And Chapter 100 is up.
I'm kinda confused on whether Arimisael is actually in any danger here. He is protecting the humans with his AT field, but if he's as powerful compared to Zeruel as he seems, I dunno that a single N2 warhead would remotely inconvenience him. Even moreso, given it's hard to tell where his core precisely is. IIRC, in canon, Rei just kinda blew herself up and took him with her when he merged with Unit-00. It was, like many things of that area of the show, unclear whether or not it was the fact he'd absorbed the two or the bomb that killed him (and given Sachiel and Zeruel shrug off equivalent damage, I'm unsure as to what this implies about N2 munitions)
Also, I'm not sure if Zadkiel here is actually...well...Zadkiel, or just Zeruel pushing what little mind Zadkiel has aside, similar to his Zerueliem from earlier, which basically didn't have minds aside from when he ASSUMED CONTROL. That said, he's got a wonderful design for emoting in a fight. We really get a hint that this version's a bit more axe crazy than his dad.
I am liking that there seems to be a definite benefit to Zaddy for this fight in being a hybrid. His guiding intelligence is smarter, but the Cherubim on average seem to have more firepower than their equivalents (compare Sachiel to Raziel and the most recent Cherub to Matariel, specifically) but less intelligence. As a result, Zadkiel has his former kin's firepower and possibly regenerative capability, and Zeruel's smarts (though it's questionable how much use someone with Zeruel's sheer firepower has for "tactics").
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
I'm kinda confused on whether Arimisael is actually in any danger here. He is protecting the humans with his AT field, but if he's as powerful compared to Zeruel as he seems, I dunno that a single N2 warhead would remotely inconvenience him. Even moreso, given it's hard to tell where his core precisely is. IIRC, in canon, Rei just kinda blew herself up and took him with her when he merged with Unit-00. It was, like many things of that area of the show, unclear whether or not it was the fact he'd absorbed the two or the bomb that killed him (and given Sachiel and Zeruel shrug off equivalent damage, I'm unsure as to what this implies about N2 munitions)
Also, I'm not sure if Zadkiel here is actually...well...Zadkiel, or just Zeruel pushing what little mind Zadkiel has aside, similar to his Zerueliem from earlier, which basically didn't have minds aside from when he ASSUMED CONTROL. That said, he's got a wonderful design for emoting in a fight. We really get a hint that this version's a bit more axe crazy than his dad.
I am liking that there seems to be a definite benefit to Zaddy for this fight in being a hybrid. His guiding intelligence is smarter, but the Cherubim on average seem to have more firepower than their equivalents (compare Sachiel to Raziel and the most recent Cherub to Matariel, specifically) but less intelligence. As a result, Zadkiel has his former kin's firepower and possibly regenerative capability, and Zeruel's smarts (though it's questionable how much use someone with Zeruel's sheer firepower has for "tactics").
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."