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Tbf most of his positives are primarily self-serving in their own way rather than genuinely moral. I think the acts that don't qualify as this are:

- Defeated mafia
- Helped slice and co.

The rest were either acts that benefitted him in the short term via progressing his immediate goal, or eased his consciousness in some way (the Imajesticrose one being the most prevalent of the bunch).

Also, saving purgatory doesn't do much when he ended up slaughtering most, if not all of them later on anyway.

Sure, but I question how necessary it was for Spoke to not only give said stupid guy a literal Mace (there’s no way Spoke knew how good he’d be with it), but also help overthrow the Monarchs. If he needed an army for plausible deniability I’m sure he could’ve just sidestepped the problem entirely and helped everyone escape, and not bother with the Monarchs at all. Then he stashes them somewhere secret and uses them when needed.

To me I think it’s partially a kindred spirits type thing. He saw himself in Slice and the rest of the group, and equated it to what he went through in Purgatory. I’m sure Slice’s intelligence is/will be a factor in Spoke’s decisions somewhere down the line, but I believe how they became friends is proof that Ash was wrong: Spoke isn’t like him, at least not yet. I think Slice will be a major factor on whether he will be in the future or not.

No way Clown's civ doesn't dissolve at this point tbh. It was a good plot constraint originally but IMO it's overstayed it's welcome and hurts potential content rather than helps, considering it was rarely even used anyway.

Perhaps some form of it will still exist but they'd be far weaker than before the war.

Hell, I'd argue that Parrot's new civ is proof that if he was just left the fuck alone to work, he genuinely could have made the server as good as his civ is right now. Lettuce at least had no major opposition for the majority of his reign and he did jack shit. Parrot had no major opposition for literally a day (if that, given how Arachnid was already trying to overthrow Parrot + Law trying to get Parrot to resign as well), and despite that he was well on his way to fixing the server's problems.

I've talked about this a bit before but tl;dr I believe Melia/MC when talking about current canon would be unhealthy for the two. They already got too much shit going on between each other; adding a romantic relationship on top of it would not be helping IMO. Aelita/MC doesn't have that.

Post-canon (as in multiple years)/canon divergence though that wouldn't apply.

Though I've seen some people saying Aelita may no longer have those feelings after learning about what we did, but I will point out that those feelings have already been tested in the Surrender endings, with her both still confessing and saying (slightly paraphrased) "nothing could make me hate you". It's still a negative quote in context, but the point is that if the surrender endings didn't make Aelita's feelings fade, I do not think they'll fade in Paragon.

I mean, I feel most people have/would have said the same towards Jaden after Rejoice's death. And yeah, I know Wemmbu technically didn't know him for that long, but they were great friends and I'd argue Jaden and Wemmbu weren't proper friends for that long either (albeit longer than Rejoice)

I think the idea they were saying is that real human creatives would still have inputs. They just wouldn't be doing the manual work to express that into episodes, and the AI would instead.

I mean even then you could go a bit explicit depending on if the player ultimately gets the choice for Mc to reciprocate or not. Not anything like actual dates/kissing/etc., but just enough to make the relationship canon. Because the devs basically opened Pandora's box by Aelita having a crush on Mc without us actively trying for it (like you would in Persona and similar games), so it wouldn't be too much at this point to continue on this line.

Then again the separation between player and Mc has only been widening so one could argue we wouldn't get the choice if it came down to it.

Oh, yeah, you're right actually.

Yeah I have no fucking idea then LOL

I mean Melia here is in her Emma form. Venam never saw that.

I imagine if that happens the battle between Marloww and Null is going to be offscreen. Spoke is gonna pull up to find out she's been off-screened.

Honestly a server reset isn't the worst thing that could happen IMO so long as it's not a hard reset for lore. I'm essentially imagining it'd be equivalent to chunk overloading the entire world; the world itself is reset, but not the players themselves.

Honestly I sort of hope this happens but it probably isn't going to. Parrot's seen what the destruction of the End before it was rebuilt into what it was now, and a few minutes with MinuteTech would dispel any illusions that Spoke may have given Parrot about his goals with Null.

Granted, it's possible that it doesn't happen before Parrot gives up info such as the Tomb, the Mending villager, and maybe how to do the totem exploit as well.

You have it backwards. Building hype in the Concert Field makes the fight harder, but gives you more rep with her at the end of it.

Honestly, my crack theory is Jamato himself. I think he could at least come to the conclusion that Spoke's descent into villainy was partially his fault with how he set up Purgatory. Now, Spoke would have to come to his senses himself for Jamato to do that, but I guess it depends on how Spoke responds to it becoming undeniable that he's just like Ash.

Lavender could probably die but I doubt Huey will. Renegade touches on this a bit but basically he's both implied to be not connected to the Core in some way and connection to Lord Xenadin somehow.

Now, this could just be something only Renegade touches upon, but it'd be a little lame IMO if it's never touched upon, even a little, in Paragon as well.

I don't think Underscore will actually go through with the betrayal until Spoke acquires the Tomb, or maybe Spoke acquires it in spite of him being betrayed. Would be a bit lame for him to never acquire that power after that's been an open plot thread for Spoke for a while now.

I guess my goat Serpentbound got to ignore that.

I mean the issue here is how it looks, not the logic.

Doesn’t matter how powerful a swarm of ants are: the main thing the average Quantumania viewer saw was the (stated) most powerful Kang, AKA the big bads of the entire Multiverse saga at the time, get overwhelmed by giant ants.

It's honestly pretty insane that Reina is probably the next best MCx(Blank) ship that hasn't sunk. Like there's Aelita, Melia, and Ren, and then Reina is like #4 IMO, just barely edging out Crescent in terms of content/interactions/chemistry (subjective).

Tbf Ren ALSO vanishes from the plot for honestly far more time than Nim does, and he's a canon romantic option.

I mean while you're technically right about that since queer-platonic relationships are a thing, that's very much a case-by-case thing, dependent on the personality of the character and (in the case of fictional characters) what devs say about it. And devs, in the case of Erin, have determined she isn't interested in that stuff.

Also even if she'd be down for a queer-platonic relationship, getting married and having kids is a really huge step upward from something like that.

Even a fully defensive Rillaboom is dying to any priority move / outspeeding move right after.

252+ Atk 0 IVs Tough Claws Golisopod-Mega First Impression vs. 252 HP / 252 Def Rillaboom: 366-432 (90.5 - 106.9%) -- 43.8% chance to OHKO