re: Yours and Taylor’s movie preferences: I think it’s safe to say that most of our films were butterflied away with the advent of parahumans, so they have an entirely different set of media after a time. We saw that even the Star Wars Prequels were already different on earth Aleph. DC and Marvel are probably not as popular if they still exist and Godzilla movies probably have to be imported from Aleph because of the Endbringers. With Leviathan they would certainly be offensive for Taylor

That’s fair, though I don’t see much reason for that to cause tips on how to fire a gun to be more common in Wormverse movies. Though I suppose maybe the genre of movies you’d see such tips in (action movies) would be even more popular than it already is here.

(Honestly, I feel like superheroes being real would have the opposite effect on that genre.)

Also it’s worth noting that Godzilla as a franchise started long before the parahumans and Endbringers arrived, so a bunch of the older ones would still exist, though they might be hard to track down. Although maybe they’re studied by amateur historians (and maybe even professional ones) as a relic of how the world saw kaiju before they became a real threat. Same goes for superheroes – how pre-80′s comics shaped the understanding and reception of the real capes when they did show up sounds like a very interesting project for a history class.

If Agitation!Taylor could see herself … talk about character development. How do you think she would feel about “Skitter”, and how do you think she would react to Sophia being a hero shortly after her trigger event?

“What the fuck are you doing, future me?!”

And yeah, if Taylor found out then, it’d probably ruin her perception of heroes pretty harshly. Like it did when she found out later, but worse, because she hadn’t had the Undersiders and Armsmaster to prepare her for that kind of shaking of her worldview. At that time, Taylor had some pretty rigid ideas of black and white morality between villains and heroes, which had already been largely torn down before she discovered Sophia’s identity in Extermination.

I’m not sure which extreme she would end up swinging towards – either she’d drop her idea of becoming a hero entirely, or she’d lean into it much harder and set her aim towards making things better, like she did at the end of Extermination, from the start. She might also be more willing to accept her position in the Undersiders as a genuine thing, making the Decision earlier.

Can you give us an update which of the powers you have seen so far you would like the most in the normal world? While I think flying around with Alexandria’s or Eidolon’s power would lead to many uncomfortable questions, there are many more. I personally would like Taylor’s power, just so I can tell the mosquitoes to fuck off in the summer 🙂

Heh, that does sound like a good use of the power, although I’d rather not be perpetually aware of all the bugs around me.

Hmm…

Coil’s power is pretty damn good, but Vista’s might be more useful in the day-to-day.

I mean, your glass is just far enough out of reach that you have to get out of your chair to get it? No it isn’t. The kitchen is farther away than you feel like walking? No it isn’t. Something’s blocking the way to where you want? No it isn’t. The shelf is way too high up for you to reach the sugar? No. It. Isn’t.

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Huh, I was picturing Regent more, like, drawing the letters with his finger in the bugs.

That would work too, and it’s possible you’re right, but it’d be way slower than a swipe-enabled bug keyboard.

Then again, the latter also requires more thought on Taylor’s part to interpret the swipes.

Okay, rereading the section, it does look like the asker was right here. This would explain why Taylor placed the bugs in a square. I think I just got confused by that at the time.

While Taylor leaving Tom to die and lying to Sundancer about innocents are not comparable to Piggot’s dick move in terms of intent, do you agree that Taylor judges others way more harshly than herself when there are Things To Be Done™? I cannot help but to contrast lying to Sundancer for a better attack on the nine to her being unwilling to not warn people while rescuing Brian for a better attack on the nine. I wonder if she would have been ok with it had she been in Tricksters shoes?

Oh, absolutely. She’s been doing that from the start. I’m pretty sure she would, for instance, be way less okay with what she did to Clockblocker at the bank robbery if it had been one of the others who did it.

Also I didn’t realize she’d lied to Sunny, but looking back, there are inconsistencies that suggest it.

The vision Taylor has of Lisa as cult leader while she’s talking to Amy in 14.3 shows some mental disconnect, doesn’t it? After all, there is a person there who already left her family, joined a villain gang and poured all her strength and resources into it, doing it mostly due to Lisa’s influence and manipulation… and it’s not Amy.

Fuck. Yes, there is.

Taylor just never realized Lisa was doing it to her while she was doing it, because Taylor was preoccupied with keeping her secret and such. And Lisa never made it quite as blatant with Taylor, since she too had to keep Taylor’s secret.

And I suppose it never truly sank in for Taylor just how much Lisa was responsible for after she admitted it in 8.8.

“I didn’t miss the Monochrome getting the real body out of the crater, did I?” Uh, yes you did. When the Monochrome Siberian jumped out of the pit at the end of 14.3, she was carrying the truck. I think it’s safe to assume her real body was still in the truck.

Ahh, right. Fair enough!