(urth) Is Agia a Robot?

[David Duffy]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, David Stockhoff wrote:

> ---Her strength has another source
> ---She could still be the poppet
> ---Agilus could be her actual twin IF she's a genetic/flesh android or just 
> human

Well, it's a common trope that opposite-sex dizygotic twins can be so 
similar that they can cross-dress and confuse others, but in reality they 
are will have an average brother-sister resemblance.  But in Urth, we know 
about the khaibits, so it would be possible to produce genetically 
identical twins aside from the sex chromosomes.  That would be closer to 
the alchemical twinning, I guess. I always had the impression they were 
unusually similar, but couldn't point to any particular descriptive 
passages.

I guess the other thing is after losing Agilus, she becomes Severian's 
evil twin ;)

Cheers, David Duffy.