BobCarter

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As a later idea, I bet why he calls everyone charlie, is because any other name would give away what he really is, and what he knows.

After all if he called Derbie Kin, or 3rd ones spawn, or whatever. He'd be giving it away.
 

Edvin

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I'd say Ella's power is much less intuitive than MC's, because MC collects body templates just from touching others, and can transform into these templates easily.

Ella, meanwhile, has to understand what she's transforming into. She doesn't have the luxury of simply touching something and getting knowledge about it, she has to actually sculpt her forms into her desired form, just like MC at the start when he tried shapeshifting into Deryl without touching him.

And it's even worse for anything more complex than outer appearances. She studied biology for years to supplement her powers, so she could understand what she needed to do to make certain things, and then she had to practice to actually succeed in transforming into that. That's the reason she's shocked if you poison her; that's something you shouldn't be able to do, like, a week after gaining your powers. It's too complex.

The only direct advantages Ella has are that her shapeshifting, by itself, is bound to be at least somewhat innately easier to control, since she doesn't have any memory shenanigans, and her body should also be naturally stronger than MC's for the same reason. However, most of the difference between their abilities is that Ella actually knows what she's doing, unlike MC, who's mixing and matching forms he has.

Xanthe told MC that Ella has shown the ability to shift her body at a more precisely and at at smaller scale than than he could, even at a low level (either 1 or 2 for her, don't remember exactly), but the reason isn't necessarily a difference in their power, but rather, a difference in the way they trained and their knowledge. MC basically speedran power gain using memory, while Ella spent years, probably without even evolving, just learning how to use her abilities.

Sorry for the yap lmao
MC and Ella are kind of like bricklayers who build houses.

MC is a young and inexperienced bricklayer who does everything according to plan.
His houses are built exactly according to plan, or using combinations of different plans.
He is precise, but lacks speed and experience and knowledge.

Ella is an experienced bricklayer who works by eye.
Her accuracy suffers a little, but she works faster and more efficiently.
Her limit is her imagination, which is both her advantage and disadvantage.

Some things are simply too complex for the human (or even superhuman) brain to understand effectively.
There are things she will simply never be able to do. But on the other hand, her only limit is her imagination, so she should be able to do some things that will be hard to understand even for MC.
 

BobCarter

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MC and Ella are kind of like bricklayers who build houses.

MC is a young and inexperienced bricklayer who does everything according to plan.
His houses are built exactly according to plan, or using combinations of different plans.
He is precise, but lacks speed and experience and knowledge.

Ella is an experienced bricklayer who works by eye.
Her accuracy suffers a little, but she works faster and more efficiently.
Her limit is her imagination, which is both her advantage and disadvantage.
Only one of those builds anything, unless your talking about lego. (even then actual lego sets are designed in cad)
 

OnlineRando

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MC and Ella are kind of like bricklayers who build houses.

MC is a young and inexperienced bricklayer who does everything according to plan.
His houses are built exactly according to plan, or using combinations of different plans.
He is precise, but lacks speed and experience and knowledge.

Ella is an experienced bricklayer who works by eye.
Her accuracy suffers a little, but she works faster and more efficiently.
Her limit is her imagination, which is both her advantage and disadvantage.

Some things are simply too complex for the human (or even superhuman) brain to understand effectively.
There are things she will simply never be able to do. But on the other hand, her only limit is her imagination, so she should be able to do some things that will be hard to understand even for MC.
Ella needs to make the "plans" herself, unlike MC, who's got the plans fed straight into him, while MC theoretically can do things by eye, but would do worse at it than Ella.

If Ella's limit is imagination, then MC's is too. (almost) Anything he learns with Memory can be recreated via enough knowledge, trial, and error.

MC's strength here is his speed of learning. What would take Ella years to learn and practice, MC can do in an instant, given he has a blueprint. However, his actual precision and skill in all types of shapeshifting are innately inferior, since he has Memory alongside Body. He also didn't train for precision like she did, since it's less immediately effective than just copying what he needs/mixing what he has... which is a mistake, though that's not to say he shouldn't have collected samples from animals. It's just that learning biology and improving his body structure and makeup would've benefited him greatly.

As for speed of shapeshifting, that is another strength Ella has over MC, both because of her training and since her shapeshifting itself is just more potent.

And if some things are too complex for them to understand, they can shapeshift their brain to be capable enough to understand it. Ella's already modified her reaction speed, intelligence shouldn't be impossible.

MC's only long term advantage over Ella is his actual Memory abilities, not his shapeshifting.
 
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The Multi-Mod has been updated to v0.999!
  • Added Music Room! Currently, only five songs have been added —let me know which other songs you'd like to see added.
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Edvin

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Dont overthink it because shopkeep is just shopkeep!
Hmm, a guy who can travel between the human world, the monster worlds, and the dream world without any problems, owns a number of artifacts of immeasurable value, and is able to drain the power of monsters as payment? A guy who has obviously been in this business for a long time and inspires so much fear or respect in everyone that even S rank monsters won't try to steal from him?

This guy is anything but a normal shopkeep :ROFLMAO:
If he's not one of the chosen, then he's at least on their power level (probably higher).
 

FenrisTheBurning

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In this update, we saw the memories of a warrior of the Body, killed by a warrior of Authority, complaining how Body didn't bother stepping in on his behalf. But when we kill Jake, Authority has no problem stepping in to avenge him before Body and Memory bail us out and drag him away. Jake certainly didn't seem special enough to warrant direct intervention from an apostle like that. Authority must be running low on candidates to carry its power.
 
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SASHAKAMEN

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Wow, what an update. Biggest takeaways for me are Danu and Aos' story of their home-world/marriage/children. I understand that Danu since birth was raised to be fanatical about her faith, but I just couldn't let Alice kill her. Not only would Danu be useful to our cause, but I honestly believe Danu could learn to see Alice as a child/successor to her and Aos. Why only have Aos as a mentor, when she could have two that Alice can learn from?
Another takeaway is simply seeing the genuine co-existence between humans and the monsters within Aos' city. If the one memory from the changing heart my MC consumed (from the Shopkeep) speaks true, then the apostles only see humans/monsters as their playthings with no regard to their children's well-being. Honestly, if there's a third option to rebel against the Apostles with the monsters, I will take that 8/10 times.
I'm both proud of Alice becoming stronger and more in tune with her abilities, even with her monster-ification, but to be separated from my favorite LI for god knows how long is going to be painful. I won't lie and say I wasn't getting tired of being stuck in the monster world, but if I could stay a little longer to retrieve Michael alongside Alice, I would've went for that goal.

However, I do miss seeing Emily, who has taken a backseat for quite a long time. If it wasn't for the twin arc, I would've predicted Emily being the next LI to be chosen to gain powers from the apostles/other sources. I will still keep that theory in my back pocket.
hell no man fuck Danu.The cunt who almost kill Alice and Michel.Why would i care about her sob story?even her hubby dosen't give a shit about her.And her powers a questionable since Alice could beat her on day one transformation
 

OnlineRando

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In this update, we saw the memories of a warrior of the Body, killed by a warrior of Authority, complaining how Body didn't bother stepping in on his behalf. But when we kill Jake, Authority has no problem stepping in to avenge him before Body and Memory bail us out and drag him away. Jake certainly didn't seem special enough to warrant direct intervention from an apostle like that. Authority must be running low on candidates to carry its power.
Jesus christ the Jake hate is beyond ridiculous at this point. Jake was extremely special in many ways. He also wasn't nearly as much of a pushover as people say he was.

What a weird fucking agenda.
 

BenoTF25

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Then again, you get like a 150 power boost once you get back to Earth at the end of the update, so it might not be that big of a deal. I think it was more a chance to trade leftover power for skill/money esp since the last 2 updates were the first time all game I had ever run out of money.


Could this possibly be Zack's vision of what happens to Earth without MC? They lose the war, Malik ends up destroying what's left of the Earth, and then moves on to destroy the Monster World (as we see in the satyr bad ends)


Minor notes, but Daryl letting the spider chimera go to live happy lives was adorable.

And that final sex scene was definitely not adorable. That was fucking scary i legit thought the unthinkable was gonna happen during that bj and i was gonna have to replay the entire game without dating Alice super hot tho
I dobut is a vision of the future, mainly because Malik's voices tell him, 'For our world', and the monsters he battle there are supposedly older than many planets, with the world itself looking as more of a Husk than the current Monster World. I think Xanthe(using Nico)is probably sending the top dogs to investigate planets that already suffered the invasion, with Malik being as he is, searching for Humans before finally set his mind to obliterate the whole thing, about the MC, I think he is not really a decisive factor, the dead end 49 give me more the impression of being Malik/Berni/taking the battle to the Monsters, with either of them destroying the system just as a beginning for the true universal war the narrator mention at the very end
 

Jakitojakito

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hell no man fuck Danu.The cunt who almost kill Alice and Michel.Why would i care about her sob story?even her hubby dosen't give a shit about her.And her powers a questionable since Alice could beat her on day one transformation
With Mc's help, and Ether's supposed help. And the fact that Danu wasn't going all out from the start unlike Alice. And also, Alice might have had help with the battle trance and fresh connection from recent evo, I'm not so sure about that tho because she was very lucid and half-monstefied so I don't know in what ways would that affect.

Whatever the case, Danu is A class, maybe A+ with her golem transformation and Alice should be B+ if not A-. A second fight, the two of them at 100% capacity would be on Danu's side this time, IF Alice doesn't get stronger as Danu recovers from the beat up.
 
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