Talk:Characters/@comment-82.124.172.164-20140731093850

I have a theory concerning Hydra Nell's limited power. If you remember, Neyn and Fuyumi's human mother fused 14 years prior to the story, thus Nell can't be older than 13 or 14 (1 or 2 years older than Liz). Yet he looks like he's 14 or 15, and he possesses magic while his mother doesn't. My theory is that one of the two doppelgangers was already pregnant with Nell. If it were pure-demonic Neyn, then she and her son would have both lost (or kept) their magic, or become human-demon hybrids with limited magic. That didn't happen, so the only remaining possibility is that it was Fuyumi's mother who was pregnant before the fusion.

Think about it : Neyn and Mrs. Yanagi could merge into their complete doppelganger, but human Nell had no demon counterpart to fuse with, which would have created an unbalance (which is unnatural). So the only way to avoid this was for Nell to absorb Neyn's magic (the reason she doesn't have it anymore) and part of her demonic organism (making him a human-demon hybrid). Since Neyn has Mrs. Yanagi's memories, she most likely understood why she lost her powers, decided to keep the baby because she feared an abortion wouldn't give her powers back, and considered Nell to be her property since he "stole" her magic, effectively taking him away from his true family (remember the way she said Fuyumi was hers, and you can clearly see it's Neyn's mind in control of the fused body).

If I'm right, then I think it's sad for Mr. Yanagi and Fuyumi. Yanagi would have fought more for his wife (and thus son), Heads would have let him have her, because of Nell, and Fuyumi would have had a better life, with the compagny of her brother to enjoy. Instead, she's had a very lonely life (except for 2 friends at school), that must be why she went throught the Black Curtain (to seek adventure). Of course, it's all but a theory, but it's the kind of twist in scenarios we see nowadays, and that would explain a lot Neyn's attitude toward Nell (like making him run her errands).