Please; for close quarters she prefers P90s.
It doesn't help that she's actively avoided any and all qualified professionals who could diagnose her.
Shipping brainworms or no, she was accurate when she noted that Amy took a lot longer to heal Kiana than her apparent injuries should have warranted.
Hey, if we're going to link videos of Bronya being a badass in close combat, I'd be remiss not to include this one:
Mm, I wasn't factoring that in because I figured it was due to Amy noticing Kiana was a parahuman and checking that out, and I was focused on the question of whether Amy actually had a crush rather than whether Vicky had a reasonable basis for suspecting one. You're right that would look like a salient data point from Vicky's perspective though, since she wouldn't know about Kiana being a parahuman since Amy is a good kid who actually respects medical confidentiality.
Vicky is, now that she thinks back on it, already assuming Kiana is probably parahuman, since she got flung into her with significant force and it pretty much just dislocated her shoulder. It didn't cross her mind that that might have made Amy take longer, though. She's fairly confident that Kiana isn't Empire, since Amy was willing to heal her (and she lives with an Asian girl), and she doesn't fit the profiles for any of the other villain-type groups in town, so she's guessing "shady independent" or one of the anonymous hero-types for the moment.
...Wait, did Amy notice that Kiana has a god damn Herrscher core in her?
Like. She clearly wanted to interact with Mei for some reason relating to realizing that Kiana is a parahuman, since admitting the reason why would entail outing Kiana, and outing her as gay is a ship that has already sailed while flying the national colors of Lesbiana, so it has to be the parahuman thing. And apparently the reason is "enormously creepy" (albeit by Amy's probably self-conscious self-evaluation). But I don't see how noticing something weird going on with Kiana's parahumanness then points towards Mei in any way.
Amy would not be able to identify what a Herrscher Core is, nor does she know what a Herrscher is. This is due to both a lack of knowledge (as only one viewpoint character so far who has even heard the term, and they didn't exactly get a definition) and a limitation in Amy's powers (see below).
That is roughly accurate to standard Honkai lore, as near as I can tell, though there's a lot of vagueness and some shifting over time with regards to the specifics. Except for the bit about all Herrschers having stigmas - that one has Fu Hua as a counterexample, as well as all the PE Herrschers. There's some indication that Herrschers may be 'pre-seeded' and develop stigmas when they have the 'potential' to be Herrschers, but that's somewhat inconsistent with the fact that stigmas were themselves an end-of-days R&D project by the previous era. There are a few ways to square that circle: maybe, say, stigmas correlate, and if you have the Honkai resistance/potential to become a Herrscher odds are you have a stigma now too; maybe Project STIGMA was itself derived from the study of Herrscher bodies and their own stigmas; maybe you just throw out one of the data points and shrug.
I knew that (and it isn't the case here, or at least not to the same extent), but was under the impression that the Shards are also providing designs harvested from previous civilizations rather than just being a Thinker-type invent-y power.
It's worse than that - Tinkers don't understand what they're doing when it comes to details. Wildbow confirmed that even Armsmaster, if asked to explain in detail how everything works, would just shrug his shoulders.
So Otto is a typical SB/SV quester, god I have read enough SB/SV quests when they just go for hitting things with more high-tech/biggattons until the problem went away instead of using other methods like diplomacy and the likes.
Bronya: "Your mother... she reminds me of mine."
Oh god, Cocolia meeting Annette - this can only go either really well or absolutely catastrophically.
It'll go some sort of way, that's for sure.
Depends on how badly Annette pisses off Cocolia. One's a college teacher, another is a former captain in the army (prior to becoming an AE Enforcer and caretaker). On the other hand, if Natasha didn't die in this - she might be way more chill than in canon HI3rd.
Por que no los dos? I mean, imagine the potential knock-on effects of Cocolia forming a full-on sisterhood pact with Annette because they hit it off so well.
I can only imagine Taylor and Natasha looking at them from somewhere with binoculars.
I don't see it happening,