Don't listen to him. The theorycrafting in this thread gets a little too schitzo at times. People make up all these fantastical theories as if they were true, and then those theories are just accepted and run with by others as more people just make up more theories on top.
I didn't intend to present it as fact, Acanthite mentioned what he believed to be a narrative inconsistency due to it being from the early game and I made up a plausible explanation for why it could still be consistent. I'm curious why it provoked this kind of response when even my "Indra isn't a Greater Spawn" wild theory didn't get called schizo theory crafting.
I'm not dismissing it, I am pointing out fan tendecies to over analyse things and expect writers the address nitpicks.The MC can already potentially both impregnate and get pregnant. The story is already on my side so its absurd people think we need explanations for something so mundane.
There is huge fucking difference between the MC doing something that is completely normal and creating magical sentient copies of himself.
MC related pregnancy has exclusively been with monsters, who are already established to be able to reproduce with humans, superhumans (and probably animals) already. Intra-Superhuman reproduction has enough narrative weight for a "cure" not be considered a nitpick even if it only the MC can do it. Especially with the background issues of superhuman superiority while reliant on humans for "reproduction", humans mistrust of superhuman and possible human extinction.
I also don't believe the MC was trying and failing at creating a sentient copy, since Ellas doll required vials containing liquids from the 3rd and 4th Apostles. I believe he was failing at making the doll/item simply last after being disconnected from himself.
I guess the main thing we disagree on is how much weight the story should place on the issue or if it really is worth bringing up in the first place. Yes it's mostly just a background thing ment to facilitate large amount of risk free sex but looking at it with a wider scope the implications become huge. Aos even brought it up when he described how his people basically threw their future away by making more superhuman soldiers without leaving a sky-human population large enough to reproduce, so even a victory would have ment extinction.
That all said at this point it's not a matter of convincing each other and we both know our stances on the matter, so unless there is something further you would like to add I'd considered this conversation to have ran it's course.
We also glean from it that even though Memory in particular is temperamental about things not going perfectly, it still kept working directly with Ella afterward anyway just as it continues to support MC despite him not being a pure 50/50. It did not extend that same support to Syla when she got tainted by other shit which is its own implication that Ella and MC are more important to Memory's plans now than its own Chosen was.
Assuming the 3rd/4th are working on bringing back The Eye, it's possible Ella and Syla got different treatment because their given objectives were different. Ella may have been considered a candidate for The Eye or failing that ment to find a candidate, her failing the ritual could have just resigned her to the second option. Or a hidden third option with Memory stating Ella was "Still good for breeding".
Syla on the other hand might have been ment to create a candidate considering she was (supposed to be) a pure Memory spawn and was immediately and strongly attracted to Stephen who Syla said had pure Body compatibility. Her being tainted would thereby make her a abject failure in Memory eyes, at least assuming it happened before she became human again.
