QUOTE (gorbal @ Jan 6 2008, 01:52 PM)

Maybe Allen himself is a modified Akuma.
I don't think so. If he is an akuma, he will not have innocence or be able to activate innocence.
Innocence destroys Dark Matter; that is an unchanged fact and steadfast rule.
Even Chomesuke (as Lavi nicknamed her), the modified friendly akuma able to suppress the urge to kill humans, was hurt by Lenalee's innocence as she carried Lenalee from being sunk in the sea.
I don't think General Marian Cross was so capable to be able to modify akuma such that the basic nature of Dark Matter within them can coexist with Innocence even if he was able to modify & create an akuma as intelligent and similar to a human.
QUOTE (SaintArthas @ Jan 6 2008, 09:28 AM)

Well, his Innocence IS called the Crowned Clown. So maybe that's his true personality, he appears all innocent and all that when he cheats and just laughs, acting like a clown.
Perhaps the dark shadow he always sees in reflective surfaces is his alter ego that arrised due to Cross' training? I have a hunch that sometime in the future Allen may become the 14th Noah and gain Noah powers. Clown-like is his personality
Maybe

But I disagree with the dark shadow that-only-he-can-see being the result of General Cross' training.
Personally, I don't think Marian Cross is that bad that people can get traumatic experiences with him, Hoshino sensei just loves to exaggerate by making the Noahs & Allen exaggerate their trauma with Cross.

After reading the flashbacks about Skin Bolic's past & how he turned into a Noah, in the fight chapter between him & kanda, the theory seems very probable.
Skin Bolic went thru pain & desperation & suffering + the images of the world's end (memories of Noah) before he turned into a Noah finally. After all, Allen has gone thru absolute fear & desperation during his near-death encounter with Tkki which cost him his left arm and glimpsed a future of bleak destruction in the final battle with the Earl in the dreamy cartoonish landscape where he stood beside a lake with the cresent moon reflected in the water.
Then his cursed eye evolved during his stay in the Asian branch, not to say that his cursed eye is strange from the start in the way it connects to akuma by directly letting Allen see the condemned souls in akuma and feel & hear their cries. Moreover, it is not a power given to Allen by Innocence.
His Innocence saved him by becoming particles to fill up the empty hole in Allen's heart left by Tkki's hand, an unprecedented happening never before recorded (Lenelee's case is also exception but the way her thoughts can communicate thru to other excorcists thru their Innocence makes me think hers is the "Heart"), not even in Bookman's hidden records. Then how Allen's Innocence later evolve into "Crowned Clown"...
When he is able to reconnect and prevent the original Noah's Ark from crumbling by being able to "play the piano" the control of the Ark, in "the 14th's secret room" and seeing the dark shadow in the reflected glass in the "secret room", it makes the theory even more suspicious. Moreover, the Earl once reflected in wrath the black sheep of the Noah family, "the fourteenth transfered the rights of the "Performer" to a human" & Inspector Rouvelier (Mr Hitler Reincarnate) " It was in an old man's house... In the 14th's will, it had stated he was killed by the Earl. But passed on his powers".
The "Performer" is the person who controls the operations of the Ark. And to be able to do so, the "Performer" MUST have Had the POWERS OF THE NOAH!
Also, the "Crowned Clown" further evolved in the latest chapters, giving Allen a sword the exact polar opposite to the Earl's in essence but the very exact parallel in form. Therefore it is very likely that Allen may develop into a Noah. But one that is against the Earl & the Noah family.