#nerd's words

because I love it

but what if it's actually Emmrich, our sensual necromancer too caught up in his work for a relationship, until now?

or confident and charming Davrin, who's boldness guards a heart not wanting to let anyone in?

or our chillingly intelligent Neve, who's too busy fighting for others to think about herself?

I just saw someone post a picture of an average-sized man with a bit of scruff and say he has "major Bear vibes".

Bears are Fat.

Stop erasing the glorious fatness of Bears!

Damian was born to be a project Apple kid, and Melinda knows.

It's been a pretty popular theory in this fandom that Donovan Desmond is somehow involved in Project Apple and the human experimentation because it would make sense from a story point of having the "main bad guy" be tied to Anya in some way. Upon further thinking about this I had the thought of why he would want to be involved in such a project. The answer came to me:

He is a power hungry warmonger. He wants a weapon he can control.

So, my theory is that Damian was born to be able to make him super-powered weapon and this theory makes sense considering Melinda's thoughts towards her son.

If we consider that Melinda is in on it, yet resents her husband and feels guilty about it, all of her spiraling thoughts can be understood.

Let's breakdown what Melinda says here considering this theory:

"If anything had happened to you I don't know how I'd..." React to it, would it be despair or relief?

"If only he died in the hijacking..." Then I would be free of this guilt that is plaguing me.

"How glad I am that he's safe." Because his death would jeopardize the plan.

"If only I weren't burdened with this child." If only this had never happened to me.

"So sweet how he puts on this brave front." How pitiful that he's still trying to maintain an image for me.

"My treasure." My sweet son.

"My curse." The guilt of what I have done and will do eats away at me.

"But in exchange you absolutely cannot let that man know I came here." You cannot let your father know that I actually care about you.

Assuming that this theory is true it makes sense why Melinda and Donovan seem to be so detached from Damian, yet still enrolled him into Eden and care about his safety. They need to maintain the image that they are a "normal family" for their status and can show that by putting Damian in a prestigious school. Additionally, they get the benefit of not having to take care of him directly by putting him in the dorms.

Why hasn't Damian already been experimented on? It seems they are waiting for the experiments to be completed or at least a little more fool proof. It's no coincidence that Anya is the only person we've seen so far with actual abilities as it's implied that the rest of the test subjects could not handle the procedure and died as a result.

This happening would also be a good juxtaposition to the Forger family. The Forgers are a family that is "fake" yet Loid and Yor would never take advantage or hurt Anya versus the "real" Desmond family that would let their son become a science experiment if it meant that Donovan could have more power.

Of course, there are missing details to this theory. We still haven't yet met Demetrius and don't know for sure that Donovan is involved in Project Apple, but I'd say this theory is a pretty safe bet.

1. I love the "community is struggling but refuses to give up and they all realize they're in it together when one person starts singing and everybody slowly joins in" trope.

My favorite other examples of this are the dwarves in The Hobbit and the miners in Pride (2014).

2. It shows just how entrenched the world is in Chantry teachings. Only 1-3 in that camp are not clearly Andrastian: Solas, Cole, and the Herald / Inquisitor (Solas isn't, we don't know about Cole, and Inky depends on how you play them).This scene only serves to reaffirm a faithful Inquisitor or to show just how swallowed up and washed over a non-Andrastian Inky is. Especially since right before this, you are asked to clarify how Inky feels about the Maker and Andraste.