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Vicky's damn funny. Especially the bit about the romance novels.
Firebird, a Worm AU/Xover?
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Victoria Dallon is fucked up in a lot of ways. This isn't one of them. I like seeing this side of her.
chibipoe
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There shall be no MindRapeGG to be found here.
Not for Taylor anyway. Which means what Taylor sees is actually what Vicky is like. Kinda sad that no one else will ever see it.
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It does appear that Chibi does a pretty good Glory Girl as well as an Armsmaster.
We also had lots go down.
The discussion with Catherine and Minako bombed, but not as bad as the one with Armsmaster. I rather liked that bit. Just Taylor reaching her limit and snapping a bit.
And what she says did have a hint of sense to it, about Parahumans popping up all around her all of a sudden.
And:
Da da da!
Taylor unlocks Pyrokinesis!
It's super effective!
Overall, I did like the Glory Girl scene the best.
That went as expected. To be fair to Minako and Catherine, they couldn't have known.
Oh? You might be surprised Aegis...
This won't turn out well, I feel. For anyone.
Okay, this is surprising. The Undersiders haven't been formed yet. Interesting divergence.
*coughcoughblatantliescoughcough* At least Vicky's doing a good job of calming Taylor down.
Is that a Hitchhikers reference I see?
Ah, meeting Amy is going to be fun...
Nice chapter @chibipoe.
Nianque
Verified Dragon
Taylor is immune to her aura. The Phoenix lolnopes every dang mental power that could even think about manipulating its host.
You're quoting an old version of my post, before I saw chibipoe's follow-up post.
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Vicky's room, obviously. Didn't you pay any attention to the chapter?
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
Well, not every power, as we saw with Jean and Mastermind. Though, if memory serves, he was getting help from probably the third most powerful teep on the planet(or maybe that was just in the cartoon.) Thankfully, there's no one able to pull those sort of shenanigans on Earth-Bet.
ETA: OR IS THERE? DUN DUN DUN
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chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
Well, per our dates, we are now evening of February 28th, 2011, so about to roll over to March 1st. Over a month from where canon starts. And mebbe there's WoG or something in Worm itself among all the immense words that explicitly says how long they were together, but I couldn't find it beyond recalling that they were low-key and avoided notice and the Casino was one of their first big things. A month and a half-ish is like, forever in cape years, after all.
I liked this chapter. Friendship is Magic, and Victoria's proving to be a good friend - most likely Hanabi and Rockshow as well, but Taylor didn't stick around long enough to find out 
Victoria's sideway comment that one of her mother's colleague's was taking a leave of absence was subtle, and well-done. Even better, the PRT is proving capable and reasonable (or as much so as they CAN be given what they deal with).
It's unfortunate that Taylor catches the Idiot Ball again and fails to check whether the skyscraper roof is safe - especially after she DOES check most of the earlier locations in the chapter. It's especially galling as she does consider the possibility it ISN'T safe. I realize it's probably necessary to let Coil move along... but still.
Some errors I spotted on this first readthrough (I'll read it again when I'm awake!):
Victoria's sideway comment that one of her mother's colleague's was taking a leave of absence was subtle, and well-done. Even better, the PRT is proving capable and reasonable (or as much so as they CAN be given what they deal with).
It's unfortunate that Taylor catches the Idiot Ball again and fails to check whether the skyscraper roof is safe - especially after she DOES check most of the earlier locations in the chapter. It's especially galling as she does consider the possibility it ISN'T safe. I realize it's probably necessary to let Coil move along... but still.
Some errors I spotted on this first readthrough (I'll read it again when I'm awake!):
a vigilante who ran around wearing on a mask --> a vigilante who ran around wearing only a mask
I've never actually seen Lung fight, so I know is what the reports say. --> I've never actually seen Lung fight, so all I know is what the reports say.
I've never actually seen Lung fight, so I know is what the reports say. --> I've never actually seen Lung fight, so all I know is what the reports say.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
- Location
- Astoria, Oregon
I liked this chapter. Friendship is Magic, and Victoria's proving to be a good friend - most likely Hanabi and Rockshow as well, but Taylor didn't stick around long enough to find out
Victoria's sideway comment that one of her mother's colleague's was taking a leave of absence was subtle, and well-done. Even better, the PRT is proving capable and reasonable (or as much so as they CAN be given what they deal with).
It's unfortunate that Taylor catches the Idiot Ball again and fails to check whether the skyscraper roof is safe - especially after she DOES check most of the earlier locations in the chapter. It's especially galling as she does consider the possibility it ISN'T safe. I realize it's probably necessary to let Coil move along... but still.
Some errors I spotted on this first readthrough (I'll read it again when I'm awake!):
a vigilante who ran around wearing on a mask --> a vigilante who ran around wearing only a mask
I've never actually seen Lung fight, so I know is what the reports say. --> I've never actually seen Lung fight, so all I know is what the reports say.
I'll get those adjusted in the morning! Thanks for the catch!
As to the skyscraper. There was nothing visible and anyway, cameras would be embedded so not something that would be obvious without tearing parts of the roof off. (That high up, the on a swivel/post is probably a bad idea) And anyway, it isn't catching the idiot ball so much as not account for the idea that someone would put cameras up on a skyscraper's sloping, decorative rooftop. There aren't -that- many fliers in BB and the spot doesn't afford any obvious egress, so it'd be much easier to have cameras stationed on lower floors where someone might smash through windows.
I'm awaiting someone to realize how much I've dated myself with the vigilante reference and what anime it is from. (pro-tip, it's a comedy, but don't link pictures here as it's definitely nsfw)
Keeping in mind that the Simurgh is an unparalled precog with the ability to control people, would she be powerful enough to do so considering that this... Mastermind has apparently done it before?
On another note, Taylor was kind of unfair to Catherine and Minako, but hopefully she realizes this once she's cooled down and has a talk with them where she honestly listens. It's not like she didn't have a reason to be angry at them, but it wasn't their fault either.
Mastermind was a mental illusion maker and Simurgh often does her thing through basilisk hacks.... so maybe? Direct brain manipulation may be a non starter but Simurgh's best tricks are the most subtle ones.
Well, Lisa's Interlude in Arc 8 is where I was getting my ideas that the Undersiders had been around for a while.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
Mastermind was an illusionist who could make people see whatever he wanted.
In the comics, Mastermind did it by basically stalking her and with a device made by Emma Frost, projected his illusions directly into her mind, convincing her that she was the reincarnation of an 18th century noblewoman(or was the noblewoman. It's been a while since I read them and he her husband. His illusions are super-convincing and he played this out long enough to warp her personality into what he wanted... until it blew up in his face and Jean went nuts.
Simurgh's precog and control of people is from manipulating their brain chemistry, but she just did her thing, so it will be a bit before we see her again. And, since Taylor's flares are disrupting precog/thinkers... could they be affected the Simurgh as well? A very good question.... that I'm not answering.
As to Catherine/Minako. She was and knows this somewhere in the back of her head. We'll possibly see her try to smooth things out in 2.5
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There are over a dozen other fics for that. Taylor/Vicky, OTOH, has never been done before on SB/SV (to my knowledge) and especially not in a threaded fic.
(There was a snippet on QQ, the same one that gave us Secret Agent Amy, but I can't link to it for obvious reasons.)
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
I do not presently have plans to do shipping in here. That may change however, we'll see.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
- Location
- Astoria, Oregon
Yeah. There's some references to them in the meeting where Skitter gets her name too, iirc? I just couldn't go to the trouble to hunt down exact dates(if there are any) when there were words to be written!
There aren't any exact dates really. That's the annoying part. It's all guess work based on context.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
To some extent, but consider he pulled this off on someone who could crush him like a bug and was largely successful, the guy had some serious chutzpah. (Interestingly, as i learned from a quick wiki-walk, he's dead in the current Marvel stuff and he actually repented/apologized for the shit he did to Jean before he died.)
As it is though, Simurgh won't be running again for a bit, so that is a question that we won't see answered for a bit.
chibipoe
May I tell you of the glory that is Catradora?
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- Astoria, Oregon
Yeah. Which is why I just threw my hands up and have them being fairly recently formed.