Soul Nomad & the World Eaters/Headscratchers

Why does Gig ask if a dream about a child that is explicitly called a boy being born is Revya's birth when she is female?

For that matter, why does the text "option" not have Revya note this?

because the player can choose Revya's gender at the start of the game, and as usual, the writer is assuming that the choice was male and the otherwise gender-neutral script flubbed up.
Isn't it the birth of Revya's past life as Median's child and not the current one? Who said that you had to keep the same sex in another life? Heck, the Gods even ask you what you want to be as you get reincarnated.
- Yes, but Revya (or Gig) has no way of knowing that.
- Gig is a master of death, the one person who knows the ins and outs of reincarnation. If it's possible at all to change gender through reincarnation, he would know it, even if only subconsciously. Plus, the dream wasn't his because he was never human so, he connected the dots.

How is it Odie wasn't accepted for domination when he used a false name but Levin was?

Seeing as he was really Raksha

It may be possible that domination works based on the identity of the host and not any extra inhabitants. Raksha, being the Manipulative Bastard he is, may have kept enough of Levin on hand to allow for domination in case he needed Gig's assistance, and finished consuming Levin when the trap had been sprung to sever any ties with Gig and keep his soul from being consumed.
- Odie doesn't submit to the name Dio. He believes his name is Odie. That is why he cannot consent with a fake name. It's the inverted case as Dio, whose real name isn't that but he adopts it as his own and Endorph, whose true name is Faded, his name as Chroma Oxide is Walnut, and his name in the Soul Nomad universe is Endorph. He recognizes the name 'Endorph' as his own. 'Levin' submits to the fake name because he believes the shell's name is the one that matters, and thus adopts it as his own for as long as he inhabits the shell. He tells Endorph to keep calling him Levin even after his true identity is revealed.
The same question goes for Gehstall/Median in the Demon Path
- He had no memories of his past as Lord Median, so at that point he did truly believe his name was Gehstall
It might have something to do with whether or not the individual in question actually thinks of that name as being his. Raksha played the role of Levin long enough that he may have actually considered it to be (one of) his actual name(s). Similarly, Gestahl may be an alias, but it's also the only name the man has answered to for centuries. It may also have something to do with the fact that neither of the latter two had a "real" counterpart out there with the same name; Raksha ate the real Levin's soul (which, come to think of it, could have had something to do with how he could be dominated under that name) and the only other Gestahl is an impostor, and a highly reluctant one at that. Odie, on the other hand, was impersonating Dio, and there was a real Dio to impersonate.

Why do people go on about how weak Odie is when he really kicks ass?

Stat wise, hes an above average member of the best mage class, yet people constantly go on about how weak he is. What gives?

Because he wasn't up to his family's standards. There was probably an insane amount of pressure placed on him from day one to live up to the Dio name, and Odie doesn't deal well with stress... In his ending, he's explictedly called a 'late bloomer'. He just needed time and patience, and unfortunately, that was likely in short supply when he was growing up. By the time his talent really started to blossom, it was too late: he had already made too many mistakes, was already considered the Black Sheep of the line, and had already spent years being told what a failure and screw-up he was. Weak protests aside, Odie appears to honestly believe he's basically hopeless, and let's face it: Revya's team isn't exactly made up of the most understanding people around...
- In short, he just believes he is useless, and being a pessimist about his own abilities makes him underplay them himself, and the rest of the crowd don't see his true potential.

Why is Tricia a Cloudcuckoolander in The Demon Path

Everyone else has a reason for snapping, but she comes alreddy crazy.

Trish's like that because the party was too late in saving her from Hawthorne, who in the Normal Story is revealed to have done the same thing to several other girls, raping and then murdering them on or just after their 17th birthday. The party got there to save her from the killing, but were too late on the rape. She basically went through what Caska went through in Berserk in a somewhat lesser degree.

Why protagonist's death is called Good Ending? in the Demon Path

There must be a reason why we have Protagonist-Centered Morality trope.

Median Bad Ending

Why does Median killing Virtuous destroy the world. The plot uses the reason in that Haephness losing its Master of Life and Master of Death destroys, but in the normal ending you do the exact same thing on Drazil, along with killing its ruler.

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