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

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baofengyu said:
Welp, manga chaper 112 dropped on Crunchyroll...
Gunzo plots an escape in an old submarine...

Kirishima regains her body...

Yamato shenanigans...

And three mysterious thrones with Yamato's sigil in the center, a broken throne with Musashi's sigil, and a third throne...possibly Shinano?
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Sorry for the late reply.
It would be interesting to see what form the author's give Shinano if she is the individual unit 'awakening', I guess. Will it be her battleship design or her carrier design?
 
Arden said:
More importantly, though, they experience significant emotional trauma from their failure. A lot of people in primarily intellectual occupations tell themselves they really aren't clever enough (or as clever as they wish they were) on a regular basis, but they also rarely fail hard enough that it would emotionally break them to the point of causing a trigger event. Since they are more aware of their own limitations to start with, they tend to have more emotional resilience towards having them demonstrated to themselves.
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Think about what you just said.
but they also rarely fail hard enough that it would emotionally break them to the point of causing a trigger event.
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This bit, right here. Trigger events are, by their nature, rare. A trigger event is basically 'an event traumatic enough to cause PTSD or similar heightened emotional responses' coupled with having a magical space whale parasite jam itself in your brain. Now, the funny thing is this: The human brain is soggy, hormonal tapioca. No matter how smart or logical a person can be, no matter how good they are at rationalizing things, when things go wahoonie shaped and everything is figuratively (and sometimes literally) on fire, most people, even most intellectuals (actual or otherwise) don't sit down and shrug it off. Intellectuals snap just like everyone else. 'Use to failure' is not the same thing as 'use to extreme trauma and/or stress.'.
 
Okibruez said:
when things go wahoonie shaped and everything is figuratively (and sometimes literally) on fire, most people, even most intellectuals (actual or otherwise) don't sit down and shrug it off. Intellectuals snap just like everyone else. 'Use to failure' is not the same thing as 'use to extreme trauma and/or stress.'.
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What I meant to say is that different people have different breaking points, which is why powers and trigger events are related in the first place. Not everyone is equally emotionally fragile to the same things - even in canon Worm people regularly go through the same or very similar things that made someone else trigger without doing so themselves, even if they have a Corona Pollentia and therefore the potential to become a parahuman. They simply don't experience them as equally traumatizing.

It's a very personal thing and I'm personally inclined to think that if you are used to having your limits tested in a particular area, a related stress moment would hit you less hard, so if you do trigger, it would likely be for a reason that comes from elsewhere.

Sorry if that did not become clear.
 
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SirKaid said:
You could have just said "He's a Thinker" you know.

Seriously, Thinker powers always go to people with at least a little megalomania and never go to actually smart people. The Shards aren't interested in giving power to people who will use it responsibly.
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We mostly see strong Thinkers, and I suspect that kind of power has a significant tendency to make people act somewhat megalomaniacal even if they weren't originally. Such a power is going to produce a general attitude that one "knows better" and that you need to lead, control, or manipulate the people around you because of it. Accord probably being the purest example of that.
 
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eschwartz said:
Correction, and modification to both of your proposed analyses.

Thinker powers go to people who perceive themselves as people who could have solved a (trigger-worthy) problem if only they were smarter. That is to say, the textbook case of a Thinker trigger would be people who perceive themselves as smart, and think that if only they were just a little bit smarter, everything would be better.
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I accept your correction, although I'm not so sure

and likely, most of them are not actually smart.
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Not so sure I can accept this, although it's something we have no way to prove either way.
 
ensou said:
Somebody asked what Taylor's fleet sigil (not her personal one) described in Diatonic 1.1 actually looks like. ...And I've finally gotten off my ass and done it.

So, here you go:

Other news: Next chapter is coming along. Not all that far along in it, been working more on AFHB surgical edits and the crazy intense interlude for that. But! there is progress. I got something like 1800 words done yesterday for this (which I unfortunately scrapped because I didn't like what happened, nor Taylor's narration), and have done another 400 1400 words so far today, besides working on the sigil.

So uh... probably in a week or two? Everything permitting.

EDIT: Fixed stupid asymmetry problems caused by using Inkscape.
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Well, either the image is broken, or there's some formatting issue that's not letting it show up on my computer. I still want to see it though.
 
It is my great hope that if Taylor ever outs herself, the spectacle she uses somehow involves a flying, tinker-tech copy of DD-468.
 
SlickRCBD said:
I was disappointed that she constructed that sub body instead of DD/DDE-468, although DD-94 or FFG-50 would have worked just as well.
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I'm not particularly fond of the Wickes, so the DD-94 would be less interesting for me. FFG-50 was decommissioned in 2015, in our world. I would imagine it would definitely still be going strong, as with funds being shuffled into the PRT and Protectorate instead of the DOD they wouldn't have the budget to replace them outright. There's nothing stopping her from borrowing an active design, but the DD-468 has the added bonus that, in this world, it was built in Brockton Bay. >_>
 
I didn't say that the Wickles was my first choice, merely that it would work because of the name. My first choice is also DD/DDE-468 for several reasons, even if it has already been done in "The Little Ship That Could". One, as mentioned that particular Taylor was built in Brockton Bay, and two, it is the only WWII era on of the bunch. The Wickles were for World War ONE, not II, and while some were reactivated to serve in the Atlantic, they were considered obsolete.
 
It is a Necro, but that's not against the rules here. It's just recommended that necroing a thread be done for a good reason.
 
It still counts as thread necromancy, it is just that there is an understanding and acceptance of necromancy. If you can have an army of shambling skeletons rise up and descend upon low-income menial labour and high-risk professions, why give up a seemingly perpetual labour force just because some squeamish types get all in a tizzy over "desecration of remains" or "I don't like the smell" or "zombies ate my baby!" or whatever silly quibbles they might have. Yes, I get it, you don't like hearing that your best friend has been resurrected only to find them mindlessly working on a production line, but just think about other people, who only learn about your great friend when they see them walking around and hear people who knew them telling their stories. Some people even like being reminded of them, sure they aren't back, but that is no reason that remembering them should be a bad thing.

That said, off-topic is technically bad and low-content posts are... frowned upon, and necromancy makes that more noticeable.
yttam50 said:
(Could anyone give estimates of what would happen if Taylors power plants exploded?)
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I believe that it would be fairly normal for an extremely dense concentration of heat being released. There would be some exciting air-flow, the hole would probably grow larger with some enthusiasm, and anything in the vicinity would either be in the path of the escaping heat and Have A Bad Day or be regretting that radiant heat is a thing.

What I am more interested in is if Lung, as a thermokinetic, could control that heat. If he could, and did, then, well, I am really no expert and can't make any clear assertions about what would happen in Asia Bay, in the state of Asia, of the Asian States, Asia, of The Asia System in the Asian Arm of The Asian Way...

I do hope that Taylor give !Lisa a helicarrier. It is just so difficult to spy on everyone from the ground...
 
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