Manga: Claymore

[animus]

When not easier physically, but mentally it is easier because she's not killing someone who still has humanity left within them.

[Yukimura]

That's what I got out of the extra, but I wasn't sure if she'd said something to that effect in the original flashback chapters, which I didn't read.

[Y]

Well, for Teresa, it's probably literal. Her ability works much better at killing Awakened Ones release all their power and thus allow her to do the move reading shit than fighting a human who can suppress their power and avoid her skill.

[animus]

I don't think that's the case. It's said in the manga that Teresa is rare for the fact that she has such amazing Yoki reading abilities and the fact that when she fights, she never releases any Yoki. The same goes for Priscilla, they are extremely rare cases of such skill where Yoki usage is not needed.

[Shadow Skill]

To Augury:

I think Alicia came way after Teresa was carelessly killed. Between the time Clare was a child and the now adult Clare, a lot of time must have passed. So Between Teresa's death and now, Alicia could have been created after Teresa died. I saw no word that says Alicia was created before Teresa. Unless I overlooked something. :/

[Augury]

The timing of when Alicia entered the organization's ranks is not an issue. Alicia's agent tells her that she is the "strongest in our annals," (vol9, ch49) which I took to mean strongest of all recorded Claymores. This makes sense when we find out that she can fight fully awakened, but this latest extra scene has Teresa taking down an awakened former #1 rather handily.

I think that the author is saying that Teresa was really that good, and that her handler's comment of "there's no way that it would end well against an awakened, former number one" works to have the organization underestimate her actual strength.



On a side note, if we were to find the time of when Alicia enters the Organization:
She and Beth could possibly be the twins mentioned in vol12, ch64. We see Raphaela meeting with Teresa later that chapter, so Alicia + Beth were probably already under development in Teresa's era.

( suddenly... I feel very nerdy for leafing through the archives and uploading the manga pics >< )

[Yukimura]

It's nice that you care enough about your fellow readers to look up details. Anyway when I read that line in chapter 64 I immediately assumes it was Alice and Beth. I remember it saying somewhere that the Organization generally picks up orphans (probably lots of Yoma victims in this category) to make into Claymores but for Alice and Beth they actually went searching for a set of twin infants and took them from their parents.