The secret behind the twins’ birth - revisited
(It’s a little outdated now, but you can find the first, much longer, instalment of this theory here.)
This Chapter 73, we were once again confronted with the explosive nature of Yukio’s power. Actually, explosive isn’t quite the word I should be using, as it seems more like he is somehow able to influence or create high pressure blasts (maybe something to do with vacuum shifts? hehe).
Back in Chapter 30, Yukio’s power pushed Tōdō away from him and, in this chapter, it pushed the ground away.
Like Yukio had very sensibly hypothesised - and not so sensibly verified -, the trigger to his powers release is the fear of impending death.
And this train of thought was what made an idea about “the secret behind” the twins’ birth pop up in my head uncalled for.
You see, in twin births, the second twin is the one exposed to the biggest amount of distress. It seems rather obvious, doesn’t it? Because it is the last baby to leave the womb, it is the one exposed the longest to the utter violence that is birth labour. It is the one exposed the longest to hypoxia and even anoxia (lack of oxygen) and it is the one most likely to suffer trauma, for it is the one that has it the hardest to get to the birth canal (because it is usually badly positioned inside the womb). [X]
Even though we can’t really tell for sure - because new-borns can’t talk hehe -, that second twin will feel itself suffocating and it will probably feel like it is dying. (And, you know, sometimes it is.)
Anyways! What I’m trying to get at here is that Yukio, being the second twin, had it much harder to make it into the world. During his birth, he was hurting and suffocating, he probably felt like he was dying. And we’ve now ascertained what happens when Yukio feels like he’s in danger of dying.
“Don’t you want to know… the truth behind those eyes, as well as the secret behind your birth? These truths will manifest as your new powers.” - Lucifer, Chapter 67
In all truthfulness, this quote only makes sense if the “secret” directly connects to Yukio’s powers. And this little theory is that it does.
It always bothered me that Yuri would survive Satan’s power throughout all of her pregnancy to only die at birth-giving supposedly from said powers’ influence.
Maybe… just maybe, frightened, dying baby Yukio did something like this
Maybe… just maybe, Yukio innocently killed their mother.
Just think about it. To Shirō, making sure this kid learned how to protect himself so that he wouldn’t be exposed to such triggering emotions, was actually a priority.
We always assumed that Yukio started his exorcist training at 7 years old for his brother’s sake, but maybe, Shirō started him that early for Yukio’s own sake! The kid was always being bullied and crying and afraid, that was freaking dangerous!!
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