BTW, this keeps making me think that the contrast "blood ties vs heart-felt family bonds" is a big theme in this story (how Seth and his siblings seem to think "blood ties alone aren't enough to make one *feel* a family bond, you also have to work on buidling it")... I always thought it striking how Isis said to her father Geb in chapter 64: "You were never fond of humans, or anyone else besides mother, for that matter"... like she was recriminating Geb for not being very involved in his children's lives.
I kinda agree with this.
Even though he cannot technically "unfather" Osiris, since everyone's related here, he can still choose what to see him as. I hope he sees him as someone who used him in a very bad way.
This can also be applied to other gods. I mean they're all brothers and sisters at some point and even married each other. I think the author is trying to change the relationships and dynamics here compared with the mythologies we're used to reading.
Do you guys think there's a chance Anubis might finally learn the truth about his past, right in the next chapter?
I think that might be possible, now that Isis and Anubis were both shown that "record" by Sekhmet (which, according to Sekhmet's wager to Isis, in chapter 127, was something Isis ALSO didn't know). I think there's a chance both Isis and Anubis might end up connecting the dots between Osiris wanting to have a child with Seth, and the fact that he later secretly had a child with Seth's wife.
I also really hope they do... now that re-reading chapter 107 rekindled my anger at Osiris, and my feeling that the author might have been hinting that Anubis' has kept unconcious memories, which he might recover, since day one:
After he comes to the wrong conclusion (in chapter 106) that Seth showing he cares so much care about him might be because they were lovers in the past, he kisses Seth, and Horus comes to fight Anubis, only to have Seth faint in his (Horus') arms (in chapter 107), and that's when Anubis talks to himself about feeling a pain he can't explain, at seeing Seth fainting in sadness, and Anubis talks to himself about how he thinks that pain is related to unconscious memories: "I've never felt this kind of pain before. If my IB is responding like this, does that mean I'm remembering something?" (In other words, it reminded me that Anubis' been talking about having unconscious memories and feeling confused since day one...)
...I'm really hoping Anubis will finally see how Osiris has been using Anubis' godly intuition about the father-son bond between them (Osiris and Anubis) to mislead, use, and exploit him... and how that adds to Anubis having a choice, and to Anubis not being obligated by blood ties alone, to keep consider him "his father"