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Something Gisena pointed out in the last update is that when you have vastly superior mental stats, charisma, and appearance compared to another person, they tend to become tongue-tied and abject around you.
If we pick Renaissance Woman, and there are DAMN good reasons to do so... We're gonna have to start taking Evening Sky upgrades to boost Hunger's mental stats and charisma. Not only for their own sake, but just so that looking in Gisena's general direction doesn't cause Hunger to either:
1) Get anime swirly eyes,
2) Get anime nosebleed,
3) Worst yet, not be able to find snappy comebacks to all that banter.
I have no problem with Gisena outpacing us in the banter arms race, because Renaissance Woman is the equivalent of inventing the goddamn thermo-nuclear bomb for banter warfare. But I just want everyone to recognize what we're gonna have to do if we want to catch up.
Developing multiple layered forms like the Forebear apparently had made Hunger blase about dying, to the point where it started to handicap him. Getting the "ROYALTY IS TO CUT" Blade-oriented EFB had similar effects, and now we see Hunger actively desiring to emulate the Forebear, albeit (in fairness) in a combat situation.
It's not just the strict effects of +Mental Contamination, it's the thematic effects of Hunger's power being derived almost entirely from his ability to imitate the Forebear.
Those are not the SORD options tho.
And I'm pretty sure only Gisena can do that.
Literally pretty, literally pure, literally power, and literally personal...
We're just not that person. We're that person's best friend.
I have to admit that Crimson Flare and All-Defeating Stance basically just give us more of something we already had- namely, raw badass combat ability. Renaissance Woman gives us something rather different.
If we pick Renaissance Woman, and there are DAMN good reasons to do so... We're gonna have to start taking Evening Sky upgrades to boost Hunger's mental stats and charisma. Not only for their own sake, but just so that looking in Gisena's general direction doesn't cause Hunger to either:
1) Get anime swirly eyes,
2) Get anime nosebleed,
3) Worst yet, not be able to find snappy comebacks to all that banter.
I have no problem with Gisena outpacing us in the banter arms race, because Renaissance Woman is the equivalent of inventing the goddamn thermo-nuclear bomb for banter warfare. But I just want everyone to recognize what we're gonna have to do if we want to catch up.
I think people are talking not just about "mental contamination" in the formal sense of "there is literally an alter copy of this guy riding around in your brain and occasionally controlling your actions," but in terms of personality. Hunger's personality has been evolving in a certain direction that some of us don't like, and the choices we've made for upgrades seem to reinforce it.
Developing multiple layered forms like the Forebear apparently had made Hunger blase about dying, to the point where it started to handicap him. Getting the "ROYALTY IS TO CUT" Blade-oriented EFB had similar effects, and now we see Hunger actively desiring to emulate the Forebear, albeit (in fairness) in a combat situation.
It's not just the strict effects of +Mental Contamination, it's the thematic effects of Hunger's power being derived almost entirely from his ability to imitate the Forebear.
Renaissance Woman bypasses most of the risk of death by turning one of our allies into a cognitohazard-tier diplomacy monster.
Yes. Yes we should.
Those are not the SORD options tho.
Didn't the option text read something like "Unleash the power of First Girl!" or something like that?
I'm honestly curious to know what happens when the sheer density of smugness becomes so overwhelming that it punctures a hole in spacetime and creates some kind of singularity.
And I'm pretty sure only Gisena can do that.
I mean, it's pretty pure personal power.
Literally pretty, literally pure, literally power, and literally personal...
We're just not that person. We're that person's best friend.
That's fair, and I'm still defiantly voting "Crimson Flare" as I write this, but...
I have to admit that Crimson Flare and All-Defeating Stance basically just give us more of something we already had- namely, raw badass combat ability. Renaissance Woman gives us something rather different.
