

Yuki and Inaho are orphans by the time Aldnoah.Zero opens. Do we know what
happened to their parents? Or are we just to assume they died in the mess
surrounding Heaven's Fall?

Some have speculated that Saazbaum could somehow have been Inaho's father
(given that Saazbaum and Orlane descended to Earth right around the time of
Inaho's birth). Is that plausible?


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What happened to Yuki and Inaho's parents?


yes, his parents died in the first mars-earth war. and my best guess is that
the authors killed off the parents to make his sister look for "motherly-like"
and that they had a good bond, and so when she was in trouble, saving her
(which is at episode 1) would be better.


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Volume 3 of the Aldnoah.Zero Blu-rays came with a collection of four short
narratives about Inaho and Yuki's life well prior to the events of episode 1.

In the second of them, 「春の遠足」 "A Trip in Spring", we learn that Inaho, Yuki,
and their mother had been on a train to somewhere when Heaven's Fall occurred.
Their mother was killed immediately, probably because a meteor landed near
their location (though the story is mostly told from Yuki's point of view, and
she, being five-ish years old at the time, obviously doesn't have the best
recollection of events). Somehow or the other, Inaho and Yuki both survive,
and she, carrying Inaho, follows the crowd of evacuating people, eventually
ending up in an underground shelter afterwards.

Their father, a military man, was deployed at the time; a short while after
Heaven's Fall, while Inaho and Yuki are still living in the shelter, Yuki
receives a letter from the government indicating that they have been deemed
war orphans. The implication being, of course, that their father, too, is
dead.

The Saazbaum hypothesis is clearly implausible.


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