Commentary on Chapter 12

[zojojojo]

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Well, we know that Doug primarily powers his effects off internal energy, but is also able to pull power out of a node when needed.
How about setting up the world's paradigm so that either there's _lots_ of "ambient" mana for him to use, or a world where belief is all that's needed to power magic. Either way, that would get around the current limitation by changing the rules of the game so to speak. The issue with consistancy is more important within each paradigm, and not between them...

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Hexe (and Doug) mention that he normally powers the simulacra himself. He can, apparently chug raw mana to summon them (something he really needed to do with Hexe) but he's the battery for these little RC units. More ambient mana may let him summon more simulacra, but then he'd still have to power them all... and apparently he just doesn't have the juice to do that and chew gum at the same time...
The belief angle is interesting... as long as he believes he can power the doubles, he can but once it's pointed out that he shouldn't be able to, either he collapses from exhaustion or they fade... kind of like Bugs walking off a cliff and not falling because he "never studied law" I don't know of a convinent universe for that, though... except maybe Escaflown...
-Z
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programms, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
-Z, Post-reader at Medium
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If architects built buildings the way programmers write programs, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.