Ella being quirky/evil isn't really a good argument for me. A huge part of the cast fits the description. She probably works towards something apocalyptic, but then we have people like Bernhardt who is a superhuman supremacist with the power to singlehandedly beat any and all opposition.
Quirky is quite normal in this game. The majority of the cast are quirky, corrupt and unecessarily evil. Also the normal girls tend to also have higher levels of naivety than their counterparts.
From there on, Ella has many great qualities.
She is willing to help MC and Jake become stronger despite knowing that they have potential to surpass her in power and mess with her plans.
She seemingly doesn't force her schemes on her "kids". Instead she provides a sandbox for them to play and grow and doesn't punish failure. She only teases Cole a bit, and considering how big of a fuckup he is, that alone makes her a saint.
She is a great strategist, creative, with huge amounts of knowledge and a master at deception.
She knows how to lose and holds no grudges.
This last update took her already cool scenes and turned them up to 11, along with a (very successful) makeover for good measure.
The problem with her is that she acts like a zealot, puts the MC in a bind because it's part of her plan, yet she doesn't give any explanation. This gets tiring, and along with a few other things that have happened, it's easy for anyone to take it personally.
Yeah if we are criticizing her because she hurt your feelings with her "evilness" there are plenty of other characters that either fit the bill equally yet get more love, or are even WORSE than her morally.
Ella has a lot of of negatives obviously, but she also has I'd wager the most positives out of everyone here. It's like a gamble, if your for it go for it, if not; tough luck doing it the long way with reliable H.E.R.O.
Ella's Negatives:
1. Transforms people into Superhumans, but sometimes creates monsters in the process, too lazy to deal with them.
2. Sends 2 WHOLE PEOPLE to kill you.
3. WOULD HAVE killed you if you reveal your Memory power early on.
4. Would probably kill anyone in her way (hasn't).
5. Manipulates those around her for personal gain.
6. Doesn't tell you all of her master plan but actively puts you in its works expecting you to blindly obey like a dog.
Honourable Mention:
-She had SOMETHING to do with the Middle School Massacre, but it's not confirmed that she herself killed all of those students.
Ella's Positives:
1. Gave you fucking Superpowers.
2. Trains you up.
3. Warns you about the world of Superhumans and Monsters (later proven by H.E.R.O's lvl 5s and Monsters like Goliath, otherwise we'd be just as naive and useless as a basic H.E.R.O member).
4. Has friends she gave DEATH saves to (Name a friend that does that), and actively protects them or offers you help.
5. Runs an orphanage and may give them some powers on the side.
6. Has always been honest with us, no matter how fucked the situation.
7. Give powers to your "friends" plus Michael.
8. Helps Mia cause why not?
9. Fucks you every other meeting.
Now how about some of the "beloved" members of H.E.R.O some of you people like to cope with.
Why the fuck do people like this guy again? We know him for 4 seconds and he helped us with our homework, right friend he was, let's look at his record.
Jake Negatives:
1. He whines about everything.
2. Distrusts you just from the THOUGHT that Ella puts in his head, without any further research.
3. Is a coward.
4. Powers immediately go to his head, and with all the aforementioned above; it's a wonder this fucker didn't Monsterfy on the SPOT.
5. Tries to cuck you.
6. Manipulates those around him for personal benefit (mind fucking Jess).
7. Makes you fed for yourself in prison.
8. Uses a bunch of working joes to fight you.
9. Explodes your brain ONLY a couple dozen times, no biggy.
10. Makes you clean up his mess and runs away from his problems.
Jake Positives:
1. He was alright before he got his powers.
I'm not going to get into Deryl, but let's just say if given the choice to kill him later on; in a heartbeat. Between burning us alive multiple times, electrocuting us, cutting us in half, leaking out identity, being a spiteful little bitch, and then justifying all of it as being for the sake of making a god damn Rubix Cube, he deserves sooo much worse than a slap on the wrist on our "friendship". I've personally cut ties with long time friends for much less.
Deryl Positives:
1. He was alright before he got his powers.
Tiffany I don't see a lot of support, but she works for H.E.R.O, and is there for someone you have to work with in good conscience.
Tiffany Negatives:
1. Tries to stab you in your sleep. If you didn't have powers, you'd be dead.
2. Blackmails you into service.
3. Hates the best Waifu.
4. Doesn't even care about her own SISTER, whom admires her like a beacon.
5. Main goal is to kill her father, that's a rational sane person right there peeps. If I'm out in the field, she's my go to partner!
6. Doesn't care about the lives of others for the sake of her pursuit of "info"? Next council spot for H.E.R.O right there...
7. Still hasn't given you a power point (ik your salty
DrakoGhoul )
Tiffany Positives:
1. Gives her virginity?
2. Mmm, that's about it.
Alexis Negatives:
1. Whines about everything.
2. Doesn't care about the recently traumatized victims of a murder massacre.
3. Doesn't care about saving lives.
4. Did I mention she whines about everything?
Alexis Positives:
......she's hot...?
Nicolette Negatives:
1. Whines about everything.
2. Lazy about everything.
3. Talks a big game about being stronger than everyone around her, yet fails MISERABLY against Ella; a literal new Lvl 5, yet she was boost by CLARK a Lvl 5, teamed up with a Lvl 4 and 3, hurled a piece of the SUN at her, and yet STILLLLLLL LOST. Fuck off, she's all bark no bite, yet criticizes her elders like Zack or his whole squad.
4. Disrespectful to those around her regarding them as less than disposable if they aren't "at her level".
5. Would have hurled you into space.
6. Actively WAITED to see how you would handle the end of the Valravn fight (at the brink of death) when she could've helped.
7. Overall just a nasty personality, why do we like her again?
Nicolette Positives:
...
While I don't see support for him he's so great to work with right?
Bernhardt Negatives:
1. Sees people as less than him SO MUCH he refers to them as "human", comon......
2. Doesn't have a sense of camaraderie if you aren't a Superhuman, as he actively shits on the sacrifice of 200,000+ human lives on national television.
Bernhardt Positives:
......he's strong...?
I see a LOT of support for this guy, so much so there a god damn choice in the game to dictate whether or not he's trustworthy? Get the fuck outta here.
Xanthe Negatives:
1. Doesn't care about decisions and is willing to go behind the back of coworkers/bosses to fulfill his own agenda. VERY trustworthy.
2. Says he can just replace you for you don't act as a puppeteering mascot.
3. Has had countless human/superhuman test subjects in the past, probably still does.
4. LOOKS like a FUCKING MAD EVIL SCIENTIST, comon!
5. Pretty much disregarded his family in the pursuit of knowledge.
Xanthe Positives:
1. He gave you some spider webs...yay......
Nyx Negatives:
1. Kills people to further her corruptive powers, that's a sane person right there!
2. Won't spend her power to save those around her that even ask if you don't fit the criteria, it "wastes" her marks, and her time. This is one of the council members for the most powerful corporation on earth and our only defense against monsters mind you.
Nyx Positives:
1. Personality wise, she seems nice.
2. She's hot.
So how about group benefits cause people LOVE to be team H.E.R.O as if it's the greatest thing that's ever happened to them since the coming of christ.
H.E.R.O Negatives:
1. Actively experimented on human and Superhuman victims against their will.
2. Used people as bait for Monsters and WAITED for the initial attack to capture test subjects.
3. Kidnapped you and your friends.
4. Forced you into service via the threat of DEATH.
5. Used Valravn as a display of power to the world so they could debut you as their mascot and steal your image. This costed human lives and the partial destruction of the city in the process, including the near death of harem member Brianna.
5. Made you fight Valravn pretty much to the brink of death, with no alternative (other than come back to die).
6. Locked you in isolation underground without visitation so they could demean what little dignity you had left.
7. Forced the government to bend over backwards for them via threats and essentially now run the planet (that's always ended well NEVER).
8. Is run by:
-The Richest Man Alive (didn't get that rich being Keanu Reeves)
-Xanthe (typical mad scientist)
-Nyx (cares about death more than life)
-Malik (completely outclasses by uncaring individuals)
-Bernhardt (have you SEEN Invincible?)
-Lucius (If it's not to increase his beauty, probably doesn't care)
-and Zack (probably doesn't care)
9. Actively put a strain on your relationships.
10. Recruits criminals regardless of background as long as they are a useful Superhuman dog, nothing wrong there...*cough* The Boys *cough*
11. Used Alice's arm to essentially open a way to obliteration, only to discard her at a hospital tent and not even be capable of protecting it.
12. SPAT IN THE FACE of families and the world when they lost the lives of 200,000+ people. Even if you are on Malik's Good Boy Path, they don't have an excuse, and there's nothing you can do about it either. What a great company I want to get behind.
13. Is euthanizing the FUCKING WATER YOU DRINK so that they can isolate the Superhuman gene. I'm sorry, did you want kids? Yes? Well too bad, we don't care.
14. Slave labored you into Monster slaying work and all at the grand prize of NO EVOLUTION (where's Ella's tests when you need her).
15. An entire month spent there is to launch a spear out of your shoulder, congratu-fucking-lations.
16. Just when you think you're strong, you have a bunch of Lvl 5 different reasons to make you feel like a useless piece of shit, y'all are some cucks
Honor Mentions:
-I'll bet everything I own they are using that Superhuman Testing Power Consumer Orb for something NEFUCKINFARIOUS down the line.
-You get to meet fun folks like Danica! The bitch that tried to kill you multiple times, put a giant cross through your fucking torso, whines about everything, and defended Klaus; the guy who tried to cuck you from the best Waifu! Good on them right? Or Jake, the quintessential nerdy fuck up that mind controlled a mass amount of innocent people for his dirty work (fighting you), put you in a prison, mind fucked your friend Mia, tried to cuck you from Jess, Amber, AND Liz, hated you for not being a big enough fucking GENIUS that he's critically claimed to be, exploded your brain dozens of times, that never hurts! And once all was said and done, he took a rain check on fixing his problems so YOU could fix them for him! Wow, great people we have here at H.E.R.O~
H.E.R.O Positives:
1. You get 10k a month?
2. You get some lore books/lessons to dive more into stuff you more or less already knew.
S.I.N gets a lot of hate, why is that?
S.I.N Negatives:
1. You have to deal with Cole and Jared+his Dad.
Honorable Mention:
-They add a mark for member ship for POTENTIAL but probable manipulation against your will. The equivalent of a bunch of Lvl 5s at H.E.R.O.
S.I.N Positives:
1. Free to do pretty much whatever you want.
2. They helped you kill the most annoying fucking T.V Host that had it out for you regardless of your karma.
3. INVITED you to join (at least Zara) rather than trying to force you.
4. They are associated with Ella, the one person that has actively helped you grow. (You literally get the best lore from one visit there then you do an entire month with H.E.R.O, plus an Evolution).
Overall I think Ella gets a lot of shade for annoying people reasons or morally questionable actions, while others get praised for next to no reason and doing the most unethical or inhumane things known to man. H.E.R.O sounds good on paper, but that's only because it's the closest thing to our lobotomized system. I mean at this point they practically ARE the government, how many veterans get praised coming home for commiting potential war crimes, like slaughtering families just because they were "on the opposite side" (some not all) and that isn't JUST the soldiers with that mind set. Or the opposite where they are just defending their home, yet get betrayed by the system, much like overworked and "caring" Malik (burned our friends alive via the Dead End of the Kenny Massacre) or Alexis, Clark, etc. The fact that the people aren't in MORE of an uproar from the EUTHANIZATION of their entire species, or blatant disregard for human life, just goes to show how docile everyone is if the promises are high enough, much like a chunk of the fanbase loving that same system in opposition of literal freedom. Boggles my fucking mind.
Edit: Apologies for my passion, I love Ella and will always die on that hill any day (lest she murder the harem or Michael). At the end of the day we all have our opinions and I find the debates in good fun despite my exclamation, happen to be a
DrakoGhoul simp too so you're good bro, just get off that H.E.R.O and Alexis/Danica/Nicolette cope
