Would you believe it took until reading episode 13 of Mr A’s Farm to realise that the Mr A of Little A’s thoughts is a totally different entity to the Mr A who ran away from the farm.
Episode 12 reveals that Little A lived an extremely sheltered life since an event on the farm in his childhood. The conspiracy gland in my brain tells me Little A is somehow the cause of the hybridisation so all the mentions of Mr A being the brains behind the Human Livestock Project (HLP) might not be as wring as I’d assumed.
In the last post I wrote about Mr A’s Farm I was quite hard on Mr A. In my eyes, we’ve not seen anything particularly complimentary about the man aside from the fact that he collected all the rejects who weren’t producing anything of value. My thoughts on him didn’t shift at all until we heard from K in episode 13.
Rather than a bogeyman Little A needed to surpass in terms of sexual (and apparently also paternal) prowess, Mr A was K’s drinking buddy who is apparently delicate.
Whilst it is possible that Mr A took pity on the reject hybrids simply from the goodness of his heart, knowing that disposal was the future in store for them, there is also a strong possibility that he took these actions through the guilt of knowing that it was his fault in the first place.
Was guilt the reason for Mr A’s reaction to K’s clutch of eggs? K was a friend of sorts, a drinking buddy who helped Mr A to pass the time, yet he suddenly the signs of hybridism that had been easy to ignore up to that point became so much clearer when K laid eggs and went through the trauma of losing them. Mr A brought people to the farm, human beings whose lives had all been irreversibly altered because of him (and/or his nephew) and he pitied their beastly natures emerging.
It looks like we are now seeing just why Mr A was the person K called for when he was in pain with this most recent clutch of eggs, but there may still be more to this story. It stands to chance we will see more of the relationship between A and K and by extension what life was like on the farm before Little A arrived.
As mentioned in the previous post I was wondering how complicit Mr A was in G’s reign of terror but it appears that was answered in Episode 13. Delicate Mr A wasn’t a good talker by K’s estimation and this in combination with potentially being demoralised by the realisation about his farm through K, it makes sense that he wouldn’t push back against the whims of K, NPC, and the centre.
The remaining question is why is the image of Mr A the burly, fantastic man we’ve been seeing since the start?
At least since the incident on Mr A’s farm when Little A was a child, Little A’s parents were very protective of him. The immediate suggestion is that the incident was harmful in some way. Whether the harm was done to Little A, Fluffy (who looks like patient zero to me right now), Mr A, or just the wider trigger for the hybridisation remains to be seen. Either way, the incident was enough for Little A to worry that Mr A would hate him.
Looking at Mr A it is difficult to imagine Mr A ever looked the way he appears in Little A’s imagination. Then again the impression we get of Mr A through K doesn’t seem especially easygoing at all. To be called easygoing suggests a different personality to all the reports we’ve heard through anybody else. Of course the way the descriptor of “easygoing” isn’t delivered in the most convincing way. Did Little A simply take a placation to heart? That makes the most sense to me but we are yet to see any further answer to why Mr A would look like that.
Just as with every episode, I’m beyond excited to see what comes next with the upcoming updates. With any luck, my curiosity will be sated soon.
Hush Nili 
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