#meshtalk

so kieran/clear are obviously different from jean/xara despite being android clones of them and i thought about it and then thought about it some more and basically i think that their (+ eden's) respective powers line up with that...

kieran's ability is physical strength (i think? something physical at least. electricity powers are physical) and it seems that he's more similar in physical appearance to jean than clear is to xara, while being wildly different in personality

jean is described as polite, friendly, loyal, keeps to himself most of the time; as opposed to kieran who is described as manipulative, charismatic, condescending, sadistic, super evil, etc

kieran looks more similar to jean than clear does to xara, he's really just jean with a different hairstyle (though the way they style their hair is itself indicative of a personality difference)

meanwhile clear's whole gimmick is illusions and mind tricks, and i've noticed that in terms of personality clear and xara aren't really so different...

both are described as very blunt and also clever

you ever notice how they have like the exact same pose in their full art?

really the only clear(Heh) difference is their emotions, in that xara is temperamental and impulsive while clear is cold and collected

and so clear and xara have a similar base personality, but are different in physical appearance, as clear doesn't have xara's freckles (💔🥀) and clear's hair is noticably longer, straighter, and a different color than xara's

and eden's whole thing is manipulation of emotions, so following this pattern of their respective gimmicks being a body/mind/soul thing, would mean that the thing eden shares with their supposed counterpart would be........

this is the part where i say that i think the killer android might have a human soul. i dont know how that would work or what it would mean exactly but you know how eden is strangely different than the other two with their different visor and uniform... maybe this could explain why?

and correct me if im wrong on this, but it's kind of implied that the 'parallel universe' the androids are from is the old earth right? so this could also explain why there's seemingly not a single trace of eden's human counterpart in the new world, because unlike XJ their soul was not exactly recycled into the new world. it would be weird if eden did have a real living human counterpart but somehow no association with XJ who are best buddies (however i think the parallels between eden and risa are totally not a coincidence but that's for another post)

TL;DR - kieran's powers are physical and he has jean's appearance, clear's powers are mental and she has xara's personality, two plus two is four, eden's human counterpart doesn't exist in the current world because eden has their soul

adding on, other stuff that may or may not be a reach but that i felt was worth mentioning:

the flashback where jean asks "did you really have to give the sec drones a personality? that's asking for trouble." and xara responds "personality is everything." probably nothing but... funny coincidence.....