Just like in many stories, the characters of Area Unknown have to feel with several unique threats to their friends' and their own safety

However, in most stories, the characters usually have to face one safety-threat at a time, at most. Meaning it is only once that threat is over when they have to deal with the next one. This creates the illusion that life is a sequence of consecutive safety-threats, that you have to manage one after the other. Which is very wrong.

In Area Unknown, the characters have to face different and unrelated threats at a time: take arg!guqqie and au!scott, for example. Because in Area Unknown, just like in real life, the plot doesn't care if you are already dealing with too much. It may give you more anyway. While arg!guqqie was messing with au!aimsey, he was already dealing with scott, and already struggling with their own self (wanting to be human). Just like in real life: a person may struggle with identity or their sense of self while also having to deal with several major issues or even threats.

While most stories make these real life scenarios seem impossible, Area Unknown does a really good job at making them manageable. Because it shows you that this happens. It shows you that you are allowed to struggle and to listen to yourself while other things are happening, without taking away from how you manage those things. And it shows you that it's possible to struggle and look out for others at the same time.

And it shows you, that despite all, these characters are capable. And YOU are capable as well.

1. The new world reflects who you are on the inside to the outside. This would explain why au!scott is becomming "more demon", as oppose to au!aimsey who's becomming "more human".

2. The portal is what causes beings to transform, rather than the world itself. This would mean that au!scott got into that world somehow else. He basically said that he can "hop between worlds", so not necessarily through the same portal. Although he did say that he "followed aimsey's track".

3. au!scott knows the new world better than the other characters, and therefore knows how to use his powers there. Supernatural abilities tend to work differently in different worlds so this would make sense. However I don't think it is the case because au!scott mentioned that he "likes this world" because he is "stronger in it".

4. au!scott is working with arg!guqqie, who set this whole thing up. While this explains the whole "look what you have done" situation, I don't think that's the case. Source? It doesn't feel right.

Although, this theory could be backed up by the fact that au!scott kept saying that he "liked guqqie" - maybe he was referring to arg!guqqie rather than the AU one?

Another point to note is that physics seem to be very different in this case than in any other, even more than we knew as by the way that au!scott talked it sounded like the nether is mutual to this world and the previous one, which is highly against one of the most basic rules of minecraft world: each world consists of 3 independant realms of its own, being the overworld, the nether and the end. This doesn't seem to surprise scott which either means that he knows something, or he's just clueless about it and plays confident.

5. The abilities that you have on the new world depend on one's mental state. I think that this is my favorite option personally (tho i might change my mind later lol). So basically, au!aimsey is becomming more human because they see themself as human, while au!scott becomes more powerfull because that's how he sees himself. The only plot hole in this theory is au!lexie's wings... Unless she has a reason to want to not have them? We don't know much about her character yet so everything is possible at this point.

I think that what they're failing to realise, is that while they may feel more comfortable as a human, they are already human inside. And that's what their friends see.