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Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]

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Ferdiad said:
She'll probably lose some respect with Brandish with this. She didn't mention it was a black hole bomb when she left, so when GG tells her Mom that she left after a bomb nearly killed her, she'll think she was just an overconfident brute.
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I'd point out that even in a worst case scenario, she either nearly got killed having spotted the bomb with enough time for the emergency services personnel to get into cover, or because she used the forcefield that provides a not insignificant chunk of her brute rating to shield the emergency services personnel.

And that assumes that the emergency services personnel don't report that it was a weird effects bomb that Relentless managed to dissipate with her shields.
 
Ash19256 said:
because she used the forcefield that provides a not insignificant chunk of her brute rating
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While I agree with your general sentiment that Brandish won't think much worse of her for this, Taylor described herself as Alexandria, but with a ranged forcefield instead of flight.
From that description you would not assume someone to actually need that forcefield for protection.
 
Firedon said:
While I agree with your general sentiment that Brandish won't think much worse of her for this, Taylor described herself as Alexandria, but with a ranged forcefield instead of flight.
From that description you would not assume someone to actually need that forcefield for protection.
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One thing to bear in mind is that, based on what we see in canon Worm, Parahumans generally do not handle it well when their power backfires. Thinkers get headaches, Tinkers start taking apart whatever is around them to build a solution, and so on.

Relentless apparently just had her force-fields interact with something very dangerous. And then the "something very dangerous" just went poof. Relentless doesn't know what happened and from her perspective her power just backfired.

With that in mind, Relentless being thrown and vague does make sense.
 
Nicholai said:
One thing to bear in mind is that, based on what we see in canon Worm, Parahumans generally do not handle it well when their power backfires. Thinkers get headaches, Tinkers start taking apart whatever is around them to build a solution, and so on.

Relentless apparently just had her force-fields interact with something very dangerous. And then the "something very dangerous" just went poof. Relentless doesn't know what happened and from her perspective her power just backfired.

With that in mind, Relentless being thrown and vague does make sense.
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She's not a parahuman though. These points don't necessarily apply to her.
 
Firedon said:
I'm mostly quibbling over the "forcefield that provides a not insignificant chunk of her brute rating", because while they're nice, anyone described as Alexandria would by definition be a powerful brute anyway.
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And Relentless is a powerful Brute. She shrugs off a lot of damage. She's super strong. And just being a Brute doesn't make you immune to everything. Brutes can be injured or killed when another Parahuman power trumps their ability.

Heck, isn't it quite well known in-universe that Siberian ripped out Alexandria's eye?

Relentless ran into an exotic Tinker-tech "bomb" that did "something." Doesn't that sound like the kind of thing that can bypass a Brute's defenses?
 
Firedon said:
While I agree with your general sentiment that Brandish won't think much worse of her for this, Taylor described herself as Alexandria, but with a ranged forcefield instead of flight.
From that description you would not assume someone to actually need that forcefield for protection.
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I suspect that it is very common in the Wormverse for new capes to either not know what all their abilities are, or to be intentionally obscure about how they work.
 
Hmm, well that's certainly..... interesting.

And now I'm just sitting here wondering if that will work on an endbringer.
 
And with the latest Chapters of Aoki Hagane (for me at least, don't be mean), we once again learn just how freaking bullshit the Fleet of Fog's Potential really is.

Holy shite things escalated hella quickly.

I can't wait to see if Taylor would live up to that potential.
 
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