Alternative Character Interpretation: The Vindicators are in fact essentially Uncle Toms who by colluding with the government merely continue the cycle of racism in the world. Adonis is the story's true hero, fighting against this, albeit in ill-conceived ways.
The creator of David Meinstein, ergo his player, intended for him to be a self-loathing Neo-Sapiens hater. This, for some strange reason, does not pan out in the narrative.
The Author, very much an American, likes the character too. Moving Mr. Tharivol into the region of Creator's Pet.
Fan-Preferred Couple: There is not a man, woman, or child alive who does not want to see Anomaly and Tripper together. As women in the Oubliverse are essentially cheating machines, Anomaly and Tripper are liked mainly because they are the only central characters to have a functional relationship.
Frostbite's powers are eventually explained as being temporal manipulation. He creates ice by slowing molecules down and fire by speeding them up. How does this give him the ability to teleport, given his description of this power is his deconstructing himself on a cellular level, traveling through the moisture in the air, and then recombining elsewhere?
Michuru's origin story revealed that Coach Crag trained him to use his geokinesis as a kid. He did this by belittling him constantly. In what world is he the best candidate to run a school? Seriously, Walkabout wasn't chosen because... what?
Because having Dr. Cox in charge of the Xavier Institute would be, like, hilarious. Besides, Walkabout was too busing walking out of the story for good at that point.
Narm: Anything Rumble says about her religious beliefs. Adonis's talk of the need to cull weak Neo-Sapiens.
Adonis' speech that occurred recently in the campaign. Michuru 81 posted it on the ATT recently. For some reason he choose not to include Bulwark's constant heckling throughout it.
Padding: Sic Semper Tyrannis, Para Bellum and Hostis Humani Generis. Dulcis Amor is shaping up to be will be is the same.
Also, most any and all flashback chapters. Especially if the flashback has to do with a character who the reader either does not care about or who has little to no significance to what's going on in the story at the time.
Strangled by the Red String: Brass & Rumble are inexplicably attracted to each other and start a relationship pretty much off-screen.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The most interesting aspects of whatever plot is going on seems to go by the wayside in some cases.
Arguably, the one strong, responsible female adult character in the entire story was Natalie Styles. She was loved and respected by all her students, acted in relatively intelligent and reasonable ways and had the beginnings of a normal relationship with Michuru Bradshaw. Naturally, she had to die as soon as possible.
Word of God states that this was done to deepen the character of Michuru, all off-screen of course and the reader will be pleased to know that Michuru doesn't have that big of a role in the series from that point onward until far later on in the series.
Wangst: In the Oubliverse, this is the default response to any and all personal issues. Might have something to do with Michuru 81's consumption of Soap Operas.
