> Astaro posts a very direct statement from the manga, confirming Gerard and Pernida had their abilities to begin with.
> "But Mustache gave them their SCHRIFTS, so those powers came from him".
That only means he gave them the LETTERS and NAMES of their abilities, based on what they ALREADY HAD (Askin's words).
Just for clarity's sake, their powers came from the Soul King whom they themselves are pieces of, not from Mustache.
Also
"The Almighty is itself an NLF"
Yeah maybe if you ignore all the times other abilities affect it, it fails to see something coming or even the time Mustache himself directly acknowledged that failing to instantly destroy Ichigo's Bankai is possible under normal circumstances (if one is lucky).
Yeah we should TOTALLY believe it would work on Universal characters, only MULTIVERSAL characters should be immune (for some reason).