Talk:Endless Summer, Book 3 Choices/@comment-34917998-20180317070116/@comment-34079869-20180321014706

I agree that MC makes the most sense, but my MC is male, and it still says "daughter," unless PB forgot to make that dialogue gender-specific.

Didn't Rourke tell Iris to destroy the new clone? It seemed like the person he had in mind was a real person, as he also implied in Chapter 9 when he said that nature did for him what science couldn't in creating Aleister.

Now that I think more about it, it's not really true that Estela has "no family" because she still has her uncle, and it's possible that Zahra actually does have no family. Remember there's a newspaper clipping in Book 2 that suggests that her parents were killed in a car crash (if you get that clue), and at the end of Book 2 she leaves a message for a younger version of herself rather than any family member. Although there's been literally nothing in their interactions to suggest that Rourke feels any special connection to her.

On the other hand, Lila really does fit the role if she's not actually dead. We know that she has no family, and she's totally invested in Rourke's mission and seemingly affectionate toward the guy himself. (I thought she was romantically attracted to him, but it could be a father-daughter thing.) And she was pretty unnerved when MC suggested that she looked like Iris in Book 1. That was about the only thing that ever rattled her.

However, if you choose to let Estela kill Lila at the end of Book 2, she takes a bullet point-blank to the forehead. I'm not sure that even Rourke has a solution to that problem.