>>143850
Between this and everything else, I'm starting to realize that Ordem is basically the Second Apocalypse series but dressed in an Esoterrorists suit and trying to act like it's actually an AU of Esoterrorists.
>>143863
It really does need to be pointed out though that several characters - including Ms. Hinman herself - bring up "the breach" and the supernatural weirdness. And again. Mr. Kyn notes that Lana "evoked" him, as though her reality warper powers gave him form in reality but did not literally out-and-out create him. Which presumably means anyone with Lana's powers could have done so, it's just that Lana has specifically shaped him according to things that terrify her (the official taking her from her home, worries about the future, losing her agency, the suffragette movement/things against it, etc).
Incidentally though, and this was pointed out before when we first discussed him, Mr. Kyn...doesn't really care about the suffragette stuff at all? Sure, he turns people against it into tar/Rotten all the time, but I think that's less because of Lana shaping him to hate them and more because their selfish desires make it easy for them to be consumed or overtaken by him - note that Lord DeWitt is entirely untouched by his influence until /after/ he proves he was only interested in "taming" Lana; which has nothing to do with the suffragette's specifically, but purely with him being scum on a personal level - Lana seemed...well not 'fine', but at least not entirely against hanging out with him despite his obvious intentions until that point. Hinman dissolves into a tar rabbit because she's a horrible person who was the major reason Carole died and then tried to cover it up - her being against the suffragette's is secondary to the fact she killed someone, even though said indirect killing is because of her opinions on the movement. Fisherin wasnt a direct part of the movement or anything and Lana never really knew her that well, and her corruption was moreso because she had lost all hope or desire for the future. That's what Kyn is at his core I think; stagnancy, the mindless desire for a blind status quo over the future. It's why he's so associated with time and why he constantly alludes to a "world of ash, tar, and coal", the very thing the future is relentlessly heading towards. All of the people he corrupts or subverting are entirely because they're terrible people who only wish to perpetuate things that crush the hopes of others, regardless of whether they're directly involved in the suffragette movement or not. We even see it with how people who aren't inherently awful still become corrupted if trapped in rabbit form for too long, like Amanda - which doesn't really seem to support it being specific to anti-suffragette ideology, but moreso losing hope in general.
There's certainly a "I hate people who just treat women as holes" aspect to things here and there, but Mr. Kyn doesn't really seem to be that as part of his core nature. I think he'd be just as corruption even if you took him somewhere without the whole 'anti-suffragette' ideals on full display, because he's ultimately present anywhere people yearn for the taste of toxic nostalgia, or where they've lost all hope and don't see a point in pressing forward for the future. And ultimately, when Lana goes into the future, and we see the ruined Bunny Hall and towering smokestacks everywhere, we see the Rotten /thriving/ in this husk of a world where coal, ash and tar are the sole things the world runs on. The Rotten don't care about suffragettes or anything like that; their goal is to create a world of black-and-grey where all hope and prospects of a better life have been snuffed out under relentless industrialization.