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The thing with this is, we don't know how old Nico is or how long she had her powers for. The way Clark and Xanthe talks to her makes it seems like she's around Alexis age, 28. For all we know, she could be the same age as Ella, 21. We also have to take into account that she reached level 5 only a few weeks before Ella and she's not the spawn of a Numbered. Unless you meant Ella had her powers longer there.

Moving on, Nico's not trying to be the MC. Of her three encounters(Val, Hex and Ella), she had to chase one of them because everyone else failed prior to her. The other was an S-Rank Monster that would've killed or captured the MC and others, if she didn't intervene. With Ella, she rightfully wanted to end her as fast as possible to be done with it all. HERO has purposely dragged their feet when it came to Ella, so Nico decided enough is enough. You might say her going to Ella by herself was rash but in all honesty, it could've been worse for everyone, if she didn't halt and waste all of Ella's time there.

So for me, I believe that most people just hate that she's vocally prejudice against people, can be extremely selfish and doesn't care about the MC's status as MC. It all seems to come down to the player's own ego. Minus the Valravn thing, Nico has done nothing to the player, specifically, besides trash talk him during their first encounter while ignoring his existence. Something she doesn't do after but because she did it, it's a permanent hate boner for her.

In terms of my own feelings towards her, I mostly don't care for the reasons above. She trash talked us once. If she was constantly hounding us throughout the game then maybe I could get it. The thing is, she doesn't. Her trash talking everyone else doesn't matter to me. I'm not any of those characters, so why would I get offended on their behalf? Even the Alice thing didn't get much of a rise out of me. So, I'm not annoyed or bothered by Nico's behavior. I'm actually glad that the women all have different personalities.
I agree about her age and I've talked about this before. It's possible she is even younger, after all Superhuman bodies seem to develop fully past their 4th if Shen is of any indication. She could be 12 and still look like that.

I personally don't care about her attitude against the MC and while deadends are part of the game, they aren't part of the story so I don't subscribe to the whole "she killed us for no reason" argument. Additionally, no matter how wild she is, it's the MC's job to tame her. The guy is destined to become god or something. If he can't bag the cat in the end then he is a fucking looser .

While I appreciate the variety of the characters, she is a bit too immature for my liking.
 

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Additionally, no matter how wild she is, it's the MC's job to tame her. The guy is destined to become god or something. If he can't bag the cat in the end then he is a fucking looser .
Hopefully she can join the slowly growing list of fools in MC's memories...that's at least what I deem as 'tamed' she can keep Jake and Danica company in my MC's mind.

Imagine all the tasty memories that girl has lurking in that noggin...would be a damn shame if we didn't learn what she knew.
 
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Hopefully she can join the slowly growing list of fools in MC's memories...that's at least what I deem as 'tamed' she can keep Jake and Danica company in my MC's mind.

Imagine all the tasty memories that girl has lurking in that noggin...would be a damn shame if we didn't learn what she knew.
I'm sure her brain is going to be deliciou.. ehm I mean disgusting. Brains are disgusting!
 

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I don't hate nico i just don't like her. It's not like with ella's that's is more denial because she is similar of a certain Someone who also loves to push my buttons. Boy i love therapy not that i'm biased. fuck yes i am it felt so good to know that i'm the less crazy and toxic one.
 

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I agree about her age and I've talked about this before. It's possible she is even younger, after all Superhuman bodies seem to develop fully past their 4th if Shen is of any indication. She could be 12 and still look like that.

I personally don't care about her attitude against the MC and while deadends are part of the game, they aren't part of the story so I don't subscribe to the whole "she killed us for no reason" argument. Additionally, no matter how wild she is, it's the MC's job to tame her. The guy is destined to become god or something. If he can't bag the cat in the end then he is a fucking looser .

While I appreciate the variety of the characters, she is a bit too immature for my liking.
Shen's 17 to 18 though and since Zara was kind of surprised, I'm guessing it's not too drastic of a change but enough to show a clear difference. I doubt Nico's younger than the MC. At most, she's around Ella(21) and Alice(22?) age. With her being around Lexi's age at the oldest.

As for the immature part, I get it. She's seems to be slowly becoming a simp for the MC. I just hope her personality don't change much. Annoying bitch in the streets, a personal cum dump in the sheets.

Hopefully she can join the slowly growing list of fools in MC's memories...that's at least what I deem as 'tamed' she can keep Jake and Danica company in my MC's mind.

Imagine all the tasty memories that girl has lurking in that noggin...would be a damn shame if we didn't learn what she knew.
Doesn't really seem like a good idea. If you think Danica is annoying in your dreams, what the hell do you think it's going to be like with Nico in your head? If insults and trash talking was a problem with the real Nico, then how are you going to cope with the Memory Nico 24/7? You didn't think that one through did you? That's why I'm not devouring Ella. I'll just take her power from her somehow and leave her to die a slow death naturally since power is everything to her. :KEK:
 

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Doesn't really seem like a good idea. If you think Danica is annoying in your dreams, what the hell do you think it's going to be like with Nico in your head? If insults and trash talking was a problem with the real Nico, then how are you going to cope with the Memory Nico 24/7? You didn't think that one through did you? That's why I'm not devouring Ella. I'll just take her power from her somehow and leave her to die a slow death naturally since power is everything to her. :KEK:
With the power of memory it shant be too difficult to silence the wench known as Nico in the MC's head or at least lessen the nuisance although in fairness we got like what...1 time where Danica spoke up in MC's memories if devoured (even tho it happens even if you don't consume her right?) and I think Jake in MC's memories says something once as well (or maybe twice its been a bit).
 

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I'm just curious if we'll run into anyone with the power to control plants and shit on some poison ivy type shiz. Would be kinda cool to see how that'd go down in a fight.

Then again I guess the MC could do shit with plants to some degree? I mean all he has gone after is animals (and soon monsters) he outright ignored plants as an option to absorb.
IIRC when you were doing the interview where the guys head exploded. And SIN introduced themselves to the world, one of the 3 people from SIN had plant control
 
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IIRC when you were doing the interview where the guys head exploded. And SIN introduced themselves to the world, one of the 3 people from SIN had plant control
Thank you very much for mentioning that. I must of missed that which means Papa Syther needs to do another playthrough to get his memory straight.
 

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With the power of memory it shant be too difficult to silence the wench known as Nico in the MC's head or at least lessen the nuisance although in fairness we got like what...1 time where Danica spoke up in MC's memories if devoured (even tho it happens even if you don't consume her right?) and I think Jake in MC's memories says something once as well (or maybe twice its been a bit).
You're forgetting that Nico is a Level 5. Even if you devoured her while also at Level 5, her memory could still influence you and be able to act without you controlling it. You would most likely have to vastly out power her to overcome her memories acting freely. As for Danica, she interrupts the MC twice. Once, when he's meditating with Michael and again when you're sleeping in class. As for Jake, it's a few times with him actually influencing the MC's body when they spot Mia.

So yeah, have fun, potentially, being nagged and tortured, verbally, by Nico daily. I'm definitely not giving Ella the chance to harass me forever or take over my body. If I kill her, that's it.
 

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Thank you very much for mentioning that. I must of missed that which means Papa Syther needs to do another playthrough to get his memory straight.
well, either that, or I am senile.

BTW that girl also shows up during the invasion of the demiplane when ella dies (or does she?)
 

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well, either that, or I am senile.

BTW that girl also shows up during the invasion of the demiplane when ella dies (or does she?)
Ella's "children" are:
-Cole (The oldest)
-Zara
-The guy in the blue hoodie
-Shen (The youngest)
-Charlie (unofficially)

-Cole has like temperature powers or whatever, lots of heat.
-Zara has a sort of truth serum stick/head explosion thing.
-I don't know what the hoodie guy has but someone said one of them has plant powers and by process of elimination that leaves him having Plant based abilities probably.
-Shen has...perception? Kinda like Demi but way more in depth and precise. He's a bit of an odd one so far.
-And then Charlie's got like a criteria thing going on that make you do whatever the rule dictates. It's a whole thing.
 

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I think the head explosion was cole using heat power
Ah! So then she's only the true serum? There's gotta be more to it than that she's what, a Lvl 3? What bout those marks that the S.I.N members were getting was that her doing as well? True serum and slave marks don't really corelate to each other...
 

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The way I understand it, SIN's scheme works like that:
Zara's marks provide information about the location of the target (probably among other things, but we don't know about them yet). They work no matter if she personally places the mark or if someone else paints it.
Once someone marks himself, Zara can pinpoint the location and instruct the Hexenringe to teleport him, probably to SIN's headquarters.
There, the prospect swears an oath to Charlie. The oath probably has to do with keeping some things secret, like the names of SIN's management, which is why Nyx's prisoners died when they tried to give information.

We don't have any idea about the extend of Zara's power but her marks currently don't seem to do anything more than track the marked person.
Some possibilities is that she uses the marks as
Homing beacons for projectile based attacks.
Getting knowledge about the marked target's ntent so she can fight better against them. Better targeting, better dodging/damage mitigation, some other unique insight.
Use the mark to influence behavior.

She could also be a communication specialist, allowing the marked people to create links and communicate telepathically at distance, perhaps even sharing knowledge and unique insight non verbally..
 
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So for me, I believe that most people just hate that she's vocally prejudice against people, can be extremely selfish and doesn't care about the MC's status as MC. It all seems to come down to the player's own ego. Minus the Valravn thing, Nico has done nothing to the player, specifically, besides trash talk him during their first encounter while ignoring his existence. Something she doesn't do after but because she did it, it's a permanent hate boner for her.
I definitely only just hate her because she's an asshole, she's a well written character though. She's the type of person I'd hear speak in real life once, and I'd nope out of there and never interact with them again. Trashtalking the mc isn't necessarily my problem with her, it's just her overall personality that I have a problem with, of course the mc got trashtalked because of said personality but that's more incidental than anything else. Love her design visually though and am looking forward to when we can take her down a peg or two, same as with Ella.
 

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The way I understand it, SIN's scheme works like that:
Zara's marks provide information about the location of the target (probably among other things, but we don't know about them yet). They work no matter if she personally places the mark or if someone else paints it.
Once someone marks himself, Zara can pinpoint the location and instruct the Hexenringe to teleport him, probably to SIN's headquarters.
There, the prospect swears an oath to Charlie. The oath probably has to do with keeping some things secret, like the names of SIN's management, which is why Nyx's prisoners died when they tried to give information.

We don't have any idea about the extend of Zara's power but her marks currently don't seem to do anything more than track the marked person.
Some possibilities is that she uses the marks as
Homing beacons for projectile based attacks.
Getting knowledge about the marked target's ntent so she can fight better against them. Better targeting, better dodging/damage mitigation, some other unique insight.
Use the mark to influence behavior.

She could also be a communication specialist, allowing the marked people to create links and communicate telepathically at distance, perhaps even sharing knowledge and unique insight non verbally..
Zara's mark most likely has a sort of eavesdropping mechanic to it, yeah. When the MC talks with the HERO Captains after the Nico and Hex fight, you gain a point with Ella, if you don't tell everything. The MC was still marked by Zara during that entire thing.

I definitely only just hate her because she's an asshole, she's a well written character though. She's the type of person I'd hear speak in real life once, and I'd nope out of there and never interact with them again. Trashtalking the mc isn't necessarily my problem with her, it's just her overall personality that I have a problem with, of course the mc got trashtalked because of said personality but that's more incidental than anything else. Love her design visually though and am looking forward to when we can take her down a peg or two, same as with Ella.
I mean, that's what I said, no?

"Most people just hate that she's vocally prejudice against people, can be extremely selfish and doesn't care about the MC's status as MC".

You fall squarely in that camp, no? You might not hit that last mark for the MC thing but you do dislike that she's an asshole, overall. Which is the problem most people generally have with her. Even though her asshole tendencies aren't targeted towards them, for majority of her appearance. I don't care that she's an asshole to everyone, personally. My MC is one as well. So is Ella and several other characters in game.

Nico legit only did one harmful thing to the MC and that's leaving him hanging during the Valravn fight. Something she made up for by being on time and helping with the Cole thing. As well as actually helping us all escape Hex collapsing dimensional space. But no, she's an asshole to the MC once and to everyone else, so that's all negated, apparently. Ella telling us that she's manipulating our lives is cool for most people(not you specifically) but Nico being an asshole? That's the thing that's too far, I guess.

As for the bottom half, we're on the same page. I too look forward to bullying Nico, sexually. I don't care to knock Ella down though. I rather surpass her, so I don't have to follow her plans, and then ignore her existence completely. I feel like that would hurt her more than any other thing we could inflict on her.

Overall, I get your pov on the subject.
 
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