We investigate the backward-angle oscillations in elastic \(^{16}\) O+ \(^{12}\) C scattering at \(E_\textrm{lab}=100\) MeV by contrasting a minimal two-channel CRC model (true elastic \(\oplus \) elastic \(\alpha \) transfer) with a single-channel optical model augmented by a parity-dependent (Majorana) term. Using a joint near/far (NF) and barrier/internal (BI) decomposition together with Fourier-transform-based imaging of the decomposed amplitudes, we show how the \(\theta \leftrightarrow \pi -\theta \) mixing from elastic transfer maps onto a parity-dependent elastic \(S_L\) and yields the backward pattern. A fixed-geometry Wigner baseline reproduces the data at forward and medium angles; the remaining backward strength is recovered either by a compact surface-peaked Majorana term in one channel or by a baseline-dependent effective elastic-transfer normalization \(S_\alpha \) in CRC, both enhancing the same internal–farside (I–F) branch at large angles.