Talk:Genista/@comment-38094676-20200302112520/@comment-26567684-20200302133915

I was a whiz in history in school and I love anything with history. Firstly, the Plantagenet was a royal dynasty of England that ruled from 1154 to 1485 and provided 14 kings, 6 of whom belonged to the cadet houses of Lancaster and York. The current royal family descends from both sides of the Plantagenet.

I always wondered about that as well. Genista and Chlorophytum have colors that don’t match up with their flower namesakes, which is why I think the colors instead reflect their pilots’ personalities and foreshadows. Genista is green, which symbolizes growth, fertility, renewal, and a balance of mind and heart (more info on the color green - https://www.buildingbeautifulsouls.com/symbols-meanings/color-psychology-symbolism-meanings/what-does-the-color-green-mean/). I noticed a while back that Genista derives from Plantagenet but I thought it was coincidental. Genista, which calls to mind a “broom” shrub or lupine can hint at creativity and imagination.

The article you posted mentioned that Plantagenet was inspired from how Aquitanian Gods and Goddesses had the names of plants and animals. This predated the name Plantapilosa of a famous ninth-century Aquitanian duke. Early medieval beliefs were beginning to develop into scholastic writings about man’s vegetable soul with its powers of nutrition, growth and generation when the noble name Plantapilosa led on to the names Plante Genest and de la Planta in neighbouring Anjou. Plantapilosa means ‘hairy shoot’, which seemingly symbolised robust growth and regeneration. In Welsh, the word plant meant children or procreate. Back then, it was the royal family’s way of showing their desire to sire as many children as possible to continue the bloodline. In today’s society, it is understood that Plantagenet is consistent with a ‘sprig’ symbolism for generating a fresh generation.

In other words, you seem to be right about Genista being another foreshadowing of how MitsuKoko are the ones to initiate a new generation by being the first parasites to have a child and showing the others there is a future for them.