Just for me to collect my thoughts on anything noteworthy or suspicious. I forget a lot of things in the series so this should help me keep track and anyone else who wants to look back without rereading the whole series.
Hi, hello, welcome, you read the title you know what this is. This is Very unlikely to be even close to true and yet it compels me so I'm subjecting you to it.
I am positing that this Jeanne is not the same person as this Jeanne. Yeah, pretty insane, but hear me out.
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We know that after the original Gévaudan incident Jeanne was placed into an induced slumber and now ~100 years later she's been allegedly reawakened. We don't know how long she's been awake but it hasn't been all that long since Vanitas heard about it from Dante, although it has to have been long enough for her to develop her close bond with Luca.
The thing about this slumber though is that Lord Ruthven said he would wake her after the war was over. And the funny thing about that is... the war was already over when he put her to sleep. The war ended in 1702 by Chloé's recount, long before the Beast was even a rumour.
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By this we can assume when Ruthven mentions war he doesn't mean the one between humans and vampires that he helped end. If he's talking about something different I'm telling you right now I don't think it's over, not by a long shot. There's something bigger going on. Jeanne had to have been awakened in the last couple years at most and there hasn't been any big paradigm shift in that time which would signal an end to a 'war'. At the very least Ruthven isn't acting as though he's content and they're living in peacetimes with all the scheming he's doing behind the scenes.
I also say this because he mentioned wanting Jeanne to awake when they could all live in peace. I assume part of his motivation for this is because he genuinely cares about Jeanne. It's obvious that he has very deep love for his students, and Jeanne is for all intents and purpose his last surviving one. We see he's incredibly gentle with her when she was a child and her becoming a bourreau also wasn't something he had any control over. I doubt he would have let that happen to her if he had a choice, he wasn't even a senator at the time so he wouldn't have had much sway even disregarding his injuries at the time.
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