"So you get resurrection powers where you hop into other people's bodies when you die, low-key erasing them from existence, forever, so that you can guide them towards being united"
Other things this backstory doesn't address: the terrifying emotion monsters that are constantly attacking humanity and making the setting into a JRPG, the animal-ear people who live alongside humanity and get oppressed for Reasons.
gods: needlesslyy genocides an entire species over a minor mortal dispute over a lady being sad her boyfriend is dead and has no consequences for this and expects to come back.
I am proud of myself for having a concept from the same myth cycle as another player in VALR and actually hashing the general idea of that out beforehand.
I feel like this is how I engaged Game of Thrones except it was less about Daenerys being sympathetic and more about every other character being godawful or having no agency.
I think if I was forced to choose the timeline between Mounty Oum and Miles Luna I'd still pick Mouty Oum, but I'll admit it can be a bit of a sophie's choice
Especially since I originally excised the Faunus entirely but came up with a way to incorporate them 1) sanely and with an actual origin and 2) without dumb Metaphorical Racism Bullshit
From an in-universe perspective, I'm willing to let that particular problem slide as 'okay, this dude has possibly millennia of PTSD and is just frantically trying to prevent the apocalypse by throwing more heroes at the problem and praying something works'.
It takes a very particular kind of genius to improv a whole story like that, and it's really not feasible or wise with a relatively expensive and time-intensive animated production anyway
it kind of feels like – since they've said they're working off monty's notes for the future arcs – that they're tossing in all the elements monty had already planned out because they don't want to discard his work
The whole world-spanning mythological backstory that it turns out is only relevant to Oz and Salem and doesn't actually explain either of their actions either.
i'm not strong enoughthe writing in the first three seasons wasn't any better