Shadows House (Official Colored) - Vol. 4 Ch. 46 - Living Doll

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Probably not. Cyborgs may have been a stretch, but many believed them to be artificial to some extent (such as a homonculi). Although, there were a few signs pointing that they were actual people. #1 being that they had emotions (for the most part at least). Another hint was with the soot controlling ability being able to move and interact with things that are not soot, but just have soot on them or touching them.

One other hint that I can think of, and it was a tricky one to find, was with the whole premise of them becoming the shadow's faces by acting out their emotions and expressions perfectly synchronized. This would be almost if not entirely impossible for humans to do, even with practice it would take many years of close contact with only 1 person to get all of their subtle mannerisms down and muscle memorized. Speaking in terms of practicality, this is very inefficient if not a pointless endeavor since it will not work just about every time. However, if we look at the inverse, where the shadow is learning to copy the face's expressions, while also, the face it told to try to mimic the shadow, they will sync up way more easily because they will be both trying to find common ground, instead of one only copying the other. Pair this with soot control, and you mitigate the subtle unexpected movements while maximizing the symmetry since the shadow can simply physically manipulate the face directly to make them mirror their current expression.
 
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So that's where and how they get the humans for the shadows, weird to think Emilyko wasn't always so flowery around Kate but I'm glad Kate's on the case to turn Emilyko back to normal
Thanks for the chapter!
 
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Then, why did Kate decide to turn against the family?

Kate marks Grandfather as Mastermind at one point. it seems she did have something in mind. I find it weird for her to be just a parasite.
 
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Well this is pretty much what I was thinking it was. Still fucked.
 
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Well damn, so they are really tricking these poor people and lying about their children being given good work for the rest of their lives and not treated as objects to be used. I feel kind of bad for them. Imagine being a parent and feeling proud that your child is going to work at a good place while not knowing what they're true intentions are.

Kate, my child, PLEASE save Emilyko.

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I suppose they'll reveal it later on in the story. But my guess is that she wasn't such a bad person in the first place and saw that the shadow house are using these kids and wants to put a stop to it. Maybe Kate will start a revolution of some kind to put an end to Grandfathers schemes.
 
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The manga did say that a shadow is a fairy. Stealing children is a common hobby of many kinds of Celtic fairies.
 
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@Borderline Because while the soot of the "grandfather" can brainwash people, it can't brainwash shadows.
Shadows develop a personality by interacting with their living dolls, so in a way, Kate's deviation is a byproduct of Emilyko, which is an aberration herself. Probably along the lines of liking Emlyko so much, she disagrees with how living dolls are treated as tools.
 

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What's better than one chapter of exposition? TWO CHAPTER OF EXPOSITION!

Go Kate, save our beloved Emilyko!!!
 
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Even if the shadows are parasites, they're not really evil in general because we see the good shadows' personality like Kate, John etc.
 
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Jesus christ. So the whole village is brainwashed by the Shadow House. Creepy.
 
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its the sooooot brooo it turns people crazy bro , the house of shadows uses soot to control the masses maaan
 

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