“Skitter wants to attack the Nine, remove a tester before they get their turn.”
Who’s talking? Coil?
Trickster whistled. “Risky.”
“Look at it this way,” I said. “Um. How many police forces and superteams have tried to beat the Nine? How many divisions of the Protectorate or alliances of cape teams have tried to beat them?”
Taylor, this is a bad opening when trying to convince people that you can beat them.
I mean, I think I see where you’re going with this, in that the police forces and teams have fought them directly and made themselves easy prey to the Nine’s specialty, crowd control. But still, if you’re trying to boost morale for your idea, maybe consider not starting with “how many people have tried and failed to do what I’m suggesting”.
“Lots,” Trickster said.
“Too many to count. The Nine play things like my team does on good days. They pick their fights, avoiding confrontations or disappearing when they aren’t certain they can win.
Oni Lee really would’ve been a good fit.
When they do fight, they hit where it hurts. We do that. Look at what Regent did to Shadow Stalker, what I did to Lung on both occasions. And they terrorize their victims. We do the same thing, unintentionally or not. Grue is scary with the darkness, Bitch’s dogs make people shit themselves. Me? Everyone’s at least a little creeped out by bugs.
Especially Clockblocker.
I like how she’s calling a bit of attention to the whole “common fears” theme of the Undersiders.
Tattletale and Regent are unnerving in a whole different way. The Nine are us on steroids.”
I suppose they are!
Hey, Taylor, remember that whole thing we talked about earlier about how similarity doesn’t automatically mean friendship? I know we were talking about individuals, but I still think this counts as an example of my point.
Incidentally, between Taylor talking about how she and Bitch were similar, thinking about the similarities between the Travelers in terms of power level and view of the team, and this, I think we’ve found the red thread of the chapter. Similarities.
Another pair of things that would be similar: The shogi plan and the plan used in Parasite.
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