Might be getting her mixed up with her mom—actually now that I think about it you are right, the mom was from Europe, this woman grew up the US and then married the cop.
There are cases of children getting totally absorbed in one of their (same sex) parent's life stories... So, they talk about those things almost as if they happened to them, personally... Trauma can do strange things. People do be weird...
 
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Not Quite Valhalla, Part 5
"Very good news, Herr Krieg," Alec said upon entering. "Thanks to some friends, hmmm, better not say where, we have, ah ha, acquired equipment for memetic and cognito hazard containment, the same as is used by the PRT!"

Krieg looked at Alec with confused suspicion. Bah, no fun.

Alec tried again. "This will allow us to more finely test the bounds of what ails you."

Whatever response Krieg might or might not have had was preempted by the entry, at speed and with visible agitation, of the man Alec had dubbed Herr Nurse Scarface.

Alec's look of frustration turned to horror at the man's whispered words. "PRT is going into lockdown. Anomalous Endbringer behavior."

From Krieg's reaction, the man might as well have shouted. "Here?" Krieg croaked out.

Alec looked at Herr Nurse Scarface expectantly.

"They don't know where yet?"

"Next time," Alec said testily, "lead with that."

Note:
Alec: So hard to find good help these days…
 
Not Quite Valhalla, Part 6
Alec turned back to Krieg, as Herr Nurse Scarface left to go do whatever the fuck he did when not looming.

"So, bee tee dubs, if an attack happens we might, kind of, definitely have to sedate you."

"What!" Krieg half rose out of his bed. "You can't leave me here!"

"Please, moving sedated you isn't hard, we did it loads of times before and that was when the PRT weren't on lockdown."

Krieg sputtered incoherently.

Alec appreciated the sight for a few beats, wasn't often he got paid to troll, hmm… Did Nazis become people again if they were mastered?

OK, bored now.

Alec rolled his eyes. "We still don't know what made you shoot up the hospital last time. We're not going to have you all awake and dangerous unless we have people around to stop you if you lose your shit. Same reason we sedate you at night when the be-caped, uh, security consultants are not around."

Krieg did not seem entirely satisfied, but that was a 'Cherish' problem. Alec had other things to worry about. All his games systems were back at the apartment! Well, except the handheld, but still! His saves! He needed to text Aisha to make sure she took the memory cards if anything happened!

Note: Priorities!
 
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Yes...

While this is entertaining, there really. really, needs to be at least one responsible adult, preferably one Alec has at least a tiny bit of respect for, supervising this... fishing exercise. OK, 'giving him responsibility', and, 'it's a Nazi, we don't care that much if he's broken', but, someone will be there, on over-watch, and to do all the paperwork.

Earth Bet? Circling the plughole? Yeah. But, the circling and the final plunge must be fully documented, using the correct forms!
 
Armsmaster and others are supervising this exercise. PRT, Protectorate, Guild, and the Europeans are all involved. Alec is being used because he can detect and preempt misbehavior by Krieg, and because he won't read as "cop" to Krieg (who has stolen very good social observation and manipulation skills).

Hence, them not using actors. Alec will give a combination of "this guy be fucked up", "curious to crack you like an egg and see how you work" and pure garbage data which, since Alec presents as some sort of tinker, thinker or master, is not a surprise. CI Spite Grandma reads as "Herren Clan matriarch playing her own game". Herr Nurse Scarface reads as a hired merc.

Anyone else they use similarly either wont read as "we are here to interrogate you for info to destroy Gesellschaft", or will produce motivations that are complex and conflicted in ways consistent with the premise "Herren Clan, a group loosely aligned with Gesellschaft, rescued you and is not entirely sure what to do with you now."

They are going to such great efforts, because thanks to Mrs. James Fleischer, they know Krieg was very highly placed in Gesellschaft.
 
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Armsmaster and others are supervising this exercise. PRT, Protectorate, Guild, and the Europeans are all involved. Alec is being used because he can detect and preempt misbehavior by Krieg, and because he won't read as "cop" to Krieg (who has stolen very good social observation and manipulation skills).
Stolen how? This is Krieg, not Victor.
 
Armsmaster and others are supervising this exercise.
Thanks. They do seem to be so much in the background, they're practically invisible. Which, I guess, looking from Krieg's PoV, means things are working properly...

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Hmm. Maybe the trigger is a personality fragment based on skills copied from Victor, to ensure it is suspicious and perceptive enough? That'd be a nice twist!

Sorta a bit like Cranial, but with extra torture, and personality damage...

Here they are trying to outwit whatever buried triggers are in Krieg's brain, whose operation they don't fully understand.
So, they are trying to grok a persistent Master effect, and engineer a way around it, by using two Masters, one a body, and one an emotions, one? So, extract info from a broken, philosophically twisted, adult, using two broken, twisted, teenagers as tools?

Yup. This is Earth Bet.
 
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A Reasonable, Proportionate Response, Part 7
"She stabbed him in the neck with a pencil!" The school administrator was both frazzled and disheveled, and Aisha idly wondered if this had interrupted her playing hide the sausage on the clock.

"Wasn't the sharp end," Aisha grumbled, "now was it?"

"Why," the 'social worker' interrupted, turning to Aisha, clearly wanting to cut off the quickly escalating exchange but equally unsure of how to do so. "Why did you stab, err, poke the boy?"

"Fucker got handsy!" Aisha answered sharply, ignoring school bitch whining about language. "Put his hand down my shirt to cop a feel."

"He says he just tapped you on the shoulder," the woman replied primly.

"Did you even ask anyone else?" Aisha retorted, rolling her eyes.

"As you know," the woman said, ignoring Aisha to focus on the 'social worker', we have a zero tolerance policy toward fighting, regardless of the reason—"

"But not sexual assault?" Aisha interrupted.

"—five day suspension," the woman concluded.

"Whatever," Aisha said, leaning back. "I'll learn more at home and it doesn't matter what you do anyway, we, uh, pressing charges, that's it."

"What?" The woman said, dumbfounded. Even the 'social worker' seemed surprised.

"Yeah," Aisha said, leaning forward with fire in her eyes. "Bet I'm not the first one, and we just see how many other people saw what. Wonder what those cameras saw too…"

"That is entirely uncalled for!" The woman said, scandalized. "These matters should be handled by the school, you can't just—"

"I don't trust the impartiality of the administering of the justice by these people and stuff," Aisha said, turning to the 'social worker', "and I won't say nothing more to them without a lawyer." She turned back to the woman, and continued, "but all youse sons of, er, bricks, you better save the tapes and stuff and I'm recording this meeting and all so there is a record of me saying that."

"You can't do that! This is a two party consent state!"

"You got noticed and shit," Aisha said, point to a pin on her shirt of a frowny face with the text 'WELL I'M RECORDING YOU TOO HOW YOU LIKE THEM APPLES!' "And it sounds like you be more worried about me going to the cops and the courts than the creepy junior gropenfuhrer you trying to cover for."

Aisha sniffed suspiciously, before continuing. "And why does this office smell like cum?"

"We're done here," the 'social worker' said, standing up, as the bitchy administrator went red with rage.

Note: Hey boss? I know this was supposed to be a cushy posting but ngl kind of missing Alaska right now.
 
Oh god. I absolutely love this chapter.
Everything about it was beautiful.
I knew Aisha was one of my favorite Worm characters for a reason!
 
the bitchy administrator went red with rage
You know, you're going to have to replay your recording? And, yeah. You know what?

You're going to realise you've been nuked.

Best you can do? Try and survive the fallout.

Hmm. Aisha? Asking Taylor what was going on, who was doing what, watching who, recording what, and where... That could be educational...
(Even if you can't use it in court...)
 
It's sad that you have to say something so obvious as humans can love each other and be both gentle and kind, whilst also being monstroust to other humans, so you dont get attacked by the weak minded.
Krieg: we're not genocidal dw trust me
This has been discussed at length on SpaceBattles. Check out this info thread mark: Goddamn Teenagers [AU, Time Travel] .

Short version, uptime Amy is a problematic dysfunctional mess.
How Victoria specifically feels wasn't really explored
 
Krieg: we're not genocidal dw trust me

How Victoria specifically feels wasn't really explored
She wants nothing to do with Amy. At all. Is so done with this shit.

I expect this has significantly affected Vicky's lifestyle. Having her sister know where she lives would be unsettling, which would encourage her to either nomad and/or have her home somewhere ridiculously fortified (she might have a place or "guest room/apt" at the "totally not an armed compound" run by the artists formerly known as the Undersiders.

It's been long enough that some of the heat will be gone, but it's still annoying. Kind of like living on the gulf coast, except instead of "oh it's another hurricane" it is "oh, Amy showed up again".

There is a decent chance Ashley and other in Vicky's support group get more upset about it than Vicky does, at least outwardly. Vicky would probably be content with just never seeing or thinking about Amy again. Ashley probably wants to blast Amy into a reality crack.

Kind of like that pathetic ex who shows up occasionally being mopey and then gets run off by your friends? Except the ex is a WMD, and so are your friends?
 
Aisha absolutely did this in full knowledge, that it will be on a recording that will be entered into evidence.

She's gleefully looking forward to being able to brag to Alec about how she got an uptight lawyer to quote that in a court room.
Part of the joy in writing Aisha is being able to have her just say the stuff other people think but keep in their heads. Alec too, to an even greater extent.
 
Gentrification In Action
The working girls looked at each other nervously. The madam had summoned them all to a meeting, before the start of the day. She was joined by a weedy-looking man in a rumpled suit who they hadn't seen before.

"The great Lung," the madam began, "has decided to open a new massage parlor. Our humble house is privileged to nominate two candidates. Other houses have their own allotments. Those selected will receive special training, but will be expected to stay at the new house for at least two years."

The girls looked at each other, then at the lobby of the 'massage parlor' they were currently standing in.

Seeing their confusion, the man pinched his nose. He then sighed dramatically, then addressed the group in a thick New York accent. "An actual massage parlor. Somewhere higher end, where a well-off couple might come in to get an actual massage."

One of the older girls tentatively raised a hand. At the man's nod, she tentatively asked, "so… would we be working?"

The man explained patiently. "A 'happy ending' would still be on offer, for an additional fee, but the girls will have proper masseuse training and certification. If successful, we might get some additional certifications so we can bill them to insurance as physical therapists."

Seeing the girls' looks of continued confusion, the man sighed again. Before he could explain further, a shrill tone erupted, in unison, from the girls' (and madam's) pockets and handbags.

The man looked around, confused, but the girls were already moving.

"Just like we practiced," the madam said seriously. "I'm sure it's just another drill."

Note: Obligatory reminder that "better conditions" and "it could be, and has in the past been, worse" are not the same as "good". Joining the Elite didn't suddenly make Lung a "good guy".
 
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"I'm sure it's just another drill.
Missing closing double quote.

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I guess this counts as 'upgrading working conditions'... I could see "You're all going to do a one-week introduction course. After that, we'll talk about which of you might want and need further training".

Short term? There's Endbringers to be concerned about...

(Given what Behemoth did to New York, it might be a bit surprising the visiting guy isn't more clued-up...)
 
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Missing closing double quote.

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I guess this counts as 'upgrading working conditions'... I could see "You're all going to do a one-week introduction course. After that, we'll talk about which of you might want and need further training".

Short term? There's Endbringers to be concerned about...

(Given what Behemoth did to New York, it might be a bit surprising the visiting guy isn't more clued-up...)

Typo fixed, thank you!

I could have made this more clear in the chapter, but this was not an official PRT/Protectorate alert. this was promulgated by ABB (NOT Elite, the Elite guy's phone didn't go off).

As has been noted previously, Coil has been coordinating with Lung on EB preparedness stuff.
 
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