Talk:Tooru Mutsuki/@comment-10733658-20160416215720

So I keep trying to think of any meaning behind the whole "Tadpole" and references to the Sea.

One theory I came across discussed how Tadpoles and Frogs are fresh water animals. If you put them in salt water, they die a slow and painful death. (So wishing for Tooru to die.)

Tadpoles are also a creature that doesn't have an obvious gender until they mature, requiring violent means to confirm it. (Cutting the animal open.) This could either relate to the whole Torso situation (ripping Mutsuki's clothes open to confirm), or possibly to young Tooru not fitting into Daddy's strict expectations of a girl. (Not looking at him with enough respect and submission.)

Some species of frogs can mutate and adapt, such as changing their gender to survive or even one species from Southeast Asia that can survive in salt water. Their legs are prized as a food, as bonus.

It's an interesting idea, at any rate. Not sure if I agree 100%, but there's also another meta I recall discussing the Four Poisonous Animals of Chinese myth. The Snake, the Centipede, the Lizard, and the Toad.