Discussed. Why waste his power on an 4v1 home assault when to the best of his current knowledge the target's only managed to hand Shadow Stalker her own ass? They have the advantage in every conceivable fashion, so why would he think they needed the security net.
Because they had absolutely none of the advantages and were going in with extremely low odds of success. Oh, sure, the normal kid
should have been toast, no arguments there, but the objective of the mission was not to attack Taylor. The objective of the mission was to recruit Shadow Stalker. She despises Grue's power, is engaging in a personal grudge that none of the others care about, is after someone being watched by the P.aR.T.y, has to get along with Hellhound, who is practically insane and who Shadow Stalker will be insensitive towards, Grue, whose raging ego will make everything difficult, Tattletale whose power Shadow Stalker will desperately want to mind its own business... . Coil's actual objective for this mission is very precarious. Now, maybe he just doesn't care if Shadow Stalker joins up, and mostly wants a distraction, or is happy for The Undersiders to just have a common enemy to hate, but that the mission was a sure thing is very much not the case.
Guns are the great equalizer 99% of the time. It's just that most normies don't think they can compete with Parahumans, so they don't try.
Not even slightly. Grue is basically immune to long-ranged weapons once his power is up, and at night he would probably want to just make the house disappear rather than risk people seeing a bunch of capes standing around. A black mound where a house used to be is less obvious than giant mutant lizards and people playing dress-up. So his power probably should have been up somewhat, but whatever. His power messes with sound so it really isn't plausible to have even the faintest idea of where he is until there is a ball-peen getting physical with your thumb and guns are not your friend, and even then you only know that he is close, not which direction he is in. Even with her power Sci only stood a chance because he wasn't making even the slightest actual effort.
The giant mutant lizards are largely immune to pistols. Assuming that they were used to operating via smell only in Grue's darkness, they still ought to have been a very real threat. It was more shack than disability that took Angelica down. The gun wasn't nearly enough, except that Hellhound is allergic to being sensible about which dogs are best for which roles. Some dogs can ignore pistols, one dog can use a first-aid kit, this is not rocket science(Sci should get brain surgery and rocketry for meme value).
Tattletale can read all sorts of stuff about someone's willingness to kill someone, the moment that they will pull the trigger, where they are likely to aim, what will distract or dissuade them... . Guns can take her down just fine, but it is by no means a fair fight.
Shadow Stalker took a bullet to the eye with no obvious ill effect.
Guns help reduce the gap, but by no means make anything equal.
It is still January, after all, and I've personally known people who just leave string lights up year-round.
Definitely plausible.
Though covering the door is a bit odd. By no means unheard of, but...
And he doesn't know for sure. One of his guesses is Probability Manipulation.
Terminology fail. When Coil talks about probability manipulation, he means controlling which outcome tossing a coin will produce. There is a probability of heads or tails, he would be controlling which outcome would result. This very much is not his power, and is very explicitly something which he fakes.
Sophia is Manton-limited.
Then she's a lot stupider than I ever took her for, since she phases through punches often enough. But she and things she affects CAN phase through flesh, no matter how unpleasant. If she were Manton limited, she couldn't do that.
The limit is not rigidly defined. There are multiple interpretations. Are rather obvios example would be that Shadow Stalker would be able to phase through people, but not able to phase people into shadow. Of course, her case is really weird from that perspective, because she can phase objects and then separate from them, at which point it pretty much isn't
"only phase your person and its accessories" anymore, so her whole relatonship with Manton limitation is very oddball. But it remains that it is far more complicated than just "yes or no".
Physically possible close combat gun stuff is now something she knows, yes. It's a synergy between guns and martial arts.
Can she dual-wield, guns akimbo, blindfolded... shoe-guns? Does "guns" include naval artillery? Flame-throwers? Rockets(if you turn them around and pretend that you are "shooting" the exhaust)? Bicep sculpting and posing etiquette? Railguns, coilguns, laserguns, lightning guns, plasmaguns, blowguns, mantis shrimp, beebeeguns, beeguns, gun accessories, or bullets? And how to design/manufacture such?
How in the hell did Grue accept this?!
As much as he will have issues with Shadow Stalker, there is also the issue of his all-important reputation, and beating up a little girl all tucked up in her little bed. I mean, it would be nice to think that this wouldn't get out, but, well, P.R.T. involvement and a common association between the victim, Shadow Stalker, and The Undersiders.
