- Location
- Koszalin, Poland
Possibly. But if needed, it may be explained as a cosplay or some cape geeking (retro style from 85), because I suspect this kind of a thing in superhero/supervillain setting must be pretty popular.
Honestly if someone wants to offer something less eyecatching, I may as well vote for it. But I suspect we will shapeshift pretty often anyway, so it's not that relevant I think.
The way I personally see it is we will:
A) Meet her once, explain more important things in person, forget about her and move on. I think at this point she prefers to do things solo (bad interactions with other people) and pretty sure she will team up with Claire and Lilac anyway, so we don't need to be close. This is my preferable option. I prefer to do our own thing, while our hosts do their own.
B) We set up specific schedule (like one per month) where we meet up with her and/or potential people she allied with, while we mostly work outside of Brockton Bay and move on.
Otherwise I agree that 'babying' her or even worse 'we pretend to be her saviour' is NOT something I want to do and I suspect first she could take as insulting.
This is why I mentioned few times recently that we may literally fix things on our own, while we simply observe and experiment with some things. I personally like shard shenanigans best here. I want to experiment and try some things. I want to see as many power options as possible, also on street level, and have fun with them. Like that whole 'Greg is Batman' idea. Taylor for me is the same.
Also 2 chapters ago (or was it one?) I was like the only person who mentioned that we can try to keep Taylor the way she is or keep her on street level. Pretty much no one agreed with me, because honestly Taylor needs more psychological help then feeding her fantasies (I also mentioned that, but after so many months no wonder most of us forgot). It's not a complaint before you say it. I'm fine with turning her into powerhouse, but it will also have consequences. But I'm fine mostly with it, because I'm curious how it will turn out, not because of some specific care for Taylor as a character. AS LONG as power option is versatile and interesting to play/toy with.
But I also think that there is more then enough overpowered Taylors in this fandom that seeing 'street level' one would be actually more interesting to me. Heck, one of my favourite stories with Taylor are those where she has no powers or they are very low key. Because as I said - life of a parahuman is a very brutal and nasty lifestyle.
Yeah, casualty chance is possibly radically reduced if we give her really strong power, but it opens up different can of worms. When you operate on A-S rank level, everyone instinctively is afraid of you. You are involved in high level politics no matter what happens, which some people may simply despise. No one will ever leave you unless you brute force it and in this case you at best alone or people that work under you may either by too loyal to you (aka fanatics, so no real friendship here is possible) or you can't really trust them. This is IMO a fate of someone who has too much power in his or her hands. It's a lonely existence unless there are other who can equal you in power and in this case betrayal may always happen.
I also would prefer to stick to shard business first and foremost.
