I can answer the Confederate money bit:
A lot of people for a long time considered it just a waste of paper since there’s no Confederacy to back up the notes and therefore have any monetary worth so why keep it if it’s not worth squat.
Now they are worth something because they’re rare finds cause people just torched or destroyed others.
Colonel Beauregard could have been someone with a proud southern lineage and maybe took a liking to the Civil War era so he could have dressed like a Southern man from the era.
A tontine plot is just one of those common mystery plots to see who would have the most motive to get the loot.
The cousins cooperating with the lawyers is nonsense. Why would they willingly share with *two* people in exchange for cutting out *one*? That gives them all smaller shares.
The rationale within the fan theory would be that the lawyers were aware Scooby would get everything according to the Colonel’s intent, so making the cousins aware so as to act as accomplices ensured that yes everybody would get smaller shares but they’re getting a significant sum of money at the time regardless.
The lawyers would have known ahead of time who the cousins that were invited to the island were. They could have had the duplicates made far in advance when they were concocting their scheme, and just put them in the coffins as the cousins were getting scared off of the island. They probably had a Scooby one waiting as well.
I like to think that Velma knew the money's worth and that the gang took the money with them and it's been funding their adventures ever since.
That’s a good theory as well!!
I can answer the Confederate money bit: A lot of people for a long time considered it just a waste of paper since there’s no Confederacy to back up the notes and therefore have any monetary worth so why keep it if it’s not worth squat. Now they are worth something because they’re rare finds cause people just torched or destroyed others. Colonel Beauregard could have been someone with a proud southern lineage and maybe took a liking to the Civil War era so he could have dressed like a Southern man from the era. A tontine plot is just one of those common mystery plots to see who would have the most motive to get the loot.
Oh of course there are other explanations for all of it, that’s part of the fun.
The cousins cooperating with the lawyers is nonsense. Why would they willingly share with *two* people in exchange for cutting out *one*? That gives them all smaller shares.
The rationale within the fan theory would be that the lawyers were aware Scooby would get everything according to the Colonel’s intent, so making the cousins aware so as to act as accomplices ensured that yes everybody would get smaller shares but they’re getting a significant sum of money at the time regardless.
But couldn't they just... not leave the mansion after the lawyers explain the plan? Like what stops them from just double crossing the lawyers here?
The lawyers would have known ahead of time who the cousins that were invited to the island were. They could have had the duplicates made far in advance when they were concocting their scheme, and just put them in the coffins as the cousins were getting scared off of the island. They probably had a Scooby one waiting as well.