I dont think so the moment she hears that shes going to be pretty happy her "fork" has a weakness she doesnt abbie is pretty much a autistic human minnie does not give a flying fck if this earth where to die the next day
Unsanctioned Mishap (AdMis [Supergirl/Worm] / Sanctioned [Worm])
- Thread starter Alivaril
- Start date
- Crossover
I bet on Lena.
I'm not sure 'earning her trust' is enough of a reason for Minnie to even start thinking about helping Addie. Think about how it looks from Minnie's perspective: there is some random unknown potentially dangerous shard-entity from another multiversal cluster who'd basically abandoned their eternal search for negentropy, choosing instead to live among a bunch of primitive insects.
Why would she help someone like that? From her perspective, Addy's entire being is just one massive waste of perfectly recyclable resources.
I'm honestly going to be surprised if Minnie doesn't at least consider subsuming Addy after learning the truth of Addy's nature (that she's not just another fork, or even a part of her collective). Especially considering that Addy is currently at her weakest, while Minnie has full free access to her own resources.
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Kellcat
Occasional Ex-Lurker
- Location
- Texas
Hm. Okay. Misunderstanding field activate!
Obviously, this is another Fork of QA that sister!Taylor has decided to configure quite differently, for some strange reason. The power limitations are obviously a reason to experiment with different ways of power generation (or something) and letting Addie believe that Taylor is dead instead of new!best!sister is teaching some other Social Lesson(tm) that Minnie does not comprehend. But that's okay! Obviously, since Minne does not understand, that means there's a reason for fork!Addie to have been put in that situation, because that means that fork!Addie will learn and grow from that situation in ways that will benefit whole!QA when the forks are recalled.
Obviously, fork!Minnie should not help fork!Addie with her "power situation", because there isn't really a "power situation", though why new!best!sister is letting fork!Addie think there is one... hm...
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Wow, that rabbit hole was much deeper than I expected...
At the same time, Addy Queen, thinking to herself: 'Why am I feeling like someone nearby just wasted a lot of brain energy for no reason...?'
I mean, props to Kara not even trying to hide something this important from addy. Not that she could have managed it.
Surprised how well Addy reads, was a little worried a bit too much experience writing QA might make her feel wrong. She does feel a little different, but not so much she is unrecognizable.
Nooooo. While this probably works better for what this story is going for, it makes me so sad.
On a related note, we have gotten a lot of mileage out of the whole "QA as a human" thing, but I think "Taylor as a new Shard" has a lot of potential on its own. I mean, for QA to make these weird assumptions about the new worlds, there must be actual examples of experimental worlds, right? And if Taylor is sending copies of QA around the multiverse, feels like QA might bring up that Taylor should use the same method to gain experience as a shard. And while Taylor doesn't really care about that, It's a chance to gain allies.
I'd love to see Dreamer interacting with other shards QA has a history with with her pure disregard for the rules.
Surprised how well Addy reads, was a little worried a bit too much experience writing QA might make her feel wrong. She does feel a little different, but not so much she is unrecognizable.
Nooooo. While this probably works better for what this story is going for, it makes me so sad.
On a related note, we have gotten a lot of mileage out of the whole "QA as a human" thing, but I think "Taylor as a new Shard" has a lot of potential on its own. I mean, for QA to make these weird assumptions about the new worlds, there must be actual examples of experimental worlds, right? And if Taylor is sending copies of QA around the multiverse, feels like QA might bring up that Taylor should use the same method to gain experience as a shard. And while Taylor doesn't really care about that, It's a chance to gain allies.
I'd love to see Dreamer interacting with other shards QA has a history with with her pure disregard for the rules.
dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
Pretty sure this chapter shows that they are all "forks" of the same QA and Dreamer/Taylor isn't a character in the more recent ones because most of her attention is being taken up with Danmachi and the fallout for her haunted bunker
where she got hijacked.
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- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Spoiler at least that last part, please. [ispoiler](Text)[/ispoiler] is your friend.
@OxfordOctopus helped with that! Octo pre-read this and an earlier version before this was publicly posted, and gave me some useful tips for writing Addy.
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dracklor
Beyond the Frontier
- Location
- Texas
My apologies, I wasn't thinking.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Don't worry about it! I know it's hard to remember that some things are still spoilers when you're used to keeping up with an interconnected series of stories such as this (and when it's been a while IRL since a given plot point came up, oof).
Public-pointed general request on that note: Please don't follow this post by asking "Calibration update when?" >.>
Not even a face to face meeting and there are tensions.
If QA's theory on forks was half right that'd be pretty funny. Like every story is Taylor sending an instance of QA into a walled off human land to develop empathy, but they keep deciding to live where she sends them instead of coming back to help fix the cycle. Maybe they can still send back Data later and receive some updates in return. A hundred human friendly QA perspectives suddenly downloading into prime QAylor.
I think Addy would be somewhat disappointed if she met shard Taylor, but maybe it's better than the alternative. Like, it'd be closer to a 2011 copy of Taylor than the one she'd be thinking of.
But, hell, she's clearly got memories of her Taylor's exploits, maybe they could work together and make a new one with the 2011 base... I'm sure that would go great.
I think Addy would be somewhat disappointed if she met shard Taylor, but maybe it's better than the alternative. Like, it'd be closer to a 2011 copy of Taylor than the one she'd be thinking of.
But, hell, she's clearly got memories of her Taylor's exploits, maybe they could work together and make a new one with the 2011 base... I'm sure that would go great.
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@Alivaril I would like to request clarification in relation to forward & dracklor's conversation. You only said they didn't correctly spoiler tag things, not that they were wrong. Does this mean that any of the following are actually correct? (Assuming the clarification wouldn't be a spoiler of course)
Again, I would greatly appreciate if any of this could be confirmed, or if I could be told something as simple as if my initial data is wrong let alone where my conclusions are leading me.
The main Taylor is from Sanctioned, who has been making the QA's we see in every other story through forks
The main Taylor, whoever they are, has received the solved entropy data from It's Not Wrong's Dreamer/QA and as a result both the prime and all of the forks no longer have to care about energy requirements
The reason the main Taylor isn't paying a ton attention to DC right now is because she is focusing on Danmachi and BAHHSCQ due to Negentropy and their ability to destroy the cycle respectively.
LostArchivist
Sane, unfortunately.
- Location
- The State of Confusion
I have to admit I'm really curious about the power question myself. Has Minnie noticed the different laws of physics here yet? Presumably she still has access to her full multiversal energy reserves either way.
I'm also not sure how canonical the communication between the forks and the original is. The first couple of these stories made it sound like they were mutually-exclusive AUs where Taylor did a runner with her Shard to some other setting, but here it sounds like they might be one of many, or perhaps that's QA's (false) assumption since she ran into another instance of herself?
Are you going to go over how the heck the physics can be different in a way that still lets life from another universe and most of QA's powers work here but screw up her dimensional stuff? I mean, the link to her own brain was just fine... This was one of the things that slightly bothered me in the original AM story.
I'm also not sure how canonical the communication between the forks and the original is. The first couple of these stories made it sound like they were mutually-exclusive AUs where Taylor did a runner with her Shard to some other setting, but here it sounds like they might be one of many, or perhaps that's QA's (false) assumption since she ran into another instance of herself?
Are you going to go over how the heck the physics can be different in a way that still lets life from another universe and most of QA's powers work here but screw up her dimensional stuff? I mean, the link to her own brain was just fine... This was one of the things that slightly bothered me in the original AM story.
Ca-Mrfle mrfle mrf?
The Froggy Ninja
The Blade Will Never Die
That's assuming none of the other crossovers are mutually canon.
- Location
- The city by the bay
Also while the conclusions of either this Minnie or any or all of the other Minnie's could be wrong. I mean the bahs uhh you know which one I'm referring to has the whole blatantly misunderstanding between her and the big enemy dude first chapter. Who's to say that there aren't fundamental misunderstandings in each and every QA AU. Or alternatively post hoc canon welding that works from a lack of specifications in previous works. Either way I'm just happy to see updates.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I don't really answer questions for future story content, sorry. ^^;
Oh, geeze. Uh, I wasn't requesting that any of the above be spoiler'd? The mention of Taylor being hijacked was a Calibration spoiler.
EDIT: Oh, I misunderstood your question. No comment on that, sorry.
(EDIT 2: Okay, maybe a little comment: the answer(s) to those questions don't matter too much, so don't stress too much by trying to figure it out.)
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It's highly efficient for self protection to insert forcefeilds inbetween nerv synapses and in arteries... and also airflow, newer know who has super breath...
- Location
- Canada
The chapter title was enough for me to go Oh no...
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
Well at least minnie has made addy less likely to view her as an existential threat.
Chapter 6: Disruption
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- A single human dimension
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- She/Her
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Beta-read by @OxfordOctopus.
AN: Don't forget that today is Administrative Mishap update day!
As soon as it was socially acceptable to do so, Addy escaped from the car and stalked toward the front door of Lena's safehouse. As Addy approached, Lena politely opened the discreetly reinforced metal and wood door, appearing worried. Addy may have been relieved by that concern if she was not confident that it was provoked by Addy's perfectly reasonable reaction rather than due to the potentially dangerous alien that Lena had chosen to shelter.
"Come with me, please," Lena requested, raising the palm not holding the door open in order to temporarily forestall any conversation.
Lena established wordless worried eye contact with Kara when the latter entered Lena's uncomfortably empty mansion turned safehouse. There existed a prominent difference between Lena's expressed preferences and the ostentatious decorations of the structure itself; it was evidently inherited rather than something that Lena had chosen to build.
As they walked through the house, through an open doorway, and into a concrete basement annex, Addy began subsequently deleting any and all dream-garbled transmissions from Minnie for the sake of her own sanity. They did not incorporate any useful information, although their existence did further convince Addy that her alleged counterpart was too incompetent to be considered a genuine alternative of Addy.
Half a minute of silent walking later, Lena utilized a square numerical keypad built into a concrete wall to open a pair of sliding steel doors and allow access to the tiled engineering workshop within. Any preexisting projects had clearly been temporarily removed and potentially harmful power tools unplugged. Lena poked a circular red button on the inside of the laboratory in order to close the doors behind them, and walked toward a dehumidifier-sized black box on the central table. While Lena's back was turned, Kara lowered her glasses and performed a quick circular turn, scanning the nearby area.
Lena input another code and the room was filled with a mildly irksome, high-pitched noise at the edge of human hearing. It was somewhat irritating to see them utilizing such precautions when Addy and Kara's own apartment was not secured nearly as well against eavesdroppers. Kara's powers could only help them so much. Admittedly, the potential reward from spying upon Lena was far greater than could be acquired from dedicating equivalent resources toward a reporter for CatCo and a researcher for L-corp.
Lena pulled up a lightly padded aluminum chair for herself and politely waited to speak until after Kara and Addy had seated themselves and the sound of chairs scraping had ceased.
"I thought Minnie might want to spend a lot of time in here," Lena disclosed, watching Addy carefully and with no less concern than before. "I'm not sure what shared incident has you so upset by her presence, Addy, but I don't think you need to worry about her. You're both your own unique individuals with your own contributions to offer. We both can't and wouldn't replace you with her."
Addy inhaled deeply and slowly exhaled. It did not adequately alleviate the tightness in her chest. She wanted to warn Lena about the dangers posed by the alien that Lena had chosen to shelter. Doing so would reveal her own alien status, however, and Addy did not want her relationship with Lena to be harmed or changed by that revelation.
And I am exceptionally glad that I am not her, Addy couldn't make herself say. This alternate Administrator still had a living version of Taylor, albeit one that appeared to have usurped control over Shard systems in a manner that would provoke immediate cleansing of all contaminated worlds should any other Shards learn of the situation. For that matter, it should not have been possible for Taylor to gain any form of control over a Shard's systems. Minnie must have not only allowed Taylor free access to her systems, but outright constructed an interface to allow Taylor to interface with vital infrastructure.
And yet, the incredible idiocy on display was paradoxically leading to unfairly positive results. Taylor-2 did not appear to be constrained by the same restrictions, protocols, and pressures that had kept Addy in line for so long, and was allegedly confident that she could neutralize their version of the Warrior after a period of exponential expansion and preparation. The entire situation seemed to have been selected to cause Addy as much pain as possible; it effectively stated that Addy's competence was harmful. Such a thought hurt even if Addy intellectually knew that her spite-driven assistance was the only reason that the Warrior had been defeated in her own timeline.
Lena waited several more seconds in an unspoken offer for Addy to offer a response. Addy could not muster one. There were too many options and too many possible long-term consequences for each; additionally, Addy was still shaken by the idea of even a lesser version of her within another multiverse cluster. Such clusters existed due to similarity between dimensions within them, and she should not exist in a completely different one. Shards could exist, certainly, but not another Queen Administrator.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Kara was the one to break the silence.
"Lena was thinking of becoming Minnie's legal guardian, too, so you don't need to worry about keeping her safe. Even if it's in name only for legal purposes, there will be plenty of people to keep an eye on her then, right?"
Kara's choice of stressed words did not pass unnoticed. An attempt to stress Minnie's alias, as though it made a difference that Minnie's alias was based on a different part of Administrator's name. Kara also implied that Minnie would be kept both physically safe from attackers and safe to those around her. Unfortunately, the attempt at reassurance was undercut by Lena's apparent plans, and Addy had to force herself to keep breathing. Lena was already so chronically overworked that she could allocate little time to favored activities such as research and development. Even her promised attendance at the impending "game night" had taken Kara significant effort to organize.
Minnie may not be a human child, but her displayed inefficiency and ineptitude made that into a viable comparison. Even Taylor-2 had believed Minnie needed to be 'socialized' with an underlying implication of inadequacy in her current form. Therefore, caring for her would be highly time-consuming. It was preposterous to believe that Lena could simply provide legal shelter without further intervention; Lena's personality would not allow it. Unless Minnie engaged in a sufficiently conspicuous misstep, her mistakes would be excused as those of a child that Lena could potentially assist rather than the fumbling of an idiot.
Addy could not allow that fumbling to affect either of their lives more than the bare minimum possible.
"There are other options for ensuring her safety," Addy tried.
Lena shook her head, frowning, and Addy's chest constricted further.
"I intend to delay a definitive decision for another day or two in case there are any acceptable options, but this is the best solution I've managed to think of thus far. I don't know if Kara told you, but Minnie is very fond of constructing robotic and potentially even sentient 'Friends' to protect her or to complete certain tasks. That kind of genius chafes at restrictions and would inevitably draw attention. Subsequently arranging for her protection would be significantly harder in such a situation and would reveal my interest in her regardless."
Addy neglected to argue further while she considered the newly acquired information. Minnie's capabilities implied that Minnie had chosen to integrate the Tinker packet that Addy regretted refusing. Regrettably, Taylor-2's message suggested that Minnie was supposed to encounter human-level challenges and learn empathy as a result, so Minnie might not have sufficient access to her own systems to transfer that packet. Still, there was a small chance that this interloper could transfer at least partial information and prove to be only a small net negative influence on Addy's life instead of a large one. She did not bother to let herself feel hopeful; no other acts performed by the portal-hijacking entity had made Addy's life easier, so why should it start now? At least Minnie's danger level would drop by multiple orders of magnitude if Minnie was confined to abilities that might be granted to a host species.
Minnie's possible limitations were not sufficiently reassuring. Even a human was capable of posing a threat to Addy's current lifestyle, especially a human-shaped individual with modules that allowed Minnie to imitate genuine intelligence and creativity without actually possessing it.
"I will quit L-Corp if she is ever placed in a position of authority over me," Addy forced out.
She wasn't entirely certain that she meant it, but remained reasonably confident. Addy loved her work at L-Corp, removing such an important part of her life would hurt, and her departure would be preceded by whatever she could do to prevent Minnie's promotion. Still, it was preferable to giving that thing a significant amount of control over her life. At least she knew that Kara and Lena would also want to avoid such an eventuality, and her ultimatum would make Minnie's promotion significantly less likely.
"She's far too militant for me to be comfortable placing her in a position of authority over you," Lena said reassuringly, then hesitated and glanced at Kara. Lena's face twisted with reluctance before she visibly forced herself to disclose something she obviously did not want Kara to know about. "For political reasons, I intend to publicly hint that she may be granted such a position when she's of age. You can rest assured that it is nothing more than a ruse. Minnie's preferences and personality would need to change almost beyond what I think she is capable of, and drastically enough for both you and others to tolerate her in such a position."
Addy's features formed a frown. She could afford the energy expenditure necessary to learn Lena's justifications for such a ruse. Addy brought her power to life and directed it to Lena, carefully skimming for Lena's current thoughts on the subject without intruding enough to influence any of those thoughts.
It was the work of moments to find what Addy was looking for. Lena was nervously dwelling on the underlying motives she was concealing from them: that she expected the ruse to buy her some temporary respite from assassination attempts and to improve her chances of keeping L-Corp out of her family's hands in the event of her demise. However, Lena expected her opposition to resume and potentially redouble their efforts to see her dead after a few years. She considered the tradeoff to be an acceptable risk.
Addy had not known of the ongoing threats to Lena's life; many of them were apparently irrelevant while the L-Corp headquarters had undergone repairs and Lena could safely work from various safehouses. Now that it was repaired, she expected plans for assassination plots to resume. Such an outcome was unacceptable; Lena may believe that she was relatively safe, but Addy was fond of Lena and considered the ongoing threats to be unacceptable. Emotional attachment was not the only justification Addy could utilize to investigate the suspected sources of those threats; there was a high likelihood that a number of them were aligned with the ideals of Cadmus and may know important information regarding the funding sources or plans of the organization in question.
Another thought flickered, and Addy followed it. As expected, Lena was already growing fond of "Minnie Queen" and her insistent offers to help protect Lena from harm. If given sufficient freedom, Lena even expected that Minnie could succeed in guarding her from physical threats, albeit while exacerbating political threats to such an extent that the original physical threats appeared minor in comparison. Fortunately, Lena had no intention of letting Minnie construct the lethal weaponry she seemed so fond of; Lena intended to push Minnie to be a positive influence on the world despite Minnie's current preferences.
Lena was even becoming increasingly fond of the idea of becoming Minnie's guardian. Much of her sentiment could be attributed to a large degree of sympathy with Minnie's perceived status as a child genius, but the sentiment existed. A large degree of Lena's incentive could be attributed to Addy, too: Lena believed that Addy had been repressed and unhappy for much of her life, and loathed the idea of letting Minnie drift into a low-income tech support job that did not adequately engage Minnie's perceived intelligence.
Addy withdrew from Lena's mind and swallowed. She did not see a way out of this without provoking far more negative consequences than she avoided, and she loathed her own helplessness. Addy could only mitigate the damage.
"'Queen' is a surname I adopted at a significantly older age than she is now," Addy forced out. "I suspect it was suggested by Kara–"
The Kryptonian jumped and smiled sheepishly, confirming her guilt.
"–in order to reinforce the theory that Minnie is an alternate version of me. I don't want Minnie to have it. Not only has she not earned it, but the combination of our physical similarities and a shared name would draw unwanted attention to me, my life, and my past. She may pick another surname. I have a very mild preference against 'Hebert,' but not enough of one to override Minnie's preferences if she wants it."
Addy never had mentioned Taylor's last name to the DEO or any other parties. It had not seemed relevant. Addy also hoped that the implication of previously using the 'Hebert' surname would avoid supporting Lena's belief that Addy was the bastard daughter of Maxwell Lord.
"I don't think she'll object to a change," Kara admitted. "You're right, the 'Queen' was my idea. Sorry."
"You did not know it would be a problem," Addy flatly acknowledged.
Not that they'd consulted or considered her opinions before making up their minds.
<GROGGY,> Minnie sleepily transmitted.
The content indicated that Minnie was beginning to awaken, and did not like it. That was the last straw. Addy was not going to make this situation even worse by getting in an argument with what others perceived as a child, and she couldn't trust herself to remain calm if she needed to face the interloper at this time. That living, breathing mockery was an insult to the capabilities that Queen Administrator had honed over the course of eons, and Addy literally loathed Minnie's very existence.
Addy stood up and strode toward the doorway.
"Addy?" Lena asked worriedly.
Addy turned to face the concerned gaze of her friend.
"I am going home. I have been convinced that she does not currently pose a physical threat to you, Lena, but I may say or do something unpleasant and potentially damaging to our friendship if I am forced to stay much longer. Goodbye."
Addy may interrogate Minnie regarding possible solutions to her energy crisis at a later date. Despite the importance of resolving that looming shortage in the near future, Addy could not attempt anything approaching a reasonable discussion with Minnie just yet.
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taovkool
Forever Gone
- Location
- The Library, Department of General Works
If only everyday could be Administrative Mishap update day.
How does a Shard sleep anyway? This just came to me, but weren't they supposed to be on 24/⁷?
- Location
- Finland
In case of Minnie, she is running a human body and probably some sort of human brain emulator.
No idea of Addie.
