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No, Nero is about the same age range as Tabitha.You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
No, Nero is about the same age range as Tabitha.
Indeed MC has a flashback to his supposed mother, who looks very similar to Tabitha in her full form. Considering that Tabitha is a shapeshifter and can pass as any age (she probably is the romance writer too), along with Undyne's form being seemingly unchanging, it's impossible to know their ages and the scenario is plausible.You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
I haven't re-read in a while (waiting for the next update), so some of my memory is a bit hazy, but:However there are also some oddities. Tabitha is the cream of the crop in terms of power. She is supposedly a witch, and strong enough to kill mages without using magic herself. How is it possible that she managed to provide for Undyne, but she both somehow lost her son in the Shoal and didn't recognize him when she saw him in the Hearth? Tabitha knows what happened to her, so she hasn't lost her memory.
I think that ultimately, Tabitha isn't MC's mother. While the flashback made me think that this is the case, analysing the circumstances further, makes it unlikely for me. Not impossible, but improbable, despite the likeness.
I haven't re-read in a while (waiting for the next update), but:
Tabitha is explicitly not a witch - she was cursed (likely by a witch) so that she is very powerful but can only eat human flesh - basically forcing her to live as a monster. Witches can sense each other's presence, and there's been nothing of the sort between other confirmed witches and Tabitha. Her main goal is finding and getting revenge on the person who cursed her (we have already been given their name, but I'm forgetting it at the moment).
As for the Tabitha being Nero's mother thing - highly doubt it. Unless the stats pages themselves are acting as an unreliable narrator, Tabitha is 24, which is the same range as the rest of the cast (all the main girls are 20-25). I also don't think characters looking somewhat similar (especially in Koikatsu) is good enough reason to make guesses on familial relationships with.
I don't think the character card is misleading. I think it's just in preparation to be replaced with a card with her "true appearance", which she's been spending increasingly more on-screen time in recent updates.
I have an inkling that Tabitha's card is deliberately misleading and that's why it's blacked out as of latest update. Both her and Astrid are out of commission, yet only Astrid's card is intact. I think the dev will update the card with new information when Tabitha comes back, including her design, to reflect her true form.
Tabitha being the author is basically all but confirmed. It's pretty obvious from all interactions with her in Mira's event, combined with her books going missing from Astrid's family library (since Tabitha was spending a bunch of time around there).
I also suspect that Tabitha is the romance novel author, and this girl looks older than 24.
Considering the circumstances behind her relationship with Undyne, it would mean that she was just 14 when they met.
So at 14 she was already cursed, exiled in the Shoal and providing for an unknown girl who couldn't even speak.
She knows she's among the most powerful beings out there - but she may not suspect how powerful witches can actually get (she seemed relatively un-phased by how shook Nero was by his encounter with the Grandmaster). Even if she does know how powerful they can be, she may believe she can simply overcome that power via a sneak attack, given her whole life for many years has given her tons of experience with such things.
As for not being a witch, as far as I remember, all we know is that something was done to her body through a ritual. It's not explicitly stated that she isn't a witch.
Tabitha thinks that she can take on Arkada if she was to use magic, despite Miss Arkada being around, and that she can take on Samara (who is probably the powerful witch that cursed her).
Perhaps she speaks out of her ass, but I doubt that just the curse is enough to give her this kind of combat potential.
Kallista isn't a full witch yet - she's a witch-in-training. I remember she's mentioned as such a couple times, one time while pointing out the incorrectness of everyone calling her/assuming she's a witch.
Lastly, Nero not being able to sense Tabitha isn't an absolute argument be if I'm not mistaken, he couldn't sense Kalista either as far as I remember.