Everyone here seems to forget that parahumans, especially parahumans around aperion and especially thinkers, aren't stellar examples of good decision making. Victor is a thinker and blitzed on that dank ass data, expecting him to be rational in his viability assessments is foolhardy
There is stupidity, and then there is looking at a shiny new hammer and deciding it's all you need to recreate a Mona Lisa painting, one that you heard about, but never seen before it got burned in fire. It requires actual madness.
His Parahuman power and an arm would be ironic
Because they are going at it from a Parahuman perspective. They think the CF is a Cluster Trigger, so the powers are separated, yet some are shared to a minor degree......so Victor is flat out wrong, but it has more to do with The Forge being an out of context power.
Icarus, Prometheus sacrificed his hide for our betterment. Victor is more hubris than helping anyone that isn't him or, to a lesser degree, the Empire.
He is so fucked it wouldn't be funny......if he wasn't a cocky Nazi that has destroyed countless of lives.
Have you seen what people with Alchemy can do? Especially those with a loose moral compass? Let me just say 1 name and everyone who knows will understand my point; ejem, "Shou Tucker".
They manage to add new technologies to their tinkertech library every cycle. As long as a shard can provide the necessary COMPREHENSION like it does with tinkertech, it can treat alchemy techniques as a tinker power.
You know I'm talking about Emma from the last chapter, right? And no matter what you say, Victor comes here as less of a sociopath than Emma does.
Huh? Wha'chu talking 'bout Willis? How was anyone nerfed?
Not really. Pretty much the only thing that humanizes Victor here is his relationship with Othala, but that looks so much more problematic under these facts that we know of:
Yes but the source material is wrong. And it's implied that Victor game up with the percentages himself. Usually alchemy isn't bound by logic but full metal alchemist is different. It relies on physics and equivalent exchange. If the formula for the human body (of worm world not anime world ) is wrong then it will only end in failure.
Cauldron and their misguided "build an army" plan says "hello Mr. Tucker".
TBF to Victor, he didn't necessarily take enough from any given man to ruin his marriage; stolen skills can be re-learned with time, and he only took from one end of the relationship.
Honestly I'm wondering if him stealing the skills to be a good husband or emotional maturity is even working as he seems to think it is. I personally doubt that it does. I think that him stealing those skills does a couple of things, 1 he picks up some positive skills/traits such as the ability to understand his wife and himself plus basic communication skills. 2 random useless tricks and coping mechanisms that don't really apply to him and his relationships. 3 unhealthy and negative coping skills plus malipulitive social skills from seemingly happy and adjusted people who just weren't. Because really how would his shard even know if he wants that random skill and if that coping mechanism is even good. Even if it could would it even care? Plus we know that he doesn't only drain mentally healthy people he has drained random abb gang bangers who I doubt have the best emotional skills. I think that he has just convinced himself that these skills are good when a lot of them really aren't. Then you have to consider that he didn't have the best base to build on with what we know of him pre trigger, he was already involved in the Herren clan and shady business. Then he triggered which means that he was already the type to trigger then got mentally wrecked from tramma. Then the people that he would of first started draining would not be paragons of mental health. Then he spends almost all his time around e88 members who he is subtlely draining and these guys are people that you don't want to copy but he is... Constantly. I don't think Victor really realizes this but he is probably a wreck held together with tape and hopeful wishes. He has just convinced himself that he is fine because of his power. Just like every other parahuman he looks to his power to solve all his problems and it doesn't.
Dude the video you linked also contained a number of errors going by its comment section, and according to the source material what went wrong isn't their formula, its the fact that they tried to bring back a human soul.
It's unclear if any amount of research would be able to replicate Philosopher's Stones and soul alchemy. Every instance of it in the original series can be sourced to Father, an entity summoned from beyond the Gate with extensive knowledge of alchemy. Without him behind the scenes pushing things along it's a much bigger leap from "perfect restructuring of matter" to "if I juice a bunch of people into a ball it'll let me break the otherwise ironclad laws of alchemy".
My brother in Christ, literally every single cape in the ABB, including Uber and leet was/ is at minimum completely delusional. Being a cape is only something people detached from reality would do. Being a villain even more so. Victor is a nazi, villain and thinker. That he is not actively trying to summon an ancient Aryan spirit into his body is nothing short of amazing, given the triple 7 of "reasons to be completely insane" he has going.
Victor: "Of course it works! Received Power is Intensity at the source divided by a factor of Distance. The candle is indeed orders of magnitude weaker than the Sun but that only means I need to hold the Candle really close. Closer. A bit closer still. Maybe a bit more..."
And just in time to test it before Apeiron crashes the shown on "fiber enhancing clothes"...
