VN Ren'Py Superhuman [v0.996 Public] [WeirdWorld]

[dragonlord6789]

Yeah, Daione Danu was definitely going for pettiness over effectiveness here. If her goal was just to kill Alice, then she wasn't doing a great job. She could have been constantly on the attack, instead she only swooped in every time it looked like we were going to pull off a save. Daione wanted us to suffer, for some reason. Let us get a bit of hope only to snatch it away each time.

I think we're not likely to kill her just yet, we need backstory on just why she feels so much hate for Alice first. Most likely Aos will just scare her off, or maybe bring her to heel with a non-fatal thrashing. I think Daione will be a long-term enemy for Alice, that she eventually defeats after hitting level 3 and training some.

If Danu is going to be a long-term enemy and the gang is leaving the monster world soon, does that mean she is going to follow them back to their home and play a role in the Monster War arc?

 

[PerpetuallyAmiss]

You know, I just realized something. If the MC does return to the human world at the end of this arc, and he does in fact evolve, as I have predicted, then that sort of implies that his relationship with H.E.R.O. needs to be terminated, at least for narrative reasons. If he remains with H.E.R.O. then he will certainly be given the evolution serum at the earliest possible opportunity, which means we would be at Level 4 for only a short while. So it stands to reason that something has to happen between now and then that causes the MC to need to leave them. I think this will happen by the end of the current arc, to be honest. Or at the very least, during the next arc. There would be plenty of reason for it; the higher ups are feeling that the MC is not as useful as he originally seemed, the fact that the MC has now been coordinating efforts with Ella for some time now, a person H.E.R.O. considers an enemy and will almost certainly reawaken and cause more issues for them, and the fact that there is a growing ideological difference between the MC's group and H.E.R.O. elite. There's also the fact that H.E.R.O. is likely to be considered a bigger issue by both the public and the government, as they've become more overtly militaristic ever since the MC fell into the monster world due to the increase in monsters, and he can escape that bad publicity if he refuses to go back to work for them once he realizes what has happened during that time.

He's ineligible for the Serum because he was already forcibly evolved by monster blood.

 

[Dinoflaggelate]

You know, I just realized something. If the MC does return to the human world at the end of this arc, and he does in fact evolve, as I have predicted, then that sort of implies that his relationship with H.E.R.O. needs to be terminated, at least for narrative reasons. If he remains with H.E.R.O. then he will certainly be given the evolution serum at the earliest possible opportunity, which means we would be at Level 4 for only a short while. So it stands to reason that something has to happen between now and then that causes the MC to need to leave them. I think this will happen by the end of the current arc, to be honest. Or at the very least, during the next arc. There would be plenty of reason for it; the higher ups are feeling that the MC is not as useful as he originally seemed, the fact that the MC has now been coordinating efforts with Ella for some time now, a person H.E.R.O. considers an enemy and will almost certainly reawaken and cause more issues for them, and the fact that there is a growing ideological difference between the MC's group and H.E.R.O. elite. There's also the fact that H.E.R.O. is likely to be considered a bigger issue by both the public and the government, as they've become more overtly militaristic ever since the MC fell into the monster world due to the increase in monsters, and he can escape that bad publicity if he refuses to go back to work for them once he realizes what has happened during that time.

I agree that the MC breaking from H.E.R.O. would make a lot of narrative sense. In fact, he might not even return to H.E.R.O. in the first place. Aos, the fairy that infected Alice, appears at the end of the update. Last we saw of Aos, he was working with the MC's father on some independent operation. It seems very plausible to me that Aos is going to take the party back to wherever he's been working with Steven. At the very least we'll get an exposition dump on what Steven's been up to and how he knows what he knows, but it's also possble that the MC will join his father's work. Then he wouldn't return to H.E.R.O. because he's busy and/or Steven revealed something nefarious about H.E.R.O. that has him not wanting to return.

If Danu is going to be a long-term enemy and the gang is leaving the monster world soon, does that mean she is going to follow them back to their home and play a role in the Monster War arc?

Probably. We do know that the fairies can hijack Hexenringe portals. There's nothing stopping her from traveling between worlds. And I can't imagine that Daione Danu is going to stop hunting Alice just because she returned to Earth, if she was wlling to hunt her over so much of the Monster World.