These last two chapters really irked me. All those narrowminded people at PHO and Cauldron with their fucking Warlord experiment just riles me up!
I can only wish the best for Renick and his attempt at salvaging this mess of a situation.
Agree regarding Renick.
The flip is that it is important to remember that most people don't have the greater context we have. They are only seeing what the news media is supplying and what the Social Media Poison is spewing. Additionally, Peter shut down after the first kill mentally as he cleaned territory because most human are -surprise surprise- opposed to killing other humans. General Marshall did a big study of this for the US post WW2 and thus why we have weapons that fire on auto and a bunch of other adpations to make it easier to soldiers to get over that hurdle.
For someone watching this, seeing someone place slice and dice on the evening news is going to produce emotional responses. Especially when that someone is the 'other' (inhuman as all parahuman are) killing humans.
Ok if Costa Brown is suppoused to be on the whole Feudalism expariment, why the heck is she sending Tagg? Does she want a war to start earlier?
I mean, he wont even try to talk with Heavy Gear, he is fucked either way
Honestly, its like Costa Brown wants to sabotage the PRT with how hands off she is over Brockton Bay. Yeah yeah, its Cauldron's 'feudalism experiment', but the splash back affects all of the PRT outside of Brockton.
And its gonna get worse since Renick refuses to see Heavy Gear as anything but children who needs to be 'saved', and Tagg is gonna try to fight a war against someone with Mecha-Zerg.
For me this reads more as an overreaction being forced onto her by Congress and others at the failing of the PRT. While Cauldron is likely happy with this, they aren't totally acting in a vaccum and if they don't want to National Guard to roll in guns blazing with orders to kill any non-Protectorate Parahuman and their supports then they have to do something to seem to be stabilizing the situation.
For a lot of the other comments I am seeing,
It seems like a bunch of you are assuming the PRT, Protectorate, Cauldron, Heavy Gear, etc are acting with perfect knowledge of everything that happens. One place
@Poliamida has done very well is maintain the fog and friction that develops between discreet groups that are not apart of one another.
There is no evidence of the locker that the PRT knows about, how can they take action. So far as we know, they are only now both aware and able to take action based on what they have learned what with the Bakuda bombings, a villain as the guy in charge, the Nazi's attempting to blitzkrieg and finding out they ran into a killing ground, and everything else they have to deal with they haven't had a lot of time to do anything else for the past little bit. School only just recently came back in session.
@Poliamida
I enjoyed the Rennick Interlude. The PHO bit was a bit short, a bit light on content, and seemed very limited. That said it did a good job of capturing the feel of the flamewar/shitshow/inherent problems with social media pretty well. I just would have like to see a few other threads. Either the Heavy Gear specific one, a section of the forums where the guy who recognized the Fight pulls an image from that old cartoon, or an update from the Empire's thread where the echo chamber and the effects the death of one and loss of many capes is shared by likeminded people. r/nonewnormal on Reddit is proof that no platform is without its groups that are wildly different in belief from popular parts of the site.
Rennick was good though, and the threat of Tagg is a great one to add tension to everything. His pick of Taylor is risky as a focus, but not a terrible one depending on how it is handled. While one option would be to name her as a person of interest in Winslow's burning as a person with motive, the evidence is not strong and it might be hard to get a jury that will convict since it needs to be unanimous and I doubt Pathy the Wonder Girl is going to spend her limited time and other resources to get the right one. I look forward to seeing how Rennick reacts with the Three teens in a trenchcoat bit is revealed. Even moreso if Aisha still isn't a parahuman by that point.
"Yeah, you can't make me a Ward."
"Yes we can. Otherwise you go to Juvie."
"Well that is going to be interesting, how the fuck are you going to make a normie like me a Ward? Is it open to all delinquent kids in need of a chance to find there way back to the straight and narrow under the guidance of such wonderful folks as Robotman the unfeeling or Gungirl the Useless?"
