Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-5693502-20160116015009/@comment-26484417-20160118175406

Demotivator wrote: ... So why is it that Revolution is solely limited to Irregulars ? What do people from outside have that Tower natives don't ? There is a crucial difference between the natives from the Tower and every Irregular, which sensibly justifies the lack of dormant powers in one of them. Consider, on the one hand, every native of the Tower was born and raised in the Shinsoo environment. Their bodies have been in a single environment (of different densities) all their life. They may have some latent abilities / talents, but that's something else... This is something different from the dormant power, example of ability / talent would be Viole's copying ability and talent at manipulating Shinsoo.

On the other hand, there are Irregulars, people who were born and raised (to a point) in whatever are the qualities of the outside world... presumably Shinsoo-free environment. Now, they suddenly find themselves in an environment rich with the miraculous Shinsoo. They may get used to it, they may even learn how to manipulate it, but it's always going to be a foreign environment to their bodies. Since it's a foreign environment, there may be some part of their power / abilities they simply cannot bring out because they aren't even aware it's there... And this is where I believe the Revolution comes in and facilitates access to whatever the individual is truly made of.

Grz349 wrote: ... if you know of a blog post confirming... Not a blog post, but this chapter clearly says that Maria was chosen to become a Zahard Princess. The fact that AA's biological sister lost this selection process was the reason their branch of the family was disavowed in the first place. The only uncertainty is whether AA really did help Maria with the selection process, and how could he have done that... Though I suspect that would entirely depend on what the selection process looks like.