Talk:Chapter 272/@comment-76.116.188.120-20180623220836

So this probably means Original Gowther and Estarossa are the same person. The author might be going for the dynamic of Love vs. Lust - Estarossa vs. Gowther (his creation).

What I’m thinking is did Original Gowther ever say who his lover’s name was? Could it have been the goddess Elizabeth? While Doll Gowther and Goddess Elizabeth had no similarities in their appearances for the doll to be modeled after her, if Estarossa and him are in fact the same person, then it wouldn’t have been far fetched for the Original’s love interest to have been Elizabeth.

As written in the manga, all accounts of Original Gowther disappear after the war. Supposedly he had died, but seeing that he could have been an alternate persona for Estarossa makes a lot of sense.

If you go back through some of the previous chapters, when Diane and King were transported back in time, they saw a bunch of the Commandments. They saw Galand, Fraudrin, Monspiet, Derieri, and even Zeldris (Meliodas fought alongside them, and Melascula was busy elsewhere). But of all the commandments where was Estarossa, cuz if Zeldris was on the battlefield by now then surely he was an able fighter too.

Plus (in Ch.214~215) once Gowther sensed that Zeldris was about to show up and kill Diane and once he did, he fled the scene. It was probably that Estarossa was afraid Zeldris would see right through his disguise and decided to flee instead.

As Gowther, he’d been put in the underworld’s prison and manipulated Melascula to free him. But what crime would he have committed to end up in prison? Well it may have been more like house arrest under the Demon King’s watch. As Estarossa, he toyed with Melascula using his alternate persona. Even in present day at the Great Fighting Festival, he harnessed resentment towards her. After Ban snapped her neck, (in Ch.177) he said he would have killed her no differently, again showing that even with a different persona he still views her as par for the course.


 * Note that one of the flashback panels (Ch. 176) shows all of the commandments together. It shows Estarossa when he was younger along with Gowther present in his doll form.  This is the only thing I noticed that contradicts this theory right now.

So two characters, who both have gray hair, have connections to the Demon King, and one with the power to erase/manipulate memories, which would make it easy to erase one of his personas from the pages of history, and rewrite his identity. Heck they even share the power called BlackOut.