- Location
- USA
Which one is which again? In MS, specfically.
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
Lately, I think they have been swapping when they think nobody's paying attention.
Morganite
Happiness is a large book.
- Location
- Dynamis - Firefly Alley
Given the trend of making various enemy groups smarter/more skilled/more sensible in this story, what if they didn't -want- to keep Taylor?
I mean, it sorta sounded to me like they weren't focused on grabbing her right now anyway, but it would surely be much easier to steal some of Taylor's eggs and find surrogates for them than deal with just the things they know she can do.
(Egg donation not being so easy in the real world, but it wouldn't be too hard to believe some tinker came up with something to do things quickly.)
This is not, of course, a plan significantly -less- likely to result in the Fallen getting beaten up.
-Morgan.
- Location
- In My Parlour like a Good Arachne
- Pronouns
- She, her
Well that last part is enough of a plan to likely make Amy go a li~ttle Cthulhu on the Fallen ...
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
Might make you wonder if there's a Biological Reproduction snark, deployed, anywhere... Say one that can take the nucleus (DNA) from, say, blood cells (or hair roots, or cheek swabs...) and put it into an egg, then induce growth... Maybe even tweak the DNA in different ways... Really useful in agriculture and animal breeding, might have certain... ethical issues with sapients... Not Blasto, someone a lot less obvious...
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
Just for the sake of argument, let's assume The Fallen managed to capture Taylor. Let's further assume they managed to avoid being wiped out by pretty much everyone deciding The Fallen have gone too far, and that it's time to take off the kids gloves. Apparently Ward establishes that they are no where near as dangerous as The Fallen thought they were. Nor are they as unstoppable as they think. After all, when they decided to stop playing Hillbilly Kissing Cousins, they got smacked down hard. Apparently. But just for the sake of argument, let's assume they somehow managed to avoid the wrath of everyone they angered by kidnapping Taylor. And let's assume they managed to avoid receiving their own personal apocalypse at the hands/claws/whatever of the Endbringers. And let's even further assume they managed to repeatedly get Taylor pregnant. Yeah, that's very unlikely to happen. But let's make the assumption that everything has gone right for The Fallen.
Their plan to try breeding 'heralds' would fail right from the start anyway. Why? Because Taylor's abilities are the result of a unique combination of damaged shard, bud from Broadcast, and Taylor's own subconscious desires. Even if the hypothetical children did receive a bud and have the potential to trigger, the chances of them getting identical abilities to Taylor are so small they aren't worth calculating. In fact, odds would be good they wouldn't even develop powers anywhere near those of Taylor due to how many other shards are around to receive buds from. In short, they wouldn't get the 'heralds' they desire. Meanwhile the Endbringers would... no longer be trying to destroy civilization. Instead they would be trying to destroy The Fallen's little slice of degeneracy. As would pretty much everyone else, including the most notorious of serial killers... the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Not that their plans would ever actually get to this point to begin with. There's too many things The Fallen are unaware of that will throw a major monkey wrench in their plans.
Their plan to try breeding 'heralds' would fail right from the start anyway. Why? Because Taylor's abilities are the result of a unique combination of damaged shard, bud from Broadcast, and Taylor's own subconscious desires. Even if the hypothetical children did receive a bud and have the potential to trigger, the chances of them getting identical abilities to Taylor are so small they aren't worth calculating. In fact, odds would be good they wouldn't even develop powers anywhere near those of Taylor due to how many other shards are around to receive buds from. In short, they wouldn't get the 'heralds' they desire. Meanwhile the Endbringers would... no longer be trying to destroy civilization. Instead they would be trying to destroy The Fallen's little slice of degeneracy. As would pretty much everyone else, including the most notorious of serial killers... the Slaughterhouse Nine.
Not that their plans would ever actually get to this point to begin with. There's too many things The Fallen are unaware of that will throw a major monkey wrench in their plans.
azoicennead
Overly-Affectionate Zombie Squad
- Pronouns
- He/They
That idea is weird speculation. They want to take Taylor so they can figure out how to reproduce her ability to communicate with the Endbringers. I don't know how the discussion turned to "they want to raise Taylor's children", but the last time a Fallen viewpoint considered their plans was this:
It's a bad plan because the Fallen would need to have most of the information Taylor knows about snarks, the ability to identify snarks, and a greater ability to manipulate what power snarks give their hosts in order to succeed. That powers don't necessarily breed true is a tertiary problem at best.
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
Mostly because the Fallen, what we know about them from canon anyway, says that they are led by a group of families that sort of try to improve their link to their respective Endbringer models by gaining stronger versions of Family powers, usually through line breeding. (Yes, there's a bit of old Egyptian royal family practice going on there, apparently.)
- Location
- Lansing, MI
Yup, I was mis-remembering Kaiser's power - I was thinking it need to project from a metal surface. Mea culpa.
- Location
- Beyond the Unknowable Veil
One of the other AIs with Dragon, AKA people with NO biology will get this one.
I just hope that after this Amy and Taylor get a set of crystals and related equipment implanted that allows them to get to their pocket dimension even if they're stripped of all equipment.
Who cares if there's dangerous radiation emitted if it's a last ditch, 'oh fuck I need out of here' measure. Especially if you have a girlfriend who can fix the radiation damage.
(Also, I suggested they needed to do this waaaay back when they first got their pocket dimension, just saying.)
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
It's called asking Scotty to Beam them Up, not difficult, and doesn't take any equipment.
No, that would be second to last; you don't choose the possibly irradiating option unless the non-irradiating option has failed, even if your girlfriend can fix any radiation-related problems.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
... The irradiating option is the Dodge portal pocket dimension, the non-irradiating option is having Doormaker grab them, they don't live in a snark, they live on an uninhabited Earth.
- Location
- Море песка, солнце огня и множество злых сарацин
I believe that this particular model of tank comes from the Mauling Snarks universe.
(Incidentally, I'm looking forward for the inevitable standoff in the next several chapters.)
Exactly. You try Doormaker first, and then if that fails you try the Dodge portal.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
If Doormaker fails, you're in serious trouble and the Dodge portal might not work either.
- Location
- Deep in the Badlands of Equestria
True, but an extra holdout never hurts.
Remember: the question is never "Am I paranoid?", it's "Am I paranoid enough?"
And the answer is "No."
(What? Why, yes, I used to be a sysadmin, why do you ask?)
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
- Location
- The Internet
It actually is possible to be too paranoid. Just ask Batman about what happened with the whole Brother Eye thing. When your paranoia starts to actually create the very threats you were afraid of, you're too paranoid.
- Location
- Beyond the Unknowable Veil
Who told you to write that?! Was it THEM?!?!!!
Ashkari
(Verified Ink-slinger)
- Location
- United States
So Bonesaw installing an electricao device into Shadow Stalker's brain that's incompatible with her power, meaning should she ever go full shadow state she'll die instantly, in a setting where being unable to use your powers will drive you insane is 'nothing bad'?
Being captured by a pissed-off Jack and having your brain removed and turned into a spiderbot which was then traumatized to the point of triggering *again* is 'nothing bad'?
Taylor unknowingly exploding a bunch of innocent people who were attatched to the same shard as Echidna... all good, I guess?
Shall I keep going....?
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- Location
- USA
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
I haven't read that particular section in a while, but I'm fairly certain that Sophia doesn't need to enter her shadow state fully; just being able to partially enter it is sufficient to prevent Sophia from becoming insane.
They actually had called in Amy specifically to insure that Sophia could be able to do so.
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
Ah, we're actually in agreement then, save for the fact that I don't think the Pocket would be an effective emergency exit at all, as it requires a flat surface to manifest.