How/when did Claudia figure out who Regina’s father is?
Warning: Spoilers for Dark Season 3
In Season 3 of the excellent Netflix series Dark, Claudia Tiedemann tells Tronte that he is not Regina’s father, so Regina is not a part of the knot. That is, Regina would exist even if time travel had never been invented, unlike Tronte whose birth was caused by the knot created by time travel. And indeed, the family tree in the official Dark website shows that in both worlds, Regina is the daughter of Claudia with Bernd Doppler.
But in the family tree in Eve’s headquarters, Tronte is listed as Regina’s father, which I take to mean that Eve erroneously thought that Tronte was the father. And since alt-Claudia was a loyal follower of Eve, I can only assume that alt-Claudia suffered from the same misconception, since she would have told Eve otherwise.
So my question is, how and when did Claudia figure out that Tronte wasn’t the father?
Best Answer
How?
Mundane means (DNA testing) are possible. Once Claudia got the time-ball from Alt Claudia, it would've been trivial to collect Regina's and all candidate fathers' DNA samples, then go to a time period in which paternity tests are available.
When?
I don't think when she found this out is particularly important. It took place during the years she spent investigating the true origin of the knot.
Why?
Which leaves us to the more important question of why she decided to DNA test Regina. We know she was uncertain who Regina's father was. She said to Tronte that for some time she hoped he were the father, which implies lack of certainty.
We also know that at some point Claudia realized some people were of the knot (exist only because time travel exists), but others like herself and Bernd weren't of the knot.
Before all of this, finding out Regina's true father would, at most, be a curiosity to Claudia. After all, paternity tests were already available in the 1980's but Claudia didn't bother, as it wasn't hugely important. However, once she realized some people were knot children, Regina's parentage became hugely important to her strategy. If Bernd's the father, then Regina is not of the knot, and destroying the knot is a viable tactic. If Tronte's the father, however, then Regina is of the knot, which means Claudia must seek to maybe change or alter the knot so Regina lives; destroying it (and thus deleting Regina) would be out of the question.
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Who is Claudia Tiedemann father?
Egon Tiedemann Egon, husband of Doris and father of Claudia, is a Winden police officer in 1953. He's investigating the sudden appearance of two dead boys at the nuclear power plant and Helge Doppler's disappearance when Ulrich Nielsen arrives from 2019 and gets tossed in an asylum.How did Claudia Tiedemann know?
1) She tracked down the family tree of four families involved. 2) She crossed out any name belonging to anyone who was born out of time travel so as to narrow it down to residents of Winden belonging to the four families who would exist in the origin world and thus could be responsible for the split.Claudia’s Timeline Explained | What is the Loophole? | Dark Netflix Season 3 Explained
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