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Citrus and Vine · 04-24-2006, 03:40 PM

Hi Everyone!

shapeshifter and Kathy W, in my opinion, there is sufficient information given in the story to understand things.

In real life, people use the information they know to figure things out. Likewise, we can figure things out from information in the story of Roswell.

shapeshifter, I wish to continue our conversation of whether or not the Seal of Antar was biologically gender specific.

Here are facts we know from the story.

Lineage was a consideration on Antar. (Maz-Zan’s father had been the leader, before his son was crowned.)

The Seal could be in a body with parts that weren’t of Antarian lineage. (Max was an alien-human hybrid, when he had the Seal.)

The Seal could be transferred by person-to-person direct contact. (Max took the Seal from Michael.)

Clayton’s completely human body didn’t receive the Seal, even though Max made direct contact with Clayton’s body.

The Seal could be in a body of someone not directly related to the Royal lineage. (Michael, who wasn’t Max and Isabel’s biological brother, got the Seal.)

Kivar didn’t get the Seal, even though he murdered King Zan and was in direct contact with him.

Liz pointed out that maybe Michael got the Seal, as a back-up. Liz also pointed out in an earlier episode that you can tell the sex of a person from their blood.

People can receive blood transfusions from men or from women. Gender doesn’t affect the usefulness of blood transfusions. Michael, who was male, was a match for a blood transfusion for Isabel, who was female.

Now consider again, Liz’s idea that Michael got the Seal, as a back-up plan. Michael, even though he wasn’t Max and Isabel’s biological brother, got the Seal. So Michael could have been given a specific identifying factor, which enabled his body to have the Seal.

A back-up plan was also evidently in place on Antar, before King Zan was murdered. Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother, like Michael, could have been given a specific identifying factor, which enabled her body to have the Seal.

Someone got the Seal, after the Royal Four were all murdered. We know that Max got the Seal, after he had been murdered on Antar. So, to me, the most-likely person to have been part of the back-up plan on Antar was Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother. Just like blood transfusions aren’t gender-specific, so having the Seal didn’t need to be gender-specific, either.

As has been pointed out before, the fact that shapeshifters existed meant that it was important to have a way of identifying people. Zan of Antar was identifiable by having the Seal of Antar. Likewise, it would have been important to have an identifiable factor for other people. Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother, and Isabel/Vilandra, and Tess/Ava, and Michael/Rath would have needed to be distinguishable from shapeshifters, so that imposters couldn’t take their place. Isabel/Vilandra could have already had an identifiable marker in her at birth on Antar, because she was Zan of Antar’s biological sister. Max and Isabel’s Antarian mother, and Rath of Antar, and Ava of Antar could have been given a factor, which marked them and also made it possible for them to have the Seal, on a temporary basis, as a back-up plan for the Seal.

Michael was the back-up for the Seal for Max, in the event of Max’s death. Michael could have the Seal temporarily, until Max could be in a new body with lineal, Antarian factors. If Max and Michael had both been murdered at the same time, then Isabel, like Michael, could have gotten the Seal.

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