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Conclusion: Despite the word-choice of the translation, the Scrya are not the sizeable "tribe" that I have long thought they were. Instead, they're probably a small clan in the sense of two or three nuclear families living and working together as an extended, multi-generational family unit. Their family history as an archaeologist clan may only be as old as the TSAB itself, beginning 50-60 years ago with the grandparents' generation.
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Define 'sizable tribe.' Tribes don't need to be thousands of people, so their presence not being visible on a world is no real surprise.
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Possibility 1: Yuuno was born to at least one member of the Scrya Clan who died during or shortly after childbirth. Since he was a blood-relative, the Clan decided to keep him rather than give him up, but no one could bring themselves to replace their family member by acting as Yuuno's mother or father.
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Doesn't have to be something so emotional. Could be simple "a child of the tribe, not a child of one" tribal mentality.
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Conclusion: Not only were the nuclear families of the Clan looking after their own children without directly adopting Yuuno, none of their children were Yuuno's own age. Logically, all of them would have been older than him. And his clan was always out on one expedition after another, so Yuuno wouldn't have any contact with children his own age outside of the Clan.
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Again, this could be tribal mentality rather than Yuuno being abandoned. Just that Yuuno didn't really mesh well with that mentality.
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Yuuno would have asked his clan about his parents, and whatever they told him would have contributed a great deal to his present character. With that in mind, what legacy seems to mesh with Yuuno as we know him today?
* If his parents had died because of a freak cave in, he might have resolved to be a strong defensive mage to protect himself and others from accidents.
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Possible.
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* If his parents died because someone had tampered with a Lost Logia they had unearth, Yuuno might have developed a conviction to see all Lost Logia found and safely sealed away so that they couldn't hurt anyone else again.
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Would also have a high chance of him developing a fear of lost logia. At any rate it would make him extremely cautious around them, something he did not show in S1. Unlikely.
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* If pirates had killed his parents to get at the treasure they dug up, he might hate thieves like Precia all the more.
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Possible, though he never mentions thieves in particular.
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* If his parents died because of a Lost Logia they were trying to unearth, Yuuno might blame archaeology for his orphanhood and grow to hate his clan's profession.
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Considering he's proud of his archeological skills? Highly unlikely.
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* If his parents simply abandoned him and their clan, he would be ashamed of himself and wonder why he was so bad that his parents wanted to leave him behind.
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Possible, though a tad needlessly dark for my tastes.