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Ring-Maker [Worm/Lord of the Rings Alt-Power] [Complete]

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It's amazing how you dissect Sophias personality pre-Annatar, and have it make so much internal, believable sense.

It really does seem like someone like her would develop: she grew up in an abusive environment, then found a violent outlet (her time as a vigilante) and a friend who played right into that. The Wards didn't help either, with their focus on conflict and making her hide so much about her since she entered the Wards with a lot of lies. Put that all together, and you gradually get something tense and wound up where everything must be about conflict and advantage.

Thank you for describing it so well, and giving such a believable path for how she could get out of it.
 
Woooo! New Ring-Maker Chapter!
Seriously though, Emma, you're bring the wrath of not only the Lord of Gifts but also probably the Seven and the Three down on the Empire's head. And that's not to mention the two remaining Travelers. And the fact that you broke the unwritten rules.
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Remind me, Emma ran away from home and is living with E88 in this fic right? Because otherwise her identity just became fair game for violation of the unwritten rules.
 
Emma, you're not playing Gandalf at all.

You've turned into Saruman the White Supremacist. That's a pretty big derail from your original goal.
 
Emma's so deep in her own lies and self-delusions I can't help but feel that her being faced with the truth will be something like this:
 
Emma, Emma, Emma.

The role of Hero Who Saves The World From Sauron has already been taken. And fulfilled. Sophia did it with the Power Of Love. Platonic Love ... I think. I'm not sure.
 
So Emma came face to face with the consequences of her actions and decided to keep going rather than acknowledge the mistakes she had made.
 
Timerider said:
Emma's so deep in her own lies and self-delusions I can't help but feel that her being faced with the truth will be something like this:
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The thing is, she specifically said in her last interlude that even if she didn't like it, she NEEDED to start doing some self-introspection, because there was too much at stake (namely, Mordor), for her to risk misreading the situation, and accidentally unleashing said Mordor.

She (seemingly, at least), apparently came to the conclusion that Sauron is too big of a threat to leave as a possibility, and/or is running some other plan that Sophia's ring-senses didn't pick up on.

Occam's razor states it likely to be the former, but that feels at odds with said recent Emma interlude, and with the (minor) hints the chapter does give off, such as the possible mourning tone, Emma stopping once she realizes Sophia said 'no' rather than just flee, or Emma not kicking as hard the 3rd time.

Though, any of that supposition gets pretty firmly kicked out the door by the idea of taking Sophia back to the Empire base - unless Emma would ever think taking Sophia in would result in anything than Sophia getting killed, that is (or unless it's moreso a trap for Annatar, or a test)

....So I suppose in a sense, your picture may become accurate, lol.

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So Emma came face to face with the consequences of her actions and decided to keep going rather than acknowledge the mistakes she had made
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Emma hasn't (speciifcally) faced any consequences aside from her pre-trigger past catching up with her, unless I'm missing something? The closest consequence, otherwise, is Sophia rebuffing her and threatening her with Narsil back in the Sauron segments.

It seems that she 'officially' got confirmation that rather than run away, Sophia said 'no' (despite having already glimpsed that in her last interlude, of sorts), but other than that, her main consequence is gonna be either coming from the PRT, and/or Kaiser once he hears Emma turned the cold war into a hot one, complete with unwritten rule-breaking, this time with actual violence being used against the civilian guise - Heartbreaker's getting info on Danny, whether leaked by Kaiser or not, is something Kaiser could deny, at least until if/when Anna-Taylor gets it out of the shell of Nikos.
 
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Can this version of Sophia take a brick, turn it into shadow, then throw the shadow brick at someone's body and have it go back to normal inside of them? Nothing says she has to go for the torso (where all the important bits are), but what about arms and legs? From a powers standpoint, I can see it working. For a PR standpoint, it's likely a hard no for reasons of "excess brutality".
 
JamesB said:
Can this version of Sophia take a brick, turn it into shadow, then throw the shadow brick at someone's body and have it go back to normal inside of them? Nothing says she has to go for the torso (where all the important bits are), but what about arms and legs? From a powers standpoint, I can see it working. For a PR standpoint, it's likely a hard no for reasons of "excess brutality".
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Yes, she does this for her crossbow bolts in canon.
 
JamesB said:
Can this version of Sophia take a brick, turn it into shadow, then throw the shadow brick at someone's body and have it go back to normal inside of them? Nothing says she has to go for the torso (where all the important bits are), but what about arms and legs? From a powers standpoint, I can see it working. For a PR standpoint, it's likely a hard no for reasons of "excess brutality".
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There aren't any shadows inside the human body though, so I am not sure that's possible.
 
mithril-blade said:
Funny you should ask, when shadows themselves are intangible yet they don't pass through things.
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Shadows are one of those things that doesn't properly exist, but rather are defined by other things that do.

It's also irrelevant, because "shadows" is not actually her parahuman power, it's 'Breaker state that looks like it's made of shadow and passes through solid objects but is vulnerable to electricity'
 
dhasenan said:
Shadows pass through air, water, and clear glass.
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But not solid objects.
RadiantPhoenix said:
Shadows are one of those things that doesn't properly exist, but rather are defined by other things that do.

It's also irrelevant, because "shadows" is not actually her parahuman power, it's 'Breaker state that looks like it's made of shadow and passes through solid objects but is vulnerable to electricity'
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Does it actually pass through solid objects, or merely seems to?
 
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Does it actually pass through solid objects, or merely seems to?
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Uh... what are you actually getting at?

Worm absolutely 100% has attacks that hit the inside of a person without breaking their skin.

EDIT: Here, have an exact fucking quote:
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Shadow Stalker – A cape in the Brockton Bay Wards. She is capable of turning herself into a shadow state, where she passes through walls, is lightweight and ignores most incoming attacks. Somewhat bloodthirsty.
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Let's refer to Shadow Stalker's breaker state being used on objects as her 'phasing' objects, and her new Ring Bearer powers as 'shadowporting'.

Sophia phases objects (including ammunition) and sends them at her enemies, then drops her breaker state while those objects are inside her enemies. No shadowporting is involved, as it is just Sophia using her original powers. She can do this with a brick in an enemy's limb, causing it to re-materialise inside the limb, thus crippling her enemy.
 
Lads. Try not to get angry or frustrated. Please remember that the readership of this story is coming from two wildly different fandoms, and that not everyone is familiar with the one you're more familiar with.
 
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