Leet's Shard is a bit too dumb to have grasped the concept. I mean, its response to 'host isn't taking enough risks' was 'ensure he takes even fewer risks and take away his ability to refine his tech'. Which is to say, removing its own purpose.
Oh my my! While QA might be the Best of Existing Shards, [OS] might be even better if it follows [FRAGILE ONE]'s enthusiasm in halping their host and keeps QA like of Best Host.
This is so, so, close. So close, even, that you brushed up against it in this very post.
[OVERSEER] is, to put it mildly, quite happy with its host. A bit impatient to get to the large-scale projects, but pleased about [BEST HOST] generally. Especially with how she found them a whole new world to work with, posing many challenges while not having to waste resources rebuilding from a war of conquest. Or fighting said war of conquest, especially since there's already so many other Shards getting similar Host Data.
Heh, sounds legit.
...And now you've given me the mental image of the two Shards bonding over the experience, hooking up, and making baby Shards together. All of which go to Taylor's future kids.
It's absolutely worse, while I sympathize, people who have the ability and resources to take care of obligations but refuse/neglect to are some of my least favorite people out there.
Yeah, so right now instead of being mad at Danny, I'm mad at his coworkers for failing to get him the help that he clearly needs, or indeed notice that a problem exists. Sure, the capes have the excuse of also being very fucked up people, but the others do not have that.
I may well have missed it in previous comments but this is the first time I've seen reference here to a shard called 'Fragile One'. Is that a Hybrid Hive call out for Vickie's shard?
It's the name I've seen for Vicky's Shard.
I was unaware of the Ward naming. I didn't make it past two chapters of that dumpster fire. I first ran into it while reading CmptrWz's Hybrid Hive. live and learn!
And we have a winner! Your prize, comrade: 🍪
How, exactly, would Taylor have found out? She was busy dealing with the endless shit show that was school at the time, and Danny/parents are pretty good at keeping shit hidden from children, to the point there is a question if she knows he no longer works at his former job.
Sphere was a natural Trigger and is still currently Mannequin. Taylor's empowered by a QA bud that thinks the Cauldron vial she took was yummy.
Sphere's shard dealt with self-contained ecosystems, which is great for establishing small colonies in inhospitable environments. His power would be more useful than Taylor's on a Earth that lacked a proper atmosphere or in establishing a quarantine in a viral outbreak, but would be difficult to scale the way Taylor's power will.
Quite true, but I was thinking that it felt like a different expression of the same shard. As if say, either it was a bud from Sphere's shard, OR if he had been killed (but apparently he hasn't), the shard might have chosen a new host and expressed itself differently.
