Talk:Becca Franco/@comment-207.161.58.13-20190606235540/@comment-122.60.161.70-20190708223014

I have a theory, which hinges on Becca actually dying by being burned at the stake (it certainly looks like she would have died but with this show, who knows!). Ok, so, the chip emerged from Becca's body at some point during or after she was burned. Either that or it was removed but, as the cult members would not know about it, it is most likely that they found it in the ashes, naming it "The Flame" because, to them, it would have emerged from the flames. It is possible that the ones who found it became the "Flamekeepers" or, at least, some of them did.

As for the "nightbloods", it is unlcear as to how the cult members came to obtain it, let alone get it into their blood; however, they obviously did, either before Becca died (maybe Cadogan discovered her trying to inject people with it and that's why he decided to kill her....) or after. In either case, the ones who received the nightblood survived and repopulated the area. I tend to think they received it prior to Becca dying. One of those people became the second commander.

Nightblood heredity is recessive, genetically, therefore successive generations of grounders will have either black or red blood - as we can see throughout the show, nightblood appears to get rarer as time goes on. But it does seem that the orginal nightblood survivors passed on some kind of immunity to radiation to successive red blood phenotypes, born without the nightblood being expressed. Otherwise, there is a big plot hole because the bunker was the only place red bloods could survive and that was sealed with Becca's body inside after she died. As an aside, the bunker looked virtually unused when Jaha opened it, LOL.

The grounders didn't know about A.L.I.E. 2.0, as far as I know. The Flame was mearly the vessel that housed the souls of the commanders, or something like that. Unless, like Wellsworth96 mentions below, Becca told some of them prior to dying but I'm not sure it's all that important and I don't remember a flamekeeper specifically mentioning the Flame being A.L.I.E. 2.0 or that it's an A.I. merged with their commander.