And we see that, yet again, Bitch was fooled and betrayed by “words that sounded good”. It is pretty downplayed, but I think this is a major experience for her, because betrayal is such a huge thing in her life every time it happens its reopening a huge scar

Ouch, yeah. At least it was someone she had already decided wasn’t winning her over, this time, but still.

Hey, did I ever mention my idle hypothesis that the Monochrome was carrying some kind of speaker in her mouth in Interlude 11a? That she can’t speak but Siberian found a way to circumvent that this one time and make it appear like she could?

Seriously, everybody keeps underestimating Vista. Nobody seems to think much of the youngest Ward, but she is a badass and what she can do to Leviathan she could also do to you!

Yeah, sheesh! Even mr. Leg “people are stronger than they appear” End didn’t seem to take her seriously, though that was while under the effects of the miasma.

Vista was introduced as one of the kids who keep the myth of young triggerers being more powerful alive, but not a lot of characters seem to treat her that way.

Maybe it’s because they don’t expect her to be competent, just powerful.

The fetish for restricted partners is bondage.

Right, of course.

I guess I was thinking more about the wiggling out of a tight spot than why she was wiggling in the first place, and that’s why I didn’t think of bondage at the time.

One thing I forgot to mention in my response to the ask about which scholar Siberian was: If he really was a big-name scholar like Garth or Rogers, that’s totally another point towards “great potential wasted on evil”. Though it’s worth noting that unlike Mannequin, the potential on this front wouldn’t be through his power.

Though there is the part I already had about how Siberian’s power might be able to harm or even kill Endbringers.

Any idea who the scholar could be? Taylor doesn’t know, but we have more info than Taylor.

Hm. Well, when you put it like that, it seems like it’d have to be someone we’ve heard of, in a non-Taylor chapter or Interlude, probably 9.3. Which is fitting considering that’s one chapter before we found out the Nine were in town.

In 9.3 we learned about Garth and Rogers, who studied trigger events. Garth later went on to study cape families.

If Siberian is one of the two, I’m guessing Garth, just because we know ever so slightly more about them. Though maybe Rogers disappeared to become Siberian and that’s why Garth did their study on families alone? Or, what if Rogers was the love Garth lost and later became Siberian in order to avenge?

Basically it could be either one. We really don’t know much about these two.

So, I guess you could give Glory Girl a new name, after what Crawler did to her. Gorey Girl.

Heh. 🙂

“Maybe that’s his flaw. He’s been such a good guy so far, a straight up saint by this story’s standards, so it was only really a matter of time before a darker side showed up.” And your expectations for a hero’s behavior have now been successfully corrupted.

Hehe, yeah. I know how Wildbow works by now. For a while, I’ve been doubting that Legend would stay as thoroughly good as he currently is throughout the story.

Though there are others who have so far been portrayed similarly positively even through Interludes from their perspective, like Kid Win and Weld (okay, not technically Interludes, but you know what I mean). In some other cases that’s because they died before getting around to showing us their darker sides, but still.

In any case, for some time, the question for me hasn’t been “does Legend have a dark side”, but rather “how severe is Legend’s dark side (and how much do my readers laugh whenever I praise him for how good he is)”.

Honestly, though, I’d be down with the Wards, Parian and/or Legend staying this good. You may have noticed I quite like these characters for their goodness. 🙂