What is your favorite scar-motivation combo?
Do you know how to increase the relationship stat with mortum in book 2? I cant get it higher than 47
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Aside from making sure to interact with Dr Mortum intentionally, there arenât that many opportunities to raise the relationship%, though your score with Mortum from Rebirth should be better than 40% if you were at the very least friendly with themâŠ
âYoinkâ helps with that, but only if you do the right thing after. 
The main way I get it done is getting the good doctorâs gun for them personally, while also having a puppet/Shroud encounter that I have Mortum investigate. When learning what Dr Mortum learns about Ace (after very specifically planning to hand the gun over as yourself, and not the puppet), you may lose a point or two, but tell the truth (the tat truth!) & agree to meet. The next steps are more specific, but agreeing reluctantly to let them examine your tats, and then saying that âI didnât (know I had a choice)â earns the most points in terms of respect. You see, while the good doctor has yet to say anything about themselves to this extent, they know a thing or two about respect, and boundaries not being respected. Youâve gotta trust Dr Mortum first, essentiallyâwhich is a character break for many 'steps, and honestly doesnât help the more paranoid ones to relax, but⊠It is the right thing to do if you want Mortum to consider being a little more open later on.
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I did what you recomended and I raised the friendship stat up to 64.
Despite the former villain life and the"rub people out" routine I am very surprised at the sheer unexpected depth of doctor Mortum towards a Re-geneâŠ
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What is the Catastrofiend???
It seems to scare mc a lot
This is understating the true horror of it, but⊠The Catastrofiend, so named for itâs incredibly dangerous nature, is essentially a boost that kept surviving taking the boost drug. Keep in mind that thereâs slightly better than a 95% fatality rate when just boosting once⊠Now add in what must certainly be a sociopathic mindset about the value of life, and you start to get a very ugly picture without the terribly mutated (and mutilated by many mods) body. My own assessments say thisâit is not a stupid creature. It is powerful enough to be almost on par with a natural disaster level threat. It survived the effects of quantum decayâŠand still recognized Sidestepâs mental imprint if released in the underground area with Lady Argent.
If you donât consider these things disturbing at the least, then youâre either more ready to deal than your mc, or just a tad on the naive side. I would not for anything underestimate thatâŠthing. 
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Oh god damn,no wonder sidestep is scared shitless of that thing
I tried fighting it once with Argent,once with mortum.I got a bleeding shoulder for my trouble
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Direct questions can be asked more directly through the DMs, but I can still answer here if you prefer.
Anyway⊠I donât know the precise reasons behind why Malin created the scar mechanic. Sounds like a good ask you could pose over on Rebirthâs tumblr page, actually.
In a sense, one use for it is that any player can replay Rebirth to create a character they can consider a more âcanonâ mc for their own interpretations of the story. Maybe even one that just sounds interesting to role-play as, though all need to be treated with a level of solemn maturity for what they really represent. The scars, such as they are, add flavor text to give a consistent tone to the winding story of the Fallen Hero.
In the case of the Revenge scar, but nothing will stop this motivated bastard from ending the farm, and all its associates no matter how inconsequentially âinnocentâ they might be. This is reflected in more angry, spite-filled lines giving voice to the mcâs background thoughts at key moments in their private internal narrative.
On the opposite end of the scale, those with the Outsider or âOne More Dayâ scar might prefer to be more anonymous, even choosing to disappear quietly at some point once their goal of flipping the farm the bird first has been met.
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1.The âOne more dayâ scar is called suicidal
2. What about the other scars?
3. Thank you for your suggestion,I will consider it
For your 1, itâs pretty easy to see that you couldnât understand my aversion to casually throwing that particular word around. That said, Iâll let it slide. 
As for 2⊠Although I can still give some minor specifics, the remaining three scars are pretty self-explanatory. With the exception of maybe âHungerâ. For that one, related flavor text reveals it is like having greed for all things, and is quite possibly the scar with the biggest ego to burn.
The last two, Friendless and Puppetmaster are fairly straightforward, with an almost âequal oppositesâ pull to their characteristics.
The Friendless scar operates under the assumption that having any real, or substantial connections with others isnât possible because they believe they arenât real.
Puppetmaster is the scar of the twisted manipulator. Opposed to Friendless, mcâs with this scar are actually pretty close to being as fake as they believe, thinking the only way to get what they want is through forced (or subtle) control of others.
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I understand that using that particular word is a touchy subject, but my curiosity and honest nature got the better of me there
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me: does not care much about Marshal Steel
Malin Rydén: adds all those cute scenes with Spoon
me: 
On a spoilery note though, how would his relationship with female MC play out, considering the fact that heâs gay? Just friendship, then? Do you think romancing Chen should be gender-locked?
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As of right now heâs only for male MCs, donât know if Malin is still thinking of allowing female MCs as well.
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This will always be a touchy subject for people, but I definitely think that Chen, being a canonly gay man, should remain genderlocked to male Sidesteps, and itâs my understanding that Malin has no intention to make him available to female Sidesteps or Julia.
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I do know if you try to romance him as a female, you do get one of the funniest lines in the game.
At least I thought it was funny, while trying to follow him into the locker room.
You know Iâm gay right?
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Yeah, that cracked me up a bit. Also, their last interaction in the demo ended with MC being like âwell, at least his dog likes meâ. lmaoo
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Totally see your point. Weâll see how it turns out in the full game, I guess.
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YeahâŠ
Spoon is the most important character
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Fallen Hero seems to be a very intense, high-stakes game where our faves can get badly hurt because of our actions. However, if anything happens to Spoon, Iâll riot. I canât even happily beat Chen up anymore because I know Spoon will be sitting at doggy daycare all confused, upset and worried.
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If anything happens to Spoon, my main Sidestep will kill everyone in the room and then himself. Which is honestly sort of the path heâs already on, but⊠I hadnât even considered what happens to Spoon if Chen dies, and as soon as my Step has that realization himself, heâs going to be like âohâŠoh no.â
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