Hmm. With a little more work we might be able to flip Sophia into being an actual decent human being.
But at what cost
Heh heh heh.
(Amusingly enough, just today - before I wrote that section - I read the chapter in Cerulean's "Intrepid" where we get Sophia's trigger event story. Gotta say, I love that interpretation.)
And that's a big piece of the puzzle right there.
Aaaand another one.
Getting close.
Allllllmost there.
Unfortunately, you are not a Nobel prize-winning scientist like Causality, a genius detective like Tracer Pulse, or the world's smartest superhero like Techno-Paladin, so you're not going to figure everything out
this easily.
But you're already closer to it than almost everyone on Earth-Bet.
Glad we were at that meeting. The leadership wasn't deliberately sandbagging her, but they were definitely a bit wrapped up in their egos and muh institutional rehsponsebilitah.
If she gets shipped out of BB we won't even have to worry about the Stupendous Shadow Stalker/Skitter Shitstorm Spectacular. And Taylor would get away from the toxic school environment and put somewhere where she has an actual support network.
So it's not a bad outcome for her by any means, it just means that she won't have as much screentime
That wasn't my original plan, until I started writing this chapter and realized sending her to another city made sense from the PRT's perspective.
From Taylor's perspective, yeah, this means getting away from Winslow. Her only friends in Brockton Bay are the Undersiders, and she's not going to be able to hang out with them anyway, so a clean slate isn't unwelcome. The only major obstacle is her dad, who
does have both friends and responsibilities in the Bay... but, with the boat graveyard gone and reconstruction money all but guaranteed to pour in, he'd at least feel confident that he can leave town without hanging the dockworkers' union up to dry.
As for Skitter getting less screentime... Well, she'll still have your number, and the Avatar will likely check up on her. But anyway, it's not like the plan was to stay in Brockton Bay for months and years.
What I'm leaning towards. We're pretty damn close to putting together all the pieces of the power puzzle and this will help.
Also helps out Noelle, so warm fuzzies all around. Gotta continue that trend of helping rather than righteous face punching.
Hey! Your righteous face
punching blasting is the reason the city is still standing and the entire world is concluding the "Watery Fucker Had It Coming" party.
TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP
Seriously, talking to Scion is a trap. At best he'll be completely indifferent to our presence. More likely he'll respond to the complete OCP by giving us his undivided attention (which is not good) or freaking the fuck out (which is also not good).
Do keep in mind, the Avatar
is going to try to contact Scion sooner or later, simply because
not doing so makes zero sense in-character.
I mean, what does he know about Scion? Most powerful guy around, powerful enough to solo Endbringers, spends all his time helping people but seems to suffer from some kind of autism or
something that keeps him from properly communicating and prioritizing. With meta-knowledge, having a chat with Scion in the hope of establishing a rapport and hopefully getting him to be more efficient in how he helps (obtaining a powerful ally against class-S threats) is simply the obvious thing to do.
The vote isn't about whether or not you will contact Scion - it's about whether or not you will do it
now, rather than at some future lull in activity, like in a week or something.
