I think regarding being friends with bad persons, way more interesting than Tattletale is Regent, who is a rapist and murderer but tries to be a better person with varying success due being emotionally dead inside. Taylor herself thought about that in 14.1 … for like 5 seconds. What is your opinion?

While I don’t mean to excuse his past actions, I think it counts for a lot if he actually wants to and tries to be better. Intent matters, and if he intends to be better and does what he can to follow through on that, that’s a good thing. It doesn’t erase his past actions, and it’s very unfortunate how blasé he is about them, but it does make him much more sympathetic than he would otherwise be.

Also, the point about this topic having already come up earlier in the Arc is a good one. Now that that’s been pointed out, I think we might have an Arc theme going here, and I suspect it’s going to come up again when we learn about the Travelers and the 325.

Concerning the Ask about Siberian vs Alexandria vs Leviathan: Alexandria wrestling Leviathan was not the only easily missed moment of awesome, aside from Taylor literally ripping Leviathan a new one. There is Clockblocker coming near enough to an Endbringer to freeze it, especially with normal human squishiness while capes are dying left right and center … and of course Vista, who effortlessly drops an entire skyscraper on Levi. She is ridiculously powerful when not holding back

Yeah, those were all pretty damn awesome! Brockton Bay has some really cool people around.

If Amy decided to join the Undersiders, and thus become a villain, what do you think her cape name would be?

Hm, right, I suppose she would probably distance herself from “Panacea”.

How about… Plague? Or maybe the name of a different health-related goddess, perhaps one with a less positive angle on it?

Also, it just occurred to me that Amy would need to fit into the Undersiders’ theme of common fears. I do suppose you could make a case for disease or big biological changes as something people are afraid of, though.

That take on Panacea’s theme is good, but what if her song was like a rock love ballad called Victoria, crying to Vicky for help, super depressed downer lyrics, lines like “This can’t be the end of the story, girl/I got no guts and no glory, girl”

Hmm. Sounds more like a theme for the ship than the character, but could work. I do really like that last line!

Did you make this up now, or is this an actual fansong?

Taylor and Amy Team-Ups are somewhat common in fanfics, especially with Amy/Taylor shipping and Amy the fan-woobie (sad and lonely with a friendly personality just under the surface instead of rude and abrasive with an extremely black-and-white view of the world). Nevertheless the synergy between a biokinetic and a bug-controller is ridiculous: Bugs which inject tranquilizer(often enough for even lung), poisons and other stuff, flying web spinners, modified spider silk, range extenders, etc…

Image if Amy really cut loose in helping Skitter: Zerg Army

Yeah, they’d be a damn fantastic team.

After pressing the villainous father point, Tattletale brought up something worse she didn’t go into detail about, which Panacea desperately intervened to stop her from talking about.

I figured that was about Amy’s attraction to Victoria. Especially because Lisa’s taunting turned out right – the revealing of that secret (along with Amy’s accidental use of her power) did break up the family.

I suppose it is possible there’s another secret, involving something that can more undeniably be referred to as betraying her family than Amy using her power on Victoria and running away.

“She would probably needs someone’s contribution” (Bonesaw creating pregnancy). Nope you can make female sperm. At which point she could just be cloning herself IN or OUT of herself but ypi get the idea

I don’t doubt she could make sperm. My point was that for it to not be a clone, she needs someone else’s DNA to mix with her own.

She might be able to change her own DNA enough without pieces of someone else’s, I suppose, but that’s stretching it.

Amy could totally do that, though.

UNfortuantely Quow’s liveblog of Pact and and CodeZeta’s liveblog, the only other liveblog of pact that I’m aware of, both stopped without much warning.

That’s a shame. Though I did take a superficial look at Quow’s blog before adding them to the Other Blogs page, and judging by a post made less than a week ago, they do want to get back into it.

…and looking at the blog now, it seems they did! They did a session two days ago!

Krixwell, please–as if Bonesaw would need someone else’s help to get pregnant.

True enough. Though even she would probably need someone’s… contribution, to make the child not a clone of herself.

It’s worth noting that the “someone” doesn’t need to be male. Especially if she (also) enlists Amy, who could probably convert X chromosomes to Y chromosomes if she tried.