The jocks Kenny and James that were infected by Minyak were also candidates for the same plan that Ella used Jake and the MC for. She doesn't need somebody with the power of an arbiter or even an apostle for that part of her plan.
1. Not everyone agrees unfortunately that's why I pointed it out.
-Regardless if they are doing their job or not they still killed you. And Nicolette's job wasn't to kill us after getting peeped on, she did that for her own interests about as much as Ella did for revealing our secret. Oh so heroica Clark knew we could do nothing to him but still chose to blast us into oblivion.
-Jake only got blackmailed for being so god damn naive. Had he used his oh so praised big brain and half the mentality he had trying to save Mia he could've AT LEAST leveraged his way into a similar position we had (i.e being free to do whatever after doing whatever Ella wanted). Weak mind isn't a justification for controlling the masses to shoot at us, groping people against their will, or taking us as an enemy at face value.
-Malik's sprite didn't show up during the Kenny fight but he was there. If you let Kenny take over, you start having a mindless orgy, if the end of the fight the other route is anything to go by; our friends were still alive. Malik I guess determined there were not survivors and burnt the entire mansion with us and our friends along with it. Guess he didn't bother checking due to the workload, "justified" he was just doing his job of course...
-Yeah Deryl was ordered to like be obsessed with Ella but Jake couldn't finish the rest of the order (i.e fix the hearts). So Deryl was left orderless, which meant he WILLINGLY went to come kill us and Jake in order to prove his worth to his newfound love for Ella. Again, this wasn't an order, but his OWN WILLING NEED to prove himself as the best. After he breaks the mind control he still goes back to Ella and I think Charlie orders him or something (still replaying) to complete the hearts. But NOT to make an ultimate body, a Rebis, or to leak our identity to the world, or to fight us one on one for a stupid selfish reason. Deryl is a cunt plain and simple.
-Yeah Danica is a villain but gets a lot of love which is why I mentioned her.
2. Yep, bout as much speculation as saying she killed ALL of the kids for bullying her, which is why I mentioned it.
3. Yep she's using you, and...? A lot of characters use you in this game and still get love. Liz, literally anyone from H.E.R.O, Tiffany, Deryl, the 3rd & 4th (arguably if we are just being used as an Origin conduit), Christine, Angelina, general public as scapegoat for monster attacks, list goes on. You know what I DIDN'T receive from any of those? SUPERPOWERS and training. H.E.R.O showed us that it was only a matter of time before we were used like a fleshlight for someone else's goals, Ella just got to us first. The difference is that SHE did it first, if it was the other way around, Ella would be getting ALLL the praise, although we've still yet to see results from H.E.R.O. I'll trade giving up my freedom of choice maybe every random other day to serve someone else's goal over mindless overloads of work and podium news appearances for literal fucking superpowers and actual results of growth in a heartbeat. Character wise though yeah she's manipulative and using you, I literally can't deny that.
5. S.I.N? Probably none, save for they stand for freedom of choice (arguably). What I'm seeing is it's okay to question Ella for her morally devious actions because she's doing it for herself, but that same sentiment doesn't apply to H.E.R.O or any of their operatives because hey, they ARE saving the planet am I right?
6. Um yeah dumbass he is. We weren't trying to kill Jared dumb fuck we literally just got done battling Deryl. Hell, we didn't even know Jared was a Superhuman at the time, he went OUT OF HIS WAY to murder Lauren because he "missed". How are you going to actively defend Jared; a guy who literally bullies for the sake of bullying, abuses those that care about him, thinks he's better than everyone else, and does nothing for you over Ella; who while she is manipulative, she does GIVE YOU SUPERPOWERS, fucks you, hangs out with you, and is arguably the reason you are as strong as you are today?
I'm trying to show my perspective as to why I like Ella and why some others may as well. You can hate Ella justifiably so, no one likes manipulation, but I PERSONALLY see more benefits from one or two instances of heartache for the freedom to do whatever whenever with superpowers...superpowers...
If H.E.R.O did the same first I'd be loyal to them, but so far they've blackmailed me into politics, work heavy service with no rest, abhorrent co workers that see me as less than ants, hindering power growth and personal relations/freedoms. Oh but they give me books so there's the silver lining I guess......
1. Let me amend that statement then, all "reasonable" people agree.
- Never said murder was never justified. She did it cause you basically sexually harassed her in the women's bathroom a very insane response but lets not act like you are completely in the right. And if i was clark i'd do the same thing if my job was killing monsters and a random superhuman with unknown intentions are trying to take away a monster corpse/ fuck with the organization.
- How do we know if the mindless mc didn't kill everyone already or if Malik evacuated everyone beforehand?
- This is actually just victim-blaming lol. Ella is literally the only person who can bring Mia back, Jake has always had self doubt and Ella had already mind fucked him for a while by that point. Trying to kill the player is completely justified because thats that only way he thought he could get Mia back. If you don't like him using his powers for groping, you should also hate the fact that the Player transforms into a woman to perv on and deceive the cheerleaders, fucks them based on lies and literally transforms into other characters to masturbate right? Or is that another double standard im hearing?
- Im not gonna defend deryl lol
2. Not really, its clearly implied in the story multiple times that she killed the students. Your explanation is fan fiction
3. You getting superpowers is literally irrelevant in a discussion of her character. It say nothing of character cause shes doing it for her own gain, not for altruistic reasons. Most of them aren't using you cause you want to help lol (Liz, Christine, Angelina) etc. Don't think any one of them would force you if you said no. Again, HERO is morally dubious, no one questions that. But they do far more good then bad. Sin and Ella are literally just evil. Don't think anyone defends Deryl or Tiffany and we don't know the intentions of 3rd and 4th
5. Yes lol, I'd say HERO is saving hundreds of thousands of people every week. It's a fundamentally selfless and morally "good" actions. idk what you know about ethics but deontologically they would both be bad (but HERO would still be infinitely more moral then Ella) but from a consequentionalist perspective HERO are literal saints where's Ellas just evil.
6. It's like you just ignored me
- Its a battlefield
- We are his enemies
- we are all trying to kill the other side
- Ofc he's gonna go after the injured dude. Its just a smart thing to do lol.
Yeah i'll defend a bully infinitely more morally then an actual Psychopathic murderer. I try to keep biases off when i assess a character.
Its just incredible to me lol, people don't like Liz because she rejected you once, Jake cause he did some fucked shit while being mind fucked and blackmailed with his crush.'s life. And heres Ella, a literal combination of every negative aspect of every character in the game and people somehow love her. Like you're seeing how you have to bring what bad thing every single character in the game did to justify ONE persons actions right?
Like I understand liking her, she's hot and charming at times. But liking her should literally disqualify you from ever criticizing another main character.
Anyway im done with the paragraphs. This long form shit is not for me.
For the part about the 3rd and the 4th, Ella wasn't suspicious because she already knows that they can give the same power, even if the 4th does it. The MC only showed the shapeshifting trait so she just chalked it up to him only inheriting it, since getting both is extremely rare. There's also the chance that the Memory trait was also rare, by Valravn statement. So she probably figured he would only get the Body trait like her.
This update, we learned that the Twin Apostles traits can be crossed inherited via the other Twin. We don't know exactly how or the chances of it but looking at the 3rd and 4th being able to use each other's power, it seems that the twins can use each other's powers. Obviously, they'll be better with their own trait but can use their twins at varying degrees. Thinking about it, the 7th most likely used the 8th's Light power to eradicate the MC with it's glowing eye on that dead end.
So the 3rd and 4th showing up together doesn't really point to anything for Ella. At least nothing that should grab her attention. She already knows they work together and likely encountered both during her own infection. Pair that with the possible rarity of the Memory trait and that the MC only showed shapeshifting, it wouldn't be shocking if Ella just dismissed the whole thing. It's not like she's omniscient or infallible.
I really doubt there's only 6 left... to evidence to them being gone is a memory that's not yours during your 2nd evolution.
It's really too vague, it's speculation at best. You "No, the six... seven through twelve have already been..."
We know there's one creature, Apostle or Origin killing gods and Apostles... But he could just kill their avatars...
There's the dark lord, the one that made Valravn, he's the seventh if we look at Valravn's card, so that directly proves the theory "7th through 12th are gone" is false. We know most of the descendants of the 9th, the 10th and especially the 7th follow the Dark Lord... So half of these supposedly dead Apostles... So i guess it would make more sense if 7th through 12th Apostles are loyal to the Dark Lord or being forced to follow him...
Edit : Also Ella has at least 8 hearts to summon Apostles.... And Valravn's heart is one of them... If she needs twins that only leaves 9/10/11/12 ?
Besides that 11 and 12 could be impossible to summon if they're the Outer Twins, the only real Gods of them all... ?
For a minor character: do ya'll remember that poison dude who tries to hit on Alice? Yeah he feels like a minor character who might get killed off just cause he fucked around and found out (be it Alice or MC who kills em).
I'm actually surprised no one brought him up before...like yeah he's a minor nuisance but he's a complete dick towards MC and is hittin on the potential mid Waifu.
That dude is pathetic, would not be surprised if he tried to pull some shit during a mission and gets curbstomped by Alice when he thinks it's safe to make a move because the MC isn't there, dude's probably got blinders on when it comes to how powerful she is compared to him too.
I really doubt there's only 6 left... to evidence to them being gone is a memory that's not yours during your 2nd evolution.
It's really too vague, it's speculation at best. You "No, the six... seven through twelve have already been..."
We know there's one creature, Apostle or Origin killing gods and Apostles... But he could just kill their avatars...
There's the dark lord, the one that made Valravn, he's the seventh if we look at Valravn's card, so that directly proves the theory "7th through 12th are gone" is false. We know most of the descendants of the 9th, the 10th and especially the 7th follow the Dark Lord... So half of these supposedly dead Apostles... So i guess it would make more sense if 7th through 12th Apostles are loyal to the Dark Lord or being forced to follow him...
Edit : Also Ella has at least 8 hearts to summon Apostles.... And Valravn's heart is one of them... If she needs twins that only leaves 9/10/11/12 ?
Besides that 11 and 12 could be impossible to summon if they're the Outer Twins, the only real Gods of them all... ?
I don't even think Ella's the one looking for twins, I think that's something that SINs upper management (Langdon/Klaus' dad/etc) are cooking up without her involvement, although now that she's most likely incommunicado with the rest of her posse they're probably helping them. Maybe the heterochromia dude in the preview could be a fusion of two non identical twins, both die together and are reborn together as one type of deal. Next update can't come soon enough.
I'm sure it's for the same reason, Ella needs the twins because the Apostles are twins... It's just a matter of higher chance to be a suitable host, after all both Apostles share the same Origin, just like twins they are similar....
The other part needed is the hearts, and of course the dark ritual that Ella has to do...
I'm even sure summoning these Apostles isn't Ella's endgoal.... Getting the original powers, the traits of both apostles, and even all 6 of them.... That's something Ella wants to get and that's needed to reach her final goal.
Try : Zero end, Madworld, a Foreign World, Myst, Children of Morn, the Coven, Cybernetic Seduction, Hot Sands of Antarctica, How to fix the future, Color of my Sound, Etlina's Principle, the falling reloaded, projekt passion, Stray Incubus.... That's all fantasy stuff...
The Hellcat Lounge, Linage or Legacy, yesterday's crossroads could use some attention too, but without doubt there's many many more..
The jocks Kenny and James that were infected by Minyak were also candidates for the same plan that Ella used Jake and the MC for. She doesn't need somebody with the power of an arbiter or even an apostle for that part of her plan.
If this is based on the "hopefully my other 2 chosen handle it better" monologue, I have some doubts. Both MC and Jake have already handled it better, and the 2 others could refer to Kenny and Michael.
Then she says "Oh MC, does it have to be you after all?", which is quite melancholic like something bad is going to happen, but later during the last training segment she talks to MC about his role, she says that she won't wait forever, and MC will get the chance to fight for his ending and she will cheer for him. If she cares about MC due to the past, even a little, then why wouldn't she just go 100% on him and bother with the others?
This scene is a bit of a tangled mess. Have you found any other reference that may shed some light?
For the part about the 3rd and the 4th, Ella wasn't suspicious because she already knows that they can give the same power, even if the 4th does it. The MC only showed the shapeshifting trait so she just chalked it up to him only inheriting it, since getting both is extremely rare. There's also the chance that the Memory trait was also rare, by Valravn statement. So she probably figured he would only get the Body trait like her.
I agree that she isn't infallible, but her behavior seems particularly.. stupid, considering that it's a big part of her plan. But then again we don't really know what she is looking for exactly so perhaps it will make sense later in the game? Who knows.
I really doubt there's only 6 left... to evidence to them being gone is a memory that's not yours during your 2nd evolution.
It's really too vague, it's speculation at best. -snip-
The apostles in their true form are probably alive. The evidence points to their avatars being dead and I get the sense that without their avatars, they can't really interact with the "Human Plane". Aglaec says that MC's allies are trying to claim those dead avatars and the one that Marcus has in his basement seems to be an apostle.
The apostles in their true form are probably alive. The evidence points to their avatars being dead and I get the sense that without their avatars, they can't really interact with the "Human Plane". Aglaec says that MC's allies are trying to claim those dead avatars and the one that Marcus has in his basement seems to be an apostle.
They just make new avatars, the only purpose for avatars is infecting monsters/humans/creatures on another plain... HERO has been collecting the remains of avatars, probably even used them to infect people, we don't know much about Tiffany, but i wouldn't be surprised she's been injected with parts of an Apostle, Claudia probably will be next....
I'm pretty confident I figured out a missing piece of the MC's backstory and I've been trying to put a post together about it to make a point, but it kept spiralling out of control once I get to the end. You'll see why.
Firstly, I was looking for when the MC's mother died and how old he was at time, so I went fact-finding.
1. The MC's feud with Deryl started when they were thirteen.
2. That feud lasted a year. They were both fourteen in their last middle school fight.
3. In their final fight, Amber and then the MC tells Deryl that his mother died the previous year.
4. His eyes were treated just before he met Deryl at the same clinic we saw after the fight with Kenny.
5. The MC ran away from home because his father refused to tell him what happened.
6. He was almost held back in his last year of primary school because of that.
7. The MC's eyes were still healing back when he started middle school.
I put the given date of his mother's death late in his last primary school year, when he was twelve, close to thirteen. Later in the same calendar year, he started middle school. That fits pretty well.
If everything seems correct, skip the next spoiler. If something seems off, check it.
The babysitter hired for just a day, the constant waiting for his parents to return, the fear of abandonment, the excitement when he thinks his parents are back, the hesitation to open the door to their bedroom. It all screams younger.
There's no phone, never a mention of school, friends, neighbours, ordering food in or going out for supplies. No independence. Just a sad kid eating old crackers alone and waiting on the front porch of an empty house with an empty fridge. This is the MC a few months before he met Deryl? The boy in this flashback ran away to live in a homeless camp for a month with his eyes in who knows what state?
Before I start endlessly speculating on when, why, how, and what the fuck: am I wrong to think that the lost chapter of his life could be a lot longer than the MC's been led to believe?
I don't know if somebody else already told this, but there something that can brake the game during a scene after defeating Kenny - I've just kept skipping text and then for some reason I get evolution and 20 power out of the blue. I look into relationships and see that there are huge numbers as if they are after fighting Klaus. And all the options to spend my free time are fucked up (for example I can go to gym and meet Angelna right after meeting Demi). I don't know what happened because after reloading the choice of killing Kenny or eating him I have done the same choice (killing) but that bug didn't appear.
I think I should mention that I have a huge amount of older saves that are much later into the game. Maybe they somehow fused with new one idk.
I'm pretty confident I figured out a missing piece of the MC's backstory and I've been trying to put a post together about it to make a point, but it kept spiralling out of control once I get to the end. You'll see why.
Firstly, I was looking for when the MC's mother died and how old he was at time, so I went fact-finding.
1. The MC's feud with Deryl started when they were thirteen.
2. That feud lasted a year. They were both fourteen in their last middle school fight.
3. In their final fight, Amber and then the MC tells Deryl that his mother died the previous year.
4. His eyes were treated just before he met Deryl at the same clinic we saw after the fight with Kenny.
5. The MC ran away from home because his father refused to tell him what happened.
6. He was almost held back in his last year of primary school because of that.
7. The MC's eyes were still healing back when he started middle school.
I put the given date of his mother's death late in his last primary school year, when he was twelve, close to thirteen. Later in the same calendar year, he started middle school. That fits pretty well.
If everything seems correct, skip the next spoiler. If something seems off, check it.
The babysitter hired for just a day, the constant waiting for his parents to return, the fear of abandonment, the excitement when he thinks his parents are back, the hesitation to open the door to their bedroom. It all screams younger.
There's no phone, never a mention of school, friends, neighbours, ordering food in or going out for supplies. No independence. Just a sad kid eating old crackers alone and waiting on the front porch of an empty house with an empty fridge. This is the MC a few months before he met Deryl? The boy in this flashback ran away to live in a homeless camp for a month with his eyes in who knows what state?
Before I start endlessly speculating on when, why, how, and what the fuck: am I wrong to think that the lost chapter of his life could be a lot longer than the MC's been led to believe?
1. This dream was a strange one. I still don't know what to think about it.
2. So when Ella met Mc(in childhood)? On what stage of his life? Was it before his eyes got destroyed or after?
Before I start endlessly speculating on when, why, how, and what the fuck: am I wrong to think that the lost chapter of his life could be a lot longer than the MC's been led to believe?
You are right. This kid is younger and acts nothing like the young MC we know from the flashbacks. Young MC left home and joined a shelter on principle. This kid is probably a lot younger. I wouldn't say that MC has lost this chapter of his life. It's possible that he just can't recall it due to his age.
There is also a small possibility that the memory isn't his and he just placed himself in the memory of another. Although things kind of align. A father that was away for periods of time, living in a house with a porch. I'd rather assume that it's MC's memory.
1. This dream was a strange one. I still don't know what to think about it.
2. So when Ella met Mc(in childhood)? On what stage of his life? Was it before his eyes got destroyed or after?
At some point Ella invites MC to her orphanage and there is a kid with a blindfold there. She says that MC used to wear bandages around his eyes. So the more likely scenario is that she met him around the time of his accident.
I'm pretty confident I figured out a missing piece of the MC's backstory and I've been trying to put a post together about it to make a point, but it kept spiralling out of control once I get to the end. You'll see why.
Firstly, I was looking for when the MC's mother died and how old he was at time, so I went fact-finding.
1. The MC's feud with Deryl started when they were thirteen.
2. That feud lasted a year. They were both fourteen in their last middle school fight.
3. In their final fight, Amber and then the MC tells Deryl that his mother died the previous year.
4. His eyes were treated just before he met Deryl at the same clinic we saw after the fight with Kenny.
5. The MC ran away from home because his father refused to tell him what happened.
6. He was almost held back in his last year of primary school because of that.
7. The MC's eyes were still healing back when he started middle school.
I put the given date of his mother's death late in his last primary school year, when he was twelve, close to thirteen. Later in the same calendar year, he started middle school. That fits pretty well.
If everything seems correct, skip the next spoiler. If something seems off, check it.
The babysitter hired for just a day, the constant waiting for his parents to return, the fear of abandonment, the excitement when he thinks his parents are back, the hesitation to open the door to their bedroom. It all screams younger.
There's no phone, never a mention of school, friends, neighbours, ordering food in or going out for supplies. No independence. Just a sad kid eating old crackers alone and waiting on the front porch of an empty house with an empty fridge. This is the MC a few months before he met Deryl? The boy in this flashback ran away to live in a homeless camp for a month with his eyes in who knows what state?
Before I start endlessly speculating on when, why, how, and what the fuck: am I wrong to think that the lost chapter of his life could be a lot longer than the MC's been led to believe?
This is similar to my own thoughts on it, it's very possible his "dad" isn't his actual dad as well. I have some headcanon speculation that is in no way substantiated by anything in the game beyond just my thoughts where the mc is the son of the third and fourth who'd been living in their avatar forms, taking the shape of perfect copies of human beings, such that they could actually give birth to a proper human, with the potential for more and a direct link to their Arbiter. Pure speculation of course but it's fun to think about, for me anyway.
That's when he gets introduced to her in class, she is sleeping, he might just not have been able to see her face from where he was sitting.... And seeing less when still wearing the bandages seems logical too...
Anyway, there's definitely more to come on MC's past, and where and how he met Ella...