First post here, I've been following from the beginning and I gotta say I'm loving this quest and its premise (I think its a shame 90% of Worm fanfiction is just TAYLORTAYLORTAYLOR), that said I think you made Eidolon waaaay too much of an asshole.
First off, glad that you could start the vote, happy to have you.
For the second, I want to make one thing clear.
David/Eidolon is a dick, he has a reason beyond his powers, but he is an arrogant guy.
Along with that, notice how Alex has been reacting to most things. He's shoved off being ordered around, compliments, and compassion. The only times that genuine reactions have rocked him is when someone looked down on him. He cried his eyes out when he realized that he wasn't able to accomplish anything worthwhile when he thought he was going to die useless. When Manton shoved him away, he instantly wanted to prove him wrong.
David used this. He made Alex see the first special thing about him, his powers, as useless.
And in response to this, Alex was able to ignore the thought of dying to a god to put up a fight.
I'm not apologizing
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This guy, you guys will be hating this guy in time.
Man our character is incompetent. Has complete control over gravity, best idea he comes up with is throwing rocks. He even manually dodged! As for H2H what's stopping him from just wrapping himself in a black hole to prevent anyone getting anywhere near him?
Oh yeah he's incompetent.
But, he's also a 17 year old kid who had his powers for two days who never hurt anyone in his life.
Along with this, he's a highschool dropout and whose knowldge of physics and practical thinking doesn't go beyond "How do I get through my work shift the fastest so I can get home to my family?"
Alex is not a midmaxer, hell he's never been in a fight in his life. Everyone else in Cauldron has three plus months to acclimate and train with their powers. Alex was thrown into the situation because Contessa deemed that he needed to grow fast in order to get him to fighting strength ASAP due to his shard.
