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I must have been reading a different fic. I thought Taylor had just broken a bunch of windows and damaged PRT equipment, made herself heard across the city in a threatening manner, swore in public, deafened the responding officer, and then ran off.
But I suppose since you're telling me they've got no legal standing then none of that happened.
Its been a while.The Heberts don't know about Sophia. Armsmaster never told them.
Being dangerously incompetent can be, and her reaction could be seen as refusing to work out what she's capable of doing. Knowingly putting the public at risk is frowned on, and since she now knows she develops new abilities/size without warning or control, she does have to work out how this factors in to dealing with people.
And this is the second time she's attacked and almost killed someone because she had no idea what she was doing.
While this isn't generally something that's outright illegal (or possibly just not 'arrestable'?), it's definitely something that can easily lead to being told to never do anything she wants to do again as a matter of public safety.
Which is why Kid Win didn't get in any trouble at all for using his Alternator Canon, and why Piggot was happy Glory Girl damaged the bank during the robbery.
Well. It's perfectly fine to say appropriate levels of property and human damage is ignorable, somewhat, but Taylor just got angry and hurt people by yelling without giving any thought to it or showing that she was in any way considering thinking about her actions. That's hardly appropriate.
Armsmaster can submit recorded footage, quote policies and laws, and point to the fact that he never made an aggressive move and only suggested that they think about his offer/suggestions. In addition, he's got the benefit of being a law enforcement officer and a larger organisation to back him up.
He's standing there asking her to come in for testing and telling her why it would be a good idea. That's his job, and not a lot to work with.
And that's all they need to do, and all they did. This isn't the first time they've tried, so at this point if anything does go wrong they can point out that she's been refusing to go along with their incredibly reasonable suggestions and everything's her own fault, before coming crashing down on her.Also, about the only recourse they've got to getting her to come along is to ask nicely.
Pretty sure I never suggested they do that...Starting a fight with the two-ton fire-breathing intelligent dragon at the scene where she just ripped the arm off a dangerous supervillain (while Panacea's classmates are still on site) would be the absolute height of lunacy.
Well, not quite. Taylor went off the reserve before she figured out anything about Sophia in that one. Damn close though!