Chapter 33-2 Red Winter

[Adventureless_Hero]

No, in the The Devils Workshop it was pretty obvious that Ink was grooming (not mutating or genetically altering) zombies, including sharpening of nails and tatooing, thats where the numbers came from.

True, but the fact that that workshop exists says something. Did he manage to round up ALL the Little Ones that came to naturally exist and then tattoo them for his record keeping? Or did he have a hand in their creation. A detail that always raised my eyebrows is the fact that one of the rooms in that workshop had a bloody bed. I have to go back and make sure I'm not making up the fact that I believe it looked crushed. But I do recall the door jam to that room was broken, as though something big had passed through. So I think we can surmise that Ink possibly took a normal sized being into the room, and a Behemoth exit.

That kind of evidence leads me to believe he is messing around with whatever soup creates these zombies. He's tweaking the recipe or something. So I think his work goes deeper than trimming nails and tattooing.

[Robzombie]

Ink, formerly known as Bill Roberts was an enforcer for "the Family". He's a paranoid schizophrenic that was charged for murder and locked up at the mental health facilty by that hospital...he's not a scientist.
How many paranoid schizophrenics which are normally busy killing people for a living do you know that that take up bio-chemistry or genetic engineering as a hobby.

[Hoff4D]

No, in the The Devils Workshop it was pretty obvious that Ink was grooming (not mutating or genetically altering) zombies, including sharpening of nails and tatooing, thats where the numbers came from.

I hear ya, and we're each entitled to our own speculation, no matter how sound an argument the prehistoric haze is turning everyone into zombie dinosaurs, particularly pterodactyls, is.....there's more ideas.

But I think Ink has to have more influence than merely tattooing/grooming the special ones. There's got to be a bigger reason as to why he's seemingly got control over them, again, IMO. But it IS possible he's just the most intelligent one and it's pack mentality to listen to the alpha I suppose.

[Robzombie]

I think the "little ones" were originally babies from the hospital nursury. A human baby is going through the stage of its most rapid growth in its lifetime, naturally being at that stage and getting the virus or whatever it is...who knows what you'll get. I bet that the numbers might not even be Inks identifiers but the baby identifiers put on by the nursing staff. I might also guess that these numbers are not permanant and will rub or wash off. I know tags are placed on babies (ours had them) but perhaps some hospitals use non permanent markings in addition as a fail safe identifier.

These numbers are on the arms correct, and a little hard to read? The placement is consistent which tells me that there may be a system behind it and the legability is due to the skin being stretched from growth or even partly worn off.

[Adventureless_Hero]

Ink, formerly known as Bill Roberts was an enforcer for "the Family". He's a paranoid schizophrenic that was charged for murder and locked up at the mental health facilty by that hospital...he's not a scientist.
How many paranoid schizophrenics which are normally busy killing people for a living do you know that that take up bio-chemistry or genetic engineering as a hobby.

An enforcer? Did they specify that? I need to go back an listen. I could have sworn that he was just a mass murderer. I'm pretty sure they didn't mention ties to "the family" but I've been wrong plenty of times. I'll have to research this more. But if you are right, then I would readily agree that being both a hit man type and a geneticist seem unlikely. But if he's a doctor type turned crazy, I can easily picture him killing patients through experimentation. Again, I'll have to go back and listen to the TiVo blurb about Bill Roberts.

[Adventureless_Hero]

I think the "little ones" were originally babies from the hospital nursury. A human baby is going through the stage of its most rapid growth in its lifetime, naturally being at that stage and getting the virus or whatever it is...who knows what you'll get. I bet that the numbers might not even be Inks identifiers but the baby identifiers put on by the nursing staff. I might also guess that these numbers are not permanant and will rub or wash off.

I strongly disagree.

[nikvoodoo]

I think the "little ones" were originally babies from the hospital nursury. A human baby is going through the stage of its most rapid growth in its lifetime, naturally being at that stage and getting the virus or whatever it is...who knows what you'll get. I bet that the numbers might not even be Inks identifiers but the baby identifiers put on by the nursing staff. I might also guess that these numbers are not permanant and will rub or wash off.

As a new parent, I have to say that I don't ever recall the hospital tattooing my baby. I recall them putting Baby Lo-Jack on her ankle along with an ID bracelet. I'd certainly hope her first tattoo was her decision and not that of some orderly who may have bad hand writing

[Leedo2502]

Is it even clear in the KCverse that you need a headshot to kill the zombie? If CJ is confident in letting them bleedout it would seem that they have a working/necessary Cardiovascular system that is vulnerable to ballistic trauma.

[Leedo2502]

As a new parent, I have to say that I don't ever recall the hospital tattooing my baby. I recall them putting Baby Lo-Jack on her ankle along with an ID bracelet. I'd certainly hope her first tattoo was her decision and not that of some orderly who may have bad hand writing

I don't know what Hospital you went to but when my daughter was born a few short months ago she got her vaccinations and mandatory neck tattoo.

[Robzombie]

As a new parent, I have to say that I don't ever recall the hospital tattooing my baby. I recall them putting Baby Lo-Jack on her ankle along with an ID bracelet. I'd certainly hope her first tattoo was her decision and not that of some orderly who may have bad hand writing

I did say non-permanant.