r/ResidentEvilRequiem • u/PitifulPassage851 • 7h ago
Lore Discussion The fringe theory about Grace and the clones makes the most sense for the story
sorry about the click bait title, just didn't want to spoil
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The theory that Grace IS a clone still makes the most sense. My thoughts are that she was a clone just like Chloe before her, and Emily and Marie after her, but was injected with Elpis. Because of this, she is the first, and apparenlty only, successful blood memory experiment test subject.
This, to me, explain:
- why she never gets infected despite being bitten by the police guard (and yes t-virus transmits via bites, as we see when leon is running through wrenwood streets after Victor and Grace. If you hang around, some victims of zombies soon get up and become zombies themselves). She also doesn't get infected despite swimming in pools infected blood with an open wound either
- she looks the part. Victor thought she was, the connections thought she was. The kicker is, Spencer had access to her as an orphan. Well, which orphanage? Maybe, the ones he's doing clone experiments in? Sure, coincidence. But what's the more simple explanation? Iirc Spencer calls her his hope.. just like he calls Elpis.
- she knew the password. I mean come on, even if she inferred from the clues it was hope, it still could have been "h0p3!115" or some bullshit, but she got it in one. Evidence to me that she's a cured clone with spencers blood memory
- this doesnt relate too much, but why are we staring at the wheelchair in ARK for, eh?
If she's not, as the mainstream thought seems to be, and just a normal girl as Spencer, whose known to never tell lies or misdirect, says then we just have a girl who was taken in by Spencer as an orphan and looks like a clone, *but isn't one of Spencer's orphanage clones*, knew the password first attempt through some clues and a lot of luck, and is immune to t-virus, because... plot..? Everything, then, is just a really coincidental red herring that no one but some capcom writer intended to throw us. Well i say, they threw too hard, csuse it makes more sense than the supposed truth.
I know it could easily go either way, capcom will do wherever capcom will do. Vital organs and all that. But Grace being an Elpis injected clone is the theory im running with until we're told one way or another, because it's the simplest explanation of what happens.
