Theory:Linda Tavara

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Theory	Citations	Notes
Adam's eleventh bride was Linda Tavara.	None.	+ Adam says that his newest bride will find him. This seems to imply that this person either has a power, or is a skilled tracker. Linda has a power, and was a private investigator. - Linda is dead. + Why would they give Linda a backstory if she wasn't going to appear in future episodes? - Episodes and novels are not inter-connected for the most part. Since there is quite a while until the episodes return the novel writers come up with unrelated story lines. This is what happened with the season 1-2 break. - Even if Linda survived, she would be a little bit old to be Adam's newest wife. + Adam is 400 years old. He's been with dozens of women young and old. + During those 40-odd years, she could have gained a power that slowed her aging.
Linda Tavara may have had an ability that helped her survive the fire.	None.	+ She may have gained several other as-yet unknown abilities using her power. + There are many abilities that could have saved her such as pyrokinesis, illusion, or cloning. • Illusion doesn't save from anything, cloning wouldn't help if it was the original Linda who fell into the fire.
Linda will meet Sylar.	None.	+ They are like-minded people and it would be an interesting twist if they met. • If they did meet, Linda would most likely kill him and steal his powers.
Linda was hired by the Pinehearst Company.	None.	+ We don't know what organization hired Linda. + The Pinehearst company seems to want to create an evolved human army. Linda would've been the perfect candidate for the team had this been the case. + This would also explain why they wanted Linda to hunt down evolved humans. Though they may not have foreseen her betrayal. - It is likely Pinehearst was formed after Arthur left the Company. Linda began working long before the Company was formed. - Linda Tavara could have been working for Yamagato Industries.
Linda was just in the novels to introduce Arthur's ability.	None.	+ She is dead and her ability is like Arthur's. - Linda's ability kills its victims; Arthur's doesn't.
Linda is Arthur's illegitimate younger half sister.	None.	+ It could explain their similar abilities. - They clearly have different ethnic origins. + Arthur's father may have had an affair, hence illegitimate half sister. + Linda's notebook has a page for Arthur Petrelli with his address. It would be likely for her to have this if she knew she was Arthur Petrelli's sister. - Linda was tracking down evolved humans to take their abilities; she wasn't looking for long lost relatives. + It makes sense that Angela would know his parentage, if Sylar is her nephew. • She could know that through her ability, or Company resources or files...
Linda was Sylar's mother.	None.	- Linda was killed by Daniel Linderman, while Sylar's mother was killed by Samson Gray. + She could have survived Linderman's attack only to die at Samson's hands. - If she had a healing ability, she would've survived Samson. + If she had a healing ability, then it would explain why Samson used telekenisis to destroy her brain, the scar may have also damaged the regenerating part of her brain. - Samson didn't destroy his wife's brain, he just mortally wounded her. - Why then didn't he steal her power? + Linda is a clever woman, and could have hid her power from him. Also, Sylar thought Jackie Wilcox and Gael Cruz had powers when they did not. + Linda may have had others powers allowing her to survive Linderman, but not Samson like pyrokenesis, cloning or even sedating the fire, as we do not know the limits of sedation.
Linda survived because she had more than one aura.	She absorbed Ida's aura.	- Her body was destroyed; she'd have no body to return to. + Aura absorbtion involved draining life force. Do we know if this can be use for keep someone alive? - Never ever implied.
Linda stole Jason Welkes' illusion powers.	She absorbed Ida's Aura.	+ He was a target. - Just because Linda targeted people with abilities doesn't mean she only attacked people with abilities. She killed her informant, who was never hinted to have an ability. - Welkes' ability was never revealed.
Linda has acquired multiple powers.	A statement made by her former employer Ferguson.	+ This could explain how she could have survived Linderman's attack. + She brought in a girl called Pamela and a mechanic. - Bringing them in means she didn't kill them, meaning that if they had abilities, she didn't take them. + Ferguson said many of the people she tracked ended up missing or dead. + This could explain why Linda's informant stated that many of her targets when missing. + Linda used her power on the informant. - Linda attacked her informant cause she was about to fire her, making it harder for her to find people with abilities. Just because Linda can take abilities by killing, it doesn't mean she kills only people with abilities.
Linda acquires memories and skills as well as powers.	"I could feel everything, their hopes, their dreams for the future, while they no longer felt anything at all. Their spark belonged to me now." (Moonlight Serenade)	+ Linda's skills as an investigator are highly developed for a 21 year old. + Linda's statement implies she learns as she drains the life force from her victims. - Sounds like she feels like she knows things, rather than gains any actual memories or skills. - She assumed Linderman could self heal. If aura absorption means acquiring another's memories, when she absorbed her informant she would know this is not the case. + Perhaps the informant, did not know the full extent of Linderman's abilities.
Linda wanted to absorb Linderman's healing ability so she could use it in conjunction with mediumship to bring back the dead.	None	+ Linda claims that when she steals Linderman's power she will be unstoppable. Given the fact that healing is not a particularly powerful ability on its own and that it appears to be associated with ability immunity, she must have had some sort of ulterior motive for his power. - By his own admission, Linderman can't bring back the dead.