Yeah, just so we're clear? If things hadn't gone the way they did, it would have ended in a deathmatch between Rei and San
This surprise me, considering how easily she folded this time.
I assume it wouldn't happen at the virus facility.
Probably San become more and more unhinged while working for Shiva,maybe killing Truth/White Knight/Carnage and so on and Rei decide to put her down for good because her plan is bad?
Still,very interesting.
It make sense, considering Ni really doesn't want another Ichi....and Ichi is Ichi.
She'd more likely turn of the Dark Lord, gut the UD then bugger off to live with her sisters.
And the Dark Lord probably killed her when she started getting ideas, or when Rei died, because you don't leave someone with three Goddesses alive.
So(Just hypothetical of course)
San---->Killed by Rei
Rei---> Killed by the Dark Lord/Killed by whatever ace in hole the UD have to win the war?
Ichi and Ni---->Became too strong and were killed off?
Actually, that's because she has nothing that would be useful to get with her current EXP. So that is not a fair criticism.
The fact itself that she thinks she has nothing useful
is the problem.
No one accomplish something standing in place, this is a fact.
Every MG's at a certain point watched what she could upgrade and said "Well,this is useless", because magic is a bitch, but no one stopped because
stopping means death and failure.
But Rei already gave up on the idea of changing things with her own hands, because it consider it impossible for her...with solid reasons of course considering she is fighting two goddesses that she doesn't want to kill and the entire UD.
But when one of your sister is brainwashed, another disappeared and the last one went off the deep end, when everything you know and love in on the cusp on collapse and you can't change things because it would means killing your own sister.
A person ready to take back everything that is rightfully hers doesn't wait and see when "wait and see"
does nothing.
There is a chance, as minuscule as it is, that she could find something useful after the "useless" upgrades?A small one?
You take it, because you have three crazy sister to bring back and you need everything you can find.
There is nothing?Doesn't matter, you still take it, because every single scrap of power can do something, doesn't matter how small.
You leave
some in reserve,this is sensible for any veteran MG,
not the ungodly amount Gold is currently hoarding.
i don't know how to explain it clearly...and i don't really like my explanation
Uhm...
Gold doesn't feel the need to become stronger, and that simply means she doesn't think her strength can actually do something, and the problem is that she's have enough margin to think about it
is something abnormal in itself.
She already past the Godzilla Threshold and hundred times over, she's already post the point of asking herself how much her upgrades would be useful.
Because if she didn't give up then she would desperately take
every single scrap of power, doesn't matter how useless it is, because her situation is
that desperate.
How could i say it? In short, people on a warpath don't let the the kitchen sink at home because they won't need it, they take
everything, because they are on a warpath, both the nukes and the kitchen sink.
White disappeared period, and only recently showed up again. And I'm honestly unsure why you think the Counter Force didn't look for her. Gaia could have told her, but didn't.
Of course they did, the Counter Force does everything and look for everyone.
When you're an army in an eternal war you don't want surprises, and surprises tends to come from the unexpected places and neutral powerhouses.
Does this meant the CF used serious resources or gave it an high-priority?
I bet no, for very sensible reason.
First of all, White is a deserter, when you have the UD at your doorstep you need a good reason to start searching seriously for someone that with all probability won't attack you unless you search for her.
Second of all,White is a goddess, meaning you must use strong people to find her, or chances are your search parties will be vaporized, even with your best search parties, there is a 50/50 chance for everyone to die unless you use an ace like Red Rose, that it's your "We need someone dead now" and "Survive at all cost" specialist.
And you're not gonna send your best to search for someone that it's neutral for all you know.
Third of all, finding White is useless aside from information.
Even if you find her, knowing she is chilling out in the middle of nowhere doing unimportant things is completely useless, because you can't bring her back into the fold, so you wasted/occupied your best search parties, maybe even alerted the UD of her position for absolutely nothing.
Because you are in no position to bring her back into the fold unless she comes willingly, the CF lack the everything to do the former and the latter is considered impossible, because White, well,
just disappeared.
In the meanwhile, Hope just happened and you need to rebuild everything, because the UD wasted you so bad that the even an Oblivion guard would say "Yeah,too far".
Without Rei explicit promise that she would bring White into the fold why the CF should have made White a priority? An useless mission that would require their best to maybe die and would bring back simple, very possibly useless information.
Once White becomes a priority is just a matter of time before Rei herself or CF start asking Gaia, or Gaia simply taken notes of what the hell is going on and explain it to the CF just to stop such a waste of resources.
Of course that would mean White can't save her family in some way, and we return to the my point about Gold accepting her own perceived powerlessness .
It all makes sense, when you see how Gold react in the most important situations, when the pressure really get's to her.
She doesn't order, she doesn't attack like Amanda, she doesn't fight....she simply ask and beg.
Because she's a person that went much past her breaking point, but can't simply stop and become a "Soldier" like Amanda did, so she simply keep going by some miracle of willpower....and being really fucking awesome.
