Yet more reasons for the Youth Guard to exist, I suppose.
The more you examine the universe, the more necessary the YG turns out to be.
Seriously.
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I mean, with shit like this:
"A lot of synergy in this team," I commented.
"Sort of aimed for that," Tecton said. "They took everyone willing to leave Chicago, to support other cities that lost more members, offered incentives to the rookies if they were willing to move to another city. Your-parents-can-afford-not-to-work-for-a-year kind of incentives. I drafted these guys because I thought their powers would work well together."Type your article here
It would be hard for minors not to end up being pressured into situations they might not be particularly enthused about.
Add a little social pressure, and I can see why the Wards would need to be protected from the PRT.
And sometimes from their own families.
To be fair, this policy is likely meant for places where the Wards patrol routes are not meant to actually be policing patrols, unlike Brockton Bay.
Not really.
They also do this in New York, with it's massive villain population, and apparently did it in Chicago as well, which had a large enough villain problem for Weaver to make her rep. Brockton Bay was exceptional for the villain to civilian ratio, and because certain people were actively escalating things, not because Ward patrols elsewhere were especially safe.
Note how a common burglary call had Vista running into Hookwolf and getting her armor stabbed clean through by accident; life comes at you real fast on Earth Bet.
Hence why I mentioned sub mods. Because I doubt those'd be available from the get-go.
I'd actually wager they would, with some being locked by artifact level or Attribute requirements.
For example, a Strength 4 weapon might require either Str 4 or Essence 4 to be accessible.
Or armor might be locked without a submod.
Or equipment that requires external power might be locked until you hit higher Essence.
Lots of ways it could play.
While true, adaptability as a child =/= adaptability as an adult. And what we see of MM in canon does not strike me as adaptable (can't really remember her doing much in quest either).
Kurdish child soldier to BB Special Agent in Charge.
She was the first person to offer Valkyrie a social outing after she was introduced by Legend in Teneral E.1, as well as the person who did the negotiating with Bitch later in the epilogue.
She's not a natural Moonsilver, but she could work if we had no other candidates.
Now I have a horrifying thought: Aisha as Orichalcum.
See what she did with the Heartbroken.
Perhaps I was a little hasty calling her mono-Caste; she might work as a Starmetal and Ori both.
Maybe even a Soulsteel.
Wasn't really referring to perm-clarity, so much as most of the Weavings require mid to high Clarity, and/or gain bonuses from higher Clarity (as does Thermionic Orthodoxy Array, which I'm really curious to see what it does here). Now, permanently sitting at that level probably won't happen, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a larger amount of time spend above Clarity 2 due to the synergy with Weavings (or else there'd likely be a drop in effectiveness - I don't know how quickly Alchemicals can drop into Clarity 'voluntarily', or drop out). And while 'perma'-Clarity 3 isn't that huge a deal, it doesn't really fit why we're wanting to Exalt MM.
A well-calibrated Alchemical can bleed off Clarity pretty rapidly if they so choose; can go from Clarity 10 to Clarity 2 in roughly two or three days without blowing all her Willpower, or she can do it faster if she's willing to be low on WP.
Not really a huge issue.
Thermionic Orthodox Array would probably shut down persistent environmental effects; that Gray Boy bubble? Gone.
Persistent rip in dimensional space that refuses to close? Gone. Labyrinth opening a portal? Maybe, if she's good.
Behemoth trying to shape the immediate environmental space with dynakinesis? Lolnope.
It would have very interesting synergy with Vista's power if she can bend it to apply over a larger field.
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