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Follow up to demian×dante: isn't demian's mom named beatrice?
Max (Demian's) mother is Frau Eva, so no, different biblical allusion for that character.
It is to be stated however that one could certainly see Carmen as a parallel to Eve (namely because she... is one) which acts as another link.
Anyways no, you might be confusing the fact that Beatrice (from chapter 4 "Beatrice") foreshadows the existence of Frau Eva (From chapter 7 "Eva") with the following chapter "The Bird Struggles Out of The Egg" seeing Emil more mature and aware of his "Self" and place in the world, alongside his yearning and lust for the image which he named "Beatrice" having passed, with the apparition of a new "dream form" appearing later in the chapter
(Note that the portrait of Max Demian/Beatrice is also said to be a reflection of Emil's own inner self. Following this realisation is when his love for Beatrice was tempered)
QUOTES AS CITATION BELOW CUT BE WARNED
(pg. 91-92. Ch 4)
It was precisely at that time that I began having a great many dreams again as I had done during my childhood. I felt as if I had not dreamed before for years.
Now a new kind of picture appeared before me; time after time the painted portrait arose, living, eloquent, friendly or hostile, sometimes distorted, sometimes beautiful, harmonious and noble.
Then one morning when I awoke from one of these dreams, I suddenly recognised it. It looked so fantastically familiar and seemed to call out my name. It appeared to know me as a mother, as if its eyes had been fixed on me all my life.
Why had it only just dawned on me I It was Demian's face. Later I often compared the face on the paper with Demian's features as l remembered them. They were certainly, though similar, not the same. But beyond all doubt, it was Demian.
(pg 93. Ch: 4)
"Fate and temperament are the
names of a concept."
Now I understood.
I frequently met the girl I called Beatrice but these
encounters did not move me any more; I was merely
aware of an uninterrupted harmony and a sympathetic
longing which said: you are bound up with me, not you
yourself but your image; you are part of my fate.
(pg. 105. Ch: 5)
Love had ceased to be the dark animal
urge I had first experienced with misgiving nor was it
the piously spiritualised cult I had brought to the image
of Beatrice. It was both and a good deal more besides;
it was the image of angels and the Devil, man and
woman, human being and beast, highest good and the
worst evil. It seemed that I was ordained to live in this
fashion, that this was my fate. My craving for it was not
untinged with fear but there was no escape; it hovered
over me continually.
(pg. 107. Ch: 5)
I often saw the dream apparition before me,
miraculously clear, clearer than my own hand, spoke
with it, wept before it, cursed it. I called it mother and
knelt before it in tears; I called it devil and whore,
vampire and murderer. It enticed me into the gentlest
dreams of love and barren shamelessness; nothing was
too good and precious, nothing too wicked or vile.
[In Emil's Dream]
I had been long accustomed to loneliness; it did not oppress me for
I was living with Demian, with the sparrow-hawk, with
the image of the great dream-form which was both my
fate and my beloved. And it provided for all the needs
of my life since everything was directed towards greatness
and space-it all pointed towards Abraxas.
(pg 145. Ch: 7)
[I was shown a] photograph of Demian's mother. I could hardly remember her but now that I had the small photograph before me my heart stood still.
It was the picture of my dreams. There she was, the tall, almost masculine figure, looking like her son, but with maternal traits, traits of severity and deep passion, beautiful and alluring beautiful and unapproachable, daimon* and mother, fate and lover. There
was no mistaking her!
The discovery that my dream image existed on this earth affected me like some fantastic miracle I So there was a woman who looked like that, who bore the features of my destiny!
Where was she?
Where?
And she was Demian's mother!
*Daimon: (Greek) Lesser deity or spirit; (Gnostic) Referring to the aspects of which make up and guide the human soul; Guardian Angel
(Yes the term demon is derived from Daimon but blame the Christians not me if you're confused)
While we're here, I think that (largely because people haven't fucking read it and parrot what others say about the book) too many people place emphasis on the "Haha Sinclair wants to be with Demian's mother" and not how trans Emil is in the book.
*Sees androgynous being that is maternal and paternal, that is loving and hating*
"Yeah that's me, that's my inner soul, the image of myself I see when I dream that lulls me to sleep. That's so me."
Like yes, twinkish boy with assertion issues who has a central motif of an egg and the transition between two states of being. That much is carried over to Limbus as we have it and is fairly skin deep. But like. It gets so much more trans/NB in the book.
Also while we're on the topic of reading the book and appreciating it, I want to talk about how often the selfsame idea of duality and balance sneaks into the descriptions of Emil and that which surrounds him.
Almost everything in the book that relates to his inner life or state of being is described as "[Thing] and [opposite]", "[good thing] and [bad thing]".
Its not subtle exactly but it is easy to overlook just how it appears so often.
Also if It wasn't clear I call the book incarnations by their first names to be less confusing if I just say "Sinclair".
Ok I just realised that I never actually posted this anywhere but: Demian X Dante is much more possible to end out canon than most people think and its really fucking funny.
So, to clarify background information, in Dante's Divine Comedy, there is a character named Beatrice.
You may know her as the guide who replaces Virgil in Paradiso however it should be noted that she is the one who sent Virgil to Dante in the Dark Forest to begin with.
I was among those souls who are suspended;
a lady [Beatrice] called to me, so blessed, so lovely
that I implored to serve at her command.
Her eyes surpassed the splendour of the star’s;
and she began to speak to me—so gently
and softly—with angelic voice. She said:
‘O spirit of the courteous Mantuan, [referring to Virgil]
whose fame is still a presence in the world
and shall endure as long as the world lasts,
my friend [Dante], who has not been the friend of fortune,
is hindered in his path along that lonely
hillside; he has been turned aside by terror.
(Inferno 2:52-63)
Beatrice's name was taken from a woman whom Dante would meet only twice in his life, holding his love for her throughout and placing her as a central character in his poems.
In the Divine Comedy, Beatrice is representative of holy love and purity, which is well agreed upon to be derived from Dante's love of the real Beatrice. As such, a popular idea is that whomever should the role of Beatrice take in an adaptation such as Limbus Company to be the love interest of "Dante".
Now, one could certainly understand Carmen to be reflective of Beatrice in Project Moon, with her existence in the Light (When we consider the Gnostic roots of Project Moon the Light reflects heaven itself and all of creation), as well as the earlier phrasing (Inferno 2:56-57)
"she began to speak to me—so gently
and softly—with angelic voice."
With the most noted trait of Carmen's being her voice, described as "Angelic", "Like Sunlight", "Beautiful" etc.
Now as someone named Carmen (coincidental) who is not that much of a clockfucker, I'm not sure exactly how I feel about leaving it at Carmen x Dante. There's also the fact that we don't know if the Flow and the Light are connected, and there is too the fact that, while Veggie has heard Carmen's voice, he didn't exactly "serve at her command".
So. Max Demian.
For those of you which have read Demian, you may know where this is going, however:
"Demian: The story of Emil Sinclair's youth" page 75, Chapter 4:
(pg. 76)
My boyish charm had vanished, [twink death in prep school wow]
I even felt that it was impossible for anyone to love me
and I was out of love with myself [mood]. I often felt a great
longing for Demian; but no less often I hated. him,
holding him responsible for the impoverishment of
my life which I was dragging round with me like a foul
disease.
(pg. 87)
On that spring day in ,the park, then, I met a young
woman. She was tall and slender, smartly dressed and
had a boyish face. She attracted me immediately. She
belonged to the type I liked and she began to fill my
imagination. [He's so bisexual. Twinks and tomboys]
[...]
I called her Beatrice. for I knew about her, without having read Dante, from the reproduction of an English painting I had kept
(pg.s 89-90)
"Finally I began on my portrait of Beatrice.
I spoilt a number of sheets of paper and threw them away. The more I endeavoured to capture the features of the girl whom I occasionally encountered in the street, the less successful I was.
Finally I gave up the attempt and contented myself with painting a face from my imagination and ideas that arose spontaneously as I dipped my brush in the paint."
(pgs. 91-92)
All at once the right eye seemed to twitch, faintly but unmistakably and I was able to recognize the portrait [Of which he painted, of Beatrice]
Why had it only just dawned on me I It was Demian's face. Later I often compared the face on the paper with Demian's features as l remembered them. They were certainly, though similar, not the same. But beyond all doubt, it was Demian.
Which is to say, Demian mirrors Beatrice in a very literal sense with them being likened to one in the same in following pages, and Emil's infatuation with Beatrice (and her name as such) are direct references to Dante's life and the Divine Comedy respectively.
If we assume that Project Moon is centring Demian and Sinclair as two of the most important characters within Limbus Company, we can too assume that this parallel may be present in the later acts of the story when Veggie is gone.
You know the biggest problem I have with the term Transmisandry isn't because of misandry not being a systemic force (which doesn't matter in this case, bigotry is not inherently systemic and arguing this case means one must argue that fundamentally misandry cannot exist or be a belief held by people) but rather it's that it reflects the same problem as Transmisogyny as a term.
Transmisogyny is, at least in the manner that it is used, the unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny as experienced by transgender women.
The problem is, transgender men too suffer a unique intersection of transphobia and misogyny, because misogyny and the patriarchy does not have a blanket nor net positive effect for all men.
Please return to the more foundational side of feminist theory and re learn the fact that feminism is not only for the benefit of women. Please understand that intersectionality as a framework model is applicable to more than the one kind of social oppression AND privilege, and that being in a privileged class does not prevent one from using said model.
The tool is descriptive, not prescriptive.
Trans men suffer from misogyny, but the way that people use the word transmisogyny prevents them from falling under its definition.
Yes, historically speaking transgender women are seen as more violent and dangerous or perverse persons than transgender men, but that does not mean that they did not suffer in their own unique way; Transgender men are, have been for the longest time, seen as confused and unwell women, people who are being mislead and who are naive to what they actual want. Do you know historically what happens to women seen as unstable or self-destructive? They were lobotomised and institutionalised. For decades.
Transmisogyny should be for all intents and purposes, a word that applies to both groups. Medically, both in history and in practice, both groups are seen as unwell, unstable and self destructive or confused. Socially, transgender people of either side suffer from misogyny and heteronormativity.
I would think that people like myself, who grew up in the social environment of being "boys" or at least seen as them would realise the fact that being a man, or being perceived as one, does not exempt you by any means from suffering under misogyny.
And misogyny is something to be unlearned no matter who you are, even if you are a woman, if you're a man or anything else, you are not absolved by way of your existence.
Any definition which excludes or disregards the breadth of human experience is a bad definition; any definition which insists that reality must accommodate it, rather than the definition serving to reflect reality is a bad definition; any system, any definition, which acts to separate humanity into two strict and delineated categories, one which refuses the possibility of overlap or nuance, is a harmful, terrible definition.
Before I end: Not a counterargument but let me clarify myself and my stance:
Transmisogyny is terrible in all forms and is something that every person should be aware of their perpetuation of and their effect on.
I am a trans woman who has a background in psychology and sociology
Yes I have read Whipping Girl.
The existence of people who claim that there is no unique discrimination against transmasculine people are not only willfully ignorant of its existence but are too self fulfilling the existence of transmasculine people being silenced and targeted
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I think I remember someone talk about how "the strongest" isn't feasible in live service games like arknights, and a lot of the points apply to limbus too I think. Is the strongest: the ID the solves the most content with the least amount of effort? Or the ID that excels at trivialising the more difficult content? Maybe it's the ID that can just blow a hole through whatever is before it. Maybe the analogy makes a lot more sense in arknights rather than limbus, but some points do apply. Feel free to ignore my ramblings if you want.
again and I do largely speaking agree with this that its extremely multivariate to what one could consider the strongest, my general philosophy is the character that involves the least investment for the best results (averaged across the different categories) like… uh.
I haven’t played AK in bordering on three years now uh… Degenbrecher for example(?) or Chalter.
Crowd Control, AoE, extremely high damage, extremely high single target damage.
Reliable skill rotation (Degen being the only of her type to have auto recharge), etc.
I will say it works more FOR arknights because of how the games are respectively structured, Limbus gameplay and challenges being almost entirely speed focused while CC in Arknights is less so and more about stacked debuffs/challenges with more room for stalling as viable, but the sentiment carries over yes.
I’ve said before I don’t think numerical tier lists are very helpful neither are any things which try to discern the “best” single ID in the game.
My intent with the poll was (a) to see community opinion for the strongest ID in the list of those I would consider to all be on the same “Tier” for one reason or another.
Like I do think that HoS Ryoshuu, being the main second place, as well as almost all of the others on the poll have an argument to be made as “top tier ID(s)” especially when the term is nebulous to begin with.
I am seeing in post that the poll in question was somewhat leading, and probably I will private it because to some extent I think I’m betraying my own stance of “objective” lists being flawed so.
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In In August 2024, I was without electricity, phone or internet because of really bad storms with lots of lightning, rain and strong winds. We even have floods. On 25 May 2025, we had our first tornado in the south of the country. This has never happened before. Then spring and summer came and all caught fire throughout different regions a number of times. There were fires every week for months. Almost every day somewhere in the country. The global warming is part of the problem, but just a consequence.
To make things worst? We still live under the dictatorship constitution made during Pinochet's dictatorship installed by USA/The West, and its politicians and families, whom own everything here and pay the owners of internet to have bots, make fake news, terror campaings, etc ploted to make the country sink and put a pinochetist nazi as president: josé antonio kast.
The war of USA (operation condor) against South America lead to the new president of Chile be a chilean german pinochetist nazi (his father a nazi liutenant that used the ratlines with the help of the Vatican to escape after exterminating ppl all over europe, for example in germany, italy, france and soviet union) and is proud of his nazi family which also helped to exterminate chileans and anyone in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship. He even is memeber of a fundation dedicated to the creator of the dictatorship constitution, pinochetist Jaime Guzman whom Kast loves deeply since his youth. Between his people there are torturers, nazis and neo nazis, a pinochetist nephew of a german pedo christian cultist (check Colonia Dignidad among many other cults), families of german colonialists that made genocide of natives at the south of Chile and Argentina between XIX and XX century, and still kill them today, they have slaves, are pedos that kidnap kids and teens, traffick babies, etc. All upper class from european background, upper class from Chile, as well the cops, agents, and military. Kast was a piece of shit since childhood, being part of the chilean version of the nazi youth and helped Pinochet, and this past decade helped to put Bolsonaro and Milei in power in Brazil and Argentina, as well far right presidents, ministers, and organisations all over the world.
He hates and wants to enslave South America, poc, women, children, workers, etc anyone that is not like him. He is proud of his nazi family and their work helping the Pinochet Dictatorship. He is a proud pinochetist and visits torturers that are in prison for crimes against humanity as well have such criminals among his people which, among many things, put rats inside the vaginas of women, trained dogs to rape people, opened mothers to steal the babies from their wombs, forced fathers to rape their daugthers, made kids eat shit with torns and trow their bodies all over the country, mutilated people and torture them in ways so monstrous that no one in the world told you so you all can keep living without fighting them.
My couple and I need to fly the country. We survived the ex president Piñera tortures and genocide in 2019/2020, we will not survive another extermination again.
We still unemployed even when we tried everything. They are closing all cultural areas and institutions (museums, schools, workshops, galleries, libraries, sites of memory that teach and keep the testimonies, artpieces, and work of resistance against dictatorship, institutions to find the tortured and dissappeared, etc), seeking to also eliminate our area of specialisation, including the teaching of how to read. I'm very gaunt, and in all honestly I can no longer work because of my disability. I'm even losing my hair and growing grayhair. Now getting a job in our areas is asking to be tortured and killed. We lost everything we lived for.
My health is getting even worst. Chronic pain, chronic fatigue, long covid, celiac disease and lactose intolerance. Being autistic and having c-PTSD as well depression and fibromyalgia doesn't help and the violence never ends.
As far as I'm concerned, I've been on my own all my life (abusive family, my father tried to kill my mother, brothers criminals and abusers, now I'm alone and homeless bc I left the storage room in which i was living). My only support is my couple that also helps me as a caregiver and takes care of an old abusive cultist mother which pay the basic bills. My couple is the only family I have. This means having less money bc i make the bills bigger and the pinochetist nazi is gonna eliminate the money that elderly people are pay by the state for being a mother and a widow which is the money that pays for food and water and a roof over our heads. The father has already died. The neighbours are violent.
My couple fears that we end up in the streets, homeless. I fear that we will die under the dictatorship of Kast bc that's what what this ppl do, specially his family and all the other upper class families. The neighbours are gonna snitch on us. Their mother told a family of cops and agents (primal agents of dictatorship here) that she is a communist even when she is not (she an iliterate cultish evangelical with far right ideas) so we have a target in the face thanks to that. In the last big dictatorship, people (including kids and teens) were taken from their houses and jobs (specially students, univeritaries, teachers and culture workers, for example which is all our labels basically) and most never returned, being disappeared. Others were tortured so much that they died or ended up disabled and traumatized for life.
Drawn made by Miguel Montecinos, ex political prisioner of Villa Grimaldi.
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EDIT: Kast's former campaign manager said that the National Libertarian Party would be one of the parties in the government, in addition to the party founded by Kast. In other words, the Nazi-Pinochetists.
honestly the main thing is just emphasizing team flexibility when like every other contender has much more potential team synergies; it creates a situation where the obvious contender of arayoshu gets pushed down significantly since her team synergies aren’t a factor in spite of how obscenely strong she is on her own, and other picks like matthioutis and her s3 spam get completely shut out
plus, intentional or not the the previous post about maost in combination with putting her first in the poll puts kind of a spotlight on her as the “correct” choice given the qualifications you listed
i think the list you put at the bottom of your reply is honestly more where my mind goes bc like. any discussion of strongest ids is going to run into the issue of what strongest actually means, so i think picking a more specific function that the id fulfills is a good way to go about it; like, if the question was which id is the most universally useable at full power on any team, i agree that maost would be a top contender, and that kinda feels like what the poll is actually asking, but it does so by just asking who the strongest is with a bunch of caveats tacked on, which makes it feel biased towards certain ids
i will concede that i am mostly nitpicking over wording and subtext but the numerical breakdown of why maost is more broken than the modern broken ids based solely on faster skill 3 spam while ignoring literally all other factors just got in my head and i needed to vent so sorry about that
That is fair as a point and I do see where you're coming from, team synergies are something to be taken into account alongside team reliance its just a bit hard to reliably consider the difference because of how similar they are.
I will also say that the poll is definitely worded wrong, a better phrasing for what the question is would be "Best (generalist) ID" rather than strongest ID which does skew the mind towards damage more?
Like I will say I am on my own biased towards Mao Faust largely because she is just extremely consistently strong, and her standalone prowess, but that is in part because something I like to think about is opportunity cost if that makes sense?
By running an ID you lock yourself out of a slot that another sinner can take as well as out of taking another ID from the same sinner. I value Middle IDs less as individually strong units because to get the most of the three good ones, you need to run the three mediocre ones, and they force you into a specific manner of play.
I do think you raise a good point that framing it as "The Strongest ID" is poor because of the amount of different variables, which is in part why I also do want to hear people's opinions on the matter. While I think there's very little place for objective numerical rankings which is why I would consider at least 5 IDs to be at the same time "The best".
As for the point about the numbers analysis, my focus is largely on damage due to points I've made before about how the game is centred around dealing more damage in shorter periods, but there are still other aspects which make Maost good in other regards.
Weirdly high HP (267), +3 Defence level AND 2 Protection on Assist defence (which also further reduces damage because its a clashable guard)
Low stagger threshold (50% HP) also means that she is able to more reliably take the chip damage from assist defence.
+5 speed every round past 1 allows her to intercept attacks more reliably, adding onto this she also inflicts Bind on skill 4 and Mark of Decay which is effectively a Gluttony Fragility stack.
All skills (especially on Clash Win//Deathrite [haste] Activation, excluding counter) are Rupture Count positive, with Deathrite also serving to deal bonus damage from the rupture stacked.
Anyways yeah those are good points you raise and I agree the poll was poorly labelled and unintentionally biased from outside sources.
Lovely to hear your thoughts and sorry if I was pissy before I simply enjoy more constructive feedback.
I kind of want to make a poll for each of the categories now...
You know for someone that hates the Middle to a decent degree I really am kind of just a Middle member at heart.
If someone wrongs a friend/family member, fuck them and those that defend them.
I keep record and mental track of people who have done things I don't like or are generally shitty because my memory is weird. (Childhood? no. A list of reasons why I dislike Esgoo/Frey/The PM Content Creator space? Yes of course I have at least 5 reasons for any of them off the top of my head)
My Littérateurs server has a Book of Vengeance // Hall of Shame
While violence is never the answer on a systemic level... on an individual case level some people should get beat up.
I genuinely respect and agree with the Great Siblings concept of "what loyalty is". After all what's a little sacrifice for the Family.
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Have people forgotten how fucking broken she is. Turn 2 setup, every turn can use skill 4, best status effect, always crits on s4, can use s3 multiple times per turn.
Maost is legitimately one of if not still the strongest ID in the game for consistency and ability to clear.
Skill 4 Requirements:
WITH 10+ Tianjiu Star's blade USE Assist Defence Activation OR Skill 3 Slotted
She needs her passive, which requires 5x Glut. Resources, two of which she can make herself due to assist defence to begin with, meaning that you only need to slot 3 Glut. Skills other than Maost this turn (or just 3 if you utilise Lordsguard).
If you are in Railway in a scenario where we don't need to worry about EGO resources for passives, she can gain +5 Tianjiu on round 1 but unless you have a skill 3 in slot for her to activate Deathrite (or if another Mao unit has Skill 3 on turn 2) on the second round, then she still activates properly on turn 3.
She gains +2 Tianjiu Stars Blade per Deathrite that SHE activates herself, up to 5 times for a gain of +10 per turn. She can also gain +5 for each time she activates Assist Defence, meaning that she can gain up to +15 per turn (or +20 if double slotted).
Her skill 4 gives 2 types of deathrite which she can activate 3 times each, which completely fufils her requirement. If activated through assist defence, this skill gives a total of +5 Tianjiu star's blade, unless Deathrite was activated earlier in the turn by other units more than 5 times. (More than 2 times and the skill becomes Tianjiu negative, however she gets 2 activations on her own due to her counter having 2 coins).
This means that every turn or if unlucky every other turn after round 2 (in railway) or round 3 (when starting without any resources) she can use a skill 4 which is positive in Rupture Count, which auto crits due to gaining 20/4 Poise.
Her competition are below:
Hermes Yi Sang:
Hermes' Georg does in fact have a stronger skill 4 but his requirements mean he can't use it as consistently as Mao Faust.
He requires his passive as well, without which he doesn't gain Hermes stacks based on unbreakable coins.
When ran in Railway, (meaning we don't subtract a round off for passive activation) (which also does not matter due to the fact that its more optimal to use defence skill round 1 no matter what) he can gain [0+ (defence), +4, +4, +4, __Clear__.], meaning a max of +4 per round so long as he only has one skill slot, with it being more realistic to gain only +3 (or only +2 but so long as you only get 1 skill 1 in those 3 turns of attack skills it should be fine).
Unfortunately, due to him only being able to gain +4 per turn in the first place, even outside of Railway (no free passive, which again does not matter) (allowed to be double slotted), he is able to get Furioso at round 5 EARLIEST.
Following when he gets 9 Hermes stacks he gains Unlock 3 which is not a real stage as he gets to Unlock stage 3+1 after using Furioso Replica.
Unlock 3+1 allows for gaining 6 Stacks in a single round (5 max if single slotted, which is negligible) meaning that every 3rd round (assuming that you gain a skill 3 every interval between Furioso) he can use Replica again.
Less consistent, extremely count negative for his status effect (as is his kit as a whole), and less predictable as it relies far more on ideal luck to get the 3rd turn rotation for Furioso.
Blade Ryoshuu:
Unlike Yi Sang, this ID is less viable in terms of being "broken" in my eyes due to, largely speaking, the setup time required.
Round 1 can kill at most 1 ally,
Round 2+ can kill 2 per turn (I know you would think it able to target 4 if you double slot but no the max times she can use Tiansha -- Slay the Heavens is 2 per turn no matter what).
She has 9 Allies to kill.
If she kills a nursefather (Rodion, Yi Sang, Outis, Hong Lu) first, then she can target 2 each following round even with one slot.
This means that for peak output of funny, she wants to use 5 consecutive turns of defence skills (if we make the assumption that enemies can't consistently kill allies, or at least specific ones), where she gains the ability to also use an attack skill on round 4 due to lack of backup units (12 sinners brought rule of Railway my hated)
While again, she may be able to outdamage Mao Faust's skill 4, even being able to theoretically do so on her skill 3, she is compensating (something something Ryoshuu's massive sword) for the fact that she has no allies which are still around to help in terms of damage bar Meursault and Gregor neither of which have anything strong enough to be even considered for comparison on this list.
Ryoshuu can use Absolute String Severance about every 3rd turn on average in my experience, which again matches the low end of frequency, and I want to be clear, in my personal ranking, the main thing that keeps Ryoshuu down to the low end of top 5 is the fact that she requires 9 specific allies and 5 rounds of setup before rocking.
Even without maximum potential, she still performs really well and hence is why is is probably 4th or 3rd on my ranking.
Bloodfiend Don Quixote:
Outscaled by Ring units
Middle Nursefather Outis:
Earliest you can get Laevatinn is round 4 HOWEVER this relies on an enemy which is able to stagger her round 1.
Also see previous statement about how I think Ryoshuu is slightly worse because she relies on having specific units or allies to give her full potential.
Knight of Despair Rodion:
Yeah I can get behind her (something something joke about getting behind Rodion? I'm being too autistic about optimisation to pretend to be horny properly) being up there. She is without doubt at least top 10, and is single handedly the best Sinking unit in general, although she is more reliant on her status effect to carry her in lieu of raw damage output when compared to an ID that can do both to extreme degrees (MAO FAUST).
Copy Paste this exact paragraph for Fauvist Rodion but replace sinking with Bleed.
Thumb nursefather Rodion:
Earliest Disposal is turn 4, requires at least 6 turns of cooldown between first Disposal activation and the next overheat timer.
Unlike others, even when single slotted she doesn't only have the 6 round (non forced) average for skill 3s, due to cloning her skill 4 on kill, which doesn't work in most boss fights however.
Have people forgotten how fucking broken she is. Turn 2 setup, every turn can use skill 4, best status effect, always crits on s4, can use s3 multiple times per turn.
Maost is legitimately one of if not still the strongest ID in the game for consistency and ability to clear.
Any thoughts about the entire minigun on the premiere?
Ok so Solament has been for the longest time an EGO that holds duality between its two ideas (not Capatalism and transgender, the other two themes), "Celebrations for the Departed" and "Solemn Lament for the Living".
The minigun says "LETS LAMENT LETS LAMENT"
Anyways the serious answer is that its playing into the line of Funeral possessing a "Kaleidoscope" of butterflies, reflecting (haha) the imagery that Yi Sang has with mirrors and possibilities. The spinning wings at the base of the barrels reinforce this idea.
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