So I was thinking about Marie, trying to figure out his timeline at the Order, and I noticed something.
No more than 193 days (the time between Kanda befriending and finally killing Alma) passed between Marie becoming blinded in battle and him ending up comatose on a gurney, brain prime for harvesting. In fact, it was probably way less than 193 days, because Marie’s blindness and subsequent injury seem to span the time from Kanda first being marked for disposal until the massacre of Laboratory 6, which couldn’t have taken more than two weeks to a month’s time.
That means Marie was sent on a dangerous mission long before he’d had time to adjust to his lack of sight, and perhaps before he’d even healed properly. At first I was like, wow, that’s a pretty dumbass move on the part of the Order.
But then I had a horrible thought.
In the beggining of the series Kanda said that the first piece of
Innocence was discovered a century ago, that’s when the Black Order was
founded. But you could still be right about one Innocence having more
accomodators with time, Hoshino never specified that.I think too,
that Marie was sent to die, but not to pass his Innocence on to another
user. They probably thought that blindness wouldn’t be an issue if they
made him into a Second Exorcist too. But Kanda saved him with his blood
and somehow he even survived Alma’s attack and then they shut down the
project.This common past could be a reason why the two of them are teammates, Kanda is Maries’s eye and Marie thought Kanda about the outside world.
Ah you’re right–the original conflict and the flood were thousands of years ago, but the Order is very new. I forgot about that!
That’s almost more disturbing to think they sent him to die so that he could be turned into a Second Exorcist. It’s practically a fate worse than death in some ways.
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