Yeah, but where was her soul contained? If it was in her head or chest, those pieces are both still intact, so shouldn't the soul still be there? But you're right, her remains could have been crushed by that big Nevermore. If not though, then there wasn't a lot of activity there once everyone cleared out, so she could still be there.
It is possible that her soul was just attached to her entire body. Maybe it just naturally came about on accident or was infused into her. but we don't know. Not until Dr. Light shows up and explains.
What if when he fixes Penny that she is so traumatized from being kileld that he is forced to delete some of her memory so she won't suffer post-traumatic stress. Removing all her memories of her time in Vale.
That is heartbreaking and stupid. Just remove the memories of the fight. The rest of her memories are perfectly happy and good for her development as a real girl.
But the sudden shift? Think being in Florida and you're having fun and then the next thing you know your back home. You don't remember the trip home or anything.
"Hey Penny, yeah, sorry about the change in venue. But some hooligans set off an EMP at the fight, and we needed to bring you back here to reboot you."
Or, they could just say, "There was a terrible accident. You're better now, but you won't remember any of it." It would save them the trouble of having some random person be all, "Aren't you that robot chick that got axed in the semi finals?"
Death has to have consequence is all I'm saying. Look at Dragon Ball. That's a series where death is cheap. Sure Penny coming back is fine, I'll accept that, but I want her death to have a meaningful impact on her character and her relationships with the main cast.
Sure, and for the most part, death will. Pyrrha's death will, because she isn't coming back, because she is flesh and blood and barring some comic-book-BS, she can't. But Penny, as wonderful as she is, is a robot, who can be rebuilt, reprogrammed, rebooted. I'm not seeing how there could be long lasting effects to her death when they can just be taken away by moving a decimal.
That would be acceptable and devastating. She could also start glitching for no reason, like there's no software or hardware issue at all, just her mind imposing it on her. Like phantom pains in flesh people.
Mind over matter and whatnot. Of course, she would probably glitch during a battle and a friend would get hurt and then she would feel worse and probably glitch more. If the power of friendship doesn't save her, she'll probably shut down out of sheer guilt.
Yeaaaah, I've been reading a lot of Batman comics. This angsty crap shows up a lot. If Penny does come back, then any side effects from dying will likely be dealt with by her friends.
Assuming they have time, what with Cinder trying to take over the world.
Or that Penny doesn't get captured and used during an emotionally vulnerable time for her.
And assuming that thing I said yesterday doesn't happen.
Totally. And people will learn that if you treat the dragon right, it won't attack. Or someone could try and break you like a wild horse and you have to figure out how to not break/get away from the human.
And have a hunger meter where you have to get food, typically wild life, with humans targeting animals you would eat, forcing you to either start raiding livestock or spend extra time looking for food.
With the option to steal a few cows or sheep and raise your own herd. You still have to go out and hunt, but the extra helps, especially when humans are on the war path and leaving the cave means getting a crossbow bolt stuck in your scales.
They don't have to be sentient. There's a species of ant in Madagascar that herds aphids or something for food. And lots of other ants and beetles farm fungi.
Also, in most fantasy novels, dragons are fully sentient beings.
Yeah. And if something with as small of a brain as an ant can do it, so can something bigger.
Ok, but we're talking about a video game, right? Wouldn't it make sense for it to then use what people are most familiar with and go with fantasy? There's a lot more you can do with it as well.
Besides, we were talking about being "good dragons" and "evil dragons" earlier. Good and evil only come with sentience. Animals are neither. Even wolves who go after humans aren't evil, just messed in the head and trying to get a meal.
Plus, I want to be a book hording dragon. Can't do that if I can't read.
Yeah, human concepts. Sentient. People thought wolves were evil, but like I said, the wolf just wanted food.
Yeah, I could, but it wouldn't have the same meaning. Besides, a non-sentient creature would be more likely to horde shiny gold than flammable books. Like magpies.
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