First off, Plague Doctor was supporting Adam. Being with Adam has given Plague Doctor some degree of free will and awareness, instead of being just a story, with a set in stone plot that it moves through. Adam is still with Plague Doctor, so taking Plague Doctor would be taking Adam. Presumably Adam would be separated from Plague Doctor if the Library recaptures him, and the Library would probably find something to do to keep Adam and the other fragments from pulling a stunt like this again (Imagine needing your mystical Invitation to be checked to make sure your legally getting into the magical tower made out of the light of infinite potential to do battle), and Plague Doctor will almost certainly never escape the Library, and probably never have something approximating free will like this again. On the other hand, this could resolve the whole Adam and White Night issue very quickly. We already have a good idea of what White Night and Adam wants and it is put simply not good.
Plague Doctor also implies that Plague Doctor and White Night are at least semi-separate entities and it's clear that Plague Doctor and White Night were in conflict, but only because Plague Doctor was on board with what Adam was doing but PD's made it clear that at the moment PD is no longer on board since Adams going to fail. At the same time, Adam's goals directly aligned with Carmen's so we already know Plague Doctor agrees with the person we are in direct conflict with. And we already know that Plague Doctor will give up on a cause when it seems like a lost one, so we can't trust it to have our backs when things get bad. Plague Doctor is probably going to default back to White Night activity, but at least we won't have to worry about PD trying to distort everyone. Despite PD saying to take a feather, given the nature of abnormalities and "allow my mind to exist in yours.", I don't think Seig could just easily get rid of PD by tossing away the feather. But I do think Seig could manage PD for reasons I talk about below.
I don't know much about Arknights but I imagine some of these people are going to be in conflict with Seig if they find out that they rejected PD and let some of the apostles die. Probably most everyone will have some issue with taking PD, since Seig has been informing people left and right about the general deal with PD.
I do wonder though. Abel said that White Night returned to being the Plague Doctor (and thusly having to pick a new twelve again), would destroying Adam as a fragment reverse the three of them being apostles? I'm not suggesting to go through with that idea at the moment but I am curious if that's how it would work.
"Our enemy seems to have stopped applying its healing Arts on her, yes. But she is still recovering abnormally fast." she says, her pistol emitting a different shade of light. "But even at this rate, it's unlikely the damage we inflicted will heal in anything less than a year.
A piece of Andoain's hand lands next to you- his index finger. What is left of him is essentially a pile of meat, but it's already putting itself back together.
If the apostles are this damaged, and being apostles is what is keeping them alive and regenerating like this, un-apostling them would probably remove all that regeneration, which might not be conducive to their survival at the moment.
And may I add, As long as we don't reach 12 and they fully turns, The three Apostles before us can retain their individuality and personality, while getting a good goddamn buff.
Presumably having a small feather, a "single trace", will mean we're taking very little amounts of Adam and White Night. We already know Seig is very mentally resilient because of the initial encounter with X. PD says that they won't change Seig, but honestly I don't entirely trust that. PD promises everlasting life and having the apostles by Seig's side, but PD seems to overselling what a piece could presumably do to try and convince Seig that he should totally take the feather trust me. Adam had the Apostles, and he had the whole package instead of just a feather, and we just spent the past few threadmarks beating the Apostles and Adam into the ground. I'm not sure how much a single feather will do us much. I'd say we could probably manage this bit of PD however due to Seig's mental resilience and how we're presumably only getting a very small amount of PD, WN, and Adam.
Edit: Probably weren't given a write in with the original post for a reason, changing my vote.
[x] Accept his bargain.
