After Jacky Magus essentially switches places with Dev and sacrifices himself, how is it that Etienne still thinks Jacky is alive? Wouldn’t communicating to Jacky be impossible since he’s supposedly dead? Of course Etienne doesn’t know that but this part just confuses me
Valentina likely has a perfect memory, so her version in the new timeline probably has a very good idea of what is going to happen.
Heavy mentions that he was weak, at first, and could only do parlour tricks - that most superpowers actually began like that.
So Valentina likely knew when Heavy would appear, and thus when to hit him - be it through Etienne's influence or just literally hitting him - so he never becomes a superpower.
Magus is just a guy who knows a lot, but nearly powerless without the Pyramid - Valentina and Etienne could easilly prevent him from ever rising to power.
Without Magus, no Eliza selling her soul to Hell*
And Masumi... She would be the trickiest of them. But Valentina knows how old she was, even assuming Valentina didn't know her family or her exact date of birth - once Etienne knows what's at stake, he could likely prevent everyone in Japan from having sex for some years, in order to avoid Masumi's conception.
We would have a world without any superpower other than Valentina and Etienne.
Only three issues:
* Without Magus gatekeeping magic, people could find it by accident, and chaos would issue
* Eliza is/was/will be still burning in Hell. If she finds a way to influence the world...
* The Queen. Without anyone to help her, Valentina would not be able to stop the Queen.
(IMO, the Queen is Valentina after a few thousand failed loops - same power level, same kind of "polarity", trying to do good)
And about you? What do you think Valentina would try to do differently in the second loop?
Seen plenty of discourse of what may or may not change going forward now that Valentina intends to change the timeline, and how much she'll tell Eitenne in the first place.
But I actually think, considering this moment, that Valentina may not be able to even mention that she's got knowledge from the future.
There's precedent that taping into future knowledge has the consequence of a "quantum-collapsing effect", and at least Eitenne interpreted this as the loss of free will.
Now the circumstances aren't exactly the same, but I think this might give us a glimpse into how Etienne would react
Just something interesting that could pop back up. Wouldn't be the first time a small detail returns as a bigger plot point, like when it was mentioned off-handedly that Etienne turned off The Devil's powers, and then it turns out he had been doing this at a massive scale later.
I don't really understand the Magus.
I get that he is kind of a Dr Doom analogy, in some ways at least, but I don't understand what he IS.
In the scene where he stays down in hell, he says he understands the universe totally, and that he made magic from the leakage from heaven.
However if this is the case, WHY does he stay down in Hell and push Dev back out, and how can Dev act like him?! IS Dev as good as the Magus? Has he somehow BECOME the Magus?
I get there are gaps missing with all the Superpowers, but he seems to be the one who is the greatest mystery.