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  1. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Alexandria, for example. Became a lot more reasonable when she was dead and her corpse was possessed by Pretender.
  2. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    "Joyful acclamation: Best. Master. Ever!"
  3. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Well, it's more like a one-in-four chance of death against Leviathan, on a good day. Which still supports your point: ordinary troops absolutely will break and run at casualty numbers lower than that. Thing is, this portrayal of Piggott's damage is very realistic. Trauma survivors absolutely...
  4. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Except there was a camera in the vehicle, so them getting sniped would have been the report in. Plus, Bastard Son's plan not even killing his henchmen is a message all of its own. Not that he's paying attention to what he's being told.
  5. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    Oh, absolutely it's playing chicken. Boxing a crook always is, which is why it simply isn't done outside fiction, beyond carefully-managed community service where the offences are minor enough to merit non-custodial sentencing. Even the old-timey thing of letting young offenders avoid jail by...
  6. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    I have to say I find it a lot more plausible that there is prosecutorial discretion for vigilantes who colour inside the lines and a look-the-other-way approach to asset forfeiture, rather than a specific novel rule of law permitting self-issued letters of marque for capes with prize-of-war...
  7. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    Any cop that IDs her. The thing is, the cops that are likely to see her - the ones out patrolling beats - are, well, simple flatfoots. People of the badge. The common clay of law enforcement. Making a positive ID from a photo you half-remember from yesterday morning's briefing is not all that...
  8. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    I get that you meant some sense of 'inflate' or 'blowing to fan a small flame' here but I had to go back over this a couple of times to get that. 'Blew it out' reads more like 'blew out a candle' ie. extinguished their fear. A small thing, but a definite stumble hazard you might want to smooth...
  9. ConsiderableHat

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    That don't require a surgeon or a healer. That requires a divorce lawyer.
  10. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Path to Ending can't End privatives. Or won't, rather.
  11. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Ah, my first ever tuckerization in a PHO interlude.
  12. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    More than one college, her having issues with the Feds will, if not a point in her favour, at least be a tie-breaker if admissions are tight.
  13. ConsiderableHat

    Earning Her Stripes (Worm AU fanfic)

    The meme that everything is a Cauldron plot is itself a Cauldron plot. A reputation for omnicompetence and sinister ubiquity is a tremendous asset to a secret organisation, be they ever so ham-fisted in execution. See CIA, history of.
  14. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    Even the conditioning they give soldiers has a success rate a long way south of 100%. Humans mostly heartily dislike killing each other: natural born killers are remarkably rare. Outside that tiny handful the instinct not to kill stubbornly resists being trained out and overcoming it hurts.
  15. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Seems about right, a bit understated even, for a newly-minted fangirl who has been Noticed by the object of her fandom. Which is, indeed, objectively over-frequent to the point where Atropos had to remind her to pay attention in class rather than knobbing about on PHO.
  16. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Rites of the Church: 1. Drawing up Christmas Card List with Atropos firmly at the top, 2. After video of Atropos kills appears online, churchmembers gather for the holy celebration of Pointing And Laughing, and 3. Confetti.
  17. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    Yup. It's one of the points in Atropos' favour with the PRT that she does give her victims a chance to surrender.(Not to her, sure, but that's more her refusing to act as middlewoman between 'at liberty' and 'in lawful custody') They had to birdcage Gavel to get him to stop doing what Atropos...
  18. ConsiderableHat

    A Darker Path [Worm Fanfic]

    "We stand ready to offer protective custody to any villain who feels in any way threatened by the actions of Atropos."
  19. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    Don't recall if it's already formed part of the guesswork in the thread, but the timing is right for Coil to have sent her to scout the new parahuman. Boston's canonically about an hour's drive from Brockton Bay, after all.
  20. ConsiderableHat

    Just a Phase [Worm]

    She's immune to that stuff, though, no?
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