I came to this story through comments from other posters, so I know at least some of you have read it already, but I found the description of a kitten becoming a familiar to be really entertainingly written and hope it might spark an omake or two:
Game Theory Chapter 7, a magical girl lyrical nanoha fanfic | FanFiction
I wonder if Cassiel is keeping the true origins of Case 53s in reserve for if she ever needs to weaken Alexandria's position for some reason. Learning that those people were knowingly made from abducted people and then had their memories completely erased would certainly shake Taylor's world-view.
I don't think the PRT is exactly a lost cause. I just think they are a lost cause to this group, because the only thing they want most is something we cannot give them and nothing else is likely to really get them in our camp. So better to let them do their own thing and simply rope them into the plan when the time comes by remaining friendly enough.
My problem with forming our own force is we've consistently failed to take the steps needed to do so, and I can't see us changing that behavior. My vote does change the power blocks a little, but one new person is not sufficient to change the fact that we've been playing a loner and are likely to continue to do so in the future barring QM meddling.
But if we can? I'm all for it.
What do you think they want from us? There was never a question of us joining them. Prior to the introduction of these Guardian Beasts, we were explicitly barred from joining them, and even now, we're far too public a "parahuman" for that to be an option, not to mention our youth. The PRT in this quest is not the canon PRT. Alexandria greatly reduced how much she was hobbling them once Scion was no longer a concern, so they are far more competent, and getting them the firepower needed to compete with parahumans will most likely make them more effective.
I don't want us to focus our time too much on the PRT, but I do want us to be involved in the development of their new mage corps.
It did not feel like that...
You guys asked for a calm period. I gave you 4 in-game weeks where you had nothing to do except what you wanted. If you feel like you didn't get a chance to relax and do fun stuff, then that's your problem and you should take a close look at your priorities.
You gave us a grand total of 1 plot point! How were we supposed to pick anything else?!
To be clear, I am kidding. I don't want that to come off as possibly being serious. The changes you've made to the quest in terms of dedicated social picks and giving us a little time to address some of the outstanding issues we've been too busy for are both nice. You've made it clear that we will never have enough time to do everything, so there will always be a sense of things falling to the wayside not out of a lack of interest, but because we have things that are higher priorities. You know, like in life.
Even that one plot point was a natural extension of an event we triggered, so you weren't forcing anything on us.
