adelie77
Posted August 31st 2008
Fifteen years of calling this dear beloved disaster of a city "home" have taught me two things:
1) Capes gonna capefight.
2) S-Class capes gonna swing their powers around.
Once again, those two rules seem to have played out. First, Skidmark reacts to the existence of a new cape in his neighborhood by starting a fight about it. Then, after smacking him down, said new cape proceeds to show us she has the biggest, girthiest superpower by materializing hundred ton vehicles out of thin air with a dozen camera crews watching.
Assuming Dispatcher is really the eager little kid her projection makes her out to be, it's possible she doesn't understand the full implications of her powers as a weapon. The fight with Skidmark was, after all, mostly handled by her "employee" projections (and isn't that a trip, where a side benefit of her power is enough to make her Crusader Plus). "Summoning and controlling" a train and then having it accelerate straight into a fortified target? Boxing in an enemy with derailed, immovable boxcars? All of this nonsense apparently covering a citywide range, if she's talking about clearing the graveyard solo, or laying and running a new bayside trolly?
I want so, so badly to believe it. That she's as idealistic as she presents herself, and that her parents have good enough heads on their shoulders to keep her from doing something stupid. And that she's strong enough to protect both her toy train set, and the people like us who live around it, if (god forbid) Mannequin catches wind of her plans.
But shit. She also talked about "possession is nine tenths of the law". She talked about summoning tanks. It feels like she's already having trouble seeing the city like any mundane human on the street would see it. And we've been burned before, haven't we?
So I'm gonna deliberately try to temper my hopes and my fears here, and go with "cautious optimism" for now. This is only a debut, after all. If she's this eager to get started on her plans, I'm sure it won't be long until her actions give us a clearer picture on whether we've really, finally won the cape lotto here.