Can you explain the family branch that furuta was talking about in today's chapter?
Sure! Iâm not 110% on this, but my momâs a huge genealogy hobbyist, and Iâve picked up a ton of stuff from her over the last 10 years. So hereâs how it goes:
Basically, the people who stem from Tsuneyoshi are women heâs been partnered with.Â
On the far left, the children are shown to continue the family tree. This is an indication that theyâre to continue the âfull ghoulâ portion of the family as âseed plantersâ. Their type of branch is the same that births full ghoulsâ and only full ghoulsâ like Yoshitoki, who will inherit executive seats within V and the CCG.
The two women in the middle have human blood. There is nothing connecting them to the âmainâ branch, so from there the family line breaks away (and there are probably many of them).Â
Furutaâs mother is either full human or a half-ghoul. Furuta was unable to produce a kagune on his own, and so heâs been labeled a defect and thrown into the âdefectsâ category with Arima, to carry out the Washuuâs dirty work.
The woman with the long hair on the right is most likely a half ghoul herself, also, probably, a Washuu. She is the mother of Arima, Rize, and another unnamed child (I think the fact that theyâre all wearing glasses is to show that it runs in the motherâs blood). I marked the unnamed child as a womb, but tbh they could have been a defect, too.Â
note: I think the unnamed person trips some people up bc of their placement, but without a line connecting them to Tsune, they follow the pattern of being another Garden child like Furuta, Rize, and Arima.
Arimaâs âhuman bloodâ shows, he is unable to produce a kagune, and therefore is labeled another defect. His family line begins and ends with him.
âDefectsâ are called âhalf-humansâ (âdemi-humansâ in some translations, which is more fitting imo). Even though theyâre all technically partially human to some extent within this branch, only the oneâs whoâs human blood shows makes them unfit.
According to Arima, some children in the garden can manifest kagune. Presumably, this means kids like Rize, who will be used to pass the Washuu blood on to her children, who will either be defects or other âwombsâ/âplantersâ.
Rize, by chance, is able to produce a kagune. She is fit, by standards, to carry on the Washuu bloodline, and will be cycled up to be paired with her own father to create more wombs or workers.
Arima and Furutaâs mothers may also have been daughters of Tsuneyoshi, too, or daughters or pure-ghoul children like the branch on the far left. Either way, the family line is riddled with incest. Blech.