The question should rather be: Where and when will we find out; here in SG or already in WiaB? The only person who knows won't tell us!
Well, Ocean will tell us by the end of the games, I'm sure. Defeats the purpose of making renders if he gives the script away without them
You're implied idea is the right one, we're meant to wonder, it's the mystery that Ocean uses to keep us interested.
that doesn't mean they are the only pair like that in existence.
so Elena is Sasha's mum, what was the name of her Aunt?
Inessa - it's mentioned in the bookclub scene. The only time Elena is mentioned by first name is when Nick tells Mila he can talk to Elena so Mila can play golf. Otherwise, she's Sasha's mom, or just the unnamed person who owns the country club (tennis and golf etc. I assume that's the location where we see the preview renders of Zara, Nika and Nadja).
what do you mean pointed out again and again? Sasha is the one who draws attention to it actively.
Yes Leia wears them in WiaB; which is 19 years in the past at a minimum, so they if they ARE the original ones, and not similar or copies, would be an heirloom, regardless of actual monetary value. assuming they are actually silver or platinum and not steel... that would be quite the gift to an unknown little girl who is crying.
now explain why the ice queen would've given one of them to a crying redhead...
the current Leia would NEVER do that...
looking forward to her character evolving, among other things involving Leia
'Current' Leia (in WiaB) is prior to all the traumas that will unfold in WiaB. There will be some thawing out of her attitude with much drama involved. We don't know how the story will change her. We also don't know what the symbolism of those earrings was, or the circumstances. Giving them to an unknown? They don't have to be related to be known: it's plausible that Nami's parents were killed in a situation that Leia feels personally guilty for.
The earring can be Leia planting a flag, as though Nami is her property, without it needing to be that Nami is a blood relative.
Further, Leia might end up with bad memories of the earrings. She might renounce the earrings as part of her life that is over.
Lastly, original Wiab had two characters wearing them. Leia, who started off with three types of earrings through the game, and Sedilia (spelling? can't be bothered checking it out right now) who was the redhead working at the clothing shop, who went to school with the Zanes. Sedilia could easily be Nami's mother, we simply don't know if she's even a character in the rebooted WiaB.
Bro the explanation is obviously that Nami is not a unknown girl to Leia, which isnt really a secret considering Katie Zane visited the book club because she was aware of Nami attending.
There are OBVIOUS connections between Nika, Nami and the Zane's, maybe they are related, maybe not but there are connections as the bookclub proved but even before that it was already known that Nojiko worked for Scarlett Zane and so on.
There is a reason why Leia gave Sasha and Nami an earring each (or made someone else gave the earrings to them) we just dont know what it is. It could be that they are both daughters of William and the earrings are a sign of Zane protection as they dont wear the Surname, or its something else but there will be a reason. And the reason obviously wont be related to the monetary worth of the earrings.
The current Leia hasnt reconciled with willy yet and doesnt have a Legacy yet, shes bound to change and i at least can imagine her as a "godmother" of the Zane "clan" who takes care in some distant ways for the offspring of her family but we will see.
But ocean doesnt keep pointing out the earrings multiple times in sg and wiab just to reveal at some point: yo btw these are cheap copies from china, no meaning whatsoever
Scarlet is not a Zane. Zane is Dylan's surname, Helen is Zane by marriage, Scarlet is Joe's wife, so Lucas and Katarina have that surname, I don't think it's ever been mentioned. It's be a really rare circumstance where Helen and Scarlet both kept their surnames. The Zanes are all related to Dylan (at least by name, on paper). So further Zanes would be from Dylan's side of the family, any brother's or sisters of his.
The earring thing I think you've hit spot on - it's a sign of Zane favour or protection. Keeping in mine that it seems (even if not directly stated) Nika and Nami both were given some sort of condition that forced them to accept a place at ZPR, Coach Hill knows about Nika from before, KAtie keeps her eye on her start basketball player in her gambit (Nika would have been captain in his old team) there's so many different plausible connections for Katie to be interested in the two of them. We simply don't know ...where that interest began (sorry not sorry). As you point out, Sasha having an earring, and Nami having an earring doesn't automatically make them sisters. It's simply a sign of favout. The sign might also be given for different reasons. Petrova as a lawyer (if that's still true) might have needed some kind of significant sign of trust from Leia.
Leia would need heaps of those earrings to give to all Willi's sproglings, so I think it's more nuanced than that. It's probably more a godmother/protection/favour/obligation symbol.
