This is a bit old but, but since SV doesn't have Necro rules and it seemed pertinent I thought I mention it.
On the PRT documents wildbow provided for his PRT Quest he provides some interesting tidbits.
Introduction
Parahumans are contacted or contact the PRT to request membership in one of the teams under the PRT's umbrella. Smaller offices with only five or so employees may maintain only one or two parahumans working alongside the PRT office, while other teams support the Protectorate team as an independent agency separate from the PRT in all things excepting oversight, collaboration and general management.
It is a primary goal of the PRT to recruit and include as many parahumans as possible. This ensures a safe environment for parahumans; it allows for stabilized, healthy interactions between parahumans and the unpowered; and it grants the PRT the ability to better answer threats.
Recruitment: Funding
To better support the primary goal, any department that recruits a new member is awarded eighteen months stipend for salary and general costs, as well as funding to supply branding, equipment and costume. These funds are not drawn from that department, but are provided in addition to standard funding.
As base discretionary funding is calculated from total costs, the department's discretionary funding should increase as a result of the artificial increase to total costs. The department will have more funds rather than less, as the size increases. Barring issue, this should promote department growth and boost discretionary funding on its own.
To discourge departments from repeated firing and re-hiring of capes, this bonus is only awarded once, and the additional stipend is cancelled immediately should the cape leave (see Termination, below). It will not be reinstated.
Recruitment: Initial Steps
Newly recruited Protectorate and Wards members should be seen by the PR and Branding teams (or both as separate department, as resources allow), should have appointments for fitness testing and a general powers test. If the department does not have a lab, then the cape in question will need to be flown out to the nearest available site.
Care should be taken to make members feel welcome and to accommodate any special needs. Gradually introduce patrolling with partners and patrolling alone in safer areas. Team leaders or directors may need to encourage training and other routines to build confidence for new recruits.
Source-https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.2fhkyxt0vb5g
consider the parts in bold.
Now considering Wildbow wrote this himself I consider this a fair insight into the PRT mindsight and perspective as we're likely to get. A point to consider is that it doesn't really matter if Taylor is being unreasonable, or if her expectations are flawed. Piggot's objectives are to recruit as many capes as possible, particularly one with a potent powerset like ours.
As a minor we're not expected to be up to date on what is or isn't reasonable. And I'm sure plenty of young capes might come in asking for something even more unreasonable like parking tickets revoke, past convictions buried or nonlegal favors. To an extent that we asked Piggot for more than she can deliver is perhaps almost expected especially as we approached her ourselves not through our parent or guardians. How she chooses to set us straight should have the ultimate objective of recruiting us in mind. Given how shorthanded the Brockton Bay Heros are given the Emprie capes, this is even more pertinent than it might be for other branches.
Remember Taylor didn't come here on her own initiative, she was asked to by someone else. And she is performing quite effectively in a field, not struggling as capes with a less broad powerset might. In her mind being independent is going quite well, and so if she asks for more than than is typical well she doesn't expect such rough and coarse treatment. In short she's a tough sell, and the bulldog snappish response from Piggot is not at all going to be well received by most teens, particularly from her position of relative strength. She doesn't need this. And given how her powers outted her and simultaneously make her photogenic, she's more prone to making her displeasure known than others might be.
In short the interview going badly might not simply result in one cape burning her bridges with the Protectorate, not only not joining but possibly breaking off her current arrangements but her badmouthing them elsewhere. If she had a Parahuman Online Account and someone asked her why she didn't join the Protectorate her offering shabby treatment could backfire badly.
An while it's often unremarked on New Wave did have a political/social goal in mind of holding capes accountable and unmasking. That largely fell through with the death of Fleur, but you can bet that if they were to hear from Taylor about the treatment she got from Piggot and the remarks on one of the Wards under her command breaking her parole...well it wouldn't end the partnership but it could make things more complicated at least in the short run.
You might argue that Taylor's treatment doesn't reach that stage where other capes would care. And that's entirely plausible too, but consider again From Piggot's perspective Taylor's a prickly teenager with a certain sense of entitlement. She might walk out of that interview with an exaggerated sense of the indignities she suffers, and anyone who talks to her will hear her side not Piggots. From Piggot's perspective she shouldn't antagonize a cape, particular a minor who doesn't know better in the first place and might take undue offense from the sense she's not receiving respect.
All in All I think she's handling this very poorly, even if from her perspective we're a self entitled teen with unreasonable expectations. That same penchant for unreasonableness means she should watch her tone all the more closely...
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