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Originally Posted by shadowii
And find them eventually.
But anyway speaking of Cruz's growth, if Kami Imai decides to go with the easy way out and gives Cruz a power do you guys have any you'd prefer he get. For me the only one i think might work would be is if he gets a fragment which does not give him any powers but lets him make other Needless stronger for a short time. Like an enhancement ablity or something.
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If "God" is just going to go down the Fragment route, he might as well give Cruz a
real ability. Boost (or healing) magics provide very little room to use in developing character, much less than him doing either the fighting or thinking. Even "Shield" would be better.
I doubt we will be seeing Cruz's fragment at all. Certainly not this round. Hatfield's power seems set to a "Stronger, but not quite unbeatable with what we know they have" level, rather than the "So Outrageously superior that we are already all waiting for the deux ex machina..." level. It will be a waste to burn this setup with Cruz's New Fragment.
Anyway, I'm optimistic that this author will solve Ch71 and 72 in an honest manner. If he doesn't, however, Cruz getting a fragment is quite frankly near the bottom of my list of typical deux ex machinas authors might employ in these situations.
Spoiler for Long rant here:
It is below reinforcement, of which the most likely candidates would be Solphia and Zeto (at least they are linked canonically). But my personal favorite scenario for reinforcement, though unlikely because the author almost explicitly excluded the possibility, would be Setsuna and Kuchinashi. It would be interesting to see them fight a serious enemy that they weren't already Plot Destined to lose to. As I said elsewhere, given what Hatfield has demonstrated so far, unless he pulls a I am Not Left Handed it would seem that the Trio could take him without too much difficulty.
But then, this author deploys reinforcements properly - near the beginning, not the last minute cavalry. Remember that Blade did call Sophia and Zeto before he broke into the building - if he had managed to control himself he might have had their assistance from the start, not about 1/4th of the way through. So having arleady reinforced once he won't do it again for this round, I think.
Among the New Powers in A Pinch series, I'll actually prefer Mio to get a new power. Crackpot? Well, sure the fact that Mio is like 60-70% of the reason I follow Needless is part of it, but IMO "God" actually laid two exploitable lines if he goes down this path:
The obvious line is that Mio is said and shown not to take fighting very seriously so far. So there's a potential power increase scene there.
The second is is more crackpot:
Spoiler for Crackpot Speculation:
One can argue Power is not really a fragment at all. They say "Power" is one of the Missing Links, but how is it special? She has super-strength ... but how many Needless are out there who don't have some super strength (and the reinforcement required to avoid their hands breaking)? Even Setsuna, who's specifically said to lack strength, can easily form craters with humans, and Eve did kick the bear out of her hands. Sure ... she may have more of it, but surely quantity isn't everything (Ruri's Psychokinesis was precious back when it was only powerful enough to "move a fan that is slightly beyond her muscle power"), especially when it is associated with a lack of ability to do much else.
Another peculiarity of "Power" is that it is always on and has to be controlled whenever Mio wants to do ordinary things (like grabbing hands without crushing them), not something that is "loaded" into action like most others (though Arclight "loads" it when he uses it, and is actually weak enough to bleed when Mio rams him in Vol3). This is, however, presumably similar to the Needless natural strength without ability.
From that point of view, far from having a Missing Link fragment, you can actually re-interpret Mio as a Needless who's either doesn't have a true fragment, or it hasn't been really active yet.
Which of course means ... in shounen, it'll wake up right about now... w/ character growth...
If Mio was a protagonist, I'll be waiting for this to happen (the former subvariant), but she isn't. If they DO play this it suggests her "promotion". It is one of the reasons I like watching her - moe airheads are dime a dozen but the fact she's not a protagonist makes it harder to determine how it'll play out.
Besides, as I said, I'm really looking for the author to play it honest.