Wait, are you suggesting that authority figures might be more amiable towards giving us what we want in exchange for us giving them what they want? That being an egotistical dick might be suboptimal compared to cooperation?
Mother of God.
This...this changes everything!
Yay! That's good to know. I'm now even more happier to have chosen that one.
Heh.
Well, look at it from Piggot's perspective:
1)This new Avatar guy is competing with Dragon, Eidolon, Legend and Alexandria for the "#1 Protectorate Asset" title. He's tougher than Alexandria, more charismatic than Legend, produces megatons of miracle metal, and oh that's right killed an Endbringer. The main reason he isn't already holding it firmly in his hands is that he's new, and we don't know how reliable and trustworthy he
really is.
2)We want to make sure this guy is, and stays, on board with the Protectorate. At the same time, we want to make sure he doesn't start fucking us up internally by throwing his weight around to have everything his way.
3)He wants to heal Genesis. We don't want to help villains, and it's really freaking unfair that of all the cripples in the world, the one that gets miracle healing is the criminal who got caught... but on the other hand, that might make the Travelers more likely to play ball, and more importantly, it might improve our working relationship with the Avatar. On the gripping hand, the last thing we want is for the insanely powerful guy to start developing a case of cape-entitlement.
4)OK, he played ball, followed orders, generally has the least shitty attitude of every cape around here save maybe Miss Militia... OK, letting him heal Genesis is probably safe enough.
It's a back-and-forth between the Avatar and the PRT, in a sense. It's how you build a working professional relationship.
The E88 has other branches in other cities and countries. Night and Fog came over from Boston after Accord decided to...tidy up the city, IIRC.
Again, I have to ask for a citation. I mean, it doesn't sound unreasonable, but I'd like to know if it's canon or fanon.
We're selling ourselves as the most ideal of all heroes, so far. Completely beyond reproach in our dealings and honorability. Doing the legalistic dancing might work for the already muddy PRT, but would do severe damage to the image we're trying to build.
Nobody will go out there and declare vengeance for breaking the rules, but at the same time, nobody would trust us quite as much as they used to when we did things the hard, but right way, and still succeeded.
True in a way. On the other hand, the Avatar comes from a world where supervillains
don't get special considerations unavailable to unpowered criminals. So the question is, do you want to go along with the somewhat shitty status quo that the unwritten rules as they currently are maintain, or take the risk of turning it on its head and saying "no, supervillains don't get to hide behind their masks anymore"?
Working on stunt text: Reprehensible as their beliefs are, Nazis are people too. They don't exist in a vacuum, they have motivations and reasons behind their actions. In the case of Brockton Bay's E88, they were in the same city as the ABB with their rage dragon and the Mechants with their walking stereotype. So it's entirely possible that some joined up out of fear or desire for protection and simple inertia is keeping them in the gang. Just turning up to have a philosophical chat with them while they're unmasked isn't a violation of the Unwritten Rules, so maybe you can give a way out to those that haven't fully bought into the party line.
@sun tzu - is this in character? Am I making any incorrect assumptions about the Rules?
Sounds reasonable.
Do note: The Avatar
did destroy Earth Gimel's Ku Klux Klan. He has some experience with dismantling vast, bigotry-based criminal organizations. He has a few ideas on how to handle it.
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Huh, for some reason I can't get the quote to work, but it doesn't look like I'm missing anything.
What you're missing is a closing quotation mark.
