RCB would probably be able to social-fu her into compliance, and I don't think that Eidolon would really care that much beyond how Taylor's noncompliance makes him look bad. Best case scenario RCB gets Emma and Sophia punished in order to gain access to a better parahuman and besides what happens in BB doesn't really concern her now does it.
Don't think that Taylor can no-sell RCB cold reading since her thinker power is a straight up enhancement to RCB intelligence rather than a directed power which Taylor can avoid so Taylor should be as vulnerable as anyone else to RCB's cold reading and unfortunately Taylor doesn't have her swarm to offload her reaction into in this story.
Sorry, I forgot Eidolon was posted in Texas....where was Tagg posted before he got sent to BB?
Pretty sure he was the guy in charge of making sure everything that left Madison was dead.
Nope. Tagg was in Switzerland were he massacred men, women and children. Other then that we hardly know anything about his past.
I knew it was containment zone just not which one so I just went with the well known one.
Heh, probably yeah.
Yeah but, as i noted before, she is also dancing on the edge of a knife due to her Hero Shenanigans, and you know how edges in knifes are, sharp and tend to cut.
And ironically enough they would actually have good chances of winning the important parts of the trial, vigilantism is not something any judge will ever like, much less in a minor, and I can see any sentence that carries the threat of incarceration gets an automatic suspension of the constitutional right to not get Power Testing without consent. Plus a judge would easily see the logic that it's better to do reckless superheroics with training, gear and back-up that doing it solo so most likely sentence would simply be a suspended sentence (until Taylor is 18 or 21yrs) and a prohibition to do heroics outside the Wards.
Except vigilantism isn't illegal in Worm, so that's not what they can charge her for, Parahumans are allowed to be independent heroes, they are obligated to follow strict rules on acceptable force, but so long as they do, vigilantism is fully legal.
Vigilantism by itself might or might not be illegal , but I can assure you that the Protectorate must have a series of procedures to properly legalize actions as an independent hero, from the acceptable use of force to how to fill the paperwork of a citizen arrest. If it comes to trial the PRT/Protectorate will show and explain any and every breach in the procedure, any accidental or intentional use of greater force than strictly necessary and every point in which Taylor's actions and inactions made harder to prosecute a crime. Ideally in most cases the authorities would dismiss errors in form for the sake of Peace & Order, but as I said, judges hate vigilantism -especially when a minor is involved- so if anything any mistake Taylor commits as a vigilante that could have been avoided through basic Wards training will be used against her, in particular mistakes that puts her life at risk, for example unexpected power interactions that would have been discovered in Power Testing.
Judges in real life hates vigilantism, Earth Bet law and culture is not real life, you can't expect that judges will have the same opinions on things as in real life, heroes including independent heroes are looked up to on Earth Bet, there might be judges who hate vigilantism on principle, but it's not likely to be the norm on Earth Bet.
Except that the endgame of the PRT is not to put her in jail, but to legally force her to accept doing heroics under the Wards, and in that sense even a judge partial towards Taylor is going to see the logic in the fact that getting training, support and gear is physically safer for her that not getting the perks of the Wards Program, and in a minor physical safety or at least risk management is a higher priority than happiness and independence. So if the PRT gather a list of minor crimes Taylor makes by mistake as an unsanctioned independent hero, the fact that she is already a Ward and therefore has access and opportunity to get that training and the fact that as a ward of the state after she asked to be officially separated from her father (remember, she asked not to see him again under the excuse of not feeling safe under him, a De Facto acceptance of the guardianship of the Protectorate) they do have enough legal and moral authority to forbid her from performing unsupervised heroics the best case scenario of Taylor getting in front of a judge for crimes related to vigilantism is that she gets off with a fine and a suspended sentence, the judge giving the Protectorate orders to officially keep an eye on her even during her YG free time (its a poorly worded administrative measure not a law, so supervising that time after even a minor misdemeanor is well within the authority of a judge from juvenile court) and that if she goes back to vigilantism then she officially enters probation, and even if her sentence is for a misdemeanor instead of a felony is probably enough to overcome her right to deny Power Testing, therefore fully getting into the authority of the Wards.
No it wouldn't, because the fact of the matter is, probation and suspended sentences, rely on the accused agreeing to them as alternative to the standard punishment, which mean the standard punishment, need to be higher than Taylor find acceptable to go though to avoid the probation, if she's only up for some fines and a few months in Juvie, then Taylor refuse the probation agreement, go to Juvie for a few months, and so the alternative sentences can't be applied to her, meanwhile all the dirt on the PRT has still been unearthed.
Pretty sure Velocity was military before he triggered and went straight to the Protectorate afterwards because the Protectorate is the government's military branch for parahumans so parahumans might not have a choice when it comes to enlisting.
Parahumans are banned from joining normal law enforcement, basically because CB was able to wrangle all power of law enforcement over parahumans to the PRT, which ruffled a lot of feathers. Why have a parahuman cop, when their mere presence would switch jurisdiction from the Cops to the PRT? And yes, I can see the PRT exploiting this.
FYI there were no rewrites. Basically nothing changes since the time Worm was first posted.
More accurately, that's the excuse used to shunt parahumans into a separate organization the Cauldron can exercise easier control over.
But people who trigger aren't usually those that would want to go work for the police/military etc.
Most people who trigger need immediate therapy and counciling, which I admit is something the Boston department is providing to Taylor and will most definitely help her out in the long run, but yeah no natural parahuman will pass any potential psych evaluation required to join such organizations.
No natural parahuman is psychologically fit to be a 'superhero' either. Hasn't stopped that from becoming an institution.