u/Minute_Reach_4041

It's a subcat of social intelligence, trust.

Also it should only be in methodology scaling so the dark aura has to affect you 🫵 not just be stated by the author.

For example Li Gang at the peak of volume 2 when all the anger emanated from his blood vessels and the dark aura escaped from his veins, causing the world to tremble in fear. Peak moment in Vile Dominion.

Another example is Yuuichi who emanates dark aura in literally every page. The scene where the room went dark and he wrapped a knife around that guy's neck, truly a top tier in this category.

Fang Yuan scales high in this *intelligence* category too. Literally canon: "To be detached from all living things, detached from the sense of time." thought Fang Yuan while emanating a pitch black aura that encompassed the cave and made the creatures of the night shiver, fearing the pressure of his sigma energy.

Ayanokouji is also not that bad in this category.

Any other characters you know that scale high?

First you have the FN Light glazer. Ts guy literally made multiple alt accounts to glaze his own novel and thought we wouldn't notice. "I am officially going to let my friend write FN Light" brother you are the friend.

And then you have the Chen Ran fans arguing against everyone that doubts the logic of his deductions. "He deduced the hair colour of my great grandson's best friend in the 17th parallel universe while he had half his brain missing by using a passage from Journey to the West to keep himself sane and the pitch of my voice to deduce my descendants but it's logically explained bro!"

And then you have the Baku glazer that refuses to believe the new Chinese characters scale above Usogui, after reading like 2 chapters. Maybe he didn't even reach chapter 2 because that's where the reinterpretation of chapter 1 happens and based on his words, he still misunderstands chapter 1. This guy read half a chapter and decided Baku negs. This is like arguing against someone about which food tastes better when you haven't even eaten one of them.

And then you have the Death Note glazers in big 2026. Ts story was written 20 years ago and has more plot holes than 18LoH. Whenever a death note fan finds a plot hole in the manga, they ignore the intention of the author and call it a supernatural reasoning feat but whenever someone downplays the verse, they say it's invalid because the author didn't intend it.

And then you have the stop scalers. You can have "Jin Huang > Akiyama" and the stop scalers will be there to police the way you scale just because Akiyama's feats are more "logical and realistic"

Why do Akiyama fans even use a scaling system when they're going up against grounded verses like COTE? You don't even need a scaling system to win, just learn to argue better. The diff is going to be higher without a scaling system but nobody is going to discuss with you if you don't make the compromise.

And then you have the Sora fans in the big 2026. Pack it up dawg. These guys are even weirder than the COTE fanbase and the story has even worse writing than Liar Game.

And then you have the Fang Yuan glazers. They go up against omniscient characters, "only methodology bro only methodology!" Then the moment they go up against a grounded verse like Liar Game or Death Note, they switch back to normal scaling to say volume 1 Fang Yuan negs. It's over for FY, he's not top 1 in ANY system. He's not even top 10 in China anymore. The novel isn't even top 1 in writing because it doesn't even have an ending 🙏

And then you have the Vile Dominion glazers (the author's alt accounts). Brother... you're eliminating 90% of the potential readers by using that slop cover and having all the boring infodumping within the first few chapters of every volume. It's better to disperse it throughout the narrative.

And then you have the Ayanokouji glazers. Ayanokouji could say "spread your legs" and these guys will list 53 categories that it upscales. I heard someone even wrote a Harry Potter book length document glazing Ayanokouji.

And then you have the Chinese SCD glazers finding 700 SCD victimizers per day with an everchanging top 1. "Bro Chen Chong scales above Chen Qing who victimizes Chen Yang's cousin Chen Ran who happens to be the mainstream SCD victimizer by 17 layers of no diff." "Bro read this please bro Ang Xiao is the top 1 in logical scaling!" a few months later and we now have Ang Xiao getting victimised by 7 newly introduced characters.

And then you have the Doctor Who fans. "Bro comp doctor is insane! If you include the 7356 TV episodes, 2988 books, 46875 short stories, and 34 stage plays, he's going to become your top 1 in SCD pleaaaasee bro PLEASE watch them all from the start you're not gonna regret it."

And then you have that Zero Escape fan who can scale Akane as high as he wants because all of you are jobless and none of you can afford to buy the game to refute his takes.

The top part was just me joking but this bottom part is serious so listen closely because you might find it useful:

High IQ = truth-loving, low IQ = truth-aversion.

If you get annoyed when all these characters (such as the Chinese ones) that neg your favourite verse pop up, so you intentionally look for points to hate on them without having seen the works yourself (such as claiming it has bad writing without reading a single chapter or arguing irritatedly that they don't scale as high as your fave without having enough information to make this judgement), this is aversion to truth and a sign that you are low IQ.

If you hate something because it feels "bad" rather than actually being "incorrect" so you refuse to try and understand it because it contradicts your core biases/beliefs, thus closing off your mind and treating it as a joke or invalid, this is also a sign that you are low IQ (an example of this could be "evil" characters that scale high)

If the truth makes your heart jolt, try to understand why you feel that way. Maybe the "truth" is false and you're correct, but maybe your heart jolted because you felt like the truth was a threat to what you think you already know.

I know most of you guys aren't actually all that serious about the glaze so this is specifically on people who get super angry and threatened and irritated at the truth, turning off their minds from understanding anything too complex or counterintuitive when it goes against their previous ideas, people who dumb down the opponent's argument to treat it like a joke, people who strawman every time they are corrected despite knowing they are misrepresenting an argument. Don't make SCD your obstinate worldview.