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i have a few theories and i’ll try to organize them here, even tho this might turn into a pretty long comment. i think there’s a discrepancy between the “uncle” little A remembers and the “uncle” the farm sees as mr. A. that’s bc the memories of mr. A from little A as a child and the ones from fluffy, for example, seem to show two very different uncles. the uncle fluffy remembers is much more similar to the one who showed up at the end of the last chapter, while the uncle little A remembers is completely different. he remembers a very strong, bearded man whose face is always hidden (either by a light flare or by his cap), which makes me think his identity is being kept hidden on purpose, possibly to be revealed later in a plot twist.
one of the key moments that made me think this way was the chapter when little A helps G with the eggs. when he’s asleep and G hugs him, he has this hallucination/flashback of being hugged by his uncle as a child. at first, the memory is warm and comforting, he sees the uncle as a beardless man, which matches the man from the last chapter. but then the feeling turns disturbing, little A looks scared and the uncle’s appearance changes into this bearded man with a cap, the same version of the uncle related to the farm, and a detail i found very suspicious in this latest version, during the hallucination, is the tag on his cap that says “cool guy.” it feels like a forced attempt to frame this character as friendly, when he’s actually not.
now, my theory is that the real uncle is actually little A’s biological father, and a hybrid. little A, being his son, probably has hybrid genes, but he clearly hasn’t developed any animal traits. so, when he was a child, the uncle/father gave him to his sister to be raised by fully human parents, hoping to keep him safe and hidden from scientists, that’s why they were so overprotective. all of this was only possible bc little A didn’t show any animal features by then.
these adoptive parents probably took little A to therapy as a way to monitor his development (thats why the therapist was constantly asking “and now? how are u feeling today?”, to check if he was starting to show hybrid characteristics, but he never did). i think that when little A visited the farm as a kid, he found some kind of box or document that revealed either the uncle’s hybrid identity or the fact that he was his biological son. but he was too young to understand or connect the dots. that’s why his adoptive parents react so strangely in the car when he brings it up, it clearly triggered smth big, even if they tried to brush it off.
so maybe this uncle actually started the farm with good intentions, to rescue animals from big corporations, but was eventually taken away by scientists to be studied or smth like that. and then someone else took over the farm, pretending to be mr. A, the “fake uncle.”
another possibility (my second theory) is that there is no fake uncle at all, but someone connected to the scientists sent that letter to little A as bait, to lure him to the farm so they could eventually capture little A as well, since little A is the biological child of a hybrid and that might be rare. they’d want to study how it’s developing in his body, and that would explain why the uncle/dad was so worried at the end of the chapter, when the bus driver mentioned the boy and the farm.
anyways, i think it makes sense for little A to have some kind of hybrid bloodline, he was talking abt never fitting in and how ppl always sensed smth odd abt him. that could be a sign he’s not just an ordinary human maybe?
still, whether or not there’s a fake mr. A, i think the mystery around the uncle’s appearance is intentional. in all memories, from both little A and fluffy, his face is never fully shown. there’s always a light or a shadow or a hat in the way. the only reason i can think of for that is if there’s a plot twist about his real identity.
anyway i’m rlly invested in this story and i can’t wait for the next update!!!!! (≧∀≦)