>Dang, even as a fake knockoff Wyrm we could have permakilled the immortal Ellery? Why is God so OPReal Ellery isn't immortal per se, just immune to pain and physical harm thanks to his lack of a real body. (His visible body is always a construct/"skin" made of paper.) He's also resistant to psychological harm because he's Ellery and extremely jaded. However, if you're able to get inside the "skin," he has strings like everybody else, and futzing with the strings can seriously mutilate, damage, or kill him exactly the same as everybody else. See Nugget Ellery from Thread 19, plus how freaked out he gets when you grab the strings here:
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The reason he's survived intact so far despite this is that 1. most people can't see or manipulate strings without specialized tools, so it's usually a non-issue, 2. Ellery knows they're a weak point and will defend them viciously if he thinks they're being targeted, and 3. if they do get damaged, he's often able to perform a hacky repair job (see post-nugget Ellery with his hands put on backward). He can manipulate his own strings intuitively because he's half-unreal, plus generally "malleable." This also means that he could snap his own strings/himself out of existence whenever he wanted, but he stuck around originally because of Madrigal and, after that, because of his giant ego (it'd be embarrassing to die without it meaning anything) and desire for Fake Ellery to live on. As the BrainWyrm, it would've been completely trivial for you to snap his strings whether he liked it or not, and he was close-range enough that it could've even happened by accident. Hardly any god power needed.
