what she fear seems to be more linked to corruption, she collects the hearts, and it's linked to mc' arbiter form since he need to find Ella because he's not complete.I can't remember where, but Ella has an inner monologue where she says, imo, with regret that it has to be us after all. That leads me to believe that whatever she's planning might have some really bad consequences and at that point in time she doesn't want to put us in mortal danger. Could be misremembering or interpreting the scene wrong but still.
Pretty sure you just need to choose the correct options in the fight. I didn't focus on power at all and beat him.how do I beat the bird on a corrupted/villian playthrough? didnt seem to get enough power any choices I might miss not on the guide I killed and consumed everyone I could and did all the training events and cheerleading events. Do I need to take the horn from the shop keep?
I'm not sure if Claudia has become a superhuman yet, but based on what happened in the time dream i figure there's some degree of omnitemporality. I subscribe to the idea that what happened there was only partially a dream, potentially influenced by the future Claudia.I had this post in the works for quite some time. I think at this point we have enough information to try and derive the trait makeup of the various characters in the game. This is going to be huge because we have a lot of info and many characters to go through. For the obvious ones I'll try to be conscise. I'm not going to bother with the exact makeup and the generations for this, however I'm going to emphasize the traits that I think are more prominent in every character.
I will try to maintain this post so it can be used as a resource/reference, when new information hits us, but it will have to be confirmed, either ingame or through the monster reports, not implied.
The structure of the document isn't perfect, but I'd rather post it earlier to start a discussion and fix it later, than keep it in my hard drive till it's finished.
The post has three parts.
1. A primer on the various traits based on the abilities shown by beings with high compability. These interactions are not necessarily 100% confirmed. I will try to keep things as fair as possible.
2. A part about Superhumans and Monsters that we know their traits and makeup. For the more prominent of them I will add some extra information.
3. A part where I'm trying to deduce the traits/makeup of various characters. I will use various ingame information, along with the relevant context taken from game text or monster reports.
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What, tiffany IS a superhuman. the spawn of light.I'm not sure if Tiffany has become a superhuman yet, but based on what happened in the time dream i figure there's some degree of omnitemporality. I subscribe to the idea that what happened there was only partially a dream, potentially influenced by the future Tiffany.
meant Claudia sorryWhat, tiffany IS a superhuman. the spawn of light.
This might run into some problems when we know that Illusion(name pending) have the ability to be perceived in any way they so choose. So in theory some of the monsters we've seen do have some degree of Illusion in them even if they don't express the full trait.So according to this, I will tend to categorize Humanoid monsters with obvious musculature under Creation (and perhaps Power), and those who can somehow alter parts of themselves or are made by a material that is too solid or too weird to move normally, under Body. I'm very interested in the community's thoughts on this.
I don't quite agree here, I think that considering Light seems to be the ability to empower others, it makes the most sense for darkness to have the opposite ability. An argument can be made for power, but I see the Strength Eaters as being primarily Dark, with some possible Ether and Power as lesser influencesYou don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now.
Considering WW strong fascination with copying from mythology. I feel like Asura being Power is like the most obvious thing in the world, unless we get some sort of confirmation to the contrary.A fairly boring monster that doesn't show any special characteristics and a very humanoid form, although it has 6 hands. However unlike Goliath, we don't have a spawn to derive information from. So I'll keep it simple.
Verdict: Creation
imo, Nyx's abilities over souls and the dead seems to be way more in line with Memory than with Truth, especially considering MC's burdgeoning mindscape. Souls can be considered the memories of the mind to the more poetically minded. My verdict is Power, with a sizeable affiliation with MemoryCan preserve souls, who seem to be conscious - Memory
Can kill by just being in the vicinity - Power
She channels some form of energy - Power
She either drains or suppresses Tiffany - Power or Dark
She seemingly can ressurect the preserved souls and revert them to whatever state she wants. This sounds a lot like Eisheth's tricks of rejecting her death.
Verdict: Power, Memory and Truth.
Considering the very conceptual nature of his abilities, I have to say that Deus screams Truth to me, with a strong helping of Memory. Memory explains a lot of precognition, whereas Truth fits as the most cleanly conceptually based power among the 12 apostles. Possibly some small amount of Space too for the reasons you mentioned.I left the best for last because the last update made me rethink everything about him. Up till now I thought his powers were mainly Time based, but now I think that it's not the case. There are two reasons for this. One is that his powers are supposed to be similar to Halona's. The second and more important is that what MC connects to his dream, he claims that his memories are wrong.
Now this is extremely interesting. Not only Deus claims that MC has mistaken him for something he isn't, but he seems very aware of how memories work in general. Which is in line with my ideas about Halona's powers.
Another question is, if Deus had some form of the Time trait, wouldn't he be capable of linking MC to the Apostle? With how much awareness he has shown, he could just connect MC to Time without much hassle.
Deus can divine the future with extreme presicion and he seems to know not only what will happen, but he has insight on the thoughts of various individuals. Like Halona connects to spirits, perhaps Deus can connect directly to the individuals he cares about and gain insight directly from their memories, similar to how MC could read Tiffany and counter her attack. It could also explain his night terrors, having seen the traumatic memories of the various monsters etc.
As always, acting at arbitrary distances probably includes an Ether component and it fits very much with that light attack he makes which cuts through everything. It also kinda fits with how he was able to cut MC from his power during the Deadend. Another option could be Light which could allow him to act at great distances with ease.
There's still a lot of oddities with the guy and during deadend37 he speaks as if he possess some Time powers, but the last update made it fairly clear that there is something going on.
Verdict: Memory with Ether and/or Light. No Time whatsoever. I'm waiting for the backlash! Fucking Deus. I still can't understand why everyone thinks Deus is bad in a fight. He seems borderline overpowered against conventional enemies with his ability to cut through anything and he's not even a level 5.
She probably haven't which is way I added the word "probably". It's heavily foreshadowed though so I'm willing to bet that she will end up a Timespawn. If we get any conflicting info I will edit this.I'm not sure if Claudia has become a superhuman yet, but based on what happened in the time dream i figure there's some degree of omnitemporality. I subscribe to the idea that what happened there was only partially a dream, potentially influenced by the future Claudia.
I tried to add as much detail as I could with the monsters. I will need something tangible to consider an Illusion component because as far as we've seen, those that have some form of the trait tend to target others with it and not to conceal themselves. This is one of the reasons why I have so much trouble with Henri and why I decided to not consider Rina for it.This might run into some problems when we know that Illusion(name pending) have the ability to be perceived in any way they so choose. So in theory some of the monsters we've seen do have some degree of Illusion in them even if they don't express the full trait.
Dark is considered to have suppression effects so your hypothesis is correct. However we have never seen it actually empower the caster somehow by leeching energy. Michael is the only one who can leech energy from others to empower himself so I have to go with Power for now.I don't quite agree here, I think that considering Light seems to be the ability to empower others, it makes the most sense for darkness to have the opposite ability. An argument can be made for power, but I see the Strength Eaters as being primarily Dark, with some possible Ether and Power as lesser influences
I have to admit that I didn't even check if the Asura is an actual mythological being. However after checking it, and considering that it's connected to Raksashas which I'm familiar with, aside from the multiple hands, I don't see that many similarities. Rakshasas are shapeshifters and illusionists which are very different from this particular monster.Considering WW strong fascination with copying from mythology. I feel like Asura being Power is like the most obvious thing in the world, unless we get some sort of confirmation to the contrary.
The Truth component is only for recreating their body from scratch like Eisheth can do for herself. Everything related to preserving the dead and the soul is Memory. Sorry if that wasn't clear.imo, Nyx's abilities over souls and the dead seems to be way more in line with Memory than with Truth, especially considering MC's burdgeoning mindscape. Souls can be considered the memories of the mind to the more poetically minded. My verdict is Power, with a sizeable affiliation with Memory
If by conceptually you mean that he will reach the "truth" through his power, yes it fits. However every effect we've seen in the game has to do with altering the interactions between objects and materializing things. If at any point we get a Truth ability that has to do with the "search for truth" I will consider it. It's funny though, Eisheth is the Chosen of truth, but everything she did was.. not true. She decided to not die, she decided that the rocks don't suffer opposite forces etc. Such a weird concept.Considering the very conceptual nature of his abilities, I have to say that Deus screams Truth to me, with a strong helping of Memory. Memory explains a lot of precognition, whereas Truth fits as the most cleanly conceptually based power among the 12 apostles. Possibly some small amount of Space too for the reasons you mentioned.
imo, Nyx's abilities over souls and the dead seems to be way more in line with Memory than with Truth, especially considering MC's burdgeoning mindscape. Souls can be considered the memories of the mind to the more poetically minded. My verdict is Power, with a sizeable affiliation with Memory
She cant restore from nothing, for Duncan she still need his body and she only can revive Duncan as a tree and the operation officer mention that she cant turn stone to flesh again.The Truth component is only for recreating their body from scratch like Eisheth can do for herself. Everything related to preserving the dead and the soul is Memory. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
I hadn't considered this, but I don't think that Duncan's current predicament is a good example because Ella's power seems to mess up things. Also if Nyx wasn't capable of creating a new body for him, why would she bother burning him down in the first place? Wouldn't that doom him from the get go if he was just a bunch of ashes?She cant restore from nothing, for Duncan she still need his body and she only can revive Duncan as a tree and the operation officer mention that she cant turn stone to flesh again.
She restore the body like he was before his death, so her power could "remember" how the body was before is death and restore him" also Nyx mention that mc could see the dead like her and she know about is power .
Mc:"are you telling me you see dead people?"
Nyx: "I don't know if 'see' is the right word for it... but close enough. You probably could too, you know?"
Nyx:"they are a lot of memories left in a corpse, if you know how to get at them. That's what i'm really seeing, or at least it's a god chunk of it"
And mc could interact with the dead in this last update, Jake,Ella,and Sylla through memories. + that dream with Nyx in the place where she store the souls of dead people, and mc could acces it and she even mention that part of mc soul's is there,and that how she preserv him, it's also made me think about what Sylla said about "having piece of people inside of him and that's how we connect to them."
They clearly have some similarity here.
And if Nyx resurection power is linked to memory, mc could possibly resurrect Ella like that before leaving with her like Ella said in that letter? ( either willingly or maybe Sin will try to use the twins as leverage?)
Ella also mention that nyx surpassed her monster.I hadn't considered this, but I don't think that Duncan's current predicament is a good example because Ella's power seems to mess up things. Also if Nyx wasn't capable of creating a new body for him, why would she bother burning him down in the first place? Wouldn't that doom him from the get go?
When Duncan monsterfied, she killed him and restored him to a pre-monsterfication stage.
When Ella teases Duncan and Jill, she asks if the Doctor would rather reattach their limps or just kill them for them to be ressurected. (Ella knows first hand of this power as she knows the original monster.)
So I will preface this with an explanation that of the twelve primary abilities, Truth seems to be the most esoteric. Unlike things like Memory or Body which are more tangible and explain themselves rather easily, Truth appears to be to be much more... poetic? Flowery? Not sure what the best word for it is.If by conceptually you mean that he will reach the "truth" through his power, yes it fits. However every effect we've seen in the game has to do with altering the interactions between objects and materializing things. If at any point we get a Truth ability that has to do with the "search for truth" I will consider it. It's funny though, Eisheth is the Chosen of truth, but everything she did was.. not true. She decided to not die, she decided that the rocks don't suffer opposite forces etc. Such a weird concept.
If not, could you elaborate a bit? Give me an example of an ability we can observe?
Yeah, I edited my post because I misjudged your point. There are a few reasons why I think Nyx can resurrect from nothing.Ella also mention that nyx surpassed her monster.
I didn't say that she cant recreate the body, just not from nothing, if something burn, ashes are left and then she restore the body from that, i dont remember if they are exemple where she resurrect people without their body of if it's mentionned somewhere.
During diamond battle, she only start to fight when a third of the people she marked are dead and ask nico to send her in" it sound like she need the body to me and we still have the exemple from the gorgon, if she petrified someone, Nyx cant restore stone to flesh and another exemple are Christie, we now that Ella had a similar securities for Christie and Emily but Ella couldnt resurect Christie after mc had devoured her no? (didnt play that part because i like Christie )
just that every element that we have so far point to her needing at least some leftovers of the body but i could be wrong of course .
but they are still a lot of similarities with memory and how that part of Nyx power work.
I mentioned this about Nyx and left the chance for Dark open, but it's not as clear cut. Nyx stops Michael's energy but not Tiffany's light. She only drains Tiffany when she catches her in her hand. This effect can easily be attributed to Power, similarly to how Michael is capable of absorbing energy and draining other Superhumans. Michael is just a level 2 so his draining effect wouldn't be that amazing anyway. Nyx on the other hand is an extremely advanced level 5, so if she has a similar power, it would be easy to apply it to Tiffany.Dunno what are you smoking, but Nyx was stated to be able to nullify the energy of Tiff and Michael during their evolution. That's a Dark trait shebang. Her resurrection power stems from Memory (monster fought by Niko was mostly pure memory judging by the connection displayed), also Dark is stated to be able to imitate things.
Hmm, it's obvious that we view the Truth trait differently. In fact we seem to view it completely opposite.So I will preface this with an explanation that of the twelve primary abilities, Truth seems to be the most esoteric. Unlike things like Memory or Body which are more tangible and explain themselves rather easily, Truth appears to be to be much more... poetic? Flowery? Not sure what the best word for it is.
Deus feels like Truth to me in a few ways. Mentally, I have tied together the future sight and his divination of other people as part of the same ability. Think of his future sight as something along the lines of "It is true that if I drop a rock from my hand, it will fall." When he looks at someone and learns all this stuff about them, he's learning all of the true things about them. He was able to immediately understand that the MC was visiting him in a dream, and unlike Michael, he didn't appear to be in any sort of special circumstances that would've allowed him to "come to realize" he was in a dream. In a way, its also something that can extend to his attacks like "It will be true that a light beam will cut this person in two." though this is a bit more of a stretch on my part.
Another point that is more personal opinion than anything else, is that Truth feels much more interesting if you consider Deus to be HERO's secret weapon. Memory, while very strong in its own right, feels less like a grand reveal than someone who absorbs truth.