Reviewer: sandman579 Signed [Report This]
Date: June 29 2021 1:28 AM Title: Realization

So Tae was born a speck, called it: http://gph.is/2lBjtGE . We finally confirm that correlation about Eren noticing how tall and athletic she is for a human and the comments about how fit Eren is since only fit specks have a chance of surviving in the dangerous world. It's interesting if Tae-yeon is Tae's biological sister instead of a friend like-a-sister. Since Grace called her Ji-soo earlier, is that a general title for a family member or Tae's real name and she just strangely goes by her friend Yeon's name? It hasn't been stated yet if regular humans occasionally concieve speck babies. It would lower the bar again on the morality of the society if parents are abandoning speck infants and dumping them upon the impoverished speck communities if not requesting their doctors to kill them outright. Since Tae has a unique biological trait, the Xirang, she could either be the biological sister of Tae-yeon or she was simply a friend kind enough to care for Tae until she one day grew.

 

This kind of hints that Tae may be involved in the Amrita corps ability to produce weaponized shrink serum since apparently the general public has long been immune to the original outbreak a century ago. The company may have been researching the virus in speck test subjects and Tae happened to be the one in a million who had unique genetic code allowing the virus to be extracted and edited. If specks can come from normal people she may have been hidden in disdain as a mistake of the extended Amrita branch families before being used in the latest experiments and accepted back into the family as a normal human. For such a valuable assest I wonder how closely they monitor and protect her since she seemly has a great amount of independence and gooes around kidnapping and killing people of her own accord.

 

I'm realy curious what Tae did to make Yeon hate her and call her a monster, considering she loved and cared for Tae when she was a speck. I've got my suspicions about preying and tormenting her fellow specks when she got big, believing it was just the natural order of things. In spite of Yeon's affections she may have just gleefully decided it was her turn to feel in control over others. Or if she was given syringes of the weaponized shrink serum after being either adopted or recognized as a member of the Chen's extended family once she became normal sized. She does have the wicked streak of enjoying torturing and killing people, perhaps it's always been regular humans she suffered at the hands of or witnessed killing her fellow specks. She may have been caught in the act by Yeon or showed her one of her victims and gleefully invited her to join her, only for Yeon to be horrified and outraged. In the darkest timeline, what if she used a syringe on Yeon in a fit of rage and killed her?

 

P.S. That's some hella inflation when $43.55/hr is just slightly above minimum wage and insultingly low for a college graduate, from MIT no less if it's still equivalent to present day MIT. Fingers crossed this future society actually mandates that minimum wage to actually match what the living wage is. I wonder if Madeliene thinks he's just that desperate for work or if the gears start turning when she notices other awkward moments with Eren in the coming weeks.

Author's Response:

You called it!

I won't say too much and risk giving anything away, but I can clarify that 'Ji-soo' is Tae's real name, however you wish to interpret that. As for who this 'Tae-yeon' person is, you will have to wait and see :).

Honestly calculating the inflation ended up becoming an educated guess for how 2107 would look, assuming a few world changing events that have not yet been discussed by any of the characters impacted the economy. Buuut I can assure you many of those events and changes in the economy will be hinted at in future chapters!