KingCrimson1081
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The good thing I can say about Emma at least in this story is that she on some level realized she had a problem after Taylor's freak out after seeing her in the wards, so she is less likely to take the same actions against does this absolve her of guilt absolutely not and it is a good thing that she is currently getting YG mandated therapy, unfortunetly it came about two years to late which does lead in to the other problem with the Brockton Bay wards department namely their lack of psychological support for the wards because if Emma was in anyother department she would not have gone as far as she did with Taylor because she would have gotten the help she needed following her trigger event.That's assumed true to some degree for pretty much any cape, capes aren't well adjusted people, your arguments would be good, if it wasn't for the fact that Assault is considered a valuable member of the Protectorate, and have been right from when he was recruited, since they were ready to risk pissing Battery off by asking if she would partner with him, to get him to accept probation.
Capes aren't well adjusted people, Emma is more problematic than a Ward in good standing, but not particularly problematic by probationary Ward standards, so she absolutely can be traded for a problem Ward from another city, or her and Sophia can be traded as a set for 1 non-problematic Ward.
Your argument would be good, if it wasn't for the fact that it contrast with canon heavily, any cape short of a serial killer can get in on probation(and if the serial killer had useful powers, and they believed they could contain them, I'm not sure they would say no to putting the serial killer on probation) Emma is problematic yes, but she's far less problematic than some of the capes the probation program have accepted, and can be pretty much solved, by giving her extra therapy, and assigning someone to follow her around for a few years to ensure she don't backtrack.
That amount of resources is enough to lessen her worth to them, but not enough to render her more expensive than she's worth, a thousand dollar extra monthly therapy budget is probably enough for the therapy half, and the surveilance half only require 1 person to keep watch on her, so the extra cost of having Emma on the team is probably less than 100k a year, and after a year or 2, you can scale back on extra therapy and surveilance, that's enough to make her less desirable, but it's not enough to make her not desirable.
Sophia need roughly the same amount of extra resources assigned to her, so valuing them at worth as much as 1 non-problematic cape together seems about right.
It can also be said to be a good thing that Taylor was sent to Boston rather than stay in Brockton Bay because at least in Boston while she isn't happy to be there she is receiving therapy to help over come her issues and trama, which she would not have received if she had stayed in Brockton Bay wards program or not.