Now that you know a bit more about Cauldron, and especially now that you know physical mutations aren’t necessarily as common as you were assuming they were back then, care to revisit your speculations from post 171488443634. Besides Battery and the case 53s, do you think there are any other characters we know who got their powers from Cauldron?
Well, Shatterbird and Siberian come to mind, but I’m sure that’s not what you wanted to hear about. Shatterbird’s pretty close to confirmed, and Siberian’s already implied by Cauldron’s interest in keeping her alive. No, you want the ones that aren’t openly known yet.
Hmm… Maybe some or all of the Travelers? It would explain a couple things about their shared backstory. A debt to Cauldron and/or troubles with their countermeasures might be part of why they’ve been on the move so much, and/or why they came to Coil (though that seems to be mostly because of Noelle). It would also be interesting to have some people close to the Undersiders involved in it, especially if it results in the Undersiders finding out more – and possibly putting the Travelers in touch with Faultline’s Crew.
Coil, if he found out about Cauldron, would quite likely use some of his massive wealth to buy powers for some of his people. Unfortunately, we don’t actually know of any powered subordinates of Coil’s who we don’t already know had their powers before they joined him, or at least before they met him in person. If he’s done this, it would be with Circus, Trainwreck, Chariot (who may be joining the Wards for Cauldron rather than Coil) or the Travelers (who seem to have been active before they found Coil), or with one or more characters who haven’t been introduced yet.
I suppose we don’t actually know if 6.7 was Circus and Trainwreck’s first time meeting Coil.
I don’t think Coil himself got his power from Cauldron. It’s a strong and unique power, so probably expensive as fuck, and he used his power to build his wealth.
…huh. I just looked a little closer at the post you referred to in the ask, and it seems I accidentally predicted the exact same people, aside from the stuff about Coil buying for his subordinates? Siberian (I guess that was a correct prediction! probably) and the Travelers. Well then.
(I no longer think what’s happening to Noelle is a Deviation, which takes care of the issue I brought up at the end of that post.)
But yeah, I doubt this ask would be here if there weren’t more/other buyers to find. So… how about ye olde Kaiser?
And then there’s Armmaster. I could see him buying a power to kick off his heroic career, though he might not be proud of having had to do that.
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