tarrangar
Fat arctic chicken
Legend probably can because Legend.
Yeah while the Vikings might have plundered the Germans, I don't think they settled there all that much.
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A Matter of Worth (Worm/Mighty Thor, alt-power, DEAD)
Older-than-Time
[Eating My Muse]
- Location
- Somewhere in the Sol System
- Pronouns
- He/Him/ThatIdiot
@Brandon Hume
Mind clarifying whether Mjolnir can be picked up by parahumans or not?
Because the fact that Odin Himself considers them infections/inflictions unworthy of Mjolnir could be a big deal
Mind clarifying whether Mjolnir can be picked up by parahumans or not?
Because the fact that Odin Himself considers them infections/inflictions unworthy of Mjolnir could be a big deal
- Location
- Under Leviathan's left foot
I hadn't thought about it because it didn't come up in my plotline at all. I don't think it would matter much, since a wounded warrior is still a warrior, and someone who can use the weapons of the enemy against them deserves respect. It would depend on their damage, though.
- Location
- Australia
To get into Valhalla you have to die during battle or something equally honourable, often by being a big damn hero. Any other death, goes to Hela. That's anything from children and old people dying of natural causes, all the way up to traitors, murderers and cowards. While she takes care of the former, the latter group do not have a pleasant time.
- Location
- Where Jokes Die
Thanks for the story recommendations
- Location
- Australia
Add some admin privileges. "They who shall wield this hammer be they worthy shall posses the power of Thor. Odin exempted."
I don't see whys he'd let shard hosts use the hammer though, I'd honestly expect him to have the enchantment block them, get rid of the shard, then sure if they'd be worthy then, they could pick it up.
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- Location
- Omega
The only reason Greg would hold the hammer is because he's super pure.
Pure because he's an idiot who means well.
- Location
- Under Leviathan's left foot
You can imagine it works that way, if it makes you feel better.
Where's Darrel when you need him!?
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID
No shard-bearer could wield it because they crave combat and conflict to the point of stupidity (by design), you know, the reason Thor lost his Hammer in the first place in various retellings of the Marvel story.
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That does not apply to Cauldron capes.
- Location
- Idaho Falls, ID
Fair, and probably true, though most Cauldron capes are probably disqualified by their willingness to give unspecified favors to an extremely shady organization.
Again, the point is likely moot, since this is a custom Mjolnir variant made specifically for Taylor.
Yeah, I can see how she'd be constantly compared to the Empire, and why she'd get constantly more pissed off about it. Nice update though.
- Location
- Ural, Russia, Earth
"Ladies, gentlemen. We all know how dangerous this new threat to Empire." Kaiser put image of new heroine on the screen and assembled capes recoiled in fear. Menja nervously clutched her spear, Victor paled, Hookwolf tried to hide under the table, Rune started to whimper.
They say 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'. Well, Empire's capes had several opportunities already to determine how true was that saying and how painful were hammer blows.
"But fear not, for I have a plan!" Kaiser raised his voice.
"Your previous plan cost us Stormtiger and Alabaster. Are you sure new plan is better?" Victor asked.
"Yes, for I don't plan to fight her." That phrase immediately got everybody's attention. "We treat her like a normal hero, enemy who should be crushed, but she's more like a force of nature, unbeatable and unpredictable." Kaiser explained. "In this regard she resembles Scion."
"And comparison with the most powerful parahuman of the world should make us feel better?" Rune quietly asked.
Kaiser ignored her. "Apparently, just like Scion, she makes no distinction between different 'heroical' deeds. Two days ago she defeated Lung, but yesterday our people saw her saving a cat from a tree. So, we'll not fight her. We'll just distract her from our operations. Hookwolf, Victor! Tomorrow we will attack ABB. Others, your task will be to create innumerable opportunities for heroism on the other side of the city!"
"You shall not pass!" Rune declared.
Mrs. Brennan worked most of her life as a teacher and was old enough to remember the War. Neither unruly teenagers nor Neo-Nazi scared her. Still, it was a first time when she had faced actual villain.
"And why you are trying to stop me?" she asked. "Don't you have more important business than harassing of elders? People to beat, banks to rob, heroes to fight?"
"It's important! Kaiser himself ordered me to stop you!"
"Kaiser ordered you to stop me?" Mrs. Brennan asked dubiously. "Since when my grocery shopping became so dangerous for Empire?"
"It's not like..." Rune shook her head. "Listen, just stay here and wait until someone come and help you to cross the street, okay?"
The old woman opened her mouth to answer, but in that moment Menja came from a corner. She was about fifteen feet tall and kept in her hand big bag. Desperate meowling was coming from it.
The giant villainess ran to the nearest tree, shoved her hand into the bag, pulled out a cat and threw it on the tree. Then she ran to the next tree and repeated her actions. Soon, every tree on the street had a bewildered cat or two on it.
Mrs. Brennan perplexedly looked around and cautiously asked, "That was ordered by Kaiser too?"
Rune dubiously nodded. Before this moment she didn't realize how their actions looked from the outside.
Old teacher sighed. "Girl, you should really reconsider your career choice."
In that moment Rune's cell phone rang.
"Yes?"
"Operation is ended. We lost." Kaiser's voice said tiredly.
"What? How?"
"At first all was good, but then Bakuda's jeep drove into a ditch. And she came to help with it."
"Shit." The teenager sighed. "So, now what?"
"Return to base. And don't worry, for I have a new plan! We..."
Rune turned off her phone and threw it away. "Yeah, juvie is better than this shit."
She headed towards the PRT headquarters.
They say 'if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail'. Well, Empire's capes had several opportunities already to determine how true was that saying and how painful were hammer blows.
"But fear not, for I have a plan!" Kaiser raised his voice.
"Your previous plan cost us Stormtiger and Alabaster. Are you sure new plan is better?" Victor asked.
"Yes, for I don't plan to fight her." That phrase immediately got everybody's attention. "We treat her like a normal hero, enemy who should be crushed, but she's more like a force of nature, unbeatable and unpredictable." Kaiser explained. "In this regard she resembles Scion."
"And comparison with the most powerful parahuman of the world should make us feel better?" Rune quietly asked.
Kaiser ignored her. "Apparently, just like Scion, she makes no distinction between different 'heroical' deeds. Two days ago she defeated Lung, but yesterday our people saw her saving a cat from a tree. So, we'll not fight her. We'll just distract her from our operations. Hookwolf, Victor! Tomorrow we will attack ABB. Others, your task will be to create innumerable opportunities for heroism on the other side of the city!"
"You shall not pass!" Rune declared.
Mrs. Brennan worked most of her life as a teacher and was old enough to remember the War. Neither unruly teenagers nor Neo-Nazi scared her. Still, it was a first time when she had faced actual villain.
"And why you are trying to stop me?" she asked. "Don't you have more important business than harassing of elders? People to beat, banks to rob, heroes to fight?"
"It's important! Kaiser himself ordered me to stop you!"
"Kaiser ordered you to stop me?" Mrs. Brennan asked dubiously. "Since when my grocery shopping became so dangerous for Empire?"
"It's not like..." Rune shook her head. "Listen, just stay here and wait until someone come and help you to cross the street, okay?"
The old woman opened her mouth to answer, but in that moment Menja came from a corner. She was about fifteen feet tall and kept in her hand big bag. Desperate meowling was coming from it.
The giant villainess ran to the nearest tree, shoved her hand into the bag, pulled out a cat and threw it on the tree. Then she ran to the next tree and repeated her actions. Soon, every tree on the street had a bewildered cat or two on it.
Mrs. Brennan perplexedly looked around and cautiously asked, "That was ordered by Kaiser too?"
Rune dubiously nodded. Before this moment she didn't realize how their actions looked from the outside.
Old teacher sighed. "Girl, you should really reconsider your career choice."
In that moment Rune's cell phone rang.
"Yes?"
"Operation is ended. We lost." Kaiser's voice said tiredly.
"What? How?"
"At first all was good, but then Bakuda's jeep drove into a ditch. And she came to help with it."
"Shit." The teenager sighed. "So, now what?"
"Return to base. And don't worry, for I have a new plan! We..."
Rune turned off her phone and threw it away. "Yeah, juvie is better than this shit."
She headed towards the PRT headquarters.
- Location
- Under Leviathan's left foot
Okay. Any other aspects of my own story I need explained to me?
The People seem to forget that in the end the author decides what rules Odin declared for this Hammer
Subrosian_Smithy
endless
- Location
- Washington
- Pronouns
- She/Her/Hers
You're talking like every last parahuman is a complete Shard handpuppet, but canon doesn't bear that out at all. There are plenty of examples of people who go against their conflict drive (basically every rogue), or manage to channel it constructively (Chevalier, Dragon, and other principled heroes), and that's without talking about Cauldron capes.
Word of God also disagrees. Most of the 'conflict drive' is behavioral reinforcement via the power itself (if you get in a lot of fights, your Shard relaxes certain power limits; if you huddle away, it sabotages you) and natural tendency (the Shard picks people naturally predisposed to conflict), rather than the Shard reaching into your brain and constantly regulating your reward centers. You can resist the conflict drive - it isn't a foolproof mechanism except in cases of fixtures of the cycle (Nilbog, GU, etc) and those who trigger very young (Bonesaw/Echidna clones).
Amberion
Mighty #9
Because Tinkertech is the most common variant of parahuman created items that don't vanish when away from their creator.
- Location
- Море песка, солнце огня и множество злых сарацин
I'd expect the result of an attempt to do this by anyone less physics-breaking than Hulk to end with the same thing that happened to Svyatogor in the Russian myths (i.e. sinking into the ground).
Hulk could probably actually do it, though, he's that silly.
Shaker ratings don't appear to work this way, or Vista and Labyrinth wouldn't have had their canonical very high ratings. (Then again, Skidmark. But I'm not sure what category his ratings is in, anyway.)
Not sure about Blaster.
(What is the case is that some powers are misunderstood and thus receive much lower ratings than they deserve - this happened to Skitter (duh), Panacea, Flechette, potentially Parian, to an extent Jack Slash, probably others I can't recall immediately.)
I agree about Piggot and Yamada, and don't recall enough about Chambers to be sure.
I'd also add Doctor Mother, but I'm not sure if she has a shard or not (she certainly doesn't have a power); and I like the idea of Greg Veder.
Some fanon versions of Danny Hebert could probably do it too (his characterization is all over the place), but he might also count in the "having a shard" category.
Wait, wouldn't much of that apply just as well to Crawler?
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- Pronouns
- Yes
The point is there's no reason for anyone to believe the hammer doesn't vanish (or at least lose it's powers) when away from Taylor. The Hammer actually fits quite well as a projection Taylor created.
- Location
- Tooele, Utah. USA
She should hire Tabloid
Vikings the Norse and the Nordic religion all fall under the umbrella of Germanic. The peoples of Germany worshiped the Norse gods with a couple of their own heroes tacked on. Its just that Christians happened and spread pretty steadily.
Asheram
Not quite altogether
- Location
- Δ Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground
Agreed
Odin, Wotan. Same thing.
I'll just point to Der Ring Des Nibelungen in this case. It didn't come out of nowhere.
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Baughn
Healing-type writer
- Location
- Dublin
That's the comic-book interpretation, perhaps. I'm afraid the reality is worse...
If you don't sure in honorable and heroic battle, or the direct aftermath of such, you go to Hel. Yes. But once you're there, the *best case* is being consigned to a dreary, pointless and unpleasant existence that's described as being like a deep depression. People who have annoyed her probably do get worse.
Then, at the apocalypse, you get to be cannon fodder for Hel's largely successful attempt at destroying the universe.
- Location
- United States
Because the person doing the assuming is Armsmaster, vanguard of the Glorious Tinker Master Race.
More seriously, it's probably because capes who weild physical objects bearing fantastic properties usually are tinkers. Folks like Dauntless and Chevalier (and, to a lesser extent because she can't do tinker guns/ammo, Miss Militia) seem like the exceptions to that general rule.