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Fridge Horror
- An illegal genetic experiment with many dangerous abilities struggles to be accepted by a human family while conflicted between its affection for them and its innate destructive tendencies. In other words, it's disturbingly similar to how Lilo & Stitch could have Gone Horribly Wrong...
- Right at the end where Elsa is pregnant, you'd start wondering about the fate of her unborn baby, especially considering how horrible a parent Elsa was long before Dren goes mad due to mistreatment as well as other things and start killing people. Who to say the baby will suffer the same fate Dren has, especially considering that he/she's the father?
- Will the company monitoring expecting mother and later the child help to curb the possible abuse by Elsa (the company wouldn't want Elsa to break the merchandise)?
- For that matter, will Elsa even survive her pregnancy? Dren did seem to burst out of the "uterus." Elsa's childbirth could wind up more like the chestburster scene in Alien than human birth.
- For that matter, did the company intended to let Elsa live after she give birth? Or they're going to get rid of her to have 100% control over the child?
- Many Real Life victims of parental abuse often mention that the abuse gets worse the older the victim becomes, typically at the onset of puberty. This is usually due to the loss of control the abuser feels over the victim, who, as a teenager, begins to develop a desire for independence and interest in outside relationships. It's no coincidence that its when Dren becomes a teenager that her relationship with Clive and Elsa both become messed up in their own way.
- It's perfectly possible Dren would be completely messed up no matter how much non-human DNA she had in her. Consider: her physical development is much faster than that of a normal child, but her mental development may not be, at least not proportionally to the physical one. After all, it takes time to learn certain things and gain enough life experience to mentally become an adult. In fact, a lot of her actions make more sense when you think about her as a potentially mentally disturbed toddler (or whatever her actual physical age is), like the killing of the cat. And I say potentially mentally disturbed, because keeping her imprisoned in a barn in the middle of nowhere would be an awful way to treat an actual human child, setting aside other instances of the A+ parenting Elsa and Clive display. All of this would be hard for a normal kid to overcome. It's even possible Wren's brain was human by nature, and it's nurture that fucked her up.
- A combo of growing up at an unnatural rate, having a horrible relationship with her "parents", battling her animalistic instincts, and being locked up with no natural interactions with actual humans could very well be what set up the whole thing for failure. If we take the implication of Dren being a mentally unwell child with no grasp of what's right and wrong for humans to do (since Clive and Elsa aren't exactly the best examples to follow), then it means that all of the "acting out" she does (becoming violent, killing the cat, trying to escape, having sex with Clive and eventually raping Elsa) are all actions done by a creature that's incapable of understanding the implications of her actions.
- This makes the instance where Clive has sex with her even more disgusting, since Dren's ability to consent is practically nonexistent. Not only is Dren not a legal human, which makes it bestiality (just because she's half human doesn't mean she can consent, and, regardless, Dren skirts the line enough to make it ambiguous given her behavior and appearance), she's also not able to say yes or no while realizing the full implications of her actions. Yes, while Dren came onto Clive, her actual biology and childlike mindset means that she likely didn't understand the creepy implications of the whole thing or understand why it was wrong, and the messed up way the two of them raised her didn't help to instill any consistent ideas of what a family is supposed to act like.
Fridge Brilliance
- Many animals use dance as a courting ritual. When Clive danced with Dren, he later said "Elsa" and left. This also made Dren see Elsa as a rival, despite the "motherly" bond Elsa was trying (as humanoid as Dren looks, she is still an animal... A mix of several, to make matters worse).
