#dr. kells

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How can you not feel bad for Dr. Kells!? She kept having miscarriages. That's terrible.

Deborah Susan Kells deserves no sympathy in my opinion. Yes, her miscarriages suck, 100%. But if it was a child she wanted, she could have adopted, or could have gotten a surrogate mother. But instead she let it consume her. 

She adopted children, who could have had a good life, and murdered them. MURDERED these babies. Again and again. She messed Jude’s (and Claire’s) life by artificially manifesting something that, perhaps, wouldn’t have happened otherwise. She messed Jude’s life by making him into that. She manipulated Jude by using his dead sister, promising that she would come back to life.

And then she used her adopted kids–whom she almost killed, and in the process made one crazy and unstable–to RUIN the life of a teenage girl. Dr. Kells was the cause of her best friends death in all of this. Dr. Kells made Mara’s family believe that she was crazy and suicidal. Kells made her family lose trust in her, and isolated her from the people she loved most.  

Because of Kells, Mara couldn’t normally go to school, get a chance to make more friends, have a normal relationship, couldn’t trust many people, etc. She brought her worst fear (Jude, at the time) to life over and over again, tormenting her.

Dr. Kells murdered teenagers who did have mental problems, who were trying to get better (excluding Adam’s sociopath-self). For all intents and purposes, she ruined Jamie’s academic career, among other things, and more than likely brought Stella into the abusive home she was in. She made Mara believe she was crazy. She experimented on them, and had no remorse. She ruined Mara’s life so much, it makes me so mad. 

And what’s worse is she believed she was doing good. She believed she was helping them and the world. Even when she was seconds away from killing Mara. David Shaw is just as guilty but at least he didn’t mask what he did as “good.” 

So excuse me while I cheer for the 100th time that she died. She doesn’t deserve my sympathy anymore than the couple of lines it took for her to die.

I could write essay’s on this

[maradyertheories]

Deborah Kells

we finally have Dr Kells's first name! let's take a look at it's meaning.

in Hebrew, Deborah means "bee." In the Old Testament Book of Judges Deborah is a heroine and prophetess who leads the Israelites to defeat Canaanites. Also in the Old Testament, it is the name of the nurse of Rebecca (source).

maybe the meaning itself isn't important, but the Deborah from the Book of Judges is. maybe Kells knows some kind of war or struggle is coming and intends on using the G1821 carriers as her army. or it could be nothing and Michelle just named her after the nurse Deborah from the Old Testament since Kells is a doctor.

[issabellelightwoods]

YA LIT MEME:

Two Antagonists » Dr. Kells (1/2)

"I had wanted to know what we were and now I did. We weren’t students. We weren’t patients. We were subjects. Victims, and perfect ones. If we cried wolf, Dr. Kells would cry crazy, and there were hundreds of pages of psychological records to back her up. If any of us told the truth, the world would call it fiction."

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Do you think Claire is going to come back from the dead? That Mara might do it?

I have mixed thoughts on this. on the one hand, I think Kells might have Mara try to bring back Claire before she let’s her try to bring back Noah (if he’s even dead). the promise of seeing Noah(’s body) if she succeeds in bringing back Claire could be enough for her to manifest the rest of her powers. it’s less risky than letting her see Noah first too because if she succeeds in bringing back Noah she could immediately try to kill Kells and everyone else. Kells needs to give Mara a reason to manifest her power and then stick around.

alternatively, I don’t really see what Kells needs Claire back for. to please Jude? maybe she made a deal with Jude where if he harasses Mara until she manifests all of her powers, he can get Claire back. to study her artificially manifested powers? Jude is still around for her to study and she always artificially manifest powers in someone else. plus if Jude and Claire were absolutely essential to her I don’t see why she’d send them into a building that could collapse at any second with someone who could kill them just by imagining it. I feel like Kells sees Claire and Jude as expendable. they’re lab rats. she just wanted to try to artificially manifest powers in people, and she succeeded in them both so why does she still need them?

-Rachel

[maradyertheories]

i have this theory where noah is actually dead, and they only want mara to bring him back, so she can completely manifest her powers (i think that she can both kill people and bring them back, just that she hasn't fully developed her power yet) and then bring back claire, which is what jude and kells want.

I am a firm believer in the “Noah is alive” theory, mostly because the alternative is too painful but also because I think Noah is valuable to Kells. you don’t dispose of things (or people) that give you some kind of edge or leverage. she doesn’t need to actually kill Noah to make Mara believe he’s dead. making Mara believe that should give her the proper motivation to try to bring people back, so Kells could still get what she wants in the end without killing Noah.

but I could be completely wrong. maybe Kells really did kill Noah so Mara could practice on him. she’d be properly motivated.

I’m not sure Kells is totally invested in bringing Claire back. I see that more of a way to get Jude to cooperate. I think she’s mostly using Jude to try to get Mara to manifest the rest of her powers. I think she got Claire already served her purpose to Kells. she was able to artificially manifest powers in Claire and I think that was mostly what she wanted to know. Claire and Jude were her lab rats, so being able to use Jude to do her dirty work is just a bonus.

-Rachel

[maradyertheories]

or maybe Kells just wants powers herself? idk

I assume you're building off of this ask and are talking about why Kells would want Mara to be pregnant? you've got a point though. maybe Kells is collecting all the people with powers and and studying them so at some point she can artificially manifest all of their powers in one person. I mentioned here that I though Jude's power is a combination of Noah's and Mara's so maybe Claire's is a combination of Jamie's and Stella's, so maybe she was trying to figure out how to manifest multiple powers in one person. maybe Kells is just power hungry and wants all of their powers so she can essentially control the world

-Rachel

[maradyertheories]

from the last chapter of Evolution:

"You've been a participant in a blind study, Mara," Dr. Kells said. "That means most of your treating doctors and counselors have been unaware of your participation. Your parents are unaware as well."

if I've learned anything from all the Orphan Black I've been watching recently then someone close to Mara had to be watching her. they might not have known why, but they knew people were studying her. could it have been Daniel?

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Reasons why I think Noah is alive and why it's to Kells' advantage to tell both of them that the other is dead 

Telling Mara that she killed Noah would possibly make her scared of her own power, she'll only use when she thinks she can help someone or to get revenge but Mara will play along until she's thought revenge out. Plus Kells could offer Mara that glowing image of a normal life after all this crap she's gone through, and even if she's resisting Kells Some parts of Mara would want that life and want to be able to control what she does

And telling Noah that, he would get this idea in his head that he could save Mara. If he learned how to work with it, he could save her, he would try so hard to try and do that if he thought she was dead. So My theory is that they're both alive and Kells is keeping them separate in order to keep them from using each other together to go against her and have manipulatory ways to get them both to be able to control their powers.