This feels strange. Like seriously, is there EVER a time when they aren't trying to recruit the 'new cape'? There isn't is there?
The PRT and Protectorate is always trying to recruit new Capes but this tends be on the
passive scale of things with recruitment-advertisements. Or if they find and meet a new Independent that's out on business, then they'll throw out a recruitment-pitch but only lightly push for it (et al Skitter's First Night Out).
Tayzilla's situation is drastically different from the norm. Because her membership into the Wards is temporary and by circumstances rather than choice. Assault is an insightful individual, which is why he picks up that Piggot isn't just helping Tayzilla out of duty, but because the woman wants to
actively recruit the girl.
Ehh, not a fan of this interpretation at all. If the E88 were seriously doing shit like that Kaiser would have been tracked down and murdered in his home by Carol already.
There's a reason why in Canon Kaiser had the guy who killed Fluer killed as well, and why it was a big deal. No one wanted New Wave to start tracking down and killing Villains in revenge.
Not to mention that New Wave doesn't even do much since Fluer died, just Amy and Victoria mostly.
Its hard to tell what's even AU anymore since there isn't a divergence point or anything. The story just randomly has things which are different in the setting, like Taylor and Emma living right across from each other.
Except it's not just the E88 but also the ABB and the Merchants, and all three have the advantage of knowing where Carol lives as oppose to the opposite. This is a whole play by skirting the concept of the "Unwritten Rules", where the gangs don't directly go after the actual members of New Wave but they remind that they absolutely fucking can.
In fact, Glory Girl remembers a time when Carol told her that Laserdream was almost attacked in canon because "sketchy people recognized her", which even resulted in Carol telling "Amy and me to be extra careful, and had insisted she or dad drive us if we went anywhere." And considering how scared Laserdream is from the incident, this was likely before she had powers to defend herself.
So I would argue the opposite. New Wave is functionally powerless and has to deal with a lot of shit for being maskless.
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That is, as far as I know, not canon. The fate of the Fleur's killer is unknown.
And, really, after seeing four years of neo-nazi shit in real-life America, unless Kaiser's name is "God-King Trump" (and even fucking then), Kaiser publically announcing or having a rumor mill of "I killed the dude who killed Fleur, so we cool with the heroes (and they won't kick our ass)" is such a display of weakness that the E88 would have turned on him faster than you could say '
Proud Boys' and then split smaller into factions.
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In my opinion, leading a non-secretive double-life is taxing for the older members of New Waves. Which means the younger members with more free time are more often out and about (Glory Girl, Panacea, Laserdream, and Shielder) and that's half of the team anyways.
And even if they don't, Glory Girl carries most of the aggro anyways. The idea that Glory Girl is excessively violent (but hides this by having Panacea heal the people she cripples in anger) and she's basically never caught is because the thugs and gangsters never say anything is about it... is a stretch.
Does Tayzilla possess any multi-dimensional form of attacks? And does her Psychic Powers work on Shards?
(Looks at
A Space Godzilla) Sure.
Yes. I mentioned it elsewhere that
Shardzilla psychically bonked Coil's Shard, which is how it simulates Shin Tayzilla.
