Board Thread:Character Discussion/@comment-28837846-20160624190539/@comment-25375217-20160709210606

Just to play devil's advocate here.

The biggest piece of evidence that people are using to claim that this can't be Al and Jaz is that they have never used a real character as the casting call for someone else before.

But what have they consistently done? They've found clever ways to fool us.

Most casting calls for characters, like Lumiere's, try to fool us just by using a fake name, but an accurate description, but that's not hard to figure out, so a lot of characters (like adult Lily or Hades) are figured out with little issue, while only the characters with drastic changes to their original story (like Zeus) can throw us off.

They threw us a curve-ball with Merida by describing an actual role and a character that most people expect to be introduced eventually, while still making a perfect description of Merida. (They've actually done this in the past with Tinker Bell, but I wasn't in the fandom back then so I can't describe the following events). However, after that happened, people started looking deeper into the casting description and were constantly aware of the villainous Red Herring. Which resulted in people figuring out that the brotherly relationship between "Sam" and "Nathaniel" was actually referring to Jekyll and Hyde.

Therefore, it wouldn't make sense for them to use the same techniques as they did for Merida, Jekyll, or Hyde. We would figure it out too easily. So they need a new curve-ball.

Therefore, it makes sense that they would do something they've never done before - like claim an actual character - in order to throw us off the scent. Given that Aladdin and Jasmine are highly requested, well-known, and fit the previous pattern of characters revealed at ComicCon (Ariel, Tinker Bell, Merida off the top of my head), and what I previously stated about the developing schemes of Red Herring... I wouldn't write them off just yet.

I still want Sceherazade though.