would part of the family would want to act like there are two separate people, instead of, say, sending Shannon to the loony bin?

It seems more likely to be that the Shkannon situation is similar to the situation with Kinzo, in that the Kanon we see during the games is a collective lie, just like the Goldsmith we see during games 4 and 5. The scenes with Natsuhi and the rest before the start of the 5th game confirm that a collective lie is enough to "create" a person for story purposes.

My theory is that Kanon and Shannon did exist as separate people before the game's start. Evidence of this can be found in the Episode 2 Red Text "Kanon was killed in this (Jessica's) room". One of the reoccurring loopholes in the Red is that it does not specify time of death. I guess you could explain this that Kanon as a personality was killed, but we never saw any evidence of personalities "dying" before now; when Kinzo was called dead with the Red it was referring to the physical Kinzo, not the Goldsmith that Natsuhi came up with.

(It is likely that Shannon is real and alive at the start of the game because of the Red "They definitely would not mistake any different person for Kanon!".)