Here is what I think Larian is doing.
1. Your tadpole is definitely different, like an alpha male/female tadpole. Notice how yours essentially influences everyone else's whether friend or foe. So, yours is more powerful and therefore likely more a part of you.
2. Therefore, if you die, your tadpole dies with you. [...]
Doesn't this then have to be true for Origins characters' tadpoles too? By your logic: since origins characters' tadpoles die with them, their tadpoles must be different, like an alpha tadpole. This quickly spirals into unbelievability.
If us 6 all have alpha tadpoles, then it's very reasonable to believe that
all captives on that mindflayer ship were given alpha tadpoles. After all, it is only luck that we 6 survived. And we saw dozens, if not hundreds of captives on that ship, which seems like way too many people to all be given "alpha tadpoles." Additionally, I feel like an "alpha tadpole-giving mindflayer ship" would be better defended than ours was...it honestly put up a pretty pathetic defense against the githyanki and devils.
