#imagine having the power of rover and the body and power of sentinel jue

[uncreative-cryptid]

about your post about echos and people fusing, im pretty sure thats what the fractsidus are doing.

there was one sidequest in mt firmament where, iirc, they go fuse a guy with one of those lightcrusher things (im pretty sure it failed but i cant remember very well lol).. and in a few quests, specifically that one tutorial quest with the big tree, there are echoes who are friendly and have their own personalities.. so i think its definitely possible that an echo and a person willingly fuse with each other, and a cool concept worth exploring

well - yes and no.

OH BOY YOU'VE ACTIVATED MY UBER INSTINCTS, OBSERVE:

you see, in pokemon sun/moon, said antagonist was entirely conscious (albeit probably off the deep end), the entire time they were fused with said pokemon. that being said, given pokemon's history of alluding that some of the monsters are fully sentient and conscious (and maybe once formerly humans), the specific pokemon was also very aware and conscious of this action. (i wont go into the deep dive of this game really, it's my favorite but i wont lore dump here)

that being said, the side quest does in fact clue us in that they are trying to fuse people and tacet discords.

but i think there's a few things to note here that draw the biggest differences between pokemon and wuthering waves:

not all tacet discords seem sentient, and there actually only seems to be a handful that are fully conscious and capable of thought/emotion.

tacet discords have a very particular nature in most of what we see: they are hungry, always. in order to sustain form, they must consume frequencies, often driving them to kill and destroy others in order to consume and stabilize themselves.

the fractsidus are shown to take participants, willing or not. i would not call "apprehension to fuse with a monster" exactly willingly or, in the case of the pokemon story, enthusiastic. they're willing to do a lot of shady shit regardless of subject's feelings, including coercing one of their own.

possible? yes. stable? highly unlikely.

in mt. firmament, they fused a lightcrusher with a, for lack of better term, "brawn over brain" kind of guy, who was not exactly nearly as enthusiastic as the others. something i feel important to also note is that none of the others were exactly jumping at the chance.

i think in order for it to actually be useful, and work, you'd need a tacet discord with basically sentinel levels of consciousness and understanding - or at the least, the mourning aix's understanding and intelligence, with someone who is also willing and accepting of the realities of what they could become.

in essence, you need both parties to be "on the same frequency" so to speak.

with current set of tacet discords, i don't think it'd be possible to be stable, and i imagine it will end the same way it did with the fractsidus and lightcrusher: you're killing two frequencies in one body.

i do think that in certain areas with certain tacet discords it's definitely a high probability but can't help but wonder how stable that the frequencies will remain, and if the human inside the fusion will suddenly realize their predicament and become panicked.

truly an ant realizes the universe type madness, i feel.

anyways, take what i say with a grain of salt. i have lots of thoughts and lots of interest in this subject and i am definitely not a scientist working for the fractsidus clearly, obviously, right? right.

:] thanks for making me think about this though, i have much to consider on how this would work.