User blog comment:Dragon-Fox 7/Character Sheet/@comment-28016063-20170715124734/@comment-4867780-20170717082945

It's true you can reasonably call yourself when you can wrestle with gods - and win ^ ^;

The key difference/justification is that Dragon's version of humanity is based on the idea of limitless potential, that anything is truly achievable if you really put your heart into it and never gives up, a very popular theme in fiction that John's character pushed to its logical conclusion.

According to his version, humanity as we know it is a starting point rather than a condition, so by transcending yourself to greater height you don't lose your humanity but rather realize it, just like a caterpillar doesn't give up its nature by turning into a butterfly, but instead realizes this very nature, by unlocking its true potential that was always there.