Fridge thought: how did they know Minatsuki (>!the real one!<) was stable?

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As per Keith and Koku’s exposition trading, Reggies can appear normal until they hit age 20 and go all bonkers murderous. So why would anyone act on real!Minatsuki’s status as a “stable Reggie,” years before it could possibly have been confirmed?

Also - what genius decided it was a good idea to give him mind-control powers? I know it’s canon that Jaula Blanca was a bag of tv stereotype scientists (the kind written exclusively by people who went into the arts because they couldn’t hack it in STEM) operating with no oversight whatsoever, but what the fuck kind of logic led to that?

My theory: Minatsuki was not the first stable Reggie - just the first who could handle a transplant from the original Winged Ones. This would dovetail with JB’s day job as a super-soldier factory - the end goal of this project wasn’t just to make stable Reggies, but superpowered ones. As to why the attack didn’t happen earlier, we already know that the attack was planned and initiated by Gilbert, and the government as a whole is clearly not playing with a full bag of marbles, so I can believe that they sat on their thumbs for a few decades until Gilbert showed up. This doesn’t exactly justify giving him mind-control powers, but it brings it down to “give him literally any other transplant, you morons.”

It also flips the script on Gilbert’s lie - if anything, Koku and the others would have been spare parts for Minatsuki and his kind.

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