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Magical Girl Escalation Taylor (Worm/Nanoha)

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lancelot said:
Even after Hayate was told about what that fucker did she has his photo in her family photo album.
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Hayate's PoV is that:
-Without him she'd still be the Book of Darkness's master. He identified her, but the book's master assignment is not under his control.
-Which meant she'd be a terminally ill, crippled orphan until the Book activates.

Instead she has a good standard of living, the ability to attend school and the ability to pay for all the special needs she has.
Maybe it'd be better if he had been open about it, but she does owe him pretty badly from her PoV.
Faraway-R said:
Keep in mind, even their "investigation mission" ships carry an Arc-en-Ciel, which is a Superweapon in its own right. Specifically for "the only way to be sure" scenarios.
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Spatial Distortion cannon is apocalyptic when fired in atmosphere yeah...
 
lancelot said:
Still I think we need a straight answer as to @Silently Watches view of the TSAB before we make any plans. Because how he sees them and how we see them may be completely different.
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If we're talking about pre-StrikerS, then my view of the TSAB is what is essentially a benevolent organization (or as benevolent as a quasi-military organization can be) that has a shadowy conspiracy at the top that no one but a few of the highest-ranked officers even knew about. Post-StrikerS, that shadowy conspiracy was completely removed from power, so now the leadership is a group of people trying to act in their society's best interests (without being completely amoral and soulless in the process).

As for the Gil Graham issue, my understanding is that Hayate forgave him because he ensured she had some kind of a life while the Book of Darkness was inactive and therefore basically asked for leniency on his behalf. Since she was his primary victim, that would go a long way in swaying the courts. And by going a long way, I mean that he was sent back to the world of his birth with just his familiars for company, so he was basically sentenced to exile and marooned on a low-magic world rather than being court-martialed and stuffed in a space station prison for the rest of his life.

For someone who lived the majority of his life in the TSAB, I don't know that exile was really much of an improvement.
 
Yo I can't be the only one happy the Danny plotline is dead. Him interacting with Taylor is always boring in worm fanfics, I've been fairly happy that we've ignored his team and haven't really talked to him. I'm hoping now that Danny is dead to us we can just leave the privateers and convince Tim to come with us. And if he doesn't come with us, we can jsut take away his device right?
 
Pretty sure the devices that IAE builds are full on Intelligence Devices. Attempting to take it away would be literally stealing a sapient(?) away from its partner/reason for existing.
 
Ferdiad said:
And if he doesn't come with us, we can jsut take away his device right?
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I'm pretty sure there are exactly two things that will make a TSAB Enforcer act when they have no real jurisdiction there. 1: Lost Logia. 2? This.

I don't think we want to fight the TSAB (Even if the agents in question might be acting without authorization) on top of the Endbringers.
 
Ferdiad said:
Yo I can't be the only one happy the Danny plotline is dead. Him interacting with Taylor is always boring in worm fanfics, I've been fairly happy that we've ignored his team and haven't really talked to him. I'm hoping now that Danny is dead to us we can just leave the privateers and convince Tim to come with us. And if he doesn't come with us, we can jsut take away his device right?
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Wow. I've never seen anyone so gung-ho about working against their own self-interests. It's actually impressive.
veekie said:
Danny's situation seems like a ticking Second Trigger timer.
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Don't tempt me. :evil: I already have ideas about how a second trigger might manifest.
 
Considering the cause and the nature of Danny's powers, I wonder if he would go deeper into Master with some kind of memory-gestalt power... relying on those he's linked with to make up for his own inability, and/or being able to review the memories of those around him (sliiightly similar to Tattletale in a way, just using adjacent people rather than uber-deduction or Akashic Record stuff). Which would either be interesting or a horrifying S-class trouble, depending if he went into bad-Master territory with creating a local hive-mind out of people.

But then I also have limited to no idea what the difference was between Skitter vs Weaver vs Khepri. Other than presuming the second trigger/last name involved expanding from bugs to all minds or something.
 
Racoras said:
But then I also have limited to no idea what the difference was between Skitter vs Weaver vs Khepri.
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There's little difference power-wise between Skitter and Weaver ( the latter was merely a rebrand name when Taylor "joined" the Wards in mid- to late- canon). Khepri, though...was more QA in the driver's seat than Taylor, since she suffered progressively worse brain damage/mental degradation after her attempt to get more power went horribly awry.
 
Racoras said:
Considering the cause and the nature of Danny's powers, I wonder if he would go deeper into Master with some kind of memory-gestalt power... relying on those he's linked with to make up for his own inability, and/or being able to review the memories of those around him (sliiightly similar to Tattletale in a way, just using adjacent people rather than uber-deduction or Akashic Record stuff).
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That sounds like the absolute worst power to have for any parent. Especially of a teenaged daughter. Instantly know the memories of everyone nearby? Just glad she's already immune to master effects.
 
Dalxein said:
He'd also probably wind up either employed by the government as an 'interrogator', kidnapped by some unscrupulous group for the same purpose, or end up Birdcaged on the off chance he might learn and leak government secrets. I don't really see any other options.
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Or Option 4: He is designated and S Class threat and gets a containment zone built around him.

That'd be fun times for Tay-Tay and Dragon.
 
LancerisDead said:
Or Option 4: He is designated and S Class threat and gets a containment zone built around him.

That'd be fun times for Tay-Tay and Dragon.
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Pretty sure that's the sort of thing Director Costa-Brown could shoot down as a waste of manpower and materials for a relatively cheap relations buff with Calamity. It'd really just be pinning him down somewhere everyone who looks into it would know where to find and kidnap him. Avoiding this would require guards- further wasted resources.

They could easily see him gainfully employed in a morally gray and NDA inundated manner to do the same thing. House him with a PRT branch or on the Rig and bam, guards for free and a hostage if Calamity goes nuts.

I could also see public outcry, possibly spurred by conspiracy nuts or whatever, surging to the point where they have no good choices and decide PR is more important than one cape being happy with them. Hence, Birdcage.
 
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People seem to be getting a second trigger power up (like Narwhale, ignoring the manton limit), and Amy's butcher-job on QA that resulted in Khepri at Golden Morning.
 
Silently Watches said:
Wow. I've never seen anyone so gung-ho about working against their own self-interests. It's actually impressive.
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Today I learned from other quests that personal satisfaction > self interests!
Silently Watches said:
Don't tempt me. :evil: I already have ideas about how a second trigger might manifest.
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I got a bunch myself. Though I understand you can't share for spoiler, I could!
Main one I could think is that if he can't form new memories, and with his power, then the solution is to take over other minds and bodies that COULD, and basically use them to expand his mind like an RAID array, storing memories in theirs and using theirs as his own.
This of course would be BOTH a massive power up and appropriately devastating as a Bad Second Trigger might go.

Or we hunt up a cape willing and able to fix the problem before Danny's subconscious frustration overflows. Scapegoat might, but he's probably extremely reluctant to do this because he might wind up stuck.
 
RoninSword said:
People seem to be getting a second trigger power up (like Narwhale, ignoring the manton limit), and Amy's butcher-job on QA that resulted in Khepri at Golden Morning.
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That's because most folks forget:
1. The little side effect of the individuals becoming shells of a person due to the Shard, to varying degrees, assuming near-total control over the host's brain.
2. That a Second Trigger is meant to be, no hyperbole involved, worse than the 'worst day of your life' Trigger.
3. Second Triggers shuffle and change the power around, giving new abilities while taking old ones away.
4. That, just like the original Trigger, powers are not supposed to solve the problem the host has.

So what seems like a direct power up? Actually isn't.
 
Always Late said:
That's because most folks forget:
1. The little side effect of the individuals becoming shells of a person due to the Shard, to varying degrees, assuming near-total control over the host's brain.
2. That a Second Trigger is meant to be, no hyperbole involved, worse than the 'worst day of your life' Trigger.
3. Second Triggers shuffle and change the power around, giving new abilities while taking old ones away.
4. That, just like the original Trigger, powers are not supposed to solve the problem the host has.

So what seems like a direct power up? Actually isn't.
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You know... I think I might have a possible "upgrade" for Danny.

He shifts his... Wait, what happened to his character sheet on the first page?

Anyway, something like "offload memories" might be an upgrade - except that he's overwriting the minds of those he connects to with bits and pieces of himself, involuntarily, and using them as glorified cloud storage for his own memory and the like. The only way this wouldn't backfire horrifically is if he also gains the ability to connect to non-human mammals and uses several pets as his cloud-sourced brainmeats.

Keep in mind, IIRC his power was like Imp's in that it had to be held back to not be used. AND that skill sharing was there already.
 
Racoras said:
Considering the cause and the nature of Danny's powers, I wonder if he would go deeper into Master with some kind of memory-gestalt power... relying on those he's linked with to make up for his own inability, and/or being able to review the memories of those around him (sliiightly similar to Tattletale in a way, just using adjacent people rather than uber-deduction or Akashic Record stuff). Which would either be interesting or a horrifying S-class trouble, depending if he went into bad-Master territory with creating a local hive-mind out of people.
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veekie said:
I got a bunch myself. Though I understand you can't share for spoiler, I could!
Main one I could think is that if he can't form new memories, and with his power, then the solution is to take over other minds and bodies that COULD, and basically use them to expand his mind like an RAID array, storing memories in theirs and using theirs as his own.
This of course would be BOTH a massive power up and appropriately devastating as a Bad Second Trigger might go.
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Faraway-R said:
Anyway, something like "offload memories" might be an upgrade - except that he's overwriting the minds of those he connects to with bits and pieces of himself, involuntarily, and using them as glorified cloud storage for his own memory and the like. The only way this wouldn't backfire horrifically is if he also gains the ability to connect to non-human mammals and uses several pets as his cloud-sourced brainmeats.

Keep in mind, IIRC his power was like Imp's in that it had to be held back to not be used. AND that skill sharing was there already.
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Wow, you guys really don't understand the concept of "don't tempt me", do you? :evil: :lol :rofl:
Faraway-R said:
He shifts his... Wait, what happened to his character sheet on the first page?
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I pulled it off the first page maybe a third of the way through Arc 8. Did it seriously take you this long to notice?
 
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