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dmxrated...even cheating death and bringing each other back to life when one of us got killed. Not that getting killed was awesome, of course."
(-Mondo, during Mondo and Rokuna's BIG Date.)
Before I get started, let's take two things into account here:
1)Unlike in the anime, cartoon physics will not apply to Monster Collection Chronicles. Yeah, that was exactly how Eccentro and Batch survived so many things that would normally kill someone, as well as how Mondo survived Rockna's lightning bolts each time he hit up on (or in some cases, simply mentioned) other girls, but such would not be the case in MCC.
2)Considering that, even minus cartoon physics, Mondo and Rockna are somewhat stronger, faster, and more agile than the average human being (and this will also apply to the other Knights in my ficseries), it should be no surprise that they'd also be able to take more damage than a normal human, but even then, there would be a limit to just how much they'd be able to withstand.
3)Keep in mind that whereas such a trick would probably not work as to threaten a single person's life, Mondo and Rockna didn't have the necessary magic to resurrect someone when Redda held an imposter Rockna at swordpoint while demanding the Monster Items.
4)Here is the entry that describes the new abilities and who first unlocks each of them. Needless to say, Healing is the one that will be discussed the most here.
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Okay, let me start with the fact that while anyone that dies in most anime dies permanently (with some exceptions), any playable characters in an RPG that get killed can just be resurrected with an item or spell, as long as said death is not plot-related. (In novelizations, such non-plot-related deaths usually never happen.)
But anyway, just yesterday, I (re-)read this Earthbound one-shot titled And After, which I actually first read last December. The point behind it is that main character Ness (and his friends) in fact did get killed in too many ways to count during their adventure, and this had really left him traumatized beyond belief. That includes during the early parts of the game, when he has no allies to take care of him. Guess how he lives to fight another day?
Well anyway, if that fic is anything to go by, then I suppose that it could be possible to enable anyone in Monster Collection Chronicles to bring each other back from the dead, even if the means of death was being vaporized, eaten alive, trapped in a void, or blown into a million gory pieces. Of course, there would have to be limitations to this, so as to avoid God Mode Sue:
When healing is first learned, all it's capable of is healing flesh wounds. Usually, the energy needed to do this (or other things listed in the entry) can only be recovered by either getting a good night's rest (for a full recovery), consuming some kind of item or another (amount recovered may vary), or finishing an enemy with an Aerial Strike (finisher and all comrades gain a partial recovery after the fight). As the Knights continue to fight during the fic, they become stronger, can heal more severe injuries, and heal more times a day. However, do take into account that the Knights use the same energy for doing things such as transformations, speed- and strength boosts, etc., which makes said energy easier to deplete.
Another limitation is that resurrection must take place within 24 hours of death, and must take place either where the body is located or brought, or if there is no body to treat, where the person in question was killed.
Furthermore, only Professor McKnight or anyone directly under his command are able to use these powers. If everyone on a given mission dies or otherwise finds themselves in too much of an emergency, McKnight will summon them back wherever he is. He's the only person who can restore someone to life without being wherever they died.
With a limit mentioned on how much special energy any of the Knights can carry at a time, if people were getting killed left and right in any given place, it wouldn't be possible for them to restore everyone to life. If anyone they knew happened to be among those that died, they would definitely give them treatment first, before treating anyone else. However, it would still be wise to first deal with whoever is doing the killing, since many useful techniques in battle require the same energy that healing requires.
Limitations aside, while it's a good thing that the Knights could manage each other and their friends this way, the idea of being killed so many times is quite traumatic, needless to say. There will probably be scenes in which each of the Knights involuntarily reminisces on how many ways they died throughout at least the first fic. This would go to show that each of them would likely be ever closer to losing their will to continue fighting. (If this were a game, the Game Over screen would have McKnight speaking to the last person to die in a given battle after having resurrected him or her. He or she is then asked whether they have the will to try again; a yes answer would have him or her strike a pose of determination and say something dramatic; a no answer would have him or her break down, possibly burst into tears, and beg for the whole thing to stop.)
Even with the ability to restore life, there are situations in which the Knights have only one chance to successfully avert disaster. If everyone dies or has to retreat in any mission at all, that essentially means Mission: Failed. If it's a time-sensitive one, still alive or not, there will be no second chance, and the results could be especially dire.
Finally, what would likely be the most notable instances of Killed Off For Real would take place before the second fic's final battle, and then as the end of said battle itself. After all twelve Knights enter the Nickelodeon Base, Takeshi kills Rockna's parents and McKnight from within the Giygaslayer before confronting the Knights inside the base. Whether the NYC outbreak has already started or not has yet to be decided. However, since McKnight was their only way out of the base, that pretty much means they are now trapped inside, and as the battle ends, they will all perish inside the base as Derek destroys it from inside. This will then lead to the events in the third fic, which takes place 100 years into the future when the Knights are reborn.
(-Mondo, during Mondo and Rokuna's BIG Date.)
Before I get started, let's take two things into account here:
1)Unlike in the anime, cartoon physics will not apply to Monster Collection Chronicles. Yeah, that was exactly how Eccentro and Batch survived so many things that would normally kill someone, as well as how Mondo survived Rockna's lightning bolts each time he hit up on (or in some cases, simply mentioned) other girls, but such would not be the case in MCC.
2)Considering that, even minus cartoon physics, Mondo and Rockna are somewhat stronger, faster, and more agile than the average human being (and this will also apply to the other Knights in my ficseries), it should be no surprise that they'd also be able to take more damage than a normal human, but even then, there would be a limit to just how much they'd be able to withstand.
3)Keep in mind that whereas such a trick would probably not work as to threaten a single person's life, Mondo and Rockna didn't have the necessary magic to resurrect someone when Redda held an imposter Rockna at swordpoint while demanding the Monster Items.
4)Here is the entry that describes the new abilities and who first unlocks each of them. Needless to say, Healing is the one that will be discussed the most here.
-----
Okay, let me start with the fact that while anyone that dies in most anime dies permanently (with some exceptions), any playable characters in an RPG that get killed can just be resurrected with an item or spell, as long as said death is not plot-related. (In novelizations, such non-plot-related deaths usually never happen.)
But anyway, just yesterday, I (re-)read this Earthbound one-shot titled And After, which I actually first read last December. The point behind it is that main character Ness (and his friends) in fact did get killed in too many ways to count during their adventure, and this had really left him traumatized beyond belief. That includes during the early parts of the game, when he has no allies to take care of him. Guess how he lives to fight another day?
Well anyway, if that fic is anything to go by, then I suppose that it could be possible to enable anyone in Monster Collection Chronicles to bring each other back from the dead, even if the means of death was being vaporized, eaten alive, trapped in a void, or blown into a million gory pieces. Of course, there would have to be limitations to this, so as to avoid God Mode Sue:
When healing is first learned, all it's capable of is healing flesh wounds. Usually, the energy needed to do this (or other things listed in the entry) can only be recovered by either getting a good night's rest (for a full recovery), consuming some kind of item or another (amount recovered may vary), or finishing an enemy with an Aerial Strike (finisher and all comrades gain a partial recovery after the fight). As the Knights continue to fight during the fic, they become stronger, can heal more severe injuries, and heal more times a day. However, do take into account that the Knights use the same energy for doing things such as transformations, speed- and strength boosts, etc., which makes said energy easier to deplete.
Another limitation is that resurrection must take place within 24 hours of death, and must take place either where the body is located or brought, or if there is no body to treat, where the person in question was killed.
Furthermore, only Professor McKnight or anyone directly under his command are able to use these powers. If everyone on a given mission dies or otherwise finds themselves in too much of an emergency, McKnight will summon them back wherever he is. He's the only person who can restore someone to life without being wherever they died.
With a limit mentioned on how much special energy any of the Knights can carry at a time, if people were getting killed left and right in any given place, it wouldn't be possible for them to restore everyone to life. If anyone they knew happened to be among those that died, they would definitely give them treatment first, before treating anyone else. However, it would still be wise to first deal with whoever is doing the killing, since many useful techniques in battle require the same energy that healing requires.
Limitations aside, while it's a good thing that the Knights could manage each other and their friends this way, the idea of being killed so many times is quite traumatic, needless to say. There will probably be scenes in which each of the Knights involuntarily reminisces on how many ways they died throughout at least the first fic. This would go to show that each of them would likely be ever closer to losing their will to continue fighting. (If this were a game, the Game Over screen would have McKnight speaking to the last person to die in a given battle after having resurrected him or her. He or she is then asked whether they have the will to try again; a yes answer would have him or her strike a pose of determination and say something dramatic; a no answer would have him or her break down, possibly burst into tears, and beg for the whole thing to stop.)
Even with the ability to restore life, there are situations in which the Knights have only one chance to successfully avert disaster. If everyone dies or has to retreat in any mission at all, that essentially means Mission: Failed. If it's a time-sensitive one, still alive or not, there will be no second chance, and the results could be especially dire.
Finally, what would likely be the most notable instances of Killed Off For Real would take place before the second fic's final battle, and then as the end of said battle itself. After all twelve Knights enter the Nickelodeon Base, Takeshi kills Rockna's parents and McKnight from within the Giygaslayer before confronting the Knights inside the base. Whether the NYC outbreak has already started or not has yet to be decided. However, since McKnight was their only way out of the base, that pretty much means they are now trapped inside, and as the battle ends, they will all perish inside the base as Derek destroys it from inside. This will then lead to the events in the third fic, which takes place 100 years into the future when the Knights are reborn.