Personally, I'd find the effort required in that kind of trolling to be satisfying in its own sort of way. Plus all the fridge horror that it would cause when looking back at the fic would be a thing of beauty.
I think you might be projecting your own 'circumspectness' onto Victoria here. She isn't -stupid-, but she is stupidly impetuous, a tendency that both powersets she's had encouraged. 'She just didn't think it through' is like her life story. If the threat isn't immediately apparent, forget it.
It totally doesn't break the habits shards inherited from entities.
Yeah, I just realized the Scion/Eden parallel as I read your post
Internal suit comm? I mean all battleready.
Add in the fact that planers of the raid on Houston just turned off their anti-thinker love force field deep in Fallen territory, where the other side has a dime store precog...Yeah Vicky is probably feeling like the smartest person in the room.
Right, it's possible that it's less of a concern given their suits. Not sure if they were on comms or not, given that Vicky and Amy might not have wanted that broadcast to the entire time, but they probably have a selectable option of who to include.
That...is more of a concern, and a reason Vicky should be getting shit about this for weeks to come.
Knowing Riley? Probably in a specialized container in her jaw bone, or something, so that she can emergency vent it at whoever has her captured and is gloating.
Shock. It makes sense for something that major not to really sink in for a while. Well, it makes sense of people that don't have thinker powers augmenting their perception, anyway.
I'm thinking it hasn't quite sunk in yet. You'll notice that she immediately blames *Taylor* for causing the strife in the team by not letting he know about this when she first asked. Combined with the fact that she's still blaming the 'supervillain' with the 'mind altering tech' for listening in on a private conversation in a public venue that *Vicky* forced them to have about a very personal subject...
Lisa: Hey, Rapture, can you do us a solid?
They didn't have time for this bullshit either, but here they are.
I find any description of the duration of a bodily function to usually be one or two units of measure longer than would be reasonable. Like 'I cried for hours', no, you cried for 30 minutes. It FELT like hours.
Hilarious.
When you stub your toe and say it felt like you were going to die, that's hyperbole.
Taylor and Vicky were having this conversation on the ground in another dimension near where Houston would be if it existed in that reality, yes. Amelia wasn't actually there in person. The part where Vicky was like "so, just the two of us, now time for this confrontation", and then Amelia was able to lock down her armor, force it to regenerate, AND spoke to her via com system should have indicated all this.
Who said it'd be the end? It could totally be the beginning of a brand new arc of suffering!
Especially when that thinker power happily assures you with "You can tear her to pieces and there's nothing she can do about it". Which was true. Nothing Taylor could done to stop her.
It would, wouldn't it?
It's more like Vicky's brain going "okay, I really don't want to think about this. EVER. Hey, look, a distraction to punch!"
Now I want to see a Dragon suit going "ROCKET PUNCH!".
