1) Fairies in mythology are mysterious entities of power with their own goals who sometimes interact with humanity, giving blessings and curses according to their own plans.
That is a pretty good description of what shards are, without going into science that noone understands.
Especially when viewed through the prism of the tween that GU would have triggered as.
I mean, Cauldron calls them agents, and Taylor calls hers a passenger.
Arguably, GU's choice of words is more accurate, if not as scientifically rigorous.
2) Trauma.
GU triggered young, as a first gen cape. A female first gen cape.
Consider what it's taken for the first-gen triggers we've seen to trigger and consider that she's had little medical care since then. It's little surprise that it left her with......quirks.
She was almost certainly insane for a while by human standards; what I am arguing is that by the time she is introduced in Marquis' Interlude, she isn't.
I would not be surprised to find that the Birdcage actually helped, by enforcing human contact.
3) Why is talking to her ghosts supposed to be controversial?
You don't know if they talk back, after all, and she is the person who understands shards best from the inside.
There is a reason why she understood the workings of Eidolon's power better than the man who'd been using it for twenty-some years.
Besides, word of Scion is that shards have memories; I quote:
And we know shards can store personalities, as evidenced by the Butcher.Interlude 26:Scion said:
4)Given how much influence shards can wield on a person's personality,I can see why she took up that viewpoint.
Especially since she has a much stronger version of Chevalier's shard vision that comes on whenever she looks at parahumans, and it's actively difficult to use simple human vision:
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5) Looks like =/= Is.
GU is powerful enough to ignore convention, just like a billionaire can show up to a formal occasion in shirtsleeves and shorts.
I call her sane because she maintains contact with external reality.
She is oriented in time,place and person, makes reasonable choices, displays a sane regard for personal safety, and is self-directed, with a clear, achievable mission based on knowledge of her world.
Even in the Birdcage, she attends the regular cell block leader meetings, and engages in negotiations with Cauldron for her aid/advice.
And signally, she retains the ability to change her mind and direction upon sufficient suasion or the presentation of sufficient facts.
The fact that her view of reality was actually more accurate than that of most people who thought her nuts is just a hilarious bonus.
6)Rightness can be proof of sanity; look up the Martha Mitchell effect.
Martha Mitchell effect - Wikipedia
If you recall, people thought Alchemical!Taylor insane when she approached the PRT with talk of Autobot; not just jealous kids like Penny and freaked out Thinkers like Lisa, but relatively impartial bystanders like Saint and Bezalel.
7)GU knows of the Cycle, it's length, when it ends, and mentions it freely as something that WILL happen regardless of anyone's interference, and which she would wait for.
Voidbringer cults and Apostates both are trying to engineer Autobot's death, not simply prophesy it.
Important difference.
Lemme put it this way:
I'd lay odds the government would find some way to declare an amnesty or fudge the legal charges if they could get GU to participate at EB fights, as long as she wasn't going around killing other people.
Heck, if she broke out and moved to Africa, they would leave her the fuck alone.
Only part of it.
Internal dynamics of trust are as much of an issue IC, as is temperament.
OOC, his extensive, though secret links with Cauldron are a problem, as are things like his selling Perdition to the Yangban(yes, I know we sent Manton et al to Cauldron).
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I mean, you're (technically) not wrong. But that logic applies to...almost everyone. Assuming that she had a random Parahuman around that was never mentioned seems a really bad (and weird) assumption to make. I mean, by that logic, GU could also be a 2nd gen cape.
. It's far more of an issue with FPoP free action, with I think 3 different votes for both of the 2 closest free actions.
