WILD MASS GUESSING

[ntswm2]

I thought we might as well have one of these because they're fun. Put your most crazy theories about the comic world, the characters (including our mysterious cabal including a bunch of the adults), Kale's little insanities, Bruce's bigger ones etc. here.

To start off:
I think Kale split personality might be just that, a split personality. He never was a fox, and all the fights et al. with Mask and Mr. White are just hallucinatory episodes revolving around a severely fractured mind caused by being the last human on Earth (a literal minority of one). Mask is an example of his wish (to fit in) combined with his id. As to the Cabal (including his adoptive father)... I dunno, since Kale was never a fox, maybe he was stolen from his human parents as an infant and put into cryo freezing when it became clear that Furry's were going to quickly breed humanity out of the gene pool. This was an attempt to preserve the human genome because the Furry genome is unstable, and leads to a whole crop of genetic disorders over the long term. Unable to stop the trend, a group of scientists hide Kale away so that he can later reintroduce a healthy human genome to the population over several hundred generations.

I may or may not have come up with half of that theory on the spot.

Your turn.

[Skunky von Angst]

Interesting, but I would kind of wonder as to why they would just stop with one human (unless there were problems with cryo, and he was the only one to be undamaged). Unless Kale is expected to breed a couple of hundred times....

[ntswm2]

He might not be the only one, he may be the only one known. Kale's parents kept him hidden in homeschool for a long time, there could be other humans in the world, Kale is the first live test in the general furry population. Not going particularly well, but he's only 17 (I think). Of course this depends on the rules of breeding between species and between humans and Furries. We know that closely related species can breed and produce viable offspring (Tyler, Kale's younger brother), but it's rare, and we haven't seen any hybrids out of close genetic relatives, what would, for example, Connor's parents' hypothetical biological son. Is Connor evidence that they can't have kids? If this is true, Human Kale probably couldn't have kids with anybody, except maybe primates (hey, I wonder why he is dating a lemur ).

Also, if humans can breed with anybody, whose genes are dominant? If Human genes are dominant over furry genes, this plan makes sense, if they're completely recessive to Furry genes, than it could work but it will take a bunch more breeding (and controlled breeding at that) to successfully reintroduce a human population to the world. Of those two possibilities, Furry dominance makes more sense simply because they managed to completely displace humanity. That said, it's far more likely that there is shared dominance of some form, meaning that potentially a kid between a human and a Furry could hold a mix of human and furry characteristics ( cat-ears?), diluting Kale's precious human genome, but also successfully beginning it's reintegration into the population.

EDIT (new idea): What supports the idea that Kale might not be the only one, just the only one known, is that there is a command structure above Max, Kale's father, and Hugo. Perhaps they're only a cell of operatives tasked to watch over Kale and deal with various issues as they arise. Why would they need a command structure outside of Furthia if Kale was the only instance of humanity, the entire operation could be run onsite in Furthia rather than from a distant location. If Kale isn't alone, it makes sense that they would have various cells of operatives watching over each human to ensure their safe reproduction and development. Kale's adoptive father has grown to want the boy to discover all this.

[Readasaur]

This is pretty interesting! I like your ideas, ntswm2!

[QuetzaDrake]

Probably shouldn't've bumped a 4 month old thread with no relevant content to add.

[Readasaur]

...Oh, sorry...

[immijimmi]

My turn! WHAT IF, expanding on the idea of 'preserving the human genome' etc, what if there were certain humans that were 'immune' to the furry genome, and naturally rejected the gene, due to variation (like with certain viruses). If that were true, this resistant gene would be very important to those who wish to preserve humanity as there is no guarantee that the people with the gene will 1-have kids and 2-pass the gene to those kids. If normal human genes were introduced back into society later on it wouldn't be any different, the humans would be bred out of existence again. BUT if the scientists cryogenically froze the resistant humans until it was possible to transfer the gene to, let's say, an unborn foetus, then there would be a way to 'create' these humans. Also, why are these people now leaving Kale to go through high school? it seems a bit random, but i've come up with three explanations; 1.The gene has ALREADY been taken, but Kale is being watched in case he remembers or discovers anything he shouldn't. 2.The gene is triggered by an event in life. This requires the people behind this to hide his background from him and to have him live the life of an ordinary person. 3.They need at least two versions of the gene so that if one gene is killed, the other might not die because its different(remember kids, in Darwinism variety=WIN! So if you make fun of a ginger kid at school, he may or may not survive the upcoming apocalypse.), so they take the gene from Kale before life, and then they take one from Kale AFTER life. Like in the second possibility, this requires a trigger to change the gene in some way.
COMBO P'OWNT!

Hope I didn't hit too far from the mark.

[immijimmi]

I loved the way these looked as code on that last submission
STAB STAB STAB. XD

[QuetzaDrake]

Pst, don't double-post, especially with non-relevant things like that.

[fabulo]

Probably shouldn't've bumped a 4 month old thread with no relevant content to add.

quetza dont you think your being quite rude?

[QuetzaDrake]

Uh, no? One, it's against the rules to necro an old thread with an irrelevant post, and two, I didn't insult or berate him for doing it.

Now everyone quit posting in this thread unless you've got wild mass guessing about the comic to do.

[fabulo]

there are nicer ways to state things you know.

[Istanbul]

there are nicer ways to state things you know.

I didn't see anything rude; informing people of breaches of basic netiquette, especially on your own forums, is perfectly normal (and, in fact, an Admin's job).

That said...

It's my theory that Kale was indeed once a fox, but was genetically modified in the womb to take on human characteristics. Bruce's dad is a secret agent of some kind who was at least partially responsible for these events, and has taken it upon himself to look after Kale and see to it that he's all right (though there's a limit to what he can do). Kale's shadow is his vulpine side trying to express itself, nature trying to assert itself over nurture in a very real sense, and Kale remembers Bruce's father on some subconscious level and thus has chosen him as the form of his pro-human side. Kale himself is trying to find a balance between the two, a way to live as a human who might have been a fox, and the conflict between the two mentalities stuck in his mind is causing the issues that have him seeing the psychiatrist over and over again.

[fabulo]

i personely found it a bit smarky but oh well if you guys say so, mabye im just crazy

[Popolo]

This thread derailed.
Call me a hypocrite but enough posting here.