Well that just makes things even worse, because there is not noticing your child's bullying issue and then there is sending them back to their abusers on a silver platter. No wonder Taylor refuses to speak with him he actively tried to enable his own daughter's abuse and didn't even have the will to demand that those two be punished for trying to kill her.
Mentioning joining a gang (or saying something that could have him thinking that she might) was probably the wrong move, diplomatically speaking. Understandable, but it likely contributed further to her father's poor decision-making.
And what would she do? Destabilize the docks more than they already are by getting the union disbanded or something? Not only it wouldn't work as a punishment because Taylor doesn't give a fuck, it would just make her even madder at Piggy. Not because she cares about Danny, but because it would only reinforce Taylor's view of her.
This is true, that being said....they also want more bodies to throw at Scion, soooooooo......
Piggot would never do that, not because of any concerns for Danny's welfare or remorse for Taylor's situation but because she is already on the very edge of what she can do to bury this scandal and Danny filling a complain or him getting a breakdown harsh enough to be declared mentally unfit and therefore giving more of an opening for Taylor to successfully request an Ad Litem guardian will collapse the very unstable legal house of cards she has been balancing between Phase and her own Wards unit.
From the way the text is written makes me think that even after finding out about those two he still somewhat pushed for Taylor to stay in Brockton and work a compromise out there.
It seems that they had the conversation after Taylor ran out of the Wards room in Brockton.
True but she does need to do something because the longer the investigation goes on the more likely it is to come crashing down and she probably knows it at this point. Currently her options are rather limited since Phase is in a different department and Armstrong is only putting forward a token effort to help, so her only possible connection to Phase is through her father so she might not go for petty revenge but she might try to get Danny on her side to influence his daughter because she already convinced him to send her to Boston after all.
By this point she probable learned that Taylor triggered in Boston an abuse investigation against him in order to keep him away. If the child abuse protocols are similar to RL the moment she made her allegations Boston PRT was forced by law to open a proper investigation within 48hrs of they made aware of it. Despite all the flak he receives in the thread Amstrong is a competent and law abiding LEO so he probably send the required documentation to the BB office to investigate since CPS can't be called due to the problem of the secret identity.
Sure, except for the fact that as soon as Danny signed his daughters Ward contract that made her a ward of the state she was legally not his daughter anymore. Effectively, Taylor is an orphan, and that was before she launched an abuse allegation against him. There is no gap in which director Piggot can place Danny to create leverage of any kind on Taylor. No carrot, no stick, nothing.
The Ward contract more than likely was a modified guardianship In Loco Parentis for educational and living purposes, to authorize medical procedures in emergency situations, the management of parahuman training and law enforcement deployment, as well as other purposes related to her welfare, one characteristic of those guardianships is that the authority of the Protectorate ends as soon as the parent wishes. In practice is probably not different from sending a kid to a summer camp outside the law enforcement specific details so without the child abuse allegations he could have a ton of influence over her.
Nope. Directly from the Legalese interlude:
Danny straight up didn't realize that giving up guardianship meant exactly that. Danny Hebert is no longer legally responsible for caring for his biological offspring and henceforth has nothing to do with her at all. Taylor then drove it home by after the fact declaring that the relationship between her and her father what detrimental to her health and wellbeing, and that the government should keep the two of them apart.
I wonder how much time Taylor'll spend looking for a particularly shit retirement home to put Danny in on the off chance he doesn't work himself to death.
Suicide by inaction is a thing. Get him a serious enough depression and is possible he walks into traffic or work's himself into exhaustion or get alcohol poisoning, or simply stays in bed and forgets to eat until he can't get up.
I think that was what her was in the process of doing when Annette died only for Alan to snap him out of it, unfortunately I don't think Alan is gonna step in this time. But what do I know perhaps Kurt or Lacy will talk some sense into him.
I'll try my hand
You've got a few examples of this (misspelling 'Hebert' as 'Hubert'), and it's consistent enough that I'm wondering if it's intentional, to show how little the psychologist actually cares about her.
Okay, so I'm assuming dr bright sucking at his job is intentional? Cause no therapist worth the paycheck would ever say that.
PRT therapists are rotated around iirc. So it's easy to assume that they hire for numbers and willingness to cooperate with the rotation scheme.
This goes beyond that. This is actively giving up on a patient and therapists that are worth what they get paied don't do that. Cause once you get a reputation of giving up, and you will, NOBODY will hire you. Like I siD I assume it's intentional and that's fine, just thought I should point out how I saw it.
Yep that was intentional
I imagine Taylor will say she wants to visit his grave at somepoint so the PRT takes her down to Brockton she even stops to buy flowers on the way. Once at the graveyard she places the flowers on her mother's grave and spits on her father's before leaving, cue the shocked looks on whoever the PRT sent to escort her.
She's immune to that stuff, though, no?
She is immune to targeted Thinker powers not ones that operate on enhanced cognition like Lisa or Accord's. At least that is how I understand it and I think there was a comment or mention by First saying that Lisa could still use her power to read Taylor's body language.
