“How’s he doing?”
Right now? I mean, if she went her own way too, chances are she’s not that much more up to date on that than you are, Alec.
“Unfocused. For the longest time, I thought he was building up to something. Lots of kids, ensuring they had powers. Thought he’d try to topple the other gangs and become ruler of organized crime in Montreal.”
Ooh, Montréal. So Alec’s Canadian, then, specifically from the second largest predominantly French-speaking city in the world, after Paris. That would explain the language, even if Nikos Vasil has Greek ancestry and Alec and Cherish’s mother(s) don’t have French.
…did I know this already? I don’t remember it, but it seems like the name of the city Heartbreaker operated in is the kind of thing that would come up during the Alec backstory exposition, or in 6.8.
*blog search* Hm, no results for “Montréal” with or without the accent.
Anyway, there’s more – Cherish’s previous theory on what Heartbreaker was doing pretty much matches my own, though I might’ve been thinking a little bigger. I mean, with enough kids, he could have practically an army of parahumans, many of whom would have the power to control more people in various ways, for whatever cause Heartbreaker wanted an army for.
Though I suppose the moment he went non-local with his efforts, that would be a cue for the Protectorate to mobilize more than just the local team against him, and on a large scale, they’d still have so many more, and so much more varied, capes than he would. And that’s before considering the individual values of some of the most powerful people they’ve got, like Eidolon.
But yeah, if he’s now unfocused… did his plan fall apart somehow? Is he getting old?
(Also, Montréal sounds like a terrifying city to live in for anyone who values their self-control.)
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