First off please excuse the terrible English, it's not my native language.
Secondly I'm writing this after a 12 hour session with the game to get caught up and because this game is fucking AWESOME, So I definitely will be wrong on some or all points or speculations cuz I'm remembering shit wrong.
- Corruption vs willpower will be the paths laid before us, there is no good or evil path, corruption is not evil and willpower is wont be good.
I think Ella went the corruption path and (original) Deryl probably went the willpower path
- The one(s) pulling Ella's strings is probably one of the 12 maybe even the one of the "dead" ones.
Ella abso-fucking-lutely has a different agenda than them.
- "Original" Deryl could have done the same thing the TTS emperor of mankind did (severing his humanity and making it into the star child) and put it inside the proxy Deryl. That's why proxy Deryl asks the mc if he feels like his humanity is slipping and if so what he thinks about that. There will be conflict with what Deryl will decide to do with his "original" self.
- Michael and the MC will also have some conflict down the line, although I don't see Michael EVER joining S.I.N and Ella(too much politicking and scheming). He may follow the MC because in the grant scheme the thing he lives for the most is a challenge (but I doubt it).
- Don't think Alice is gonna die (especially now), also I don't think there will be much conflict between Alice and the MC (agenda wise), even if you went full murderhobo.
- I also don't see the mc making an independent faction (he's too weak, at least at the moment) what I do see happening is a taking over either H.E.R.O. or S.I.N. and molding it into HIS faction (for/against the public, for/against the government, with or against the monsters).
(would also be easier for WW to implement rather than having HOURS of exclusive story content and variables BETWEEN H.E.R.O. and S.I.N.)
- I may be reading the to much into it, but when Ella say in one of the Training events that YOUR 3rd evolution will be different.
of course that may refer to, that all(for every superhuman) the 3rd evolutions are different than the 2nds, 4ths and 5ths (1st being ofc the infection itself) but maybe it's a subtle hint Ella throws the MC that the power spike may be more or different to that a regular superhuman.
- Honestly hope the characters like Liz, Amber, Emily, etc. don't get monster powers (or if so don't reach much further than Evolution 2) because I would hate the "super saiyan bargain sale" effect it may have on the story.
My opinion for who Del is? he could be one of the orphans form Ella's orphanage that is being controlled by or has sided with Charlie.