I wonder if this means Ruin won't be joining the Union this Loop... making me wonder why he was ever shown in the map Fuuko had to begin with.
Speaking of, I know there are differences between each loop, but what happened to Unruin? Part of his upper torso looks burned, and half of his hair seems bleached white. It's not like it was a wound he couldn't heal from, since he regrows his head with the exact same markings. Is he trying to cosplay as Harvey Dent?
Oh, and Fuuko lost an eye now too. At this rate, forget the dental
, Fuuko is gonna need a shit load of prosthetics before this ends. Hope she has good medical, otherwise she'll need to track down another Negator: Uninsurance.
Edited by RebelFalcon on Aug 18th 2024 at 1:45:31 PM
Rodimus: Self-sacrifice, Magnus— It's cheap. It's a cheap way out. I need to live so I can make amends.
x2 Maybe the injuries Unruin has were caused by Soul or another master rule while they "recruited" him, since in this loop he resisted more than in the previous one, so he had to be hurt more before he folded. That, or maybe a previous negator caused thos injuries, though I'm not sure who would be able to do it. Possibly a previous Unfair?
Most likely, but thinking of different scenarios, since Fuuko doesn't know his story yet, she could change her mind after leaning more about Unruin, if my above idea that he resisted at one point the master rules is true. That, or maybe the current Unruin dies after this battle, and then the Union has a race against Soul to find the next person who will inherit the power, and have them join.
Speaking of injuries, yeah, it's looking like all the injuries in this fight are gonna be permanent, so Fuuko is down an eye. Maybe Nico can make her an artificial eye, but she's gonna be having depth perception issues going forward.
Had a feeling this was a Xanatos Gambit on Soul's part. Lull the Union into a false sense of security by letting them find and recruit Tatiana, then have Ruin catch them off guard by attacking Fuuko. Ruin succeeds in killing Fuuko, then the Union is crippled. Ruin fails at killing Fuuko due to Andy coming in, the eight remaining Master Rules are freed and can cause a wholesale slaughter. Either way, Ragnarok becomes more an inevitability.
It fits that the one Negator who loves God is a Misanthrope Supreme, meaning he'd have no issue with the Rules being used to punish humanity. Considering how he's been called a "Vampire" before, if he gets a Freudian Excuse I guess it will be he was persecuted for being a monster and viciously tortured to the point of death, hoping he could finally die since his body was "ruined"... only for him to gain "Unruin" and heal, letting him be tortured more until he was Madden Into Misanthropy. Meaning the win-con for dealing with him is to either:
- A.) Find a way to burnout Unruin/kill him faster than he can regenerate. It was said after all that "Unruin" is weaker than "Undead", so it could have a limit to how much it can heal before its burnt out.
- B.) Convince him he isn't "ruined" and that the people who tortured him aren't all humanity has to offer while pointing out God gave him Unruin specifically to prolong his torture and drive him mad.
- C.) The wild card option: Fuuko is forced to use Remember on Ruin to seal away his memories just like Juiz did to Victor, preventing her from restoring the memories of the Union in exchange for stopping Ruin and potentially making him an ally.
Also also, I just noticed Andy is wearing Clothy! Does that mean Clothy survived the Loop too, or did Andy find Clothy in this Loop before going to the Sun to trap the Master Rules?
Edited by RebelFalcon on Aug 25th 2024 at 11:35:00 AM
Rodimus: Self-sacrifice, Magnus— It's cheap. It's a cheap way out. I need to live so I can make amends.I think you’re in the money regarding Unruin. Yeah whether Unruin lives or dies, the Master Rules are free to wreak havoc. Great plan.
What a goddamn awesome chapter. Fuuko hits us with the five point landing followed by that kickass double spread with her and Andy reunited. And Clothy’s there too! I assume Clothy just found his way over there when Andy descended.
Sad for Chikara, losing his eyesight means he can’t be a photographer anymore… but hey, golden ending is the goal, there might be a way to do something about that.
Edited by fillerdude on Aug 25th 2024 at 9:50:13 AM
I'm currently making my way through the manga. I've mostly been really enjoying it. I'm up to Chapter 148.
I admit, the post Loop arc so far has been a little rough for me in places. There are some parts i've adored, like the focus on characters who didn't get enough screentime in the first loop and the creativity of some of Fukko's solutions like using astral projection to finally let Unsleep sleep, and I know I'm in the "post time skip easy mode" arc that's designed to show off how much the main character has grown", but it's kinda dragging a bit for me. Things are going too easily. I'm mostly waiting for God to throw some kind of wrench into proceedings again.
Edited by GNinja on Aug 25th 2024 at 1:21:36 PM
Kaze ni Nare!I admit, i don't know if more information has been revealed about Unruin later from where I am, but I did hear one cool theory for why Unruin is weaker than Undead.
The idea they had is not that Unruin cant regenerate as much as Undead can. It's that Unruin could theorhetically die if he did so in a way that he didn't perceive as "ruining" him. So, if being wiped out by God during Ragnarok doesn't count as being Ruined in his opinion, then it can kill him.
Edited by GNinja on Aug 26th 2024 at 2:42:44 PM
Kaze ni Nare!I do wonder if they've made Andy TOOOO busted at this point.
Where I am he can basically solo all of the Master Rules by himself, and he doesn't seem to be having a particularly hard time doing it.
Then again, if there's one problem I have with UXU, it's that I think UM As come off as far less powerful (or at least competent) than Negators
Edited by GNinja on Aug 31st 2024 at 1:35:49 PM
Kaze ni Nare!

Edited by Etack on Aug 6th 2024 at 6:29:43 AM