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off topic but why do i never see people talk about pythagoras potentially having been a cult leader. is my tl just that substandard or something
i really wish uno delved deeper into abilities and everything that comes with it, because what's been shared so far is fascinating.
the bonus chapter where uru-chan explains levels states "There is a measurement system in place to gauge a person's ability level." (bonus ch. 2) is this system natural, or was it designed by humans? there are people who can gauge the level of others, though the only person who we've seen do that (the guy from the mall) was rather inaccurate. level is potential x mastery / 10, where potential is hereditary and fixed and mastery is a combination of strength, skill, recharge rate, etc. does this mean that a person with high potential but low mastery could have a higher level than someone with high mastery but low potential? who would then, in practice, be stronger?
and that ability gauger guy raises some questions, too. remi and sera both already knew their level - but they both come from well-off families and attend an expensive private school. for others, would ability measuring be less accessible? would they be willing to pay for an unofficial gauging with only a small prize (that most knew they wouldn't win, anyways) if they could just get their ability measured for free at some government facility? it seems really cool to me to explore a setting where even the measuring of your ability is in effect restricted to the upper classes, or where you only get one free measurement every year until your ability stabilizes or something, and any further gaugings are paid (and expensive, at that). that would make john's situation even more complicated - he leveled up from a 1.00 to a 7.00 in a year and a half.
also, i wonder how much information about abilities is public knowledge. does the average low-tier know about passives? it seems to me that passives are not frequently talked about amongst high-tiers, unless it's relevant to whatever else is going on, and even then, especially in the earlier chapters, characters didn't refer to it as a 'passive', just 'i noticed x'/'yk my reflexes are faster'. would john have known about passives when he became a high-tier? or was there just a period of a few weeks/months when he thought he was going insane, with an ability he seemingly couldn't turn off?
and passives themselves are such intriguing concepts, too. can arlo still get piercings? he's lucky they have near-insta-fix potions, because i doubt he'd be able to get stitches. and everyone with sensory passives - do they ever get overwhelmed? john probably got off-campus accommodation because he wanted to pretend to be a cripple, but what if these off-campus dorms were already around to allow high-tiers with sensory passives some space without their passive being activated?
has john ever been woken up in the middle of the night because his upstairs neighbor decided to kill a fly with their ability? does remi keep all electronics away from her sleeping space? when she discovered the chip in sera's bear in ch. 25, we can see that (especially unexpected) electricity bothers her. does it bother others? how does that affect their learning and functioning?
and just in general, it fascinates me how rare high-tiers are. wellston is the strongest school of the strongest province, and even they barely have a handful of high-tiers. that kind of implies that most people continue to increase their level until a bit later into adulthood, but it also emphasizes just how othered the wellston high-tiers are. they are exceptional, the cream of the crop, but they are also very alone, in a sense. people - even students at wellston - don't seem to understand just how powerful high-tiers (let alone god-tiers) are.
are high-tiers idolized in pop culture as well? are there movies where actors are pretending to be god-tiers, capable of doing miraculous things like sense approaching opponents or be almost invulnerable to attacks without even activating their ability, or suddenly have incredible level jumps of a point or more? do sera and arlo ever watch those movies and laugh at the inaccuracy and uninformedness? did john, pre-readjustment classes, ever watch them and wonder if that was just another way he was fucked up, that he was different?
and john. very likely, the first time since early childhood that he actually met another god-tier face to face was when he got arrested and forced into those readjustment classes with keon. keon was the first god-tier he'd had extended contact with since he became a god-tier. did he ask him about being a god-tier? about the things the internet couldn't tell him? did he look at him and think, so is this what i'm meant to be like?
in the most recent regular chapter (362), sera notices that although john has a lot of aura, he doesn't know how to use it efficiently. he never had any formal training with his ability, he just figured it out on his own. what else is he doing 'incorrectly' that he doesn't even know about? could sera or the others even help him with that? their abilities aren't like his. there is no one else like him, except for his uncle who hates him and his mother who is gone. (the only people in the world who are like him wouldn't teach him, and what does that say about him?) of course his relationship with his ability is fucked up.
That's very interesting ! I especially like your headcanons about passives, I imagine a tech store being sensory hell for Remi for example x)
For your question about "would someone with higher mastery but lower potential be stronger than someone with low mastery but high potential", I would put a very useful image that discuss this, sadly Tumblr's compression is shit and the image is so long it becomes unreadable ToT
theres an image?? OoO could you link it/lmk where to find it?
i really wish uno delved deeper into abilities and everything that comes with it, because what's been shared so far is fascinating.
the bonus chapter where uru-chan explains levels states "There is a measurement system in place to gauge a person's ability level." (bonus ch. 2) is this system natural, or was it designed by humans? there are people who can gauge the level of others, though the only person who we've seen do that (the guy from the mall) was rather inaccurate. level is potential x mastery / 10, where potential is hereditary and fixed and mastery is a combination of strength, skill, recharge rate, etc. does this mean that a person with high potential but low mastery could have a higher level than someone with high mastery but low potential? who would then, in practice, be stronger?
and that ability gauger guy raises some questions, too. remi and sera both already knew their level - but they both come from well-off families and attend an expensive private school. for others, would ability measuring be less accessible? would they be willing to pay for an unofficial gauging with only a small prize (that most knew they wouldn't win, anyways) if they could just get their ability measured for free at some government facility? it seems really cool to me to explore a setting where even the measuring of your ability is in effect restricted to the upper classes, or where you only get one free measurement every year until your ability stabilizes or something, and any further gaugings are paid (and expensive, at that). that would make john's situation even more complicated - he leveled up from a 1.00 to a 7.00 in a year and a half.
also, i wonder how much information about abilities is public knowledge. does the average low-tier know about passives? it seems to me that passives are not frequently talked about amongst high-tiers, unless it's relevant to whatever else is going on, and even then, especially in the earlier chapters, characters didn't refer to it as a 'passive', just 'i noticed x'/'yk my reflexes are faster'. would john have known about passives when he became a high-tier? or was there just a period of a few weeks/months when he thought he was going insane, with an ability he seemingly couldn't turn off?
and passives themselves are such intriguing concepts, too. can arlo still get piercings? he's lucky they have near-insta-fix potions, because i doubt he'd be able to get stitches. and everyone with sensory passives - do they ever get overwhelmed? john probably got off-campus accommodation because he wanted to pretend to be a cripple, but what if these off-campus dorms were already around to allow high-tiers with sensory passives some space without their passive being activated?
has john ever been woken up in the middle of the night because his upstairs neighbor decided to kill a fly with their ability? does remi keep all electronics away from her sleeping space? when she discovered the chip in sera's bear in ch. 25, we can see that (especially unexpected) electricity bothers her. does it bother others? how does that affect their learning and functioning?
and just in general, it fascinates me how rare high-tiers are. wellston is the strongest school of the strongest province, and even they barely have a handful of high-tiers. that kind of implies that most people continue to increase their level until a bit later into adulthood, but it also emphasizes just how othered the wellston high-tiers are. they are exceptional, the cream of the crop, but they are also very alone, in a sense. people - even students at wellston - don't seem to understand just how powerful high-tiers (let alone god-tiers) are.
are high-tiers idolized in pop culture as well? are there movies where actors are pretending to be god-tiers, capable of doing miraculous things like sense approaching opponents or be almost invulnerable to attacks without even activating their ability, or suddenly have incredible level jumps of a point or more? do sera and arlo ever watch those movies and laugh at the inaccuracy and uninformedness? did john, pre-readjustment classes, ever watch them and wonder if that was just another way he was fucked up, that he was different?
and john. very likely, the first time since early childhood that he actually met another god-tier face to face was when he got arrested and forced into those readjustment classes with keon. keon was the first god-tier he'd had extended contact with since he became a god-tier. did he ask him about being a god-tier? about the things the internet couldn't tell him? did he look at him and think, so is this what i'm meant to be like?
in the most recent regular chapter (362), sera notices that although john has a lot of aura, he doesn't know how to use it efficiently. he never had any formal training with his ability, he just figured it out on his own. what else is he doing 'incorrectly' that he doesn't even know about? could sera or the others even help him with that? their abilities aren't like his. there is no one else like him, except for his uncle who hates him and his mother who is gone. (the only people in the world who are like him wouldn't teach him, and what does that say about him?) of course his relationship with his ability is fucked up.
quick sera sketch :)
john doe is so riptide by grandson coded it's not even funny
the tragic thing about john doe is that he was doomed from the start.
he was likely born in a low- or mid-tier district: new bostin high's old king, zirian, was the only one john had trouble beating, before he figured out how to amplify abilities, and at the time he beat zirian, zirian was a 3.7. zirian, pre-john, was considered incredibly powerful, nigh unbeatable. in new bostin, someone who was barely an elite was considered incredibly powerful.
god-tiers are already incredibly rare. they're even more rare than high-tiers, and whenever remi, blyke, and isen visit a low-tier district as vigilantes, everyone regards them almost as royalty - unbelievably powerful, unreachable, divinity on earth. they are with dozens, and they’re terrified of a single, non-hostile girl. also, some of the background characters say: “what’s a high-tier doing in branish?” “yeah, they would never come to a place like this.” most low-tiers likely have never even seen a high-tier in the flesh, let alone a god-tier.
add to that that wellston is supposed to be the most powerful school in the province, at least, and before john, there were only two god-tiers in attendance: an 8.0 and a 6.3. and before arlo became king, rei was, and rei was a 5.8. the king of the strongest school in the province was a 5.8.
jane doe was raised in a god-tier family. she knows, presumably, what it means to be a god-tier, when everyone around you is weaker than you, and not by a little bit. but jane has been gone since john was a toddler - and the only person left to raise him was his father. his cripple father, who has lived his whole life being spat on, disregarded, considered less than.
and then you have john. john first discovered his ability in his last year of middle school. unordinary doesn't give us an exact timeframe, but it is mentioned that he first uses his ability towards the end of the school year. if we assume that the education system in unordinary is comparable to the us education system, then that makes john about fourteen years old. it is never mentioned when most kids discover their abilities, but sera mentioned that she got martial arts lessons for a few years when she was a young child, but stopped when her ability came in. assuming sera's development is normal and abilities usually come in at the same age regardless of level, that would place the average age well before ten. another thing: everyone around john seemed to assume he would never get an ability. they considered him a cripple. which either means that late-bloomers are so incredibly rare that it isn't even considered a possibility, or john was so far past the age of ability manifestation that no one thought it was possible.
of course, his dad was also a cripple, and since genetics are a thing in uno, it would make sense for people to assume john would be a cripple even before he passed the manifestation age. (and treat him accordingly)
john got expelled in his second year in high school. when, exactly, doesn't really matter. once again assuming that the uno education system works like the us education system, that would place john at 15-16 years old.
so you have this kid, sixteen years old, who's had his ability for about two years. he spent most of his life being considered the lowest of the low - spat on, disregarded, less than. his dad, his only parental figure, has had those exact same experiences, and the only thing he can tell his child is that that is just the way the world works. it's unfair, but that's life.
but then he gets an ability. and within two years, he is almost twice as strong as the second strongest kid around. none of the adults have ever met someone as strong as him. him, the former cripple, with the cripple father. former lowest of the low, now a god amongst men. the kids, though, his classmates, his peers, they don't really understand his power. how much stronger he is than them. to tell the truth, he doesn't either, not fully. he's never met someone as strong as he is, at sixteen. but his classmates, they just remember when they used to walk all over him. when they would beat him bloody and then complain about getting his disgusting cripple blood on their shoes. and now he dares to stand above them?
they don't like him. of course they don't. cripples aren't able to become gods. they can't comprehend that john did.
and john, obviously, lashes out at his former bullies. he finally has a chance to pay them back, for all the cuts, bruises, broken bones he'd received from them over the years. he's stronger than them, and it's his turn to make them hurt. he goes farther than they did - their abilities are useless against the might of his power - but he doesn't really care. (they never held back, so he doesn't either, and the damage he does is much, much worse. the adults are mad, and he doesn't get why. he's only doing what everyone else does.)
the adults have no idea how to handle him. he's out of control. but they've never seen an ability this powerful before, except on tv, or in stories. high-rankers are supposed to keep order. (but no one listens to john. why would they? he's just a cripple, the lowest of the low, who managed to cheat the system.) his dad, kind-hearted william doe the cripple, has no idea how to help him. he can't relate to his problems at all. (is there even a problem? who wouldn't want to be powerful? for william, for adrian, for claire, it'd be a dream come true. it used to be, for john.) there is no one around who even vaguely knows what it's like to be a god-tier, or even a high-tier, or even just a high-ranker in general, except for zirian, who's barely a high-ranker at all, and who hates john for dethroning him. there is no one who understands him.
so then you have john. sixteen years old. god-tier. angry at the world, and the world is angry at him. how was he ever supposed to win?
(hope its alright for me to reblog with my thoughts on this. i am unwell after seeing this.)
john who doesn't hold back because all his life he's been so powerless he has to be as vicious, as unrelenting, as violent as he can to even do damage. the world didnt beat the defiance out of him, they only managed to destroy his concept of moderating his strength. who thinks the way he rules over the others is right because thats the way everyone treated him, and doesnt understand why its suddenly wrong when the victims have abilities. john who doesnt know that he has to be the bigger person because he quite literally is the bigger person, capable of crushing them like ants. john who defends himself with all his might, forgetting that not holding back no longer means being able to land a bruise on a bully's face before getting beaten to a pulp, it means breaking that former bully to the point an extended stay at the hospital is needed and they cant even look at him in the eye anymore out of fear.
john asks god to send him a swordsman to protect him. god says look down at your hands. (the sword is bloody and he is no longer the one needing protection.)
can i just talk about unordinary and feminism for a sec?
many fantasy works attempt to position themselves as feminist; they show female characters who can fight better than the guys, who are rough around the edges and not like other girls. they often have a male character who is misogynistic, and who gets his ass handed to him by the female character. uno takes another direction: it does not even address sexism at all, in any way, shape or form, and that makes it much more feminist than these kind of works. (that is not to say that there are no other fantasy works that are highly and effectively feminist, of course; this is simply a generalization based on a frequent observation.)
the world of uno is so unique because even now, over three hundred episodes later, we have yet to see a character be in any way sexist. john calls a few girls a bitch, but he seems to use it only as the female version of 'fucker' or 'asshole'. never does he look down on girls simply for being girls. (he looks down on them for existing as a participating member of their society, though.)
on top of that, the way in which the female characters are written is really really great. many authors struggle with writing characters of the opposite gender, but uru-chan clearly does not suffer from that ailment. she writes her female characters like she writes her male characters: that is to say, diverse and different, with distinct personalities, and more or less feminine or masculine without it taking away from the depth of their personalities. their gender is simply another aspect of their character, that does not take away but instead adds to it. at no point are characters stereotyped, and any lack of character depth is due to them not having enough screentime. (the notable exception to this is, of course, zeke.) sera likes shopping and boba and pig-themed games. remi is kind and wears a bow in her hair and her naivety is unique to her and no other female character. elaine had a crush on arlo but got over it after he treated her badly one time too often. cecile is scheming and cunning and she plays the game of the hierarchy well. there are female characters with traditionally 'bad' feminine traits, whose flaws are discussed not in the context of them being women but them being people with unique and distinctive experiences. remi, for example, is naive not because she's a girl but because of the way she was raised, the people she's interacted with, and the experiences she's had. her brother was just as much of an idealist and also believed in the good of the people around him, until he saw proof of the opposite. and furthermore, women never put down other women for being 'too feminine' or anything like that.
moreover, uno does not attempt to position women as either better or worse than men. girls fight just like guys; the male characters have no problem fighting a girl just because she is a girl, and they don't hesitate to hurt them the way they would hurt a guy. to be honest, i really struggled with this when i first started reading uno: i felt as if it was morally wrong for john and arlo to fight girls like that. i have since come to the realization that that view is inherently misogynistic, as i did not have such problems with them fighting guys. uno really portrays women in the most feminist way possible: as truly, fully equal to men, with no caveats, no exceptions, no special treatment.
the casualness with which uno depicts men and women being completely equal in society is quite possibly the most feminist thing it could've done, as a webcomic about superpowered teenagers fighting against terrorists and the evil government.
It's canon that the reason dazai survived many of his attempt was because Mori was keeping him alive which sounds like a full-time job
i need more irrelevant details about the darren-dating-leilah-and-sera-living-with-them situation, because, while the whole wanted terrorrists thing is ofc very sad and stressful for them, it is also absolutely hilarious. like, imagine you just found out that your ex-school nurse, a grumpy, eternally tired man who you honestly thought would die single, is dating your (canonically) hot kind older sister, who you hadn't seen in years because she ran away from your abusive parents. also, she and him both sorta work for a terrorrist organization now. the same organization that stole your ability. your sister actively helped to develop the drug that disabled you. her solution to the problem of your ability loss is to also join the terrorrist organization. the terrorrists backstab you and disable your best friend. you decide to betray the organization, but then you're declared a wanted terrorrist by the government so you hide in your sister's apartment. that she shares with your ex-school nurse. before he quit, you spent more time around this man than around any of your actual teachers. then the government busts your future brother-in-law's door down and you have to go on the run. with your sister and her boyfriend.
do leilah and darren do a lot of couple-y things? does sera see them kiss and immediately wishes for the sweet release of death or at least some fresh air, only to realise she is stuck inside with these two for the foreseeable future? is it like the covid lockdown but worse?? at least covid never shot you on sight if you ever left the house on a grocery run.
Thinking about Beast Dazai who stabbed himself in the leg to prove to Chuuya that he wouldn't leave him to die during the dragon's head conflict.
Thinking about how in the canon timeline Chuuya already trusted Dazai enough to use to Corruption without even asking if he'll stay by his side during the same conflict.
Wondering what events shaped them so differently that Dazai's "lets give up and die together" had to come with physical proof that he wouldn't run for Chuuya to trust him. And just how shocked Chuuya was that he did it.
Main timeline Dazai and Chuuya know each other so well they can execute whole plans with little to no words or planning. Reading each other, interpreting motives, trusting the other to simply understand and leaping.
Wondering if Beast Dazai struggled to keep all those secrets from Chuuya. If deep down, Chuuya knew there was something Dazai was always keeping from him, but he could never figure out what.
They could never truly trust each other the way main time line soukoku could.
Do you think that ate away at Dazai? So much of his world had to change to save a man he never got to know. Cursed by the memories of different version of himself to see all he could of had.
But then, him and Chuuya didn't have to change. In fact he was staying with the mafia, he could have more memories with Chuuya that other self ever could and they'd be his own memories, not ones imposed on him.
Except it didn't work out like that. Because Dazai couldn't be honest and Chuuya knew it.
Arlo Unordinary makes me so insane. He’s introduced as one of the strongest characters and then gets his ass beat for the entire rest of the series. He’s the King of Wellston but then he spends the entirety of season 2 being dragged around by characters who are like “hey you’re technically still the 3rd strongest character, please do something” He follows a rigid moral code but it’s a very stupid one. He’s 5 inches taller than everyone in the cast. He works a desk job at an internship for the evil government. His unbreakable barrier gets broken so many times and everytime it happens he coughs up blood like a sick victorian orphan. we have never seen his parents but we have seen his evil government aunt so many times. he has stupid hair. he is also 17