E.L.F, Extraterrestrial Lifeform

Yes, but all numbers being equal, standing policy is Trumps>Thinkers>Everyone else.
Nope.
PRT Quest Google doc says, and I quote:
Thinker said:
Possesses enhanced knowledge, skills and/or perceptions beyond any reasonable norm. Includes clairvoyance, precognition, skill acquisition, enhanced hearing and enhanced sight.
Thinker capes, all numbers assumed to be equal, take the highest priority in engagements.
Master said:
Has the ability to control others. Can include degrees of control (swaying attitudes or emotions) and a wealth of controlled entities (individuals, animals, objects, created beings).
Numbers assumed to be equal, masters take second highest priority and are targeted first.
Shaker said:
Can affect a broader area, asserting some degree of control over the battlefield. May include gas, explosions, forcefields, and ambient or radiated effects.
General response is to spread out, minimizing the shaker's ability to affect multiple individuals at once.
Threat level 2+: Communicate shaker nature. Where possible, move or stagger fight locations with some regularity, to slow their ability to seize total command over a battlefield. Shaker-class threats take high priority, and can or should be baited out and taken out of action.
Thinker>>>Master>>Shaker>Everyone else.
 
This would mean that if they were hostile Taylor would be prioritized over Eidolon, which seems...strange to say the least.
This Taylor: Not really?
Canon Taylor: Only if her Master rating => Eidolon's Trump rating. I wouldn't be surprised if his rating was a notch above hers, if only for the sake of his ego.
 
This would mean that if they were hostile Taylor would be prioritized over Eidolon, which seems...strange to say the least.
Eidolon has to actually find you and use his powers to take you on. Theoretically, a Power Nullifier could be a threat against him. He can't be everywhere at once, and is ultimately only dangerous when faced head on.
Taylor could throw a paper airplane across the room, starting a chain of events that ends with the Emperor of China being assassinated. Taylor is a massive force multiplier for everyone on her team. Wildbow's "Undersider's vs the World" consists of roughly 90% "Tattletale solves the issue and takes out everyone" with the remainder being " and then Grue steals their power and beats them up.".

EDIT: Talking about ELF Taylor.
 
Nope.
PRT Quest Google doc says, and I quote:



Thinker>>>Master>>Shaker>Everyone else.
Yeah... Huh. Given that high-end Trumps can act as lynchpins or force-multipliers the same ways a high-end Thinker's assistance can...(depending on type). Of course there's also the complicating matter that Trumps tend to have secondary designations much as Tinkers do if they're grab-bag trumps.
 
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This would mean that if they were hostile Taylor would be prioritized over Eidolon, which seems...strange to say the least.
Well yeah.
Thinker 10+ precog and postcog means Eidolon gets social-fu'd into irrelevance, or even maneuvered into his own death.
Possibly the day before your attack, even.
We saw Scion do it to him in canon after all.

And do remember that Miss Militia killed Nega-Eidolon during the Echidna event.
Dude is bad, but he can be caught off-guard and worked around.
Especially since he tends to avoid Thinker powers because of the limited slot thing.

And Eidolon(or GU, for that matter) is not exactly typical for Trumps; you more often see people like Othala and Hatchet Face and Grue.
Powerful, but limited effect.
Even Butcher and Bonesaw are atypically powerful, and they're not exactly unstoppable.
 
And Eidolon(or GU, for that matter) is not exactly typical for Trumps; you more often see people like Othala and Hatchet Face and Grue.
Powerful, but limited effect.
Even Butcher and Bonesaw are atypically powerful, and they're not exactly unstoppable.
Bonesaw's a Tinker, not a Trump, with all the pros and cons that brings.

On that note, shouldn't Tinkers be higher than Shakers? Even ignoring Armsmaster's/Defiant's bullshit, higher-ranked tinkers are, well, you all know Clockblocker's catchphrase.
 
Nothing personal, but I would prioritize Taylor over the Triumvirate any day of the week. Thinker Level Yes means she knows what's going on and expects all your puny attempts at strategy before you realize you have a need for it. Her shaker and tinker rates mean she can hurt or defend against most if not all.
Alexandria: Brick with brains but refuses to use them consistently.
Legend: Ray gun with breaker state regen. Absorb or transmute energy is easy for Farseer. Also impossible to hit Taylor.
Eidolon: Biggest idiot in entire world. So much power, so much variety, common sense and tactics lost in shuffle. First step, aquire thinker ability to maximize and judge needed abilities. Second step, search for weaknesses in opponent, another thinker set. Third step, choose necessary power from gathered intel and let fly. Practice when not in combat sitch. Don't experiment while whaling on Endbringer. He is a putz.
 
Bonesaw's a Tinker, not a Trump, with all the pros and cons that brings.
Bonesaw has a Trump rating.
On that note, shouldn't Tinkers be higher than Shakers? Even ignoring Armsmaster's/Defiant's bullshit, higher-ranked tinkers are, well, you all know Clockblocker's catchphrase.
Take away their gear, and you shut them down.
Depends on the Tinker though; Bonesaw, for example, McGuyvered her way into a Brute, Trump and Master rating.
Probably Shaker as well, depending on which disease she's using.
 
Bonesaw has a Trump rating.
... What, because she used her Tinker power to alter herself to gain powers? By that logic, Bakuda's a Shaker and Armsmaster is a Trump.

... Do they actually do that? Sub-rate tinkers based on what they can build, I mean?
Take away their gear, and you shut them down.
Depends on the Tinker though; Bonesaw, for example, McGuyvered her way into a Brute, Trump and Master rating.
Probably Shaker as well, depending on which disease she's using.
Any tinker that has their gear taken away mid-combat isn't worth a rating above four.

Well, except for Dragon, but she's a special case.
 
... What, because she used her Tinker power to alter herself to gain powers? By that logic, Bakuda's a Shaker and Armsmaster is a Trump.

... Do they actually do that? Sub-rate tinkers based on what they can build, I mean
If it is something they regularly use in combat? Sometimes, yes. Really, it depends. If the tinker is changing their gear up often enough (like assmaster and dragon) then their tinker rating just gets boosted solely due to the unpredictable nature of the power.
Bonesaw, on the other hand, earned her brute sub-rating through her extensive cybernetic upgrades.
 
... What, because she used her Tinker power to alter herself to gain powers? By that logic, Bakuda's a Shaker and Armsmaster is a Trump.

... Do they actually do that? Sub-rate tinkers based on what they can build, I mean?

Well, yeah. I mean, the PRT ratings is not a 'how powerful' they are rating. It's a 'who do I shoot first, and with what?' rating. It's a threat rating, not a power rating.

Tinkers by their very nature, would probably have a rotating sub-rating, dependant on what equipment they are seen to have on them consistently. Hence, Bonesaw gets a Brute rating because she gave it to herself. And it would be really hard to impossible to take it away from her (without something like surgery or a power).
 
There can also be a bit of politics in threat assessments. Remember that canon Taylor at one point was told to be treated as if she had higher values in all ratings due her reprieved threat. Not impossible that this happens to other high profile capes like the S9.
 
There can also be a bit of politics in threat assessments. Remember that canon Taylor at one point was told to be treated as if she had higher values in all ratings due her reprieved threat. Not impossible that this happens to other high profile capes like the S9.

I think that the plus 2 in almost all ratings was to allow Tagg to use more measures against Skitter and as a warning to actually take her even more seriously.
 
What @ChandraMagic said.
Any tinker that has their gear taken away mid-combat isn't worth a rating above four.
Well, except for Dragon, but she's a special case.
Disagree strongly.

See Mannequin, who was strong enough to throw cars at people, and sneaky enough to get into a building guarded by Dragon.
And Defiant, who basically went all Raiden.
And Bonesaw, who survived an attempt to cut through her spine with nanothorns.
Or Lab Rat, who created formulas to transform people.

And the Indonesian cyborgs that Legend copped to fighting, who may or may not have been Tinkers, but were certainly built by one.
 
What @ChandraMagic said.
Disagree strongly.

See Mannequin, who was strong enough to throw cars at people, and sneaky enough to get into a building guarded by Dragon.
And Defiant, who basically went all Raiden.
And Bonesaw, who survived an attempt to cut through her spine with nanothorns.
Or Lab Rat, who created formulas to transform people.

And the Indonesian cyborgs that Legend copped to fighting, who may or may not have been Tinkers, but were certainly built by one.
... What do you disagree with, though? Unless I'm not remembering anything correctly, none of those had their gear taken away in the middle of combat.
 
When a person has had permanent body alterations?
It no longer counts as gear.
You can't disarm them without literally killing them.

Agreed. Having sub-ratings as a Tinker and Trump doesn't go against canon as far as I'm aware. And, as the PRT threat rating is just that, a threat rating I can see why they would use it.

Blaster 4? Use cover. Blaster 8? Keep moving, assume cover is worthless. Etc. It's short hand for what to do on the way to a battle. Their CO would likely explain minor details like what kind of power the blaster effect manifests as i.e. Fire, water, wind etc. so you can know what to do. Don't stand next to anything flammable, stay away from sources of water like fire hydrants, don't stand in door ways or in small tight spaces etc. to keep them from maximizing their threat.

Also on the topic of which things to attack first. Thinkers are force multipliers becuase they generally know exactly where to hit you. Masters are right below that because they are generally the ones that can hit you the easiest and in the most horrific ways. Take Regent for example, he can stare at you and cause you problems while blasters or shakers may take some time for their effects to reach the target, master powers are generally instant. They're also far more insidious in a fight and why Master-Stranger protocols are such a big deal. It's why a master who can control 100 bodies like zombies isn't nearly the same level of threat as a master able to perfectly control and mimic a single person's mannerisms and memories. A hundred zombies is something that can be taken care of with a single brute, a perfect spy releasing every little bit of dirt they have on you is far, far more dangerous and they should be prioritized first with extreme prejudice.
 
Bonesaw has a Trump rating.

Take away their gear, and you shut them down.
Depends on the Tinker though; Bonesaw, for example, McGuyvered her way into a Brute, Trump and Master rating.
Probably Shaker as well, depending on which disease she's using.
I thought Bonesaw only got her Trump rating for Murder Rat and Hackjob, turning capes into projects that still kept their powers, not for anything she did to herself.
 
I thought Bonesaw only got her Trump rating for Murder Rat and Hackjob, turning capes into projects that still kept their powers, not for anything she did to herself.
Power-suppressing prion plague.
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I quote:
She tilted my head back and felt around the edges of my mask, trying to find the part where she could pull it off. "I'm really good at figuring out where the Corona and the Gemma are. I can even guess most of the time, if I know what powers the person has. And I can pry it wide open, make it so the powers can't be turned off, or I can temporarily disable it, or modify it. The powder I blew into your face? It has the same prions I put in the darts I shot your friends with. Cripples the Gemma, but it leaves your powers intact. Can't experiment with your abilities if I've fried your whole Corona Pollentia, right? Right."
 
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Just finished binging this. @Shujin , I'm enjoying the story quite a lot.

I think you're striking a very good balance on a lot of things. Taylor doesn't instantly know how all of her power works, but she learns quickly and instinctively. She's still herself, but is also changing in attitude and confidence. She's helping, but things are neither instantly "sunshine, rainbows, and puppies", nor "DEATH AND DESPAIR AND SUFFERING"; she and everyone else have to work for the happy ending, but there's a real shot of them working together.

Was I the only one who noticed that apparently the "disappeared" plan actually flew into the Warp? :(:(:(
 
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Apprentice

"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are."

The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli and a book Rebecca Costa-Brown had never really liked, but she couldn't help thinking about it as she took a small drink of water. She'd called for a small break for everyone to empty bladders and refill coffee. No one objected. The directors still online tirelessly sniped at each other on the call with little borderline personal jabs about the latest news in their respective cities. She excused herself citing a run down to the snack bar, muted her microphone and alt-tabbed, knowing that her tile on screen would go blank so no one would assume she was still there.

She made another call on a very private line. She waited a moment for the warning chime to play before speaking. "Alexandria, you have a personal interest in Farseer as an A-Class, potential S-Class parahuman without an Endbringer blind spot. You would like to meet her in person, deadline next two weeks."

The reply came in the familiar soft but clipped tones she herself frequently adopted for official business. It masked the peculiarities of her voice. "Understood, and thank you. I will make the arrangements."

To the public, Alexandria was a nigh-invincible heroine that served as the head of the Los Angeles Protectorate. She was the eponymous Alexandria package, known for being unstoppable. The truth was significantly more complicated.

"Any developments?"

Alexandria hummed for a moment. "None worthy of note."

"Keep up the good work then." And she did do good work, had been for the past seventeen years. Rebecca hung up and then made that snack run.

When she came back, West was just settling into her seat as the last of the directors to reconvene and Danny Hebert was turned completely around in his chair, talking to his daughter. In spite of herself, Rebecca felt her eyebrows creep upward as she spared a look towards the PRT ENE tile.

Emily Piggot stared back innocently.

As the meeting had been on hold, technically speaking Farseer as a PRT employee would be allowed access to the room, especially as her father was there. The problem would be removing her.

"Chief Director, might I request that Farseer attends the remainder of the meeting?" Dragon asked. "This does involve her, after all."

Right on cue, she thought. They had just gone over, extensively and exhaustively, the amount of ways Farseer would be an asset to any PRT branch she ended up in. And she was an asset, in more ways than they knew. Now that she was in plain sight of the directors, the obvious question would begin to crop up in their minds.

'Why not have her choose?'

"Of course." Rebecca smiled. "We've covered most of the discussion points already. I don't see any harm in it."

The answer was, because she was a child that had just come into her powers. There was a tendency to assume that answers derived from Thinker powers were correct answers. It was a reasonable assumption, much in the same way people would assume that someone with a high IQ or had significant academic achievements were right and those less intelligent were then wrong.

She could only wish things were that simple.

Thinkers commonly bought into their own hubris. That could not be allowed to happen with this one. More than anything else, Taylor Hebert needed to grow as a person, a hero that would be the world's Atlas for when the sky began to collapse. Cauldron knew she had the potential.

When she wanted to be, Contessa was an excellent judge of character.

Unfortunately, Rebecca was well aware that the quickest way to get a teenager to do exactly what you don't want them to, is to say that they can't do it.

"Farseer." Taylor looked up at the screen, seemingly a bit curious. Rebecca carefully kept her face clear of involuntary expressions. "Would you like to sit in on this?"

The girl took a moment. Her eyes traveled in a vague circular pattern around the screen, looking at every face and reading their titles. A few Directors shifted uneasily as the green eyes landed on them calmly. When she came back to Rebecca, her face seemed a bit chagrined.

"If I may ask three questions before I leave?"

That was a very specific number. For no particular reason she could put a finger on, Rebecca found herself a bit apprehensive about what exactly those questions were. Internally, she crossed her fingers and hoped that it wouldn't end up being too incriminating. "Go ahead."

The girl nodded. "Is my Thinker rating final?"

Internal sigh of relief. "Not yet."

She flashed a small contented smile and turned her eyes away. "Mr. Richards, am I correct in assuming you are in the WEDGDG headquarters in Los Angeles right now?"

"Mhm." Then the man choked on cigarette smoke, nearly falling off his chair hacking up a lung as his eyes went wide and scared. He pounded on the desk, struggling to get back some air as the Directors almost as one paused for those few crucial seconds. Was he genuinely choking on smoke or were they watching Farseer attack him? If she was, what should they do? Richards made one last gasp and a few light coughs before rattling, "What the fuck?"

"Explain!" Rebecca cracked her voice like a whip.

Farseer seemed completely at ease. "If I have a point of reference, I can thought-talk to people. My range is restricted, too far and the message gets garbled." She turned her head slightly and West paled, mouth half-open. "Seattle." She then frowned at Dragon's tile. "Can't find you, for some reason."

Dragon's avatar adopted a slightly puzzled expression. "That's a bit odd. Might it have something to do with being a Noctis cape?"

"Don't need to sleep?"

"Yes."

Farseer frowned harder. She didn't quite believe that. "Maybe."

Rebecca had the sudden urge to rub at her temples. There went an entire two-hour discussion made completely irrelevant by the reveal of yet another ability, one that had next to no precedent. It was no wonder Richards had reacted badly. There was only one other being on the planet that could project sound into thoughts. Farseer made it sound almost harmless. Thought-talking? Really?

She made the mental note to shove the girl right back into the hands of the experts and tell them not to let her go until she had squealed every last power she had. "Farseer?"

"Yes?"

The Chief Director almost chuckled as she realized; that made four questions. "Stop it."

Taylor smiled.

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"Did you know about her, thought talking?" She asked Emily later after the Directors had been released back to their duties. For now, the Farseer would remain in Brockton Bay with a possibility of traveling to Boston and New York to get her used to the idea of relocating. Her little stunt had earned herself a grace period until they could figure out the limitations of that ability, what it meant for the subject of 'telepathy' in parahumans and how to keep certain unsavory comparisons out of sight.

Her trigger didn't come with any feathers, thank God for small mercies.

Director Piggot hemmed and hawed for a bit. "There was a potential mention in a report about the troopers caught up in her temper tantrum over Shadow Stalker."

"Potential mention?" Rebecca asked dryly.

"At the time, there was reasonable doubt that it was direct communication via a power and not that she simply had said it out loud. It was noted, but ultimately disregarded."

"She claimed to be capable of reading minds when she returned to the building," Rebecca gently reminded the woman and Piggot grimaced.

"Her ability to sense emotions and intent, coupled with being able to see micro expressions with a great deal of accuracy could allow for that." Rebecca simply stared at Emily until the older woman shrugged. "Believable bullshit."

"Well," she said with a wry smile. "It appears that Farseer's believable bullshit account is now in the red."

Emily just gave her a very long-suffering look that spelled quite clearly what she thought of that.

Rebecca sobered, lacing her hands together. "This is going to cause problems for us, you realize?"

Piggot nodded grimly. "That the public's fears about Maelstrom is actually justified would be bad enough, but her Thinker rating is another issue entirely."

"All the power of the Simurgh in the hands of a bullied teenager. A Carrie situation beyond our worst nightmares." Rebecca laughed mirthlessly. "Can you imagine the headlines?"

"I'm trying not to." Piggot leaned back in her chair, stonily beating down the wince of pain. "Is there any way we could keep this in house?"

"My hands are tied," Rebecca said with genuine regret and frustration. The one time that regulation worked against her had to be now. The one time.

The government had what was colloquially called the 'WMD clause,' an understandable policy that required the PRT to pass along information on any capes that had a 'reasonable' ability to overthrow the government of the United States. At the time, the Triumvirate had submitted to the registration as a show of cooperation. The nation already knew who they were, what they could do if they were pushed. It wouldn't have changed anything.

Other names were added but only a few over the years. The standards to be considered a reasonable threat to an entire country like America were high, but they were met. The Siberian was one, as her true nature was unknown to the public. Nilbog. Bonesaw. Others were simply suspected of being capable, but proof was lacking.

Panacea.

"However," Rebecca began slowly. "We do require proof of her abilities, and several of her ratings are currently being revised. I don't make a habit of sending incomplete reports."

Piggot frowned a little, recognizing the olive branch for what it was. "At least we can't be subpoenaed for it."

She was in the unique position of being able to see both sides of the issue. Of being able to see just how much the politics and bureaucracy of the PRT, of the federal government as a whole, was like rust on the gears and how much it affected the Protectorate. At times, the system simply seized, shuddering and screaming under the burden of its own inefficiencies.

Familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying went. PRT Canada had evaded certain bureaucratic pitfalls with the help of the Guild, only to run head-long into others. It was a work in very slow progress.

"Do you think it would be possible to postpone her counseling sessions until after the trial?" Rebecca asked. "A demonstrated inability to control her extreme emotions could hinder her case. They could paint her as being unstable."

"An extreme emotion brought on by an unexpected confrontation with her tormentor," Piggot rebutted. "A response Gallant could feel from blocks away."

"She violated the terms of her imprisonment over a high school bully."

"A bully that triggered her and was brought up on criminal charges, now and previously."

"And who is also in a medically induced coma due to Farseer's telekinetics not being Manton limited," Rebecca said softly. According to the doctor report, it was as if someone had passed their hands right through Sophia Hess' skull to press on the brain. Press and tear with thousands of tiny barbs. "I will attach Dragon's investigation to her Shaker re-evaluation, but that is just a stalling action. Had she been a bit angrier for longer, it wouldn't have just been Brockton Bay. What happens if her friends are killed? Her father?"

Piggot raised an eyebrow. "As opposed to what happens if she feels like she's being made into an enemy? If she decides to be one?"

Rebecca tsked once. "She's fifteen, hardly invincible."

"She's a Thinker," Piggot said with a shark like smile. "She doesn't need to be."

Rebecca Costa-Brown knew that all too well.

"This," she said eventually with a long drawn out hiss as she cradled her head as if developing a headache. For a moment, she could almost believe she actually was. Parahuman court cases were always shitshows. There was a reason why she preferred not getting involved at all. "This is going to be troublesome."

"Yes," Piggot said without an ounce of irony or humor. "Yes, it will be."


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Rebecca watched Taylor Hebert's face as she sat by her father watching a video Dragon had been trying to contain on the internet. It was one of Winslow High, looking like high schools usually did with a wide hallway filled with students and a uniform row of brightly colored lockers. The video was taken from a cellphone. Its owner was Japanese, snickering with his friends as the view panned the hallway.

Then there was thunder.

The windows all shattered as the hallway erupted in yelps as the fluorescent lightbulbs showered sparks onto the teens below. Above the mad rush and scramble, a girl screamed in desperation and pain. It echoed off the walls. The boy holding the phone said, 'Taylor' as he wildly swung his phone around.

An arm ripped through the door of one of the lockers. It was twisting, melting, covered in rotting blood as shards of bone grew outwards. There was a screech of metal as the bone burst through the top of the locker.

The boy dropped his phone.

The blood had long since drained from Danny Hebert's face and Taylor's was no better. Rebecca cleared her throat as the video ended.

"On official sites, MeTube, PHO and the like, we've managed to pull this video. However, I cannot guarantee that it's not still being shared on the web." She smiled, knowing that it likely looked tired. "I figured you deserved to know."

Taylor closed her eyes and managed a small nod. "Thanks."

"The good news is, you get to stay in Brockton Bay, for now."

Taylor nodded again, opening her eyes. "And the bad news?"

"The Department of Justice has begun investigating the downed and missing planes." Taylor seemed to stop breathing. "You haven't been federally indicted, yet. The PRT has received a subpoena for all relevant information regarding your case."

"When?" She whispered.

"The hearing? The date hasn't been set yet, but we feel it safe to assume you have a month or two at the very least."

You are what they fear in parahumans, she thought. Uncontrollable, and all the more dangerous for it. The PRT had always had a certain amount of leeway in its dealings with parahumans. Too much leeway, many would say. For someone willing to cooperate, they were able to make some criminal records quietly go away. A new name, a new costume. This time, it would be anything but quiet. The nation was watching.

If there was a better stage to crucify the PRT's unilateral privileges, she didn't know of it. She could interfere. The PRT hadn't lost any official power yet. Their recommendation to simply drop it would have to be heard.

It would be a trade off. The Farseer becoming a national asset, virtually untouchable in exchange for the PRT itself getting clapped in irons. It wasn't ideal, but she was willing to do it.

She met Taylor's eyes. Do you want me to? She thought.

The girl lowered her eyes, trembling. A slight shake of the head.

"Then this is what we are going to do…"
 
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Rebecca watched Taylor Hebert's face as she sat by her father watching a video Dragon had been trying to contain on the internet. It was one of Winslow High, looking like high schools usually did with a wide hallway filled with students and a uniform row of brightly colored lockers. The video was taken from a cellphone. Its owner was Japanese, snickering with his friends as the view panned the hallway.

Then there was thunder.

The windows all shattered as the hallway erupted in yelps as the fluorescent lightbulbs showered sparks onto the teens below. Above the mad rush and scramble, a girl screamed in desperation and pain. It echoed off the walls. The boy holding the phone said, 'Taylor' as he wildly swung his phone around.

An arm ripped through the door of one of the lockers. It was twisting, melting, covered in rotting blood as shards of bone grew outwards. There was a screech of metal as the bone burst through the top of the locker.

The boy dropped his phone.

The blood had long since drained from Danny Hebert's face and Taylor's was no better. Rebecca cleared her throat as the video ended.

"On official sites, MeTube, PHO and the like, we've managed to pull this video. However, I cannot guarantee that it's not still being shared on the web." She smiled, knowing that it likely looked tired. "I figured you deserved to know."

Taylor closed her eyes and managed a small nod. "Thanks."

"The good news is, you get to stay in Brockton Bay, for now."

Taylor nodded again, opening her eyes. "And the bad news?"

"The local District Attorney has decided to press charges. Involuntary manslaughter, or even second degree murder." Taylor seemed to stop breathing. "This is due to the irregularities involved with your trigger event. The PRT has received a subpoena for all relevant information regarding your case."

"When?" She whispered.

"The court case? The date hasn't been set yet, but we feel it safe to assume you have a month or two at the very least."

You are what they fear in parahumans, she thought. Uncontrollable, and all the more dangerous for it. They are lashing out the only way they know how. There were certain interest groups and lobbyists that would involve themselves in such a trial. If push came to shove, she could shut down the DA. It would draw all of the wrong kind of attention both from the public, and from other government branches, but she could do it.
I'm confused here. What are they prosecuting Taylor here for. At first I thought it was just Sophia they were going to go after, but no that doesn't make sense. Then I thought someone got hurt by her triggering on video?

No.. It's the fact that they KNOW her identity isn't it? They know who to blame for Maelstrom. Taylor is Maelstrom. Taylor is the cause of the deaths from it (Planes etc). Guess this is way beyond trigger event protection as was gone over before in story.

Sigh.

Well I eagerly await more.
 
There's a lot of sophia maiming and murder going on lately man. Like a memetic disease. Least shit serious here.
 
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