But there is no reason for any precog to go after Crystal on her date with totally-a-normal-guy, any more than they would go after Crystal at any other time, and probably LESS likely than times when she is alone and/or exhausted, if they aren't going to follow the rules and only attack when she is in costume.
Hydrokinetic cape would work then? Or just dumping water on the area?
I'm fairly certain that nothing is stopping her from faking one beyond dignity, and Aisha's relationship with dignity is... complicated.
From the wiki, she does have a pollentia. That might mean Broadcast can influence her, or it might not.
She's certainly the de jure leader... Is she really the de facto one though? And even if she is... basically entirely dependent of thinkers for providing the information she uses to make most decisions. She meets with powerful thinkers constantly and so much of the minutia of how to implement things is handled via PtV.
The problem is that Cauldron as a organization relies alot on Path to Victory to do their heavy lifting. Doctor Mother my be in charge but if she asks Contessa if the Nine are a benefit to their plans she'll trust Contessa if she says yes.
The field will mostly be gone by then anyway.
Doctor Mother doesn't actually do all that much unless Contessa is incapacitated for some reason. She just conducts her research and lets Contessa handle everything else.
Not only that, it also lambasts the canonical reliance of literally everyone on Thinkers to do their decisions and info gathering for them. As Joe put it, between March and later Jack Slash, once the dust has settled it's very unlikely that any organization would rely on Thinkers nearly as much anymore. There is even irony in that Joe's own subterfuge relies on this dependence on Thinkers but he considers it a worthwhile exchange over people not believing Thinkers wholesale anymore.
Inducing distrust in thinkers could be part of the plan in regards to Joe breaking out of his subterfuge. As in, right now if they break their thinker profiling, a significant part of the cascade would be thinkers realising they couldn't predict the Forge and then freaking out over it. If you reduce the dependency organisations have on them, it would almost certainly reduce the fallout. In short, it might not just be a worthwhile exchange, but rather at least part of the point
Capes: Guh, can't... socialize... urge to crash party... rising... conflict drive... inescapable...
I meant as, like an academic exercise; she has a literal planet's worth of mana available to channel, and several examples of how to do various tricks with it. So her own magnum opus could be to create an actual transformation amulet that some random "worthy child" can pick up and use. She has quite a bit of the relevant knowledge already and Joe can provide a lot of the rest. Could even be more Super Sentai/Power Rangers styled if she doesn't want to let her inner princess out to play.
Rude just because he's a cat doesnt mean he gas to serve in a cat army, there's no army that forbids cats from joining.
There's actually some legal precedents in cats being recruited in the Navy and the Coast Guard, as boat mousers. There is even documentation of such cats.
Also dogs. An officer officially inducing a 'Private Shepherd' is legally there, and has been done as an ongoing joke. They get a lot of repermands of insubordination for drooling. 😄
