As evidence for pony Skitter controlling parasprites I submit to you this amazing piece of art by ChromaCurves.
They have also made some equivalent pictures for some other groups but those are still spoilery.
Yeah, I remember this one! I had some fun pretending to be freaking out about the parasprites at the time. 😛
Good stuff.
I just realized that you said Breezies instead of parasprites, and also that someone had already shared that my little undersiders picture. My bad. Still pr. her conversation with Brian where she controlled a crab, Taylor controls things with simple minds not strictly bugs, so both breezies and changelings would probably be safe.
That’s probably true, yeah. Especially the changelings.
SPOILERS for MLP: That said if they weren’t the changed lings wouldn’t be immune as they are beetles not deer (the deer horns are pincers).
Oh, huh, I never put that together. That’s a pretty neat detail and explains a bit about the transformation.
Beetles or not, “fairy deer” is very much their aesthetic these days, but this does make them more susceptible to Taylor’s power.
“You have to understand, for so long, you were all I had. I was so desperately lonely, and that was at the same time I was starting to worry about my dad. I got fucked up, my feelings got muddled somewhere along the line, and it’s like… maybe because you were safe, because you were always there.”
Amy is panicking and going on about why she did it instead of answering the question of what she did.
Poor girl.
“You have feelings for me,” Victoria answered. She couldn’t keep the disgust out of her voice, she didn’t even try. “That’s what Tattletale was using as leverage, wasn’t it?”
Except she wasn’t sure it would matter. Amy was incapable, but there was nothing saying Bonesaw couldn’t raise the recently dead.
Good point. We know something similar is possible, with Glastig Uaine – though her power didn’t seem to restore true life, it was enough that I think Bonesaw would be pleased with the result.
That said, I would imagine resurrection via tinkering might be even more difficult than via direct biology manipulation.
“Yes, team! I want you to be my teammate!” Bonesaw was almost gushing.
There we go, the purpose of this meeting is out in the air. Time to see how Amy reacts to that. I highly doubt she’s interested.
“I don’t-” Amy stopped herself, “Why?”
That’s a pretty good question to ask.
“Because I always wanted a big sister,” Bonesaw replied, as if that was answer enough.
They’d fought, and Amy hadn’t been able to defend her position, but still she’d refused. Every second that Victoria and Carol spent taking care of Mark was a second Amy felt the distance between her and the family grow.
😦
So she took care of Mark as much as she could, only taking breaks to visit the hospitals to tend to the sick there. She’d also needed a few to process the letter she’d received.
Dammit, Amy, you were already working yourself to the bone, no pun intended, healing people all the time, and now you’re doing the same thing on another front but without using your power? Seriously, do you even sleep? I mean, it’s somewhat different if you’re one of those capes who don’t need to sleep, like Miss Militia, but still. This behavior is not healthy at all.
I may not have been clear enough about this earlier, when I was talking about power and responsibility: Amy is what happens when someone takes that too far.
The buried girl. The arrogant geek. The dog lover. The daydreamer. The warlord. The scaredy cat. The broken assassin. The crusader.
The Twins, The Lover, The Protector, The Lonely Journal Keeper, The Peacemaker and the Wordless One.
Okay, so I guess they can’t go pick someone else if they picked from a list in advance. That’s fair.
Let’s see…
The buried girl would be Noelle, located underground over an extended period of time.
The arrogant geek is obviously Armmaster. I wonder what he’d think of being called a geek.
The dog lover is similarly obvious, being Bitch.
The daydreamer sounds like Labyrinth, but did Burnscar really pick her out from a list of the most fucked up people of Brockton Bay? That doesn’t sound right. Though I suppose Labyrinth does have some pretty strong emotional issues that Newbie might pick up on.
I don’t even need to say who the rainbow one is, do I.
The warlord would be Hookwolf.
Oni Lee sounds like the scaredy cat for a moment due to his tendency to flee from battle, but he fits much better as the broken assassin, especially after what we learned in Jack’s Interlude.
That leaves us with the scaredy cat and the crusader for the Newbie and Bonesaw.
The crusader strikes me as a red herring. We have a character named the Crusader, and that’s exactly why I think it’s not him. Who else has the propensity for going on violent rampages for a specific cause? Hookwolf is taken (I suppose he could be the crusader and someone else is the warlord, but after that spiel about wishing he was in the ancient Roman military or something like it?), Kaiser is dead, and if it’s Purity, Jack made a huge faux pas by plotting to kill one of the others’ nominee. And Panacea, whom I’ve been speculating to be Bonesaw’s pick, is more altruistic and duty-bound than crusadery about healing people.
The scaredy cat… sounds like an odd sort of person to attempt to recruit. I really have no clue who this could be. It’s not Alec or Panacea, neither of those are characterized by fear. Also I get the feeling that there’s some hinting about them actually being cat-like or otherwise having something to do with cats, here, but the only character we know with a feline association is Siberian, who is obviously off the table.
…hm, I do suppose Alec might be characterized as a scaredy cat for escaping Heartbreaker, but that seems like a stretch considering he doesn’t actually appear to be scared.
Anyway, this is a really neat little rundown of the nominees. It would’ve been fun having this to speculate on earlier, though I get that it’d be a little too clear and would spoil some of the twists in the other Interludes when examined properly.
The man led her back to his jeep. She sat in the passenger seat while he stood outside, his eyes on the surroundings, occasionally exchanging words with the person or people on the other end of his walkie-talkie.
Well, at least he’s finishing up his shift like he said.
After a few minutes, he climbed into the driver’s seat. “The men who were supposed to take over the watch are late. Something about fires downtown.”
Oh, shit, is Burnscar at it again?
(I doubt this is taking place at the same time as her Interlude, since things have seemed pretty linear so far.)
Popping the foam-covered buds into her ears, she began thumbing through the music as she walked.
Walking with music is good fun, just as long as you’re careful.
I’m more of the on-ear headphones type myself, though. Ear buds aren’t all that comfortable to me, and it seems to me they’ve usually got worse sound. Besides, my headphones are wireless these days, meaning I don’t have to deal with the Wire Scouts.
(I know there are wireless ear buds too, but I wouldn’t trust myself to not misplace one of them.)
Oh, and how did I forget the biggest problem with ear buds? They keep falling out.
If you’ve got wired ear buds, you’re going to be accidentally pulling them out when you move your arms around. If you’ve got wireless, I guess they’ll fall out less often, but when they do, there’s nothing to stop them from falling all the way to the ground or floor.
Popping the foam-covered buds into her ears, she began thumbing through the music as she walked.
Walking with music is good fun, just as long as you’re careful.
I’m more of the on-ear headphones type myself, though. Ear buds aren’t all that comfortable to me, and it seems to me they’ve usually got worse sound. Besides, my headphones are wireless these days, meaning I don’t have to deal with the Wire Scouts.
(I know there are wireless ear buds too, but I wouldn’t trust myself to not misplace one of them.)
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