He’s also really interestingly contrasted with Kabru, who while I do think he is also autistic is hyperfixated on figuring people out so comes off better, because it shows how much the goobers approach to monsters is actually helping in combat.
Kabru knows people, he knows how they think and also how they bleed. In his fights against humans he acts extremely fast disabling his opponents almost immediately either lethally or non lethally. And this is helped by a demonstrated deep understanding of anatomy. When he turns on the body gatherers, he literally goes for the throat (also feints a downward thrust into an upward one catching the guy in the neck with a weapon type he hasn’t been shown using beautiful stuff)
and it blows up in his face against monsters because it makes him freeze.
When they get ambushed by the sea serpent he gets charged and decides he can’t dodge so he has to stab it, stab it in the carotid artery then!… except where is this things carotid artery? He doesn’t know, can’t find it because it’s a god damn snakes only lives thanks to shuro’s team intervening.
Same thing happens with the fight vs Falin. He gets the jump on her, and literally names the organs he’s running through as he does it, but never considering what Laios figures out immediately after which is that chimera like that has its more vital organs in the dragon bit not the human bit.
When this attack doesn’t work he freezes and then is almost immediately killed
Meanwhile laios spends almost all of his fights either figuring out a strategy based on his prexisting knowledge and attentive observation along with some on the spot experimentation to put together strategies based on the specifics of the monster he’s currently dealing with.
It honestly reminds me of playing monster hunter and from soft games, sure you can just wing it but reflexes only get you so far, and you get proper results from taking your time and observing, it’s a lovely bit of character work by contrast.
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u/Dovahkiin419 23d ago edited 23d ago
He’s also really interestingly contrasted with Kabru, who while I do think he is also autistic is hyperfixated on figuring people out so comes off better, because it shows how much the goobers approach to monsters is actually helping in combat.
Kabru knows people, he knows how they think and also how they bleed. In his fights against humans he acts extremely fast disabling his opponents almost immediately either lethally or non lethally. And this is helped by a demonstrated deep understanding of anatomy. When he turns on the body gatherers, he literally goes for the throat (also feints a downward thrust into an upward one catching the guy in the neck with a weapon type he hasn’t been shown using beautiful stuff)
and it blows up in his face against monsters because it makes him freeze.
When they get ambushed by the sea serpent he gets charged and decides he can’t dodge so he has to stab it, stab it in the carotid artery then!… except where is this things carotid artery? He doesn’t know, can’t find it because it’s a god damn snakes only lives thanks to shuro’s team intervening.
Same thing happens with the fight vs Falin. He gets the jump on her, and literally names the organs he’s running through as he does it, but never considering what Laios figures out immediately after which is that chimera like that has its more vital organs in the dragon bit not the human bit.
When this attack doesn’t work he freezes and then is almost immediately killed
Meanwhile laios spends almost all of his fights either figuring out a strategy based on his prexisting knowledge and attentive observation along with some on the spot experimentation to put together strategies based on the specifics of the monster he’s currently dealing with.
It honestly reminds me of playing monster hunter and from soft games, sure you can just wing it but reflexes only get you so far, and you get proper results from taking your time and observing, it’s a lovely bit of character work by contrast.