I wouldn't know anything about that, brother. I'm just a humble Nicophile passing through this dimension.
Don't trust what Ella says, she does lie a lot, and the only person to claim that was her, and here you have a proof of her talking out of her ass. Also, it was changing bodies of others specifically, not "matter manipulation outside of body" per se, as loads of monsters can create, destroy or manipulate matter which is not their body, like minyak or that cow-rat-bat thing that got Angelina.
That's not necessarily a lie though. She was talking about the body trait specifically if I'm not mistaken, and it is true that we've never seen the third manipulate someone's body. It could be that changing the bodies of others is a thing only someone with some access to memory can do.
I mean, it would be weird, at least going by my own gut feeling, if "The Body" could not influence other bodies beside itself, other apostles are not limited in similar manner, but I do see the point of looking at it from the other way around and limiting the scope of the trait to just it's own body.
I think this is hinted at throughout the text that superhumans have the perk of altering or improving their progenitors monster DNA. Bernhaldt and Malik both have low ranked monster parents meanwhile Tanos and Deryl are 2nd Spawn from the 12th apostle. But its important to note that Deryl and Tanos have the same monster parent but with abilities that are similar yet different which is why Tanos desired for Deryl to work with him. So I atleast am 100% sure superhuman powers are affected and evolve different from person to person.
Hmm, I see. I guess I remembered that incorrectly.
Honestly, Memory could've just used its memory powers to make MC remember things differently, or changed the genetic memory of him. It's a scene that never really gets brought up; it's always the "that night that changed my life" and not the "night night my grandma sucked me off".
That was probably Ella just talking shit, wouldn't be the first nor the last time she has lied, or she simply didn't know, in the end it was an statement from a character in the story, not something that the author established
As I said previously, there's really no reason for Ella to lie about that. What grand master plan could she possibly have involving MC not knowing that the third and fourth can't transform others?
That's still a mystery, the fact that memory can shapeshift is a bigger mystery. The lineage of memory is too mysterious, as well as time, but that's besides the point. At first I thought Memory users would be skillful and would sought out knowledge, using their innate skill to understand and see memories, they would be a master of combat. At a touch they could know things, others sought out all their lives to learn and achieve. but no, Mom and the third keeps shapeshifting like the body lineage, and mom is, lets just say mentally challenged. Ella from the body lineage displays more control of her powers and knowledge than that of memory users, though that's thanks to her mutation and gaining her eyes.
I don't think Syla ever outright shapeshifted outside of the dream realm.
All Apostles have their twin's trait, they're just not as skilled with it.
Iirc WW said that MC is 50% Body, 49% Memory and 1% something else, if the taint is just 1% more body I think he'd just admit it, since it wont become important. I lean towards the belief that its Dark because of the conv between Varavn and Syla
It's not, or at least not just Dark. The 1% is actually trace amounts of
