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I think you’ve been too light on Amy, and I don’t think she’s 100% innocent of what she did to Vic. Regent’s “how can you do that by accident?” is on point. I suspect Amy must have daydreamed often about doing what she did, perhaps sometimes almost doing it before restraining herself. How else could she, when her barriers were down, have done that so easily, instinctively, almost unconsciously and without any experience in manipulating brains? 

If I am right on this, it does not make Amy a monster or anything close to it, but it does make what happened at least somewhat her fault. At least, I would say she is more blameworthy than Canary was for her thing, which was just speaking carelessly a single time, as opposed to Amy indulging repeatedly in dangerous fantasies (even if she was certain in her mind that she would never act on them).

Perhaps. I do think it matters a lot that she actively tried to stop it from happening, though. That makes me unwilling to assign her much of the blame.

But yeah, I may have gone too far in suggesting she’s entirely blameless.

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Do you think Amy will be able to heal Victoria, given her mental state?

Whose mental state, Amy’s or Victoria’s? Not to mention, what do you mean by “able” and “heal”? Physically capable, mentally up for it, both? Physical healing, mental healing, both? There are at least eighteen ways to read this question.

I’m going to interpret this as whether Amy is physically and mentally able to heal Victoria physically and mentally given Amy’s own mental state.

I think Amy is absolutely physically capable of both forms of healing (Cherish would have an easier time than Amy with the latter, but fuck no), but she’s not going to have fun doing the mental healing. I’m not sure she’s up for actually doing it, making excuses for why she didn’t do it before leaving the Undertravelers. I think her head is filled with a complicated mess of emotions, and she was already reluctant to mess with brains before all of this.

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“And in some cultures, people do eat insects.” And crustaceans, which are basically the insects of the sea. I’d guess you’ve eaten lobster and crab. If you ever end up in Louisiana, go to a crawdad boil.

I don’t think I have, actually? I’m not a big fan of seafood.

But yeah, good point! Those are also under Taylor’s control (though she hasn’t made use of that at all in the eleven-ish Arcs since that fact was introduced), so she could use her power to essentially go – very effectively – fishing for crabs if she wanted.

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I rewatched the Incredibles 1 and when I saw Dash running through an insect swarm I immediately had to think about Taylor. How do you think the Incredibles would do up against either the Undersiders, the Wards, the Travelers, the Protectorate or the S9 in a fight?

Not incredibly.

By Worm standards, the Incredibles all have really basic powers, except for Jack-Jack, who is a baby and more often a liability than an asset despite his 17 or so different powers. I think Taylor alone could take most of them out without too much trouble. She might have some trouble with Dash, but it wouldn’t be her first time fighting a speedster.

In fact, apart from Jack-Jack, Helen is the only one with a main power Taylor hasn’t already been up against in some form. I suppose Violet also has her invisibility, but that’s nearly useless against Taylor if you’re not Mannequin.

Add to all this that three out of the five are quite inexperienced as fighters (and Bob tends towards pretty straightforward moves), and suddenly the Incredibles don’t seem all that incredible when pitted up against Worm capes.

Admittedly, Helen does show Worm-like creativity with her power from time to time, so there’s that. I definitely think she’s the biggest threat to any Wormverse opponents, though Jack-Jack’s wildcard behavior could also be a spanner in the works for the careful planning some of them are fond of.

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“Atlas. I like that.” I shrugged. – Taylor should’ve made the bug shrug to keep the Ayn Rand reference more on point

Hehe, fair enough. Though that’d most likely require Taylor to be intentionally making the reference in-universe.

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You’ve probably got a hundred messages about this already, but the TOC entry for 14.5 goes to 14.4.

Well, not anymore – I caught it while adding 14.6. Thanks anyway, though! I really do appreciate this kind of help even when I do happen to catch the error myself before I receive the heads-up. 🙂 I can’t catch all of them.

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The Table of Contents currently has all the chapters in Prey under chapter 13.

Oh, whoops, I forgot to put an Arc header and didn’t notice because I edit the Tebble in HTML mode now. Fixed, thanks!

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Well in on AU-fanfic the Endbringers never show up among other spoilery things so parahumans are treated like the mutants in x-men. Taylor and Sophia have to put aside their differences to avoid the all-parahuman Birdcage pretty much in the first chapter. It was a pretty decent fic with 270k words. Sadly it will take some time until getting you fic-recommendations makes sense but I’m letting you know it exists.

Huh, that sounds pretty cool!

I wonder how the Birdcage exists if parahumans are hunted down and Leviathan never destroyed Newfoundland. I guess maybe Dragon’s creator has been arrested and forced to use his talents to make the Birdcage possible, and then maybe placed in it himself (though putting the involuntary designer of a prison inside that prison is a stupid move)?

There is a fanfic that puts Mr. Incredible and Frozone in the Wormverse.

Nice. I suppose they’d be fairly basic heroes here, though perhaps unused to the way the Wormverse handles capes if it’s a matter of them traveling there from their home world.

The reverse honestly sounds more interesting, provided it takes place before the events of the movies.

“All that said, ‘Worm but superheroes are driven into hiding by the government á là The Incredibles” would probably be a pretty cool AU.’” Such fanfictions do exist. One even has about a hundred chapters and a sequel planned.

Liz, Liz, Liz! You need to tell Krix about Divided!
It’s not quite The Incredibles, but I think it’s close enough, what with the government chasing Parahumans into hiding.

Cool! I wonder if these are the same one the first ask mentioned, the 270k long one.

(Also I feel like I should clarify that the Incredibles-like hiding I’m talking about is with the government’s help, rather than persecution. It’s more like a witness protection program.)

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In the topic of boat licenses: in my state, a boat with a motor has to be registered with the state government (like a car). To drive a boat, you must have a license. From the ages of 12-14, you can have a learner’s license, which lets you drive the boat if there is someone 21 or older with a valid boaters in the boat also. Once you turn 14, you can get your actual boaters license. This is supposedly some of the stricter laws in the US.

I was expecting asks about the origin of the meme (a connection hiccup causing the message “Yeah… I’m not sure how their parents were ok with that. Pretty sure you need to be 16 for a boat license” to send twice and the rest of us making fun of that). I was not expecting interesting trivia about boat license laws. 😛

Those do sound like fairly reasonable laws to me, honestly, though I’m not sure how the founding fathers were ok with that. Pretty sure the government needs to be 16 for a reasonable lawmaking license

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Interesting how all her onscreen defeats have been something being put on her and then her force field getting broken, huh?

It’s almost like it’s Victoria’s weakness. 😛