Talk:Matthew Clairmont/@comment-79.55.5.36-20181017072403

I have an idea that might seem granted(obvious) to profound readers of the series - I believe that when Diana went to the Elizabethan past - although before coming to present TIME, both Mathew and Diana were extremely careful to cover their every presence, Diana DID effect/cause change in the Mathew from the 1500s and so.. the course her own love life in her actual present. That is to say, before she ever met Mathew in Present time Oxford she was destined, by the events of her visit to the past, to meet him at some point and they were destined to mate.

I'll explain myself better : WHen, in Present time (TBoL-The Book of LIfe), Diana goes into the (Woodstock ?) bedroom it was the same Elizabethan bedroom from her past, physically in the present and she instantly recognizes it as the one she and Mathew had shared in the past. This also means that, when he returned to his English home, the Elizabethan Mathew surely must have caught her scent (bedpost,covers,sheets,walls whatnot...) and have become infatuated with that specific fragrance centuries before he met her. Ergo - the obsessive recreation of the Elisabethan bedroom and keeping it intact for all those centuries. Besides, we are told that he stayed there for a short while but moved to another chamber. That fragrance could have also been the reason for his eventual move out of that bedroom as he was obsessed by the aura of the room - i.e. he smelled himself certainly, but the scent he perceived from "Diana in the Elizabethan past" was too disturbing (inexplicable as it was and intangible - for she was nowhere to be had in his, then, lifetime.

And, another clue, just after the legitimate Mathew makes his return from Elizabethan Scotland, that was roughly the time he began wondering about his origins and how things might be different for him. He started to become restless, tired of being the family's assassin, tired of obeying; he gained a conscience. He grew a heart, became interested in science and the study of the natural sciences. The fact that he calls Diana "Mon Coeur" is doubly significant.