Thinking about it I assume that the PRT is going to know about Aperion giving these out. I wonder what explanation they are going to come to for why Aperion gave out these new regeneration powers to this seemingly random assortment of capes. They might not know about Taylor immediately. But they will know about Amy and Flechette. They might think that he wants to apologize to Amy and possibly protect the incredible healer. Flechette is incredibly weird though, they've never met.
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Worm/Jumpchain)
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At this point, I feel like two of the most likely results if Leet gets to deploy his Game-Grid is either a flat "nope" or a disastrous interaction as what's supposed to be an unstoppable force meets a totally immovable object.
Flechette met Garment and was very attracted to her.
Also if anyone digs into Flechette's trigger event, they'll realize that March was part of the same Cluster Trigger. So, they may feel like this is a counter to March (whether anyone even gets to this point of realization is another question entirely however.)
EDIT: and of course, Joe's passenger is sending him "this person important" vibes and whilst Joe recognizes his passenger as aloof he still trusts it more or less.
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Dragon will probably figure it out first; she's been shipping (what do we call them? Fledgling fashion?) Flechette × Garment and she "knows" Garment and Apeiron are teammates so her deeply logical AI brain will pause just long enough between squees of delight to let everyone know Garment wants her girlfriend to have the best protection available.
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It's not a coincidence, it's Fortune.
I don't think I've read many fics crawl before, it's still entertaining but sometimes I feel like nothing relevant to the plot gets done, kind of reminds me of filler episodes in Bleach or Naruto.
see the difference in this is that there are new things appearing and the reason its slow is a deliberate action by the author due to writing style. on the anime the reason was they had a strict deadline and needed time to make the good shit. in bleach the reason near the end for its shit quality is author wanted to do slice of live but producers wanted action that led to stupid arcs
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While I admit Piggot's past decisions were awful, I feel like people are being too harsh on her current decisions. She's protecting herself by not walking back her previous decisions, but also note this bit.
The wider PRT doesn't actually want her to do that, because assassinating her judgements that thoroughly shoots the PRT as a whole in the foot. It's not just Brockton. Everyone would be impacted. So if Piggot bit the bullet right now, admitted all fault, let herself be bundled out of the office, she'd be leaving Brockton Bay without experienced leadership in the middle of a crisis, and also making things worse for every other PRT department outside Brockton Bay. And villains would inevitably take advantage.
Also, I understand why those two agents were put in isolation. As far as Piggot can tell, she's doing what Apeiron wants. He's made clear his stance on the Unwritten Rules. So what does she do when agents accidentally break the unwritten rules? Hide them so they can't tell anyone else while she locks down the information as best she can. Like she assumes Apeiron wants.
Piggot has done a lot of stupid shit, but I feel like people are being way too harsh on her this chapter. And I don't understand why people are thinking Piggot/Hannah don't realise SS was involved in Taylor's trigger? It's pretty obvious. And that's terrible, but the more immediate problem seems to be the possible breach of God-Emperor Apeiron's edict regarding the Unwritten Rules, so it makes sense they're focusing on that rather than SS specifically. They also have half a dozen other crises to be managing simultaneously.
The wider PRT doesn't actually want her to do that, because assassinating her judgements that thoroughly shoots the PRT as a whole in the foot. It's not just Brockton. Everyone would be impacted. So if Piggot bit the bullet right now, admitted all fault, let herself be bundled out of the office, she'd be leaving Brockton Bay without experienced leadership in the middle of a crisis, and also making things worse for every other PRT department outside Brockton Bay. And villains would inevitably take advantage.
Also, I understand why those two agents were put in isolation. As far as Piggot can tell, she's doing what Apeiron wants. He's made clear his stance on the Unwritten Rules. So what does she do when agents accidentally break the unwritten rules? Hide them so they can't tell anyone else while she locks down the information as best she can. Like she assumes Apeiron wants.
Piggot has done a lot of stupid shit, but I feel like people are being way too harsh on her this chapter. And I don't understand why people are thinking Piggot/Hannah don't realise SS was involved in Taylor's trigger? It's pretty obvious. And that's terrible, but the more immediate problem seems to be the possible breach of God-Emperor Apeiron's edict regarding the Unwritten Rules, so it makes sense they're focusing on that rather than SS specifically. They also have half a dozen other crises to be managing simultaneously.
This is the point where you demand to see Shadow Stalker's phone so you can determine how badly she would be compromised and plan accordingly.
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That they didn't check already just shows the incompetence.
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This ties also to Shadow Stalker's missing bolts. There was never a need to curve what was seen an overeager ward before and now if PRT would stamp down on it they would need to be able to answer why they didn't do this earlier. This mindset has been present the entire fic for the local office. Roust has written it nicely into the story.
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Yeah, that's the kind of thing I wanted to hilight. I just find it... really satisfying?
(OK, more that it's one of the core reasons I read & keep reading this story. 💜 )
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One day, the PRT is going to slap a "Rating: you can't win. Call Legend and pray he can diplomacy his way out of the problem".
Flechette have excellent relation with Garment, so Garment asked Apeiron to protect Flechette.
Or if you are into conspiracy theory, Flechette came to Brockton bay after Apeiron mentioned he was willing to work with the PRT branch she was in. HE PLANNED EVERYTHIIIIING !
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Ok personal question here, why is everyone ok with Flechette trying to be in a relationship with Garmet? To me it's very skeevy on flechette part, she literally just met this person, is crushing super hard out of nowhere, and is thinking that she's in the beginning of something and Garmet has no idea. Arnt the Wards like 16 and under? Why has nobody said anything except Weld and he is just encouraging this stalker like "crush" Flechette has.
Am I just reading into things to much or are other people seeing the warning signs form Flechette also?
(Flechette might not be the right name, it's the girl with the ranged power that manafests as an arlabest?)
Am I just reading into things to much or are other people seeing the warning signs form Flechette also?
(Flechette might not be the right name, it's the girl with the ranged power that manafests as an arlabest?)
youve got the name right but the arbalest is tinker tech iirc her power is to imbue ranged projectiles with the ability to go through anything
My bets on Apeiron actually explaining his reasoning for giving nanites out to Lily and Amy. As in, explain to the two why he thinks they important enough to warrant Apeiron grade protection, clarify what entailed under this protection and offer to them to decide if they accept it or not. Possibly also giving them time to think and get advice from others. Don't think that Joe will just drop nanites on them and take off, leaving everyone scrambling for an explanation. Believe he learned enough from last time he did something like that with Panacea.
Plus, he might take his time to tell Lily that she's clustermate with March and what that means.
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Ruin has found you at last!
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16 year old dumb teenager crushes on someone older than them. Also water is wet, sky is up and earth is down, more at 11.
You def reading a bit too much into the entire situation. Given that Garment havent shown any real signs of answering Flechette's crush somehow it will most likely remain just that, a teenage crush. And even if it develops into something - which I honestly doubt given Garment's unique mindset - how the hell anyone could charge Garment with something if she never clarified just how old she is? She can claim she is 17 and lawyers would shrug and wave it all away, cant exactly prove that she lies. But again, that is assuming situation even goes somewhere. Literally everyone in the Forge sans may be Aisha (solely due to age) have better chances to start relationship than Garment. Including JOE.
Also also. Canonically she starts dating, what, 22 year old Parian and goes as far as defects to villain side. Its entirely on-brand for Lily. I guess she is hornier than average teenager or whatever.
She's also 18 I believe, which would make it slightly less weird. Or about to turn 18, as in close enough that she is the first time we see her in canon.
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I think that for Garment time is just a number. You could see her in ten thousand years and she would be the same person. She would have additional memories sure, probably made new friends. But she wouldn't really change, at least not in the way a person or even animal does. She's a living concept, she is fashion.
@ExploerTM fair enough, I just have been getting some weird vibes from Flechette whenever Garmet comes up. It's not the crush that's weirding me out, it how one sided everything is also with her "patrolling" around Garmets place, obsessing over texts, ect. Typing this out I can definitely see where I read too far into things. Thanks for the reply though.
She's an hormonal teen with a brain worm with one finger on the scales on the "is this a bad idea" weigh in. Being obsessive, awkward, and weird around a crush is almost as normal as she could get under the circumstances. Especially with the death of her (unknown) cluster-mates messing around with her personality even more.
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Because it's a teenager having a teenage crush and Weld isn't exactly entirely unbiased on this matter? Really, considering Weld is the face of Case 53s, it makes sense that he'll encourage someone else's crush on a Case 53. And at what point has it been stalker-ish? All she did so far was to try and get to know Garment in a public space and later, at her store, and that was it. She has not tried to invade Garment's privacy, she hasn't assumed they were dating (again, still at the 'getting to know each other' stage), and while she has started texting with Garment, from all accounts she has been politely trying to keep the chats going despite Garment literally only having one word responses.
I do think it is creepy when people on this thread ship them too much, but that's a separate issue compared to what Flechette is actually doing. Garment's weirdness aside, the entire crush thing is actually quite normal. If anything, I think it'll die down pretty quickly once Flechette gives up on the crush due to the whole "I literally cannot understand 90% of what she says" problem.
Just thinking out loud, can Joe ever shit in peace now or is Tera bacsaily there all the time? Can't imagine either of the two of them would be keen on that
Joe is a demigod, lifefiber, chimera, cybernetic, giant, weird lizard thing, septabrid. Do you think he needs to poop?
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Thats for Joe, everybody else has to deal with that yes. Then again, Tetra's mentality also not exactly human so she probably doesnt care, natural biological process and all of that. Aisha though probably just does her best to ignore the implications.
They have not figured it out. They think that SS is covering for Emma because she's a close friend of hers who also knows of her 'hero' persona.