''Mc will never be as good at manipulating the body as Ella will'', oooh hard disagree. Sorry but I really don't remember any information that sets this in stone, at all.
And I also don't remember where it was stated what role Deryl played in healing Laurie, just that his elixir provided support. And also it was never stated that Laurie was a low power level 2, she considers herself as average, and that does check out, she did lose to Alice, but Alice is being noted as a unusually powerful level 1 back then. So I don't think the Mc healing Laurie could have been so easily justified as just Laurie being weak and he had Deryl's assistance ( since I really don't remeber anything said about how much or how little Deryl helped ).
I am re-reading the game for like the seventh time, and if it's not too much bother, could you tell me where it's stated that the Mc's split trait is such a handicap ? I do remember reading some things, but to say he will '' never be as good as manipulating Body as Ella even at level 5 '' is a huge surprise to me.
Even back in the earliest parts of the game, in the '' Too Strong, Too Soon '' dead end, Ella is surprised and impressed that the Mc could, at a measly level 1, display such powerful skills in relativity to his level, such as the Jellyfish poison tentacles, the rhino bone horn and so on. This crazy transformations, presumably ones Ella could not have done at the same level, since it is noted she had to go to many trials to research biology, as we see during the investigation into her past school life, she had to experiment and consult a teacher and try on who knows how many transformations. Meanwhile one touch is all it takes for the Mc.
She literaly states she had to tinker with her body and experiment for God knows how long, meanwhile, the Mc doesn't have to research biology, he doesn't have to cut open the bodies of others like some Dr Frankenstein, he doesn't have to go to the lengths Ella did, because he can instantly receive said information with a single touch. That's what makes him close to Ella's level of body manipulation without being a research genius like she is.
In another Dead End, where she kills ( although likely decapitated you ) when you tell her of your Jellyfish poison, she instantly realizes that using that kind of ability could only be done if the Mc had the memory trait, and to me it always seemed like she instantly figured it out because using that kind of ability is something not even she could have done at that early of a level, aka a indication, his Memory traits allow him to be just as good if not better at Body manipulation.
That was always how I saw things, Ella is ''imperfect'', she says so herself, because she doesn't have the split traits. But the split traits should be a gateway into the Mc surpassing her in all aspects. It makes no sense otherwise. It's literaly a big lore point. The Mc being able to consume and absorb memories, genetic coding, etc.
Damn sorry for the wall of text, sheesh.
