Yeah. For how rough a life the average combat cape lives, they have surprisingly few marks to show for it.
technically already answered but yeah, it pretty much comes down to the fact that the cape either has a regenerative power/healer on hand, is incredibly lucky, or doesn't survive the injury in the first place. for all that people say that a gun can kill most capes, you can also generally treat a gunshot wound if it's not immediately fatal. harder to walk off getting punched with the force of a pickup truck or being turned inside out by a biokinetic
all things considered it's surprising Taylor lived through most of her injuries. realistically that shoulder wound from Flechette
should have killed her, considering there are several major blood vessels in that very compact space.
One thing that does always bother me though is that...these are the injuries everyone brings up, but nobody considers giving her
other injuries.
which i mean, sure, it makes sense. these are the ones we know about, these are the wounds we can confirm she did suffer and the scars she would likely have...but they are also injuries from a very thin slice of her career. probably the most active to be sure, but we only see her active from April to July-ish of 2011, and for the week (give or take) of the S9K and Scion's rampage. there's an entire two years of her career that we know absolutely nothing about other than the fact she was still very much active (more active than most in the PRT would really like her to be), but that's almost never explored.
So...she could have plenty more, to be honest. maybe she got healing, maybe she didn't. maybe she just got that lucky, but i don't really buy that.
it's honestly up to the author to decide what scars she has and which ones she doesn't. speaking of which-
I'll be honest, I wanted no matter what to keep the one on her arm. Just as a matter of character design and having this sort of visual representation of the delineation between her past and present.
Also so the twins had something to gawk at the first time they saw it.
gotta give you props for this because even if it probably did get healed it never seems right in my mind's eye to picture her coming out of GM...missing the arm, but having no scar tissue to go with it. doesn't feel right. hell, it always feels like it
should be in the shape of Lung's draconic hand to me; i know that's not accurate but
i don't care, it's more aesthetic.
so...yeah. no complaints, all the applause. A+ design choice, glad you kept that in