Okay, look.
The Blacksmith was defeated on account of Joe's legitimate command. Gravedigger was down to luck and Neon acting of her own accord. Counters would have been mulched to a man had she not set up those explosives without bothering to ask Joe for permission first.
The only other Tyrant that has been encountered by Joe and his teams is Chatterbox. Counters and Wardress got slapped around by Chatterbox in Vancouver while Joe ineffectually contributed literally nothing to the fight. Snow White showing up and saving their asses does not count as Joe being 'hypercompetent.' Nor does it count as Joe being 'hypercompetent' when he, again, contributed nothing to Scarlet dismembering Chatterbox without any direction from him whatsoever.
This has not happened, full-stop. The only Heretic that has been encountered so far is Modernia, who slam-jammed the asses of everyone but Rapi with no contest the instant she stopped toying with them, and Rapi had to flip the suicide switch to land a single effective hit on Modernia. Had Snow White not happened to be present, and had the Northern Base not been nearby and in possession of both a super-cooling maintenance bay and a stockpile of Rapture parts to jury-rig into replacement parts, Rapi would have died as a consequence of Joe's decision to pursue Modernia.
Which got the drop on the team to the point that defeating it necessitated Joe acting as an active combatant, which Commanders are never supposed to do owing to their defenseless nature. Sunny almost died saving him from this mistake as well. Again, Joe salvaged a bad situation he walked everyone into. Barely.
Again, something that has not happened, full-stop. The Outpost is, and always was held by humanity. It was just neglected and left undeveloped because the Central Government considered it to be of no worth, to the point that Andersen and Ingrid both had to alter records and throw their weight around to make it look like the CentGov had left a massive, gaping hole in the Ark's defenses by not actively manning it. Considering that the Outpost was just left sitting unattended for a whole-ass century without Raptures getting into the Ark through it, evidence would suggest that it actually really wasn't all that important too.
It's been noted that Mighty Tools has been helping with this. To the point that Joe has been effectively rubber stamping paperwork for Liter so she can largely operate on her own perogotive and with minimal oversight afterwards. The most he's done besides that in terms of administrative work is basic budgeting, because Nikkes aren't legally allowed to do that to begin with.
With minimal actual resistance aside from the aforementioned Lord class, because there weren't many Raptures actually inhabiting the Oregon Lost Sector in the first place. There being a second Harmony Cube was dumb luck, not a stroke of genius on Joe's part.
Again, dumb luck. Especially given that if Snow White and Scarlet hadn't happened to have been actively hunting down Chatterbox in the Arctic at the time, Chatterbox would have escaped from Counters with Joe in hand with ease. A situation Joe found himself in to begin with because of how sloppily he approached and handled the entire operation in the Arctic the moment they stepped into the field.
Because Joe displays basic competence on top of having the Devil's luck. This is less attributable to him being an amazing Commander, and more his just not being a gussied-up pig to be paraded before the masses before being literally thrown to the wolves by the Central Government.
Goddess was also able to flat-out retake London, England from the Raptures in the middle of the IRI before the surface was entirely abandoned by the United Forces of Humanity. Hence the note that Goddess as a whole was knighted by the British Crown by Ludmilla. To say nothing of pushing the entirety of the Rapture invasion force back from Mexico to the Orbital Elevator in South America, which was also their initial invasion point.
Eden is a reproductive dead end. It does not have the population to sustain long-term human development without severe reproductive bottlenecking. This considering that 99/100 of all women that join Eden are Nikkes, and are therefore not capable of reproduction in the first place at that.
Bro, the fic is called "Only Human" for a reason.
Correct, which is why he's on the "Plotting to overthrow the oppressively authoritarian regime and install a competent government that actually cares for it denizens, retaking the surface, and the survival of humanity" side of the argument, which you would know if you actually read the story.
That's kinda what the commander is in canon? I don't know, since most of the time the Nikkes are the ones doing the fighting than him leading them. Maybe later he actually started leading them? But the guy had amnesia at the start, but still managed to defeat Blacksmith at the prologue, technically since it was Anis and Rapi who defeated it. But I can safely assume that Nikkes have some form of tactics and strategies downloaded in their NIMPH.
This is probably the most loaded question in the whole story kek
Don't we all man, don't we all
To be fair, after Wordless lore drops, it's moreso forced therapy than a cannon.
The thought hurt him so much he apparently had a stroke mid sentence.
Yeah.
Pretty sure that's part of the problem, didn't baka say this isn't a harem story , so it kinda looks like Joe is leading those girls on unintentionally by innocently flirting slash teasing which might be excused except these are nikke who tend to have some pretty shit prospects romantically for the straight women.
