I'm curious how chibipoe would handle the parahuman fallout from that.
Why? Because Coil is breaking the unwritten rules. He's going after a new parahuman (Taylor) in her civilian guise. Is anyone going to care? Will some people care and others totally ignore it? Will Kaiser try and use this as a rallying point for the E88? (Ab)using this turn of events to try and bring straying members back to the fold? ("If he does this to her, what is to stop him from doing this to you..")
The problem with this is that Taylor has no proof that he attacked her, nor that he broke any unwritten rules. While Catherine and Minako believe her because they are her friends and they trust her, I doubt the other factions would. Let's take a look:
Merchants - Might care given the risk to their identities, but I find it more likely for the addicts to not give a shit.
ABB - Lung would probably give no fucks and Oni Lee is an emotionless doll that just follows him. Maybe Bakuda, but that's a
very long shot.
Undersiders - Might care, but Coil
is the one paying them, even if they don't yet know it. Once they realize this, I doubt Regent or Bitch would care, and Grue has Aisha to worry about. Tattletale may care, but she's just one person, and quite thoroughly under Coil's thumb.
Faultline - "Is there money involved? No? We out."
E88 - The most likely villain group to care, given that this is a white girl, but Taylor is a hero, and furthermore, has no proof that Coil has even done anything.
New Wave - The most likely to care, if only because of Taylor's friendship with Victoria, and possibly because it parallels what happened to Fleur. She would still run into the issue of
nothing having actually happened in this timeline, but at the very least I think Victoria could be convinced to help her out, but that doesn't really amount to much.
PRT/Protectorate - The seondd most likely to care, after New Wave, given that they have a standing interest in Taylor. There are, however, a few complications. First of all, there's the fact that Taylor has no way of proving that this happened, let alone that Coil did it (though, admittedly, the PRT/Protectorate would probably link black-clothed para-militants to Coil pretty fast). This is an even bigger reason than it would be for any other group because, as they are a government sponsored organization, they have laws they have to follow, and a teenager, even a parahuman, saying that she was the target of a kidnapping that never really happened would not justify cracking down on Coil, and the resulting imbalance in power struggle between the gangs and PRT. The other big issue is that, while Coil is not yet Acting Director of the Brockton Bay PRT, it is a reasonable assumption that he still has influence within the organization.
In conclusion, I don't find it likely that there will be any fallout from the cape community at large.
P.S. Sorry if this somewhat incoherent, but I just woke up and have not had any caffeine yet.
