#anyways i DO hope we get to meet some other ppl from zs whole project letters or no

[clonerightsenthusiast]

26

Okay I actually am going to ramble about “26″ now because I reached Rear View again and I’ve been thinking about it for. a while. It’s just so interesting to me on multiple levels.

So, on the surface, entirely-within-the-story level, it carries certain implications. Yes, it took me a week to make the connection between “Z” and the number 26. In my defense, Blackout came out during that week and I was preoccupied being worried about Pox. But in retrospect it seems... too obvious to be coincidental. Especially when you factor in that Z gets his name from the scar over his drone. Now a scar being z-shaped isn’t exactly outside the realm of reasonable scars to just like, acquire. Especially with allowances made for the rule of cool and whatnot, it’s an easy thing to just accept. But Zenith having both the association with the Z symbol and the number 26 throws things in a new light. Now it feels like part of a sequence. Which means there are other parts of that sequence. Other parts that I want to learn more about.

But the whole thing is also really interesting to me on a meta-level, because of how we got this information. The system at the Sons of Adam didn’t tell Zenith his order number; he said the first number that came to his head. Which meant Blair came up with it. Which raises a lot more interesting questions that relate to collaborative improvised storytelling! For example, how much does Blair know about Zenith’s backstory? Is this something that he and Gannon worked out together? If you work off the assumption that it isn’t, and he’s learning alongside Z (or at least learning details, I’d be more willing to believe he was in on the sort of general outline of like, the supersoldier thing) -- which I think is a fair assumption, it makes this, and anything that comes out of it, a really interesting question of like... intent. By picking the number 26, was Blair purposely making the connection between the scar and the number? Let’s assume that it turns out Zenith IS part of some sort of particular sequence of super-soldiers designated by the alphabet. If Blair had picked some other random number, would it still have happened that way? Would Gannon adjust whatever story he had in mind for Z because of a detail like this?

I cannot stress how incredibly hypothetical this all is, because obviously we still know pretty much nothing about Legacy of Adam and whatever project Z was part of. It could very well turn out that Zenith being number 26 is entirely coincidental, or just, like, a joke that I am taking way too seriously. I am not at all discounting that possibility. It’s probably the reality, even. I just think it’s really fun to consider a potential future where we meet some bitch with a K on their face that makes Zenith dissociate for like ten minutes. And also to extrapolate the meta-process behind that hypothetical future.