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- Australia
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- She/Her
She's currently off following a Path resolve another deadly and dramatic series of events. I don't know why the steps include a battle bikini and a vat of jello, but I'm not going to ask.
Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)
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She's currently off following a Path resolve another deadly and dramatic series of events. I don't know why the steps include a battle bikini and a vat of jello, but I'm not going to ask.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
It was very dramatic and very off-screen.
- Location
- Australia
Okay, let's start with the fact that he has a self-destruct wired to blow the base sky-high, and it's controlled from his computer system. And that if someone tries tampering too hard with the computer system, it will set off the self-destruct.
Add to that a virus that is there specifically to investigate his system and take control of as much of it as possible, and, well, anything can happen.
While it's not canon that she used her powers to commit petty theft, does anyone actually believe that given her bullying of Taylor she wouldn't use her powers for personal gain in small ways? "If they're not smart enough to catch me, they don't deserve to keep their stuff."
A solution that has (fortunately) evaded most Tinkers.
Good thing she didn't try the red pen, then.
Or the blue one.
For the purposes of this fic, either one. (She exists, but she won't be bothering with BB any time soon).
esotericist
A Weary Hand
- Location
- Lacey, WA
Okay, but what would the green one have done? Or the purple one?
- Location
- New Jersey, USA
Now if only they could tell which button on the pen did what...
Y'know, Armsmaster would make a fantastic Q.
- Location
- New Zealand
'Sensing' should be capitalised.
He'll just start thinking with his pancreas or something.
Cauldron were never protecting Coil, they were just remaining hands off in BB to see if parahuman feudalism is inevitable. It was always up to Coil to take over or fail on his own merits.
Word of God says "Brutes (esp. regenerators) and changers often relocate their cores/coronas to the hardest to access part of their body, or adapt to do without. Crawler's wasn't in his brain, for example." Given that Aegis' whole power was adapting his biology, I'd say it's pretty certain that Aegis has no regenerative core. I'd say that as long as he has a limb left (just a limb, not even a torso to go with it), he can survive and slowly regenerate.
- Location
- Australia
We don't talk about the purple one.
Oh, he would.
Will check.
I'm surprised I've never encountered someone making a joke about how Aegis really can think with [a certain part of the body men are often accused of thinking with]
He fell
""Tis a mere flesh wound!"
- Pronouns
- Yes
Sure. The question is would his shard move his memories to protect them?
- Location
- Sweden
- Pronouns
- She/Her
That's quite true, it could be a wolverine situation where he survives survives and regenerates but his memories gets destroyed.
- Location
- Russia
I never stated they did. When I made that comment I (erroneously) believed that his base self-destructing in (only) one timeline is deliberate interference by Contessa, forcing him to pick a timeline where he will be captured. Apparently it is not the case and he just made a series of moronic decisions regarding his self-destruct.
Nice, but I realty expected Taylor to become an active participant at some point.
So far it seems like everything is warping up without her doing anything at all. Sophia is probably now an irredeemable villain due to whatever her tranq-darts really do and what she did to Glory Girl and coil has been caught.
Other than the 200+ dead innocents that some may still feel strongly about most of the drama in Taylor's life is now really over.
Unless we continue the rest of the story from Shadow Stalker's point of view, it seems all done without Taylor ever having used her powers again.
So far it seems like everything is warping up without her doing anything at all. Sophia is probably now an irredeemable villain due to whatever her tranq-darts really do and what she did to Glory Girl and coil has been caught.
Other than the 200+ dead innocents that some may still feel strongly about most of the drama in Taylor's life is now really over.
Unless we continue the rest of the story from Shadow Stalker's point of view, it seems all done without Taylor ever having used her powers again.
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- Yes
I was thinking of something quite a bit worse actually. While wolverine has forgotten his past, he still has all his skills but there's no reason it has to be that way.
- Location
- Australia
- Location
- Earth Prime
Good to know, and is a much better and thought-through version of Aegis's powers than most I see. (I still often wonder how he got flight in that mix; it doesn't fit "theme." But then, like Dinah, we have zero clue what his trigger event was.)
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
- Location
- In transition
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- She/Her
I mean, he's got self-biokinesis, so maybe he's just moving all of his body around manually, like a self-telekinetic...?
OK yeah, that's a weak explanation, but it's the best I've got.
No, that's Browbeat. I think Aegis's power adapts automatically as the situation warrants.
Hestia&theCourt
Turns out we're plural too.
- Location
- In transition
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Oh yeah, that's right, Aegis is redundancy, not self-biokinesis. (In my defense, who the heck remembers Browbeat?)
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
It's that stranger effect of his.
- Location
- Earth Prime
Yet another weirdly unrelated power!It's that stranger effect of his.
- Location
- Sector 2814
You know, I like that even if Sophia's darts were the ridiculously safe tranquilizers she used as a Ward... There's a good chance she'd still be thoroughly hosed. Depending on how long the timestop on Brutus lasts (i.e., can he be pulled out fast enough), Clockblocker may well be crushed to death by giant dog. The phased knife to the gut of Glory Girl was all Sophia's choice, and with Amy being across town (and it being phased into her), Vicky's got a pretty good chance of biting it. That's two (potential) hero deaths caused by Sophia, which even if everyone bought the "I thought I was undercover" excuse... Being undercover can excuse some crimes, but not murdering heroes/law enforcement. Hell, even if Vicky survives, that (attempted murder) stunt would still torpedo Sophia's possible defenses, even if Calvert hadn't upped the toxicity of her darts.
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- Location
- New Zealand
There's another WOG that flight is an outlier power for how common it is, and it's due to the Entities constantly looking for more effective and more efficient way of travelling between worlds. I'm guessing that's the whole reason for the Alexandria packages: flight to travel distances, and strength and durability to survive the journey, constantly stress-tested in different ways.
- Location
- Earth Prime
Which just brings me back to wondering how flight is "tested" in various ways. And how to theme it to Aegis's known powerset, which leads me to a stealth body-horror proposition: What if a lot of his adaptation is actually him being projected into more than just Earth Bet's dimension? he's actually a body-horror amalgam that just happens to have the 3D cross-section that occupies Earth Bet be Carlos-shaped. His "flight" is his extradimensional limbs lifting him off the ground in other dimensions, and his cross-section thus lifting off here. This would mean he'd have an effective flight ceiling, though perhaps he's never flown high enough to know it.
Calvert got away clean with one cowardly backstabbing murder of someone Piggot knew at Ellisburg.
I don't think she's going to leave anything to chance this time.
I don't think she's going to leave anything to chance this time.
- Location
- New Zealand
I really doubt that, but I also really love that idea.
- Location
- Australia
Note that Sophia had some pretty funny ideas about how she should act as a Ward ...