Just some thoughts about Road

[youffie_17]

I just realized something, while thinking about the last novel. It may not be much, but I'd still like to share to know your opinions. It's not really a theory, just some thoughts about certain things that keep bugging me.

Comments

[blind_alchemy]

Road having something to do with Lenalee's nightmare is a plausible theory, and I do get the impression that she knows more than she lets on, but I can't agree about the 14th's name. I'll keep this hidden, since I know not everyone follows the online chapters, but in chapter 198 he says his name is "Neah". (or "Nea", I guess, depending on what scanlation you read.)
Also, the impression I got from the summary was that Mana thought Allen was his dog. And Road did say that the Earl had told her about Allen; so there would have been no reason for her to show any surprise in the town, since it sounds like she went to that town to meet him.

[blind_alchemy]

Oh frack, the hiding thing didn't work. :(

[youffie_17]

Strange, in my mail box the hiding worked D: I'll add the tag spoilers just in case.

Uh, I know that he said his name was Neah, but maybe he was referring to his Noah's name, like Joyed is the name of the Noah of Pleasure whose human is Tyki Mikk.

Also, the impression I got from the summary was that Mana thought Allen was his dog.

Yes, but Cross asked him if his name was Allen. Why all this fuss about a dog's name? :/

[blind_alchemy]

Uh, I know that he said his name was Neah, but maybe he was referring to his Noah's name

That could be the case, I suppose. I just never really thought he'd have one of those, since his existence as a Noah was kind of a freak accident and all. XD

Yes, but Cross asked him if his name was Allen. Why all this fuss about a dog's name? :/

To be completely honest, I have no real theories as to why Cross asked that. The most I can come up with is that Cross was stalking Mana closely enough to know he had a traveling companion named Allen, but not closely enough to know it was a dog.
I wonder if the full novel would have any insight into that. -really, really wants to read it- XD

[unedited]

I've assumed his name was "Allen" ever since we found out the dog was named Allen and then he named his orphan Allen... XD It just seemed really suspicious. And "Neah", I believe, is his Noah name, like "Road" or "Wisely" or "Joyd".

Reasons why Road might not have recognized his name: "Walker" may have been an assumed name, and not Mana and his brother's original last name. It's entirely possible that the Noah don't care what his original name is, that the 14th, like Road, no longer bothered to go by his human name and so no one (except maybe the Earl) knew it. There's also no reason to think that crazy Mana Walker, who named dogs after his brother, wasn't -- well -- just plain bonkers, naming this kid after his brother as well, and the only significance is that he's involved with someone who's related to the 14th

[youffie_17]

I still think she must have known about Mana, and that at least when it was over she knew that he used “Walker” as a last name. Didn't Cross say Mana and his brother had been on the run from the Earl after the 14th killed almost everybody? Since she didn't die I think she helped him to track them down or whatever. So she had to know what their “new” names were - I suppose? D: Eh, I guess knowing how they both died might help a little.

I'm not saying that she had to know for sure that Allen was the 14th, but that she should have found (and maybe she did and made something about it, because the 14th is dangerous… apparently) it a little suspicious, to say the least. Allen was not a simple human from the beginning; he was an Exorcist, and he was able to see akuma because of his dead stepfather who looked exactly like the Earl, to say the least. Isn't it, well, strange

[sparklishh]

Some scanlations have three circles instead of five asterisks:

http://www.mangareader.net/210-15275-6/dgray-man/chapter-184.html

If it really is three circles in the raw, it would fit "Nea" perfectly.

[youffie_17]

Ah, I do have the raw of that chapter: three circles.

Definitively Nea. It just makes sense. :)