I know this probably isn’t the board where I should ask this, but I don’t really know another board more suited for this.
I was wondering if anyone knows if the Dusklings from the last chapters of the first adventure were supposed to be trollified children/babies (if Minna has stated this)?
Because, there seems to be a lot of evidence pointing towards that: the fact that they can speak and the way they do it, their ability to recognize a weapon (“GuN!”), their stature (tiny) and Minna calling them trolls.
I think it’s quite depressing if they’re truly rash children, more so if they’re babies (from a hospital’s maternity wing or something like that), considering that the way Minna described their painful transformation was them huddling alone (as in probably no adults around them ‘cuz they were dead or a troll), perhaps abandoned, in a basement with a small window to stimulate their “shell” growth (
mentioned here under “trolls” section).
I haven’t really given the Notoros much thought up until today, because I always thought of them as beasts, not trolls (perhaps rash bunnies or hedgehogs, as per Minna’s design). But, after looking again through the “Key posts” some days ago and rereading those last chapters (I somehow always remembered all the Notoro’s speech bubbles as being black, not just the “manipulative” ones, hence me thinking they were beasts) the evidence just started started piling up and I couldn’t really think of them like cute hedgehog abominations anymore. I suppose the silver lining to this would be that they don’t really seem to care (they don’t beg for mercy or scream, just “FoOd?”). Maybe the rash has a different effect on children’s minds, or maybe they’re just so broken mentally that they just don’t care anymore, I dunno...