The point isn't really to harm Thugos, but to annoy him and cause chaos and confusion that can be used to formulate an escape. Sometimes plans have to be formed in small steps.





Lara didn't mean to enter combat with the Hooded Hood either when she used a similar trick on him. She just needed to keep him busy for a short time. She might be slightly more careful with Thugos though because she knows how far she can push the Hooded Hood, but not Thugos. She wouldn't want to cause a situation where he would set his mind to killing her, and she'd be forced to try to kill him first.





Noted. But also note that Lara is tricky sometimes, because she makes up her own options if she can. If she had to count how many times someone evil gave her a horrible choice to make she wouldn't have enough fingers and toes - so she learned to get creative.





So Lara might still have to try to destroy them both before they destroy the Parodyverse?





Like I said, Chiaki and Lara are experienced enough to think through every word they say. Liu Xi is smart, but she's still way too trusting sometimes.








Noted.





Okay then I have a different angle to think about this from: What if she was always meant to see what was on that wall? Then it changes her, but in a way that puts her on the path she was meant to be on. In other words, someone had much longer-ranging plans than Thugos did.

It might be Shema, it might be the Hooded Hood. Who knows?





Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she's immune to the wall or to the choices. Just that the results may come out differently when someone who doesn't naturally fit the rules of the Parodyverse comes in contact with someone that obeys the rules of the Parodyverse. There's a lot of possible variation.

But let's say there isn't, and she has to follow one of three paths: She has to die, she has to become part of the wall, or she has to become a new god.

Because Lara has the capability to turn herself into energy, she could theoretically become part of the wall, but then leave it as well. Her situation is unprecedented in that regard, so there are no rules, really. So let's say to avoid making it *that* easy, for some reason the wall won't want to absorb her kind of energy. That leaves the other two.

Out of the remaining two options, new gods are an extreme rarity. And Lara in particular has everything going against her as one - the Parodyverse simply may not accept her as a new god, and in that case, she dies.

So that makes it quite obvious Dark Thugos wants her out of the way, when all 3 options probably lead to her death. But rather than kill her himself, he wants to send her to the wonderwall, because that way he'll learn something in the course of her death.

But then there's the factor of what happened the last time someone tried to kill Lara. She was yanked out of danger by Shema. That leaves a 2nd possible option - that Thugos believes he will get to meet Shema if he forces Lara to do this. This could be shocking for Dark Thugos, because Shema will be expecting him.

And the last possible option I can think of is Thugos is expecting her to be yanked out of danger, but not to be able to return to the Parodyverse in time to stop whatever plans he has. Somehow he's predicted that Lara can stop him, and he wants to kill 2 birds with one stone - learn about the wonderwall, and get Lara out of the way temporarily.








That's my alternate theory to above. That the wonderwall has made gods out of people who visited it before, because they went to it seeking power. Those who died did so because whatever they seeked, they didn't measure up to the challenge.

Lara would go to the wall seeking not power, but wisdom to use to free her friends and stop Dark Thugos. That could make things interesting.








Noted.