Talk:Arlen Grace/@comment-11507893-20170307160759/@comment-13431791-20170314144038

the proof we have is Garam outright stating it during plot exposition - "This (Floor 43) is where she (Arlene Grace) gave birth to you (Baam) and raised you (Baam)". that is, a character in the story effectively acting as the author's avatar to reveal details of the plot to us, the audience. if you're going to try to explain away plot details you dont like with "unreliable narrator" then this whole wiki is kinda pointless, because nothing can ever be counted on as evidence except the word of god.

the whole discussion about whether baam's current soul is the same as when he died is a red herring, completely unrelated to whether he's arlene and V's son. even in a story like this where souls are in fact real, they have nothing to do with one's genetic makeup and who one's parents are. as floor 43 proves you dont even need a soul to live in the tower, so any argument about baam's soul has nothing to do with anything, especially not his parentage. even if he does have an axis power or an outright god living inside of him, that still doesnt change the fact that arlene gave birth to him. by definition, that makes him her son, full stop.

as for the child being killed "soon after it was born", dont forget that people in the tower live, at a minimum, for hundreds of years, or thousands if they get selected or start manipulating shinsoo (and even forever if they have the right contracts). "soon" could be decades in comparison to the tower residents' normal lifespans.