More sleep, less zone
I've been binging Yellowstone and 1883, so my sleep is all fucked up.
Good. Although it has nothing to do with Noji.
She agreed with their parents that she would look after the children while they're targeted by the cult. The parents were killed. She fled to another part of the country to save children. Since then they have lived with her.
Or maybe she's in the witness protection program. I'm not sure.
So the biological parents put their children into her care, to raise for in indeterminate period of time. Sounds like the definition of adoption to me. Maybe it wasn't done through the legal system, but it fits the definition to a T.
Also, at least one parent of Nika is still alive, they've lived in Wollust the whole time, so those are out.
Yup. Just what I said - now they're roommates, Noji is their landlady. "No funny business between roommates" is now only a Noji's weird rule. They'll bang, mkay?
We know that they are no longer deemed step-siblings, but the story was conceptualised and released as them being that. No amount of obfuscation will change the fact that Nika and Nami were, by definition, adopted by Noji.
Coincidence. Half of the Wollust are Zanes. A very common last name in that place.
But I don't even need this excuse. Nika's last name is Cyrus, but who told you that Nami is Cyrus too? Who told you that Cyrus isn't a fake name that Noji gave him when she run away from the cult?
BTW Noji is Miyazaki now.
It probably is likely they were placed in Noji's care for their protection. With William likely being Nika's dad, the gangs likely started targeting people close to Leia because she started stepping on her business. We don't know yet why Nami, who is likely Daphne's daughter, was placed there too.