Unrelated, but what happend with the L and Y characters?
Are we really getting Lara Croft and Yaridovich?
Uhm well, I respect the users involved in this rumor but I prefer to not believe it.
Insiders rumors like these already happend before and most of the times they were fake; such as the second November Direct, or the "overlooked real image leak" thing. Those leaks usually spawn when there is lack of actual informations and seem to exist only to influence speculation, for some reason.
Maybe the speculation is losing appeal or is going in a direction that someone doesn't like, then one of these rumor spawns and the speculation takes a new direction.
This happend before the last Smash Direct and at the end it was all fake, at the end the Box Theory, that one discussion those rumors were specifically made to drive people away from, was proven real.
I'll stick with the fact that we have no informations and that there are a couple of theories about the spirits but nothing too concrete to prove anything, only vague hints based on many "if".
And a suggestion from PR stuff that the DLC characters will surprise us "Like Piranha Plant".
Basically, as far as we know, anything can happen, especially unexpected unpredictable stuff.
Plus, I'm always skeptical when I read Lloyd... time ago, I have read that there was someone who really wanted Lloyd and who even made fake poll results and fake leaks only to influence people into wanting Lloyd, so when I read Lloid I always see a red flag. I have nothing against the character nor its fans, only that I think that rumors involving Lloyd have a big chance of being manipulated by someone (it's just a personal suspect, I have no proofs and I hope nobody will be offended by this claim).
I may be wrong and it can be all real, I don't know, that's just my personal opinion on the matter.