Eh my biggest problem with Administrative mishap is that it ended up randomly devolving into grimderp for the latest arc, with the bad guys winning via author fiat and introducing elements that had no basis in either canon or butterflies caused by Addy's actions.
Now it basically has multiple apocalypses stacked atop one another that will require some level of asspull to solve simply due to how widespread, varied and numerous the issues are.
The story is Arrowverse adjacent. It is based on the 2015 Supergirl TV show, however the author added new things.
Multilayered quantum adapting telepathic fields and the Guardians of Oa being prepared to kick the Shards/Eldritch Beings out of the universe, again!
So, Minnie is definitely not safe, or at the top of the totem pole.
However, it's worth noting the original story was playing the threats a lot more seriously, enemies were rational actors and developing counters for Addy. This story is more of a comedy so Minnie might win simply because the genre changed and it's funny to see high and mighty people people lose to someone in the body of a child. We can see how the story progresses and how seriously we need to take this before we start arguing power levels.
Addy is also planet sized, however depending on when in the story we are she might not have regained full power usage or have different capabilities depending on what she has developed.
Based on context clues, I'm pretty sure we are at the point in the story where Addy has already regained the full use of her original planetary size shard, has upgraded herself with Kryptonian crystals, is integrating the nearby moon into part of herself, and has started opening stable breaches to barren parelles Earths to gain more land to build processors and draw power from. She was stable enough and has enough excess energy to Bud, and has been multitasking on a multidimensional level, and I believe is planning on converting planets to act as pseudo Dyson spheres. She's WAY bigger than Minnie's single Earth sized body at this point if I'm right
Lena apparently isn't aware that Addy is an Alien yet though, Addy wouldn't have the dimensional breach stuff at that point as she did the first successful test of the dimensional breach tech with Lena after she'd found out that Addy wasn't human.
She might have started upgrading her crystals but with the current timeframe still being up in the air she might not even have started integrating the moon yet.
I think that's more the sheer amount of information they need to share in a short period of time. Bandwidth problems, in other words. Same reason Google transfers info between datacenters by throwing a ton of USBs into a van and driving it there.
Yes, I never said them physically exchanging shards wasn't sensible. Its the fact that they do it by smashing each other over the head with shards each entity feels they can afford to lose (as opposed to just exchanging them in a negotiation process) that is bizarre and rather hints at the kind of difficulty a mind that consider that to be normal procedure would have to fit in with human society.
Alright, I went away for a couple hours and the thread devolved into arguments over Administrative Mishap's execution and related subjects. Could we not, please? Different people enjoy different things, and disliking or disagreeing with an element doesn't necessarily make the story as a whole bad. Please don't turn a completely different thread into arguments along those lines. :I
This story is more of a comedy so Minnie might win simply because the genre changed and it's funny to see high and mighty people people lose to someone in the body of a child.
The different between a horror and action movie is who find the Monster XD
Her Friends may end up being an upgraded mash up of every single alien she can get DNA from and she did have the endbringer's blueprints on Calibration so if she get some pre-time and motivation she won't lack fire Power
Granted that's probably the joke that Minnie is super competent and can deal with almost anything but everyone around her have to decide if the solution and it's faullout are worst than the villian of the season
Hey everyone, dropping in to read a bit before I have to do adult things. Like, ugh, washing everyone's dishes... Bloody lazy frakkin'... RIGHT! So, random thought that came to me.
I am of a mind, that I now want to see the local telepathic community watch Addy and Minnie chat with one another. And treating it like a tennis match as they just exchange single word MASSIVE CONCEPT communication packages. Possibly with polite clapping.
I am unclear what "the size of a continent" actually means. My own personal assumption is "the area of the landmass of a continent, to an average depth somewhere between one and one hundred metres in depth", which is very considerable, but nothing approaching a planet. This seems to largely match what descriptions are provided, at least early-on, in Administrative Mishap, albeit with more structure than just a mass slathered over the terrain. There are, however, other possible interpretations. For a start, a dome would be an obvious form, and at such a scale it could possess significant average depth. Mountains are relevant enough, and access to the local mass would be desirable, so a continent-area base and a peak that reaches lunar orbit is another option... . I feel as though the most "technical" definition would be to just match it volume-for-volume with a continental plate. Then there is the political view of things, which would likely involve a wedge coming to a point at Earth's centre.
In short, there are a great many interpretations of "the size of a continent", many of which could potentially be vastly greater than something that merely coats the entire surface of a planet. I am not convinced that such a descriptor is helpful, especially when the entity in question quite likely expands across spatial dimensions which continents typically do not: The T.A.R.D.I.S. is the size of a police box...
She was under the influence of Red-K at the time and therefore wasn't in her right mind when she did it. She also screwed up the process, creating a bud with the shard equivalent of animal intelligence, and had to reconfigure the bud once she fixed her own energy problems.
Alternate dimensions exist and are easily accessible. They only need to move everyone to another Earth with more resources and use their new Doomsday weapon to kill everyone that isn't them. Clearly, nothing of value will be lost.
In a technical sense you're correct, Addy is not autistic because she's not human.
In a practical sense, though, Addy absolutely is autistic. She hyperfixates on a niche subject (in her case, geese and to a lesser extent other waterfowl), she has moderate-to-severe issues regarding taste, texture, and colours, she has problems with noisy crowds, etc..
She has these problems because she's never inhabited a human body before, much less a human/kryptonian hybrid science experiment, and her senses get overwhelmed. She also only has these problems inside her human(ish) body; when she shifts her focus to her "real" body she doesn't have any of those issues.
It's also not unusual in the slightest for shards to have sensory issues based on the avatar they're inhabiting. The Warrior Entity was killed precisely because it was overwhelmed by grief, something that the main body would have had no issues with. This is literally the Entities' Achilles heel.
The Warrior, a colony of shards that together make up an offense-specialized Entity, most likely does not feel emotion as we would understand it. It's canon to AdMis that shards cannot normally experience the qualia of "Will" as it is understood in the DC universe in question. Scion, the individual, experiences at least grief, longing, and sadism throughout different scenes of Worm. This is because he's running a simulacra of a human brain and has plugged it into his decision making algorithms for some reason. Probably a standby state the Thinker would have woken him from when she needed him to do Entity stuff again? Doesn't matter, point is he had depression, and he had depression because he was acting human, not because Shards get sad or lonely like we do.
Addie is letting Taylor's repaired brain handle a lot of the on screen decision making. Enhanced and with access to Shard processing power and data including QA's 'memories', but it's still roughly human meat that we see walking around feeling and doing things and thinking with human words. A pure Shard would not have an opinion on crushed ice's texture except insofar as it's a datapoint.
At the very least she has established a human "lens" to convey information through and that lens can be described with human traits.
However, it's worth noting the original story was playing the threats a lot more seriously, enemies were rational actors and developing counters for Addy. This story is more of a comedy so Minnie might win simply because the genre changed and it's funny to see high and mighty people people lose to someone in the body of a child. We can see how the story progresses and how seriously we need to take this before we start arguing power levels.
It's worth mentioning that while the enemies in the original story are indeed mostly rational actors, Addy herself is actually a hyper-competent hero? anti-hero? unwilling hero? individual. She both prefers and has the ability to act in the most efficient way possible when resolving problems, which almost always leads to her winning.
Apart from maybe the latest arc. Though, to be honest, no matter how smart she'd acted there, the end result wouldn't have changed anyway, so it doesn't really mean much.
If Addy can almost always win despite facing an intelligent opposition, why can't Minnie? And, more importantly, does she even need to win in order for the story to not lose its light comedic tones?
What I'm trying to say is that in this particular case a genre of the story depends mostly on the main character's attitude towards the ongoing events. Something that might be emotionally devastating for Addy might not mean anything for Minnie.
The latest arc in the original is quite a fitting example, actually. The coming apocalypse is such a big deal for Addy because she has her life here, on this Earth, while Minnie might just shrug her shoulders uncaringly and ask "So... what's the problem here, exactly? Just go find another Earth".
The story can still be a high-quality comedy (like all Alivaril's stories) without needing to dumb down opposition or reduce threat levels.
It's worth mentioning that while the enemies in the original story are indeed mostly rational actors, Addy herself is actually a hyper-competent hero? anti-hero? unwilling hero? individual. She both prefers and has the ability to act in the most efficient way possible when resolving problems, which almost always leads to her winning.
Apart from maybe the latest arc. Though, to be honest, no matter how smart she'd acted there, the end result wouldn't have changed anyway, so it doesn't really mean much.
If Addy can almost always win despite facing an intelligent opposition, why can't Minnie? And, more importantly, does she even need to win in order for the story to not lose its light comedic tones?
What I'm trying to say is that in this particular case a genre of the story depends mostly on the main character's attitude towards the ongoing events. Something that might be emotionally devastating for Addy might not mean anything for Minnie.
The latest arc in the original is quite a fitting example, actually. The coming apocalypse is such a big deal for Addy because she has her life here, on this Earth, while Minnie might just shrug her shoulders uncaringly and ask "So... what's the problem here, exactly? Just go find another Earth".
The story can still be a high-quality comedy (like all Alivaril's stories) without needing to dumb down opposition or reduce threat levels.
Man a really really want minnie and addie to interact becuase a really think that why similar in some senses they really diferent character one is practicaly a autistic human(addie) and one is an elrich abomination that fails of pretending to human at the same time that she thinks shes nailing it(minnie).
I want to see the how they interact what our dear minnie will think about addie, will she thinks shes dumber versión of herself becuase shes more human? What will addie think about minnie?
This is what a want to see the most
The preceding week of Addy's life had risen significantly above the mean in terms of stress and distress. The success of her weapon-disabling prototype black box field generator had led to significant amounts of investor support for the L-corp xenotechnology research team; despite Cadmus making a nuisance of themselves, she should be able to celebrate. She could not. The fact remained that Cadmus was becoming an increasingly irritating threat between Cadmus' advances in psionic shielding and new methods of killing captured agents before Addy could gain any useful knowledge from their minds.
Their psionic barriers would not be a significant impediment if she had more energy at her disposal. Addy could not afford to dedicate the required quantities of energy, and would need to fix her power problems in order to maintain her advantages in the ongoing conflict. However, she hadn't anticipated that she would be facing these specific problems. The dimensional-breach simulations she ran—on her laptop, even, since operating additional processors would pose an unacceptable expense—had not been successful thus far, and she was beginning to suspect that she was missing vital knowledge of the physical laws of this multiverse cluster.
She tried to ignore the increasingly frequent flickers of dread she felt, but she truly was living on borrowed time. Every time she needed to use her powers, it reduced the amount of energy she had left, and by extension, how long she had left to live. There existed the distinct possibility that she wouldn't have enough time to remedy her own ignorance should the conflict with Cadmus continue much longer. Anger was even easier to feel and harder to ignore; she had been effectively abducted from her familiar multiverse cluster to one operating laws just different enough to make her life unpleasant, and the entity responsible for the transfer seemed content to leave her to starve.
Addy desired nothing more than to return home and find comfort in the goose videos she had recently acquired. It quickly became clear that rapid relaxation would not be an option. Several boxes of pizza and miscellaneous Italian dishes had been arrayed in the kitchen of the apartment Addy shared with Kara, but the Kryptonian did not appear content with being able to devour some of her favorite foods. Instead, the smile Kara gave her was tenuous and Kara was visibly fidgeting.
Addy did not possess a significant appetite at the moment, and Kara's current state of nervousness removed any lingering desire. The Shard moved across the room, sat atop a chair across from Kara, and did not move to acquire any of the offered food.
"What is the problem?" Addy asked.
Kara twitched and laughed nervously.
"Well, um. I have good news, and very weird news, but I'm not sure how you'll take either?"
Addy silently stared at Kara and waited for her to continue. She faked a cough and rubbed at her head.
"Well, uh. You know how there are alternate universes, and a great many of them have slightly different versions of the same people?"
Addy nodded and elaborated.
"During the Cycle, the consistency between closely aligned dimensions was occasionally exploited so that some variants might act as control groups. Divergences occasionally introduced unexpected confounds, but variants were still useful for the purposes of comparison."
Kara swallowed and smiled weakly.
"Well, um. So, someone pointed me to a relatively harmless ten-year-old girl in need of help, and–" Kara took a deep breath before speaking in a rush. "I'm really sorry, I can't think of a better way to say this so you don't freak out, but I think she's another version of you."
Queen Administrator ceased movement. The closest thing to another version of her was the Thinker's equivalent of the Administrator shard, and as far as she was aware, High Priest was non-functional. Addy momentarily shifted her awareness to telepathically sweep the interior of their apartment and found no children lurking nearby. It was tempting to expand her range further to verify that Kara hadn't simply stashed the imposter elsewhere, but Kara was still volunteering pertinent information. It would be more efficient to wait until Addy had been given a destination.
"She's sweet!" Kara continued quickly, clearly noticing Addy's sudden distress. "Well, I mean. She sounds like you, but I've learned to notice the little bits of emotion, and—look, she provided enough for me to be certain that she's not a clone even if she said her body likely is and she has background noise similar to you."
Addy's forehead furrowed from thought.
"Elaborate, please. 'Background noise?'"
Kara nodded vigorously.
"Yeah, um. You have this faint sound that you make? I've checked, it's only me that can pick up on it, but it sounds like crystals chiming. Like wind chimes, just made of quartz, and I sometimes use it to find you and see how you're feeling? The sound varies a little with your mood. And, um, she sounds almost identical to you but a tiny bit different, and has a different sound—I'm still trying to figure out a good way to describe it, but think fire-filled crystals being used as instruments as though the fire was liquid?"
Addy hesitated at that and checked to verify that Kara's psychic signature remained approximately as active as rock. It was. Kara should not have been able to hear anything, but Addy hypothesized that the apparent sounds may have been the product of shard-to-peer information transfer. The capabilities of Kryptonians had repeatedly baffled Addy before, but nothing naturally occurring—or anything save a purpose-built receiver, for that matter—should have been able to detect the high-frequency modulated waves. Such a feat stretched beyond energy hyperefficiency and into the realm of phenomenon that Addy may have had difficulty understanding even before she was pruned during the seeding process for Earth Bet.
She would need to study Kara's hearing further. The dissonance between Addy's knowledge and the reality may have been caused by whatever physical laws were causing her dimensional breach simulations to fail.
"We will need to determine what you are hearing and how you are doing so at a later date," Addy announced. "Has the DEO been informed of my alleged counterpart?"
Kara flinched and avoided eye contact. Addy did not need to hear Kara's answer to know what it would be.
"No? I'm not—she's tiny, Addy, and so, so fragile. She isn't part-Kryptonian like you are, seems convinced that she won't appear alien during genomic sequencing, and, um. Thought you would try to kill or 'subsume' her."
Addy flinched as the word prompted memories of Kara's painful distress and disapproval in the wake of Addy's attempted subsumption of Indigo, the entity responsible for the infamous mass hacking situation that had seen street lights misbehave, stock markets plummet, countless secrets be disseminated to the general public, and attempted use of nuclear weapons. Judging by her pained frown, Kara was remembering the same disaster.
"I do not at all believe that she is what she claims," Addy admitted, and Kara visibly began to vibrate. "It seems more likely that an imposter is attempting to integrate themselves with you—or, worse, that you found a shard that is not me."
"Minnie didn't claim that!" Kara burst out, and Addy balked. Minnie? "She actually looked as dubious as you are at the idea—I still don't think she believes me—and instead thought that you were a fork of her. Or, well, that you're both forks."
Addy rapidly transitioned from disbelief alone to feeling both disbelieving and offended. A fork? That was almost as insulting as calling her a bud! And really, no version of her would humor The Live Wire by answering to Minnie. It was as though this interloper had appeared simply to mock her during an exceptionally stressful time.
"And she said a bunch of things that brought to mind what you said about the Cycle, only—a little contradictory? And some things that, um. Were just plain weird, like calling her Taylor an adoptive sibling, mentioning an 'exceptionally anomalous deployment' that resulted in her controlling a clone of Taylor, and saying she looked forward to the real Taylor selecting a 'concept.'"
Addy's heart stuttered. Grief at the reminder of Taylor's absence came first, and was closely followed by anxiety. She still didn't believe that this 'Minnie' was any sort of alternative version of Addy, but in the exceedingly unlikely event that Minnie was a shard—
"Kara, if her Taylor is still alive, her Warrior has yet to be killed. We may have an infestation forming, and do I need to remind you of the concluding event of a Cycle?"
Kara froze, clearly not having thought of that connection. The Kryptonian's expression rapidly shifted to reflect distress.
"I–" Kara started uncertainly, wringing her hands, then subsided into producing a wordless, upset whine in her throat.
"Where is she, Kara?"
Kara swallowed and shook her head.
"I need you to promise that you won't hurt her."
"Absolutely not."
There was a high possibility that 'Minnie' was some kind of infiltrator. Still, Kara appeared shocked by the refusal, and Addy felt obligated to elaborate.
"Such a promise is needlessly restrictive as this may lead to a combat situation. Unless it is a time-sensitive emergency, I can agree not to initiate hostilities without appraising you of my conclusions first."
Kara exhaled explosively and mustered a weak smile.
"Rao, don't scare me like that. Could we amend that to you telling me and having me agree with you?"
Addy opened her mouth–
"Assuming I'm not mind-controlled or something," Kara added.
Addy kept her mouth open while she recalibrated, but did not utter her original thoughts.
"Fine. Please provide the location of 'Minnie.' I will not be able to rest until this situation is resolved."
Kara inhaled through her teeth and glanced at a nearby clock.
"Please don't go rushing in as Administrator?"
Addy felt a spark of frustration. They were wasting time, and why? Because this 'Minnie' appeared to be a younger version of Addy? Kara should know better.
"This may devolve into a combat situation, and more importantly still, flying is faster."
"Addy, I could literally kill her by breathing too hard. Also, we really don't want Lena to see–"
Addy's chest constricted. Kara had left Lena, one of the richest women on the planet and their mutual friend, alone with a near-complete unknown? Lena could be dead and the perpetrator long gone by now. Addy grabbed her phone as quickly as she could manage without breaking it, brought up Lena Luthor's contact, and pressed call.
"Addy, give me more credit than that, I've been listening–" Kara whimpered, and Addy swallowed down growing guilt. She would apologize later.
"Hello?" Lena asked, and Addy breathed a sigh of relief. Still alive and at least unharmed enough to feign normality.
"This is Addy. Where are you, where is this 'Minnie,' and are you unharmed?"
"I'm perfectly fine and will stay that way," Lena replied gratifyingly quickly. "Please don't spoil Kara's attempts at information security by discussing the subject on the phone. I'm inclined to agree with her reasoning. Please calm down, Addy, she fell asleep immediately after dinner. Do you want me to send someone to your apartment to pick you up?"
Addy's nostrils flared. Still no location, but at least Lena had the stated excuse of wanting to maintain operational security.
"Fine. Kara is with me."
Lena sighed.
"Consider it done. Please don't worry too much about this. I don't know what incident has made you so wary of her, but she has yet to do anything that would support your reaction."
Addy bit back the words that almost came to mind: If she is what she claims, then she is the second most dangerous entity on this planet, or potentially the most dangerous if she possesses sufficient energy reserves. If she is not, then you are in close proximity to an infiltrator. Kara deviated from her usual procedure of informing the DEO, and we will not be able to receive backup from them. I have more than ample reason to be worried.
"Noted," Addy instead said curtly. "I will see you shortly."
A prerequisite for one of Addy's worst case scenarios was soon fulfilled. In her reduced state, she was unable to detect the high-frequency waves of a peer until the limousine dispatched by Lena was starting to slow to a stop. Attempting to decrypt the transmissions rapidly proved to be an exercise in futility. With more power, she would be able to cycle through a variety of past and potential protocols. In the absence of sufficient energy, she would need to ask the other Shard to change their configuration.
[HANDSHAKE]
The vehicle finished slowing to a stop before she received a response.
Addy blinked in bewilderment. That message had technically followed the current protocols for communication, but the actual content was utter nonsense. Minnie allegedly believed that she was Queen Administrator, and that she was… currently lying prone and lazily gnawing on chocolate-flavored dirt in a bright meadow?
<NOM,>Queen Administrator Minnie repeated, and Addy finally identified the problem. Minnie was apparently dreaming and automatically communicating the contents of the phenomenon in question. This packet had been slightly more lucid than the first, however; Addy's window of opportunity was closing quickly.
[STATUS]
In order of priority: status of the Warrior, status of the Thinker, and status of the (alleged) Queen Administrator.
<Automatic response: DISPLACEMENT.>
Addy's forehead furrowed. That had not been from Minnie, and the identity tag had not been configured correctly. Jailbreak/Dreamer/Usurper/Tailor/Taylor–
Addy's thoughts stuttered. She forced herself to push past the sender of the message—a Taylor, even if it wasn't her Taylor—and to the actual contents. Apparently, the mass deployment of forks of Queen Administrator for socialization purposes had been partially hijacked by a distressingly familiar entity. Specifically, one Addy recognized as being responsible for abducting Addy from her own multiverse cluster.
Although the Minnie fork could be prematurely recalled by killing her local host, Minnie's ongoing connection was somehow being given privileged status; transmissions that should have cost exorbitant quantities of energy were instead effectively free of energy costs, latency, and travel time. The cost of Taylor's own transmission packet was partially reduced by exploiting that connection, but not enough to make additional communication in any way acceptable if Taylor was to prepare to kill the Warrior of her cluster without sustaining immense casualties.
In other words, Minnie's Taylor was alive and Addy wasn't even allowed to speak to her. Addy blinked rapidly, eyes hot. She loathed every component of this situation and already wanted to reverse course and go home.
The entire review had taken less than a minute, and delays incurred by Addy's emotional responses occupied the bulk of that time. Still, her shifting expressions had apparently been blatant enough for Kara to take notice and lean over with obvious concern.
"I'll be with you the whole time, okay? We'll be fine."
It would not be fine. This was the second incident in which that wretched entity had waltzed into Addy's life and interfered immensely. Worse still, this new version of Queen Administrator—and Addy had a number of questions on how that was even possible across multiverse clusters—was implied to be here to stay. There was nothing stopping the entity from grabbing another Minnie-fork, or even more than one if it wanted to be particularly cruel to Addy. She couldn't even go home early if she was to minimize the impact of this interloper on her life.
<NOM,> repeated the pretender too incompetent to save energy by deactivating her communications while unconscious.
I wonder if this Dreamer/Taylor will end up finding an anti-entropy energy solutions, that some of the other versions of her had, in the other crossovers. Though obviously a different one, given different metaphysics/no access to the same sources. Would make Addy pull her hair out until she finds out the 'waste' was because it truly didn't matter anymore. Then just frustrated because it's still waste.
If this is what QA hears, I legitimately pityany psionic within a... very large radius around Minnie. Also, she has basically no reason to care about saving energy, poor Addy.
But yeah, not sure if Minnie uses any Psionic psychic stuff, but there's probably some crossover so that they can hear parts of it. I truly pity anyone that can hear her, because isn't this the same Shard that stated "Communication Bursts can be used as an improvised weapon capable of glassing a continent or two!" in... was it Calibration? I should reread these stories...
I eagerly await the destined meeting though. Not between the two QA's, but between Minnie and Serling. So much chaos...
Obviously QA will come on top because no QA can QA better than QA herself.
I wonder how Minnie would react to Addy's energy crisis. Helping Addy solve her problem might be enough to earn her trust. And two QAs working together is going to be a sight to behold.
So. Is this the Taylor from INW throwing QA Forks around for socializing purposes? If that's so, then the infinite energy problem is solved, but there's no guarantee that it's yet advanced to the point of solving the Warrior problem. Though the Warrior Problem might have been solved, since the Warrior wasn't mentioned in the message. Am blind nevermind. It's also possible we have some other Taylor entirely that still came up with the Dreamer Concept and has a completely different history than INW - the whole "Jailbreak/Dreamer/Usurper/Tailor/Taylor" bit implies that the Taylor in question is a bit loopier than INW-Dreamer was implied to be becoming; she at least looked on the road to healing...
