Okay, so we know why the Siberian looks like a woman. But, uh… do we know why she’s zebra striped?
When Shards create the limits and aesthetics of powers, they pull on a lot of different avenues of information: the host's memories and experiences, the data of the world they inhabit, and the Shards around them.
Things we know about William Manton:
He's going through a nasty divorce and custody case
He's an expert actor
He went behind everyone's back to win over his daughter with a near fatal plan
His Wife/Child Projection is animalistic in appearance, not just in stripes but in pupils, claws, and a desire to be cannibalisitc
A clone of his treated his projection as a replacement wife/servant/possible sex doll
My headcanon is that the Siberian represents his internal attitudes on women (hostile appearance, lack of clothing is preferred, maternal to young girls, cats often being tied to femininity), and his play-acting/speech of wanting to be "free" to Bitch is really a self-projection.
He was being fucked over (in his opinion) by the rules and laws of the land, and he might blame them for his actions in mutilating his daughter.
How much easier would things be if HE could just have acted on his impulses? What if anyone could?
Women in his life hurt him, intentionally and "unintentionally" like his daughter (but really his fault), so the OG Siberian is a literal sexy, Maneater.
His clone is the opposite end of the extreme: the servile, docile, wife who listens to her hubby (note this is still Manton play-acting a role he feels women are serving or should be serving).
In short: Doctor William "Misogyny" Manton
