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IT KEEPS HAPPENING!!!  I have a little more for you guys.

(Original theorypost link, if you don’t know what the image is about.)

(Subsequent post on Lord English’s true name.)  (And one on STEAK!)

-= BUCKETS =-

Okay, so you know how the Condesce instituted a reproduction ban?

TT: She began instituting these crazy laws. First of all, people weren’t allowed to reproduce. She found our usual method of procreation revolting, and anyone who engaged in it was punished by death. 
TT: But she still needed an ongoing population of subjects to abuse, so to propagate the race she set up this weird system. 
TT: At random intervals every citizen would be required to supply their genetic material to drones. That DNA would be collected and combined in some way.

Now, the idea has been going around in the IDE/Theory thread that this wasn’t necessarily the Condesce’s opinion/will alone, but that of Lord English.  Meenah expressed disappointment at Serket’s story skipping the “steamy” parts about her spidery love affair with the Summoner, or at least Aranea insinuated it.  English, however, does find the physical acts that lead to normal human procreation abhorrent.  It would make sense for him to have them banned.

In fact, there’s a possibility that it could have carried over to Alternia, as well.  The possibly contact-minimizing bucket system could have been instituted via the combined efforts of Scratch and English, to suit the demon’s delicate sensibilities.  Pre-Scratch trolls may have still used a Mother Grub system, but the whole affair might have been slightly more personal.

It’s a plausible theory.  But that’s not the reason I’m posting.  The reason is because I remembered this:

TT: Many years later, long after the original donors had died, clones would be spawned from their DNA. So no one would ever be able to know who their “parents” were, or be able to trace their lineage. 

Keeping people from knowing who their parents were.

KEEPING PEOPLE FROM KNOWING WHO THEIR PARENTS WERE!!!

I’ve already joked that Caliborn is going to make the Jane face when he sees who the ectobiology monitors are locked in on (Karkat, Jade, and possibly Lil’ Cal), during his session.  What if he found the revelation of who his ectobiological components were SO DISGUSTING that as Lord English, he kept entire races from tracing their lineage?!??

(And if you ask?  Yes, yes I am laughing my ass off.)

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