The problem with the gift of Butcher / Jiwook
With the manipulation of essence, the gift is the manifestation of an Aberrant's power.
Each essence color has his particularity. But my concern is more about the green essence.
So far, (ep.129), we have really see 4 gifts from green essence : Butcher (Jiwook) with this explosive slash, Min Woo (White) with his blade, Miyeon Sang with this hand, and Rarog with this wing. (The member of Juni cell when she was trainee doesn't count because we don't know exactly what her gift was...).
Like said Iseul in the capter 32 (season 1, round two) :
the green essence is tangible and augments the user's body.
While the wing, the armor/extendable hand, and the blade are understandable within this definition, the explosive slash is more intriguing.
Indeed, as we see in Chapters 1 and 15, Butcher can freely manipulate his blade, just like Min does during his fight against Auclair (Chapters 126 and 127).
But he can also create explosions! Like Gyeon's clan! Or at least something similar. Is that normal for you?
I have a theory about it.
We know that essence is hereditary (Gyeon's clan, Iseul's father and himself, Ryujin and her mother, Sara, Samin and Sayeon, etc.).
But in these three cases, we can say for sure that the parent who passed the essence and the gift on to their descendant either had an incredible amount of essence (Gyeon's grandfather was level 10, like Sara) or, more significantly, had much more essence than the other parent (Iseul's mother is a “normal” person).
But what happens when both parents have the same amount of essence?
For me, this could result in a more versatile gift. Jiwook, for example, might have a gift that lies somewhere between green essence (with the blade) and the explosive properties that are more characteristic of orange essence.
Even if the explosive slash is actually normal for green essence, I still think this theory is quite plausible.
In Hunter x Hunter, for example, there are Nen users who fall somewhere between two Nen types. So why not in Hand Jumper?
Thank you for your thoughts! ;-)