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This guy is a certified monster as he took on Killer Mode Dowan as an equal however since he is one of the earlier members to be introduced and defeated he is logically the weakest/one of the weaker members alongside the copycat and shooter girl.

It’s understandable why the association which has more high ranking members is ducking them…

I don’t know why but I think the black knight is gonna be one of the strongest.

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Daniel is somehow the most plot-relevant character in Lookism while also feeling weirdly irrelevant
Something I find really interesting about Lookism is how Daniel is simultaneously the protagonist and, in a weird way, an outsider to a huge portion of the story.
In most stories, even with a large cast, the protagonist is usually at the center of the character relationships. They have their main rival, best friend, villains, mentors, love interests, etc. A lot of the lore eventually circles back to the MC.

Lookism doesn't really work like that.
Daniel obviously drives a massive amount of the overall plot, but a huge amount of the actual character-driven storytelling happens without him and has very little to do with him personally.
Daniel's most personal villains are probably Jiho and now James. But compare that to the webs of relationships other characters have:

Kitae → Jake
Gun → Johan, Goo, Jake, etc.
Samuel → Jake and Big Deal
Eli → Warren
Johan → Zack/Mira
Jake → Jerry
Gun → Goo

And these aren't just random side relationships. They're the emotional cores of entire arcs.
Does Daniel even have the equivalent of an Eli/Warren, Jake/Jerry/Samuel, or Johan/Zack relationship?

He has people he's close to, obviously, but I don't think he has that one defining "this person's story is deeply intertwined with Daniel's" relationship that so many other major characters have.

The four crews are probably the biggest example. You can trace huge portions of their stories through characters who aren't Daniel:
Big Deal → Jake/Jerry/Sinu/Samuel/Kitae
God Dog → Johan/Zack/Mira
Hostel → Eli/Warren/etc.
Workers → Samuel/Eugene/Mandeok/Yuseong/etc.

Daniel is connected to all of these stories, but he isn't necessarily the emotional center of them.
That's what makes Lookism so unusual to me. Daniel is arguably the most plot-relevant character while being surprisingly socially and emotionally peripheral to a lot of the story.

He's almost the protagonist of the world rather than the protagonist of every individual character's story.
You can have huge stretches where Daniel barely appears, and the story can completely focus on someone else's rivalry, trauma, relationships and ambitions without it feeling like we've left the "main story."

That's also why there are so many characters who can feel like secondary protagonists. Jake, Johan, Eli, Samuel, Gun, Vasco, Zack, etc. can all temporarily become the main character of their own story.
Sometimes it doesn't feel like we're following Daniel and his supporting cast.

It feels like Daniel is one character living inside a much larger story, and we're following him because he's the person connecting all these otherwise separate stories together.

And honestly, I think that's one of the most interesting structural quirks of Lookism and I wonder if this exists in other stories? Even in something like Tower of God, Baam can be surrounded by hundreds of characters, but the story still feels fundamentally like Baam's story. The important relationships, mysteries, conflicts, and character developments eventually orbit around his journey. Even when Baam isn't physically present, you're usually watching events that are meaningfully connected to him.

Once Dowan unlocks his remaining seals and reaches the first level (rare class) and obtains the title of Promising Game Shuttle/Substitute Gamer, he'll be able to defeat the top fighters in his age group, like Sunjae andthe Traitor Executive. At that point, the thousands of sealed skills he has will finally become available.

The author also said that the main story only truly begins once Dowan unlocks his seals. That makes me think we'll start seeing much more dangerous villains on a national or even international scale—fighters on Jonathan's level or even stronger.

The current HQ members feel more like early-to-mid game bosses. Even at his current level, Dowan can already keep up with them and is only slightly below them overall. Because of that, it makes sense that the series will introduce enemies and allies who are far stronger than people like Sunjae and Minyul.

I'm only bringing this up because I've seen a lot of people saying Sunjae is on the same tier as Dowan's dad, and I just don't see that being the case given the direction the story seems to be heading.

I’m not gonna lie Matthias not blowing Peter to smithereens in such close quarters is ragebait. I understand Peter is the mc and has to win but then don’t introduce such a broken character…

Except heat mode ofc

Bro has an unrivaled path, UI and copy. Any one of them at its peak level is enough to place him above any characters dead or alive but he has all three and more and a foreshadowed extra path and masteries to gain…

This is why I never understand the argument of people putting EOS Daniel relative to Gap/James.