#silliest tower of god theories

[coffeeandkhun]

"The Seed of a King"

So the person who raised Ja Wangnan called him "the seed of a king". There is also an actual folktale about The Emperor's Seed, which I'm going to summarize here just briefly:

The Emperor was getting old and didn't have any children of his own. So he invited all the children around the country to his palace and told them, to their big surprise, that one of them was going to become his successor.

The Emperor then gave all of them a seed. They should plant it and take care of it, and to return in a year with what had grown.

There was one child who tended his planter very well, but there just weren't any signs of life to be seen. Other children had extraordinarily beautiful flowers and trees growing from their pots, but thist one child had nothing.

When a year had passed, everyone was again invited to the palace. The Emperor studied every plant carefully - also the empty pot of that one poor child, who was very embarrassed and anxious.

Finally, the Emperor said: "A year ago, I gave everyone a seed. But the seeds I gave you were all unviable. They wouldn't grow, and still, for some reason, I see thousands of flowers and plants."

In the end, the only honest child was chosen as his successor.

Call me silly, but after reading the story I though:

Maybe, just maybe, SIU had this story as an inspiration for the whole Jahad clones -thing...

Then would it mean that the real "prince" is the one who's least extraordinanary/king-like, or unexpected in some other way?

Now I want so badly that "the seed of a king" is a literal thing! The Workshop could definitely invent something as wacky as human seeds… Didn't flowers exist in the tower before humans or beasts, anyway?

Just imagine if there used to be a tiny flower pot with an even tinier Ja Wangnan growing from it. If only I could draw.