tbh thats kinda all of the guardians in a way, Cocytus has a strong sense of chivalry that caused him to slow down his advance greatly in the capital when he could have just one shot brain without a second thought, demiurge could have squad wiped blue rose but decided to play with his food, just some examples I thought were interesting regarding the guardians.
@@marcovalencia146 Mare's the exception (and Aura pretty much as well, but even compared to her Mare is still very noticable). He's a complete sociopath, he just does his job with brutal apathy and that's it. The only reasons we saw him hesitate during the assault on the Re-Estize capital city was because he was figuring out how to keep the amount of survivors to a minimum, and he had to let Climb return to the castle.
@@marcovalencia146 demiurge doesn't "play" with his food more than he schemes with them per se, demiurge plays the part of an overbearing evil where he sees every meeting, and every happening, as another opportunity for a scheme, what kind of scheme? idk but some people -no matter how weak- can be a lot more useful alive than dead
@@mickeyrace873 You aren't wrong, however I do still think that making your opponents suffer as much as possible is in a way comparable to playing with your food.
@@marcovalencia146 if the opponent was actually a threat I bet demiurge would stop pulling his punches. As it stands no one he has faced has been worthy of him actually exerting effort.
Aura and Shalltear bicker all the time but they also have moments when they really get along, I don't even think they know that their creators were siblings or they'd view each other sort of like cousins
yet, Shalltear is a huge liability to everyone. See how Blood Frenzy was the ultimate cause of her downfall? The real problem is different, though. A Shalltear gone rogue is close to impossible to handle safely. What Ainz managed to pull, worked once. Now Shalltear knows what are the weaknesses Ainz exploited to kill her.
@@inverse2k1 imagine if shalltear wasn't frozen like a raid boss and just attacked ainz on sight, preventing him from using buffs. That would actually harm him tbh
People may think Shalltear is a bit of dunce here. But it's just because there are beings like Albedo and Demiurge around. According to this scene in the light novels, her processing speed is still faster than human. She was able to take note of every word she has heard. Maybe if she can apply herself to study , she'll be smarter way faster than anyone except the Nazarick npcs.
I mean to be fair he role was always purely combat oriented until this point. Demiurge and Albedo had non combat responsibilities to help them grow. Its now a question of IF Shaltear can be smart but more that she did not really have a reason until now.
That's a good example of how processing speed alone doesn't equate to intelligence. It requires more than that. Shalltear's mind may work faster than a human but it operates less efficiently compared to a mind with greater intelligence. Think of an older CPU running an efficient algorithm compared to a faster one but it's running a slower algorithm.
It's mostly her (lack of) backstory, and the lack of any logical consistency to her build. Shalltear's build is pure, nonsensical optimization, so provides her with nothing intelligible to fall back on, and her bio is just her creator copying and pasting his favorite porn tags. Because The New World runs on real world logic instead of abstracted game logic, characters built with thematic consistency supplemented by appropriate backstory work the best (See: Demiurge. By far the weakest floor guardian/level 100 character in Nazarick, with an utterly deficient, mechanically horrific build that legitimately might lose to some of the Pleides, that was made as a pure vanity and creativity project, who has become the single most effective person in Nazerick at getting stuff done because every single i was dotted, and every single t crossed to make the art project work), while purely mechanical characters flounder a bit because of the complete lack of common sense adaptability they have, with Shaltear being the worst case, being designed as an unparalleled, minmaxed 1v1 specialist, who regularly has to be held back because of her inability to handle most situations that aren't pure combat.
shalltear is a great example why Overlord can get away with having an unchanging OP character but the story remain interesting. it isn't Ainz that get character development, it's everyone around him. Shalltear learned to not be so arrogant, Cocytus learned to be proactive and decisive, Enri and Nfirea went through their own little arc of stepping up being stronger for each other.
Spoilers in Holy Kingdom Arc. Ainz: Everyone! Look at this powerful runecrafted bow I lend to Neia! It can hurt even Jaldabaoth. Jaldabaoth: Oh no! That bow nearly finished me off, that was close. Neia: Nah, Imma worship justice instead.
I wonder what level and quality that sword actually was in Yggdrasil standards. I doubt he would just pull out a literal weapon of the gods that's effectively unobtainable in the new world and would just make the dwarfs fear that they will never achieve it. Better to pull out something mid level in a world of low levels to not discourage them.
It’s an incredibly low level weapon (by his standards) and it doesn’t even actually use runes, it’s a reskin he paid for. The dwarves have little chance of actually replicating it, solely because it doesn’t even function the way they assumed.
@@thatrandomguy3653 Not even showing them the real thing so even if he would have lost it to an impossible enemy, they wouldn't have gotten anything out of it. Ainz is always just a step ahead.
@@thatrandomguy3653 that reminds me how Ainz gave the dwarves a literal scrap metal and told them to make something out of it. And the dwarves be like "how? We can't even melt this very high quality metal"
@@ReigoVassaltbf what one considres scrap metal might be a fantastical alloy for another. Take modern steel back to the middle ages or even harder bronze age times and people would think its an alloy of gods. Or even harder go with Titanium wich is very hard to actually machine and "forge". Imagin someone coming to our world with an alloy thats super flexiable,hard,light and room temperature superconducting but needsnoz yet inventend tech to be manipulated it would be the ultimate material for us but the person bringing might just searched for a place to dump some scrap metals
not gonna lie Aura shows quite a bit of "Mental Growth" flavor texted actually seemed to work in her favor in terms of character development to be honest she Mare and Sebas seem to have the closest to free will and constructive thinking..
Mare is the closest because he actually has free will (it's thought that he is faking but he is doing it for bukubukuchagama) although Sebas never had a programmed text so he acts like touch me.
This is good character arc for shaltear, the drawf are confused, and she calm them down with high quality drinks. Fighting should not be her only talents. And for that, made it easy for Ainzs
I honestly hoped that Ainz would die horrifically at the end of the story, probably getting one-shot by Longinus [World item]. That would be a fitting end for him.
@@apolatyne_decova I don't think PDL is even a challenge for him. And the novel is about to end short too so there's no one in the land that can rival Ainz power. Unless the author change his mind and isekai another guild with equal power.
@@reivaldoaurelio4895 in terms of raw power there's actually a few New World denizens that could theoretically rival him. But none can actually outwit him.
qeustion, does shalltear japanese voice speak in like a dialect or something? because i swear to god she has these constantly recurring sylables near the end of every sentence in her speech i dont hear back in any other character in any show ive watched
I might be wrong, but iirc, she's basically using a very old and formal speech used by geishas back in the edo period. It's kinda like using 'shan't' instead of 'will not'
It's でありんす/"de arinsu", which is indeed related to Edo period and especially prostitutes. It's basically a "tick"; Japan adds a "copula" that's often translated as "be" in many sentences to the end, and hers is different from the typical "da" in futsukei/"direct speech" or "desu" in teineigo/polite language (it also has different variants for very polite language, written language, dialects, other archaisms, etc. and media makes extensive use of these to differentiate between characters and to inform of their characteristics).
More or less. She's canonically a tablet that uses fake boobs. The hips themselves are most definitely from a cage crinoline, which is how those old Victorian era dresses (like Shalltear's) keeps their shape. Given Peroroncino interests, of course he's gonna have her be dress-up doll.
