#tpn 007

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Who has your favorite character design in series?

Probably Yuugo for human characters.

(Chapter 53)

Spiritually, a distant relative of Duke Devlin/Ryuji Otogi.

Demon characters are a bit harder with how many cool designs Demizu came up with.

The Grace Field Boss Demon only shows up at the beginning and end of the series (barring S2 teasing me by having him show up during the Cuvitidala Arc), but he's such an imposing figure in that initial appearance when the kids are the most vulnerable that he stands out to me, particularly with the tubing that looks like it's from a gas mask. Gives him a clinical feel.

(Concept art from The Promised Neverland Art Book World | Chapter 176 | S1 Episode 1)

Yverk has such a grand, regal bearing to him and one of the sickest mask designs.

(Concept art from The Promised Neverland Art Book World | Chapter 147 | Chapter 7 | WSJ Issue #41 2018 Popularity Poll for Chapter 102 | Chapter 131)

I wish he got to be at the forefront more, but I can appreciate him as a constant background presence maintaining the status quo for over a millennia.

Bayon Sr. continues the trend of having one of the coolest mask designs, and I like how spindly he looks.

(Chapter 66 | Chapter 77 | Chapter 80 | Chapter 81)

That waist though holy shit

Sonju electing to walk around his entire adult life without a shirt on?

(Concept art from The Promised Neverland Art Book World | Chapter 157)

Respect, congratulations Mujika.

Leuvis of any era but Leuvis in his slightly sluttier era?

(Chapter 141)

Amazing. No notes, ty Demizu.

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Hiii bestie with a PhD in tpn lore do you perchance have any canon resources that talk about mask lore that aren't this one page in volume 11 I need them for OC making purposes :>

Shirai doesn't really talk about it much outside of the text itself, which is a shame. The most attention paid to them is in this segment in the third chapter of the mystic code book:

And this is mostly just a summary of what the characters talk about during Goldy Pond.

(Chapter 77 | Chapter 78)

There's also this little segment of the art book that briefly touches upon the Grace Field Demon Boss' and Yverk's designs:

So if you're sticking strictly to what he's openly discussed, there's a lot of wiggle room to work with.

If you're open to playing around with some abandoned concepts from Shirai and Demizu, there's the concept art previously shared in this post from the art book, specifically these portions:

I'm also going to use this as another opportunity to promote @puff-poff's demon anthropology posts (found here and here) because, while not official, they're the most comprehensive analysis I've come across regarding the subject.

And then this panel from chapter 77 might be of interest. You could interpret it as some demons using an adhesive akin to spirit gum to help keep their masks in place, which is interesting if you want to further explore mask etiquette.

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While some kids must have the same mum, which is normal; because if we take only Grace Field, there are not so THAT much sisters who will complete their training in the HQ compared to all the kids in all the orphanages of GF (considering how hard is the traning, when we sees Krone's extra). Considering Isabella's words, Emma is the first she planned to propose for years. Maybe the FIRST she planned to propose. So it must not happen THAT often.

I mean in Isabella's orphanage they were 33 i think? and if there are 5 orphanages, we have 165 children for all Grace Field, with 6 new every year for every place so 30 by year. So every year 30 babies must be born.

So it's logical that some have the same mother. And i fell bad for the sisters who have to do that few times. It must be a torture.

But i wonder....the fathers must be sperm donators who doesn't know anything about the system. But I wonder how much kids have the same 'father'.

From your ask from a few months ago, we confirmed Grace Field is made up of five plants, and Ray confirms in chapter 4/episode 2 that there are 37 kids after Conny's shipment and prior to Carol's arrival.

(S1 Episode 1; Isabella also apparently reminds of their numbers every day at meal time)

(Minerva Confidential Report released with the S1 Blu-ray; 38 children accounted for on October 12, 2045)

The last chapter of the first light novel takes place around Norman's birthday in March 2045 and is also titled "The Gift from the 39th Girl" (available as a sound drama here) which further supports they keep at the very least plant no.3 supplied with 38 kids the majority of the time between shipments.

Assuming that number is applied to the other four plants, there's roughly 190 kids in the orphanages at any given time in Grace Field's current incarnation.

if we take only Grace Field, there are not so THAT much sisters who will complete their training in the HQ compared to all the kids in all the orphanages of GF (considering how hard is the training, when we sees Krone's extra). Considering Isabella's words, Emma is the first she planned to propose for years. Maybe the FIRST she planned to propose. So it must not happen THAT often.

And like I said in that earlier ask and this one, I still don't understand how the math works out for this given how brutal and unforgiving headquarters is, but we go along on Shirai's ride and chalk it up to dystopian horror magicks to explain how they kept this up for centuries.

I could believe Emma is the first sister candidate Isabella offered a recommendation for the mom position in years given the significance of them being narrative foils and Emma potentially being among the first children Isabella raised entirely by herself at plant no.3 for added poignancy, though with how she was also the only mom who had the older girls exclusively assisting her in the care of the youngest babies

(Chapter 7 | Chapter 12)

I think you could just as easily argue she recommended multiple girls before Emma with how she maximized their time for pursuits that would better equip them to become sisters/moms. (Why "waste" it on boys when their only future was to be food? Further entrenchment in rigid, traditional gender roles).

So it's logical that some have the same mother. And i fell bad for the sisters who have to do that few times. It must be a torture. But i wonder....the fathers must be sperm donators who doesn't know anything about the system. But I wonder how much kids have the same 'father'.

Shirai never ever touching this with a 20-foot pole with how icky the dehumanization of the farm system feels already in the present:

(Mystic Code Book Chapter 1 Q&A)

Without even getting into how they handled things prior to artificial insemination. (Though I do personally favor a member of the Ratri clan's branch family being a male relative of Norman's two to four generations back).

But yeah, the people themselves probably just think they're donating to a regular licensed sperm bank that guarantees anonymity between all parties involved, so they wouldn't know if their genetic material was being used even under regular circumstances, and with the Ratri clan's power even into the present day after WWIII when countries and borders have been abolished, they still had enough influence where they could arrange deals with these banks to provide enough genetic material to keep all the farms going without anyone really questioning it.

I like the Emma & Carol, Norman & Rossi, and Norman & Sherry are (half-biological) siblings through their moms theories, but maybe in the human world they do genetic testing and find out who they're related to among the cattle children and among people in the human world through their sperm donors.