Thinking about how flowerys fake stats thing could easily be a projection onto the Player. All these stats are fake, all of these stats are meaningless. Why NOT set all of our stats to 999 and just get this over with? Well thats because most of us arent flowerys, we're ralsei. We look at these fake stats and go "They matter to me because I want them to matter to me, because I want the story to matter to me" because it keeps us away from the bad that is de-immersion.
And if we REALLY wanted to, we could kill anyone, we could mod a random weapon that triggers the enemy death flags and go ham, just like ralsei can just burn people if he wanted. but we dont, for the reasons flowery says, we want to see if he CAN beat us, and if we can him, if either of us can break the prophecy.
We are ralsei.
