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Originally Posted by Solace

Consider this scenario:

1. Bonobo gene kicks in during high stress. I'd say their escape qualifies.
2. Pregnancy happens.
3. Months later, Mamoru is still sick and/or Maria is starting to show.
4. They come across Queerats. By this point we know that Yakomaru has been in power for a while, so it's possible they are offered shelter under one of his colonies.
5. Using the knowledge of the false minoshiro, Yakomaru devises a plan to use the child as a weapon.
6. Mamoru is killed soon after, or just after the child dies. Maria either dies during birth, or just after.
7. From then on, the child is raised as "one of them". This isn't unusual in human history, for another species to take a human child and raise it as their own. Said child adopts the behaviors of the animal, and "rehabilitating" them to be human again is extremely difficult if not impossible.
8. Who knows how the child was raised after that, but the results demonstrate themselves.

If this scenario were true, it also explains why the bones matched records. Assume they were found after about a year. That's plenty of time for the bones to be stripped of flesh and made to look damaged by any means you desire.

Keep in mind that the feedback probably only works assuming that the user believes they are human, and the user assigns human like traits to a non-human entity. But, if this child has been raised without any exposure to humans, how would he know what he is? I doubt Yakomaru did anything but fill the kids head with junk. Or taking it out. If they were using spears and lobotomy years ago, and are now using guns and chemical warfare, what about medical science?

Plus, the society had ways of handling powers in young children. You certainly don't want one to have a tantrum and kill someone for not giving them candy, so it's probably wiser to "turn it off" until they reach a more mature age. Like they did with the kids in the village. But this kid never had that.

That all actually sounds very plausible.