Well at least it seems like Berit is willing to put her trauma behind her to give Laura the bit of support she needs to get over her trauma. Even though she is part of the reason Laura has trauma to begin with.
Of course, this probably will give Wally more leverage over her to continue these experiments.
There’s also a chance that Berit turns against the Consortium as well now. Daniel started seeing the Xeno as more than just creatures created to be used as humans see fit; resulting in whatever scheme he’s planning off-panel right now. Berit might decide to protect Laura now too instead of inflicting more harm. It’s almost as though Wally’s goal of absolute control is slowly turning people against him; as always happens when someone tries to control others with absolute power. Make one one how many others within the Consortium are actually a stone’s throw away from rebellion as well. Wally… Read more »
Yep. I knew it. As soon as Laura called her ‘mom’, Berit couldn’t help but comfort her because of her voice.
Now it remains to be seen if she’s able to keep hurting Laura now, or if her parental instincts will cause her to decide to try and protect Laura(and if Berit learns to view Laura as an adopted, second daughter instead of an abomination; that’ll make it even harder for her to harm Laura).
And it seems she couldn’t sacrifice her own humanity.
Daniel started his switch in the same way. When he was wiping Alpha’s memories his exact thought was “Am I doing the right thing?” which could be why some of Alpha memories seem to in tact, and are just buried. Daniel, ultimately, couldn’t go through with his task entirely.
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16-Under the Rain
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