feelin’ SYLeepy these days

I'm biased towards the incest theory, but that doesn't mean I'm not open to something else, so I'll propose an even crazier crack theory: What if the de Alger Obelias are clones? A special characteristic of the imperial blue mana is that it can become sentinent. The divine beast, which is created by children, is surplus mana that has taken on the form of a lesser lifeform: an animal, wheras the surplus mana of an adult could take on the form of a human being (Jennette, the Athy double). Blackie, which has the same preferences, weaknesses and fears as Athy, is in a way her spiritual twin or even her "daughter" (created from Athy's mana as Eve from Adam's rib). As the children grow and reach adulthood they consume the mana of their divine beast until it is no more, which could bring to mind Aeternitas devouring the mana of his descendents, he feels threatened by, to live on as a powerful immortal being (saturn devouring his sons anyone?), which would also make a wonderful allegory to the filicides occuring in the Imperial family line. The de Alger Obelias look like exact copies of one another, because they are. They are all blonde and blue eyed and ethereally beautiful. If most of the de Alger Obelias procreated by mitosis and their children were indeed clones of themselves, then it would give us an explanation for why mother and child would reject one another and why the mothers would so often die during a pregnancy or in childbirth. The mothers were never their real mothers, they were just incubators. It is not a natural birthing process. Even the naming system makes suddenly much more sense: every heir to the throne is named "immortal", because they become immortal. Their descendents are their ancestors.

I’ve talked about this privately with friends before, but the subject of Imperial Mana is so strange in itself. It’s considered separate from the “normal mana” that every living being has, yet someone like Lucas—who uses normal mana and has used ancient mana (which is forbidden just like black mana)—can absorb and use it easily. It makes me wonder if imperial mana is truly that different or special. After all, the novel is really trying to put out that Novel Jen is more of a Penelope clone, yet she still has jewel eyes meaning you do not actually need imperial DNA to use imperial mana. For someone like Jen who only had a bit of imperial mana in order to have jeweled eyes, it makes me wonder why Lucas could never manifest jewel eyes despite having siphoned off of Athy’s overflowing imperial mana for years.

I'm biased towards the incest theory, but that doesn't mean I'm not open to something else, so I'll propose an even crazier crack theory: What if the de Alger Obelias are clones? A special characteristic of the imperial blue mana is that it can become sentinent. The divine beast, which is created by children, is surplus mana that has taken on the form of a lesser lifeform: an animal, wheras the surplus mana of an adult could take on the form of a human being (Jennette, the Athy double). Blackie, which has the same preferences, weaknesses and fears as Athy, is in a way her spiritual twin or even her "daughter" (created from Athy's mana as Eve from Adam's rib). As the children grow and reach adulthood they consume the mana of their divine beast until it is no more, which could bring to mind Aeternitas devouring the mana of his descendents, he feels threatened by, to live on as a powerful immortal being (saturn devouring his sons anyone?), which would also make a wonderful allegory to the filicides occuring in the Imperial family line. The de Alger Obelias look like exact copies of one another, because they are. They are all blonde and blue eyed and ethereally beautiful. If most of the de Alger Obelias procreated by mitosis and their children were indeed clones of themselves, then it would give us an explanation for why mother and child would reject one another and why the mothers would so often die during a pregnancy or in childbirth. The mothers were never their real mothers, they were just incubators. It is not a natural birthing process. Even the naming system makes suddenly much more sense: every heir to the throne is named "immortal", because they become immortal. Their descendents are their ancestors.

I’ve talked about this privately with friends before, but the subject of Imperial Mana is so strange in itself. It’s considered separate from the “normal mana” that every living being has, yet someone like Lucas—who uses normal mana and has used ancient mana (which is forbidden just like black mana)—can absorb and use it easily. It makes me wonder if imperial mana is truly that different or special. After all, the novel is really trying to put out that Novel Jen is more of a Penelope clone, yet she still has jewel eyes meaning you do not actually need imperial DNA to use imperial mana. For someone like Jen who only had a bit of imperial mana in order to have jeweled eyes, it makes me wonder why Lucas could never manifest jewel eyes despite having siphoned off of Athy’s overflowing imperial mana for years.

I'm biased towards the incest theory, but that doesn't mean I'm not open to something else, so I'll propose an even crazier crack theory: What if the de Alger Obelias are clones? A special characteristic of the imperial blue mana is that it can become sentinent. The divine beast, which is created by children, is surplus mana that has taken on the form of a lesser lifeform: an animal, wheras the surplus mana of an adult could take on the form of a human being (Jennette, the Athy double). Blackie, which has the same preferences, weaknesses and fears as Athy, is in a way her spiritual twin or even her "daughter" (created from Athy's mana as Eve from Adam's rib). As the children grow and reach adulthood they consume the mana of their divine beast until it is no more, which could bring to mind Aeternitas devouring the mana of his descendents, he feels threatened by, to live on as a powerful immortal being (saturn devouring his sons anyone?), which would also make a wonderful allegory to the filicides occuring in the Imperial family line. The de Alger Obelias look like exact copies of one another, because they are. They are all blonde and blue eyed and ethereally beautiful. If most of the de Alger Obelias procreated by mitosis and their children were indeed clones of themselves, then it would give us an explanation for why mother and child would reject one another and why the mothers would so often die during a pregnancy or in childbirth. The mothers were never their real mothers, they were just incubators. It is not a natural birthing process. Even the naming system makes suddenly much more sense: every heir to the throne is named "immortal", because they become immortal. Their descendents are their ancestors.

au where BOTH athy and jennette get introduced as claude’s long lost daughters at the debutant ball

Jennette Margarita send Komori Yui are really characters I protect because the victim blaming and accusation for no reasons is insane