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Also, it was in part his own fault, not mere bad luck. As I said after that chapter it's an innate risk of his practice of using "safe" and "throwaway" timelines that at some point he'll guess wrong and disaster will strike in the supposedly safe timeline. Heck, at least it wasn't a fatal...
Coil's already lost his biggest advantage, the base and his mercenaries; he's not a combat Thinker, after all. Ironically in large part due to his own melodrama, the Dark wouldn't have been able to outright blow the place up even if that had been his intention without Coil himself literally...
Hah, Gesellschaft is going to be super peeved if their play to free the E88/Gesellschaft capes just results in them losing more capes to Piggot; and their moles to boot. And losing their foothold will make it hard for them to do anything but seethe about it, too.
Also, Panacea's "anything but a...
Also, the felony murder rule differs from state-to-state and isn't even universal. And we aren't Earth Bet, either. So the actual status and nature of the felony murder rule in Earth Bet Boston is up to Ack (unless Wildbow already brought it up in canon).
That said, from the way Fletchette was...
Of course that leads straight into how the legal treatment of Parahumans tends to boil down to "might makes right" in practice. To use the obvious example the authorities no longer seriously consider trying to arrest Atropos for her many self-admitted murders. And they outright provided aid...
Legally possibly true, depending on the law in that state in Earth Bet. Morally it's more questionable; Epoch can justifiably point out that it was just a recruitment attempt, not even an active crime like theft. They had no reason to think she'd just offhandedly murder someone like that...
The first, then the second I'd bet, given the Butcher's history. So far everyone who has killed the Butcher has ended up as another Butcher.
March doesn't have any powers likely to let her resist ending up Butcherized; she's just too arrogant to even consider it could happen to her. Thus her...
Heck, it wasn't one likely to make her popular with the Adepts, either. They're one of those villain groups that make a point of avoiding killing, I understand; it helps keep them low-priority I guess. Offhandedly possibly-killing a Hero isn't going to make them happy.
I wonder if Epoch...
Yeah, those might as well be designed to Trigger people. At least when you just shoot people there's a good chance they'll die before they even reach the emotional state needed to Trigger*; that sort of sadism and long-term brutality would maximize the number of people Triggering.
* It's been...
I suspect they broke up when their tyrannical policies produced enough "Specialists" for rebellions to overwhelm conventional forces. The setting isn't very friendly for world conquest, since the more victorious you are the stronger the opposition becomes.
IMO, whether they trust someone who inherits the Butcher's power without being taken over probably depends on how long they manage to keep inheriting the Butcher's power hidden. If they find out right away they'll almost certainly assume the Butcher will take over and the person is deluding...
Besides being Nazi-stupid, she's also being teenager stupid. Because there's no way her "clever" attempts at hiding her racist behavior would fly for a moment with Director Piggot, formerly from Brockton Bay. Who knows perfectly well Tammi's former identity and what the E88 was like in BB. But...
I find it funny to consider that Path to Ending and GiveNoFucks!Taylor are effectively much more moral together than either would be apart. Oh, as I've said elsewhere she's not intentionally moral and doesn't regard herself as such, but the prerequisites of what she wants to accomplish guide her...
The fact that she'd know if they decided to misuse the knowledge of her identity helps. And at this point both of them would expect her to know, and aren't dumb enough to do so.
@Ack, a typo from the update before this one:
"within"
Some people like them well enough.
The actual problem with eating predators is that it's usually not economical; every time you go up a level in the food chain it takes more resources to feed an animal. It takes more than one pound of grass to make a pound of antelope, and it takes more than a...
March to me is like Bakuda and Coil; a villain I thoroughly enjoy see getting stomped just because their attitude is just so smug and obnoxious I want to reach into the monitor and slap them.