Cross-type comparison · authority vs physical · ranking may not be meaningful
Character DNA · Head-to-Head
Shapes, not totals. The hero you worship defines who you are.
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
SATOU PENDRAGON
YPS-7 · World Ender
Finger Test
💭
Thought alone
Vacationing in a near-omnipotent loadout. Power deliberately obscured for plot leisure.
VS
POWER40 / 25GROWTH100 / 80DARKNESS60 / 24BONDS100 / 60EGO45 / 15LUCK36 / 36
Character DNA · 6 Dimensions
The Rising of the Shield Hero
FILO
YPS-2 · Awakened
POWER40 / 25GROWTH100 / 80DARKNESS60 / 24BONDS100 / 60EGO45 / 15LUCK36 / 36
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
SATOU PENDRAGON
YPS-7
Finger Test
💭
The Rising of the Shield Hero
FILO
YPS-2
Analysis
YPS-7
Dominant power gap
YPS-2
DNA edges — character identity, not combat power
who they fight for+40
moral cost they'll pay+36
self-determination and identity+30
Satou PendragonvsFilo

Comparing a physical combatant to an authority-based entity renders YPS tiers functionally irrelevant. Filo operates at YPS-2, while Satou exists at YPS-7; this gap means any direct comparison of capability is a category error. The real insight lies in their shared Growth score of 100, which reveals a fundamental divergence in how the genre treats evolution. For Filo, growth is a trajectory of emergent sentience. She evolves from a mindless monster into a Filolial Queen, moving from a tool of the Shield Hero to a partner with her own emotional weight. Her growth is an ascent into personhood. Satou uses his growth to achieve the opposite: invisibility. He leverages his vast capacity for improvement not to climb a social or political hierarchy, but to construct a domestic sanctuary in Labyrinth City. While Filo grows to claim a place in the world, Satou grows to curate the world from the sidelines. The disparity in their Darkness scores emphasizes this tension. Filo’s zero-cost growth reflects her role as a symbol of purity and loyalty, whereas Satou’s higher moral cost stems from the detachment required to treat a living world as a sandbox. One evolves to become a protagonist in her own right, while the other evolves to become a benevolent, invisible landlord.

Satou Pendragon
Dimension
Filo
Editor
40
Community
POWER
destructive ceiling
+15
Editor
25
Community
Editor
100
Community
GROWTH
trajectory & arc
+20
Editor
80
Community
Editor
60
Community
DARKNESS
moral cost willingness
+36
Editor
24
Community
Editor
100
Community
BONDS
loyalty weight
+40
Editor
60
Community
Editor
45
Community
EGO
self-determination
+30
Editor
15
Community
Editor
36
Community
LUCK
narrative protection
Editor
36
Community
Cast Your Vote · 6 DimensionsCommunity pulse
SATOU PENDRAGONLeft
Power40
Growth100
Darkness60
Bonds100
Ego45
Luck36
FILORight
Power25
Growth80
Darkness24
Bonds60
Ego15
Luck36

Archetype breakdowns and dispute court land in later phases.