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Citrus and Vine · 04-23-2006, 09:03 PM

xmag, we know that the Seal went to Michael and not to the Ganilith, after Max died. The Seal appeared on Michael’s chest. So we can also surmise that the Seal didn’t go to the Granilith, after Max, Michael, Isabel, and Tess had been murdered by Kivar on Antar.

Kivar didn’t get the Seal. Michael, who wasn’t a lineal Royal Antarian, got the Seal. Max, who was a lineal Royal Antarian, was able to take the Seal away from Michael.

The Seal resided in a living person, not an object. The Granilith was an object, not a person. Max lost the Seal, when he died healing Clayton. Even though the Seal could be in a body with human qualities, such as an alien-human hybrid body, the Seal couldn’t be in any body lacking Antarian cells. Clayton’s body couldn’t have the Seal, until Max grew Antarian cells inside in Clayton’s body.

Max and Michael each sequentially had the Seal, but in different ways. Max and Michael each believed that there was more to the Seal than just identifying who was in charge.

Michael’s bad behavior is an important part of the Roswell story. Michael’s behavior changed, after Max returned to Roswell, after Max had died. Max, who had been the acknowledged leader of the group earlier, was now alive again.

Michael noticed that he had healed his own hand. He hadn’t been able to heal his own black eye, after Hank abused him. Michael hadn’t healed himself after Grant shot him. Michael believed that the fact he healed himself meant that he had changed. Michael believed that the Seal gave him the power to heal his hand. He also believed that the Seal meant that he was in now in charge. Michael, who had been abused by people with power, mistakenly believed that an outward symbol meant a person was in charge. But no one followed Michael, when he behaved badly. Being a good leader requires more than an outward symbol. Michael began acting so badly, that Max had to take the Seal from him.

The Seal was meant, or designed, or intended, or affiliated on a permanent basis for a lineal, Royal Antarian person only. Someone like Michael, who wasn’t a lineal Royal, couldn’t keep the Seal for himself. Someone like Michael could have the Seal temporarily, until a lineal Royal person was given the Seal or took the Seal.

Michael helped Isabel, after the doctor had helped to save her life. Isabel’s condition had stabilized. Michael placed his hand on Isabel’s arm, the way Max had placed his hand on Grandma Caudia’s hand, when he attempted to revive Grandma Claudia long enough for Liz to say goodbye. Max hadn’t tried to heal Grandma Claudia. Michael’s powers and his conversation with Isabel brought Isabel back. Isabel said to Michael, “I heard, Michael. I heard you. I was somewhere else, but I followed your voice back.” Michael’s words and his energy brought her back.

Max, Michael, and Tess are each shown healing people. So it wasn’t necessary for a person to have the Seal to be able to heal. Max couldn’t heal Kyle’s injured hand after Max had healed Clayton’s old, aged body, and after Max saved Liz from falling, and after Max died again from the fall.

Max couldn’t heal Kyle’s injured hand, because Max hadn’t fully recovered from the fall, and from everything he had done prior to the fall. Max needed more time for his own powers to return. For example, Max’s powers slowly recovered, after Max healed the children in the hospital. Max’s powers didn’t come back all at once, even while he had the Seal.

Max had superior healing powers, while he had the Seal. Max was able to bring people back to life, if the person hadn’t been dead too long or too badly injured. Max’s powers had limitations. Max, while he had the Seal, couldn’t bring Alex back to life or Nasedo back to life, after Whitaker fatally injured him.

Some people have assumed that if Isabel were in line to receive the Seal, she would have immediately received the Seal upon Max’s death. That isn’t the case. Here’s why Isabel didn’t get the Seal, after Max died.

Max died healing Clayton. But Max lived on in Clayton’s body. Max wasn’t completely gone. Max still retained his identity of Zan of Antar, the real, true Antarian leader, even while in Clayton’s body. Max was still the same person, even when he was in another body.

The Seal appeared on Michael’s chest. If the Seal had instead gone to Isabel, the Seal would have been in her brain. She wouldn’t be able to give the Seal to Max, without her dying. Max wouldn’t have been able to take the Seal from her, without killing her. (Max only lost the Seal, when he died. Lineal Royal Antarians couldn’t give the Seal to another person and live. Lineal Royal Antarians couldn’t have the Seal taken from them, except through dying.)

Because Max was still alive in Clayton’s body, after healing Clayton, the Seal wasn’t activated in Isabel. The Seal existed in Michael, until Max grew Antarian cells, which would enable him to take back the Seal from Michael, which was rightfully his. Max was the rightful, legitimate leader of Antar.

Michael and Tess (if Tess had lived) could only have the Seal temporarily. Only a lineal Royal Antarian could be the legitimate leader of Antar, which the people on Antar and the people of the other planets knew.

Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother, like Michael, wasn’t a lineal Royal. Michael was chosen. Max and Isabel’s Anatarian mother, like Michael, was a chosen royal. Like Michael, she, too, could temporarily have the Seal, until she could give the Seal to Zan (Max), after Kivar killed him, because he was the rightful leader of Antar. She gave the Seal to Max, while he was a fetus. Max had the Seal, when he landed on Earth as a fetus. He had the Seal when he emerged from his pod. He had the Seal, when he was tested by the emissary.

In the story of Roswell, each main character has leadership qualities, which are vital to everyone. While Zan of Antar had been the rightful leader during his life on Antar, he chose to share the leadership position with three other people. The four were known as the Royal Four, even to their enemies the Skins. Good leaders work together with other people for the benefit of all.

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