SxF 122 THOUGHTS
I'm not surprised Sigmund Authen has something to hide, not surprised he's involved with Donovan either, but I'M SURPRISED HE'S REALLY INVOLVED WITH ANYA'S PROJECT. THANK YOU AUTHOR FOR CONFIRMING OUR SUSPICION 🙏🙏🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉
Ending aside, I am so irked at Twillight right now. After tons of clues right in front of him, he still hasn't connected it yet??
Donovan has stitches in both of his temples.
Melinda, who shows no sign of mental disorder or abnormal cognition, has a deep suspicion Donovan can read minds.
Prof. Authen, the person Melinda mentioned in her notebook, used to be a neurology professor who had a contact with Donovan.
The fact that Project Apple existed.
Seriously. Just from those 4 clues, Twillight hasn't connect the dots yet?? He still can't connect that Donovan and Sigmund might've been involved in a brain experiment to read minds? He hasn't connected that Operation Strix might've been busted from the start? Even if he hasn't found any clue about Donovan's involvement with Project Apple (or any other project name), aren't those enough blaring signs to dig deeper??
To think those are not informations only readers know, too. Arghh.
Okay. Let's say Twillight has a short-term memory and couldn't remember those clues, for argument sake. He's more focused on what happen right now. Still. Sigmund has spoon-fed him with the informations he need, literally.
Seriously. He clearly admitted he was a physician and a scholar, enlisted by his country to pursue research. ON MILITARY AND GOVERNMENTAL COMMITEES. The siren couldn't blast any louder than that.
Is Twillight such a naive person to think that researchers haven't stooped so low to experiment on humans, so such thought has never crossed his mind?
I'm aghast. Flabbergasted. Confused. Irritated. Wow. Some great spy you are, Twillight. Gotta be honest, if he is Westania's greatest spy, then Westania is doomed.
Seriously? Former director of Twillight's hospital. Glooman Pharmaceuticals. All of the clues has been right under his nose all along and he still hasn't found anything??
YES. COVENIA FACILITY. Finally. Thank you.
I hope Twillight will find something highly interesting in Covenia Facility. If not, then that means: 1) WISE is just that incompetent, 2) WISE has a mole inside who prevent their investigation, or 3) Ostania & Covenia are just damn good at hiding their experiment traces. Or maybe all 2 or 3 are happening at once. Either way, Twillight is doomed. He's doomed to learn those informations too late. I hope I'm wrong, because right now, he's too far behind.
(This reminds me of a theory I just read that Authen might've been involved with Garden who "engineered" its subject to be superhuman soldiers (I'm paraphrasing). If Garden is really involved in all of this, it makes sense that even Twillight can't trace its activity, when he's not even aware of its existence until Franky mentioned it to him.)
This is one of the rare moment where I really appreciate his skepticism. Yes, keep being skeptic. Don't get lulled by false sense of security.
Now, about Sigmund.
He really did look at her with fondness, as if he's reminded of his prized posession, his greatest achievement of Subject 007.
If I'm willing to bet/theorize: on that night after Anya left, that would be the last time Sigmund had the "sinking feeling" Barbara referred to, before he calmed down and relapsed again in this chapter.
Perhaps at that day, after Anya showed numerous instances that she can read minds (she can decipher his mumbles a lot) and she said she wished for world peace, Sigmund had a "sinking feeling" that Anya was Test Subject 007. But after he calmed down, he immediately forgot about it. It wasn't until Anya came visiting again, asked about his involvement with evil organization, and Loid's inquirements about his involvement with Donovan Desmond, that Sigmund's memory was jogged even harder than before. Everything was suddenly connected, enough to make him stand up and write it down before he forgets (again). This is just a theory, though.
And yeah, even if Sigmund is confirmed to be involved with Donovan, I still would like to believe that he's not entirely a bad guy. I want to believe he's the one who helped Anya escape the facility, or at least he abandoned the project early. If that's the case, that could explain why Donovan's relationship with Sigmund was strained, he prevented his wife from greeting him with such intensity. Wait, that event happened when he resigned as the Prime Minister tho. When did that happen again? What year was it? Was it close with Anya's disappereance from the facility? And it could explain why Twillight has a soft spot for the Authens, because he seems to have an intuition to be attracted to good people.
Aight, enough mulling for tonight. Can't wait for next chapter already! 🥳
