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  1. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    In this sort of situation, if you want to be morally spotless about it, I suppose your best option is to attempt stopping him yourself. Which wasn't really an option for Taylor at the time. That's exactly how morality works. You can't treat everyone equally; the obligation you have to, say...
  2. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Yup. "At a great personal cost" is an utter red herring here. If I were to kill my own family, it would be "at a great personal cost". That doesn't make it any less than monstrously evil. Loyalty to friends who have trusted you trumps obedience to laws under which you were born.
  3. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Virtue ethics, not consequentialist. I am more impressed by a person who would rob a bank — this being essentially a perversion of the neutral-to-praiseworthy urge to better your own situation — than a person who would betray their friends who trust them — this being a negation of the highly...
  4. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    One might question whether betraying people who have explicitly trusted her is 'doing good'. Having done that would certainly make me respect her less.
  5. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    It's a premise. Quality inheres in the execution.
  6. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Yes, but they're outright controlled by Cauldron and have no long tradition of loyalty to civilian authority. It seems highly unlikely that they'd obey POTUS nearly as reliably as the existing military branches. (And if they aren't organized as military, then quite plausibly POTUS can't actually...
  7. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Well, in-story, Cauldron and Contessa's efforts are probably the reason why anything like orderly government still exists in the First World at all, and any given President's efforts, regardless of his special knowledge, are highly unlikely to turn out as well. Even more realistically, if you...
  8. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    I can't really imagine POTUS in Worm being...well...relevant, really. Whatever relevance he still retains IRL mostly has to do with military loyalty, and in Worm the military itself is rapidly losing relevance even in physical conflict. And that's not even getting into Cauldron's shenanigans...
  9. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    It's very possible this is what happened and it was all a Simurgh plan. But there is no evidence for that, while there is a reasonable bit of evidence (albeit inconclusive) for Eidolon being responsible. Given the lack of a conclusive in-story answer, either interpretation is valid for fanfic...
  10. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Correct. Though I would say that the EBs going back into standby mode after Eidolon died is decent evidence that he was, in fact, controlling them.
  11. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    I don't believe that ever happened, no. The activation of Endbringers was purely down to Eidolon's subconscious, I'm pretty sure.
  12. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    The person who actually told Eidolon that was Scion, using his inferior copy of PtV. Which was the quickest/only way he could figure out to kill the High Priest once he'd gotten his fuel-boost again.
  13. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Aegis' power isn't adaptation, it's redundancy. I don't think he can ever grow capabilities that aren't within human limits. (Other than flying.)
  14. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Yeah...I can't see Contessa doing this. If she wants Skitter dead, under any combination of circumstances and for any set of possible outcomes, she can make it happen, and if she doesn't want Cauldron implicated/herself discovered/Doc Mom finding out, they won't. Throwing a Cauldron vial at Emma...
  15. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    ...huh. I'm confused as to the context, and also as to who Miss Smith is supposed to be. Mediterranean + "took away the one person I've ever loved" (+ your shipping proclivities :P) + access to high-level Cauldron vials sounds kind of like Contessa, but if Contessa wants someone dead under...
  16. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    An altpower is not a premise, and a premise is not a plot. And that's barely even an altpower, what with its complete lack of rigorous definitions of just what she could actually do.
  17. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    There was something about having special expertise in Master/Stranger situations due to always having to deal with the aftermath of Valefor. But I'm not sure if that's canon or imported wholesale into my brain from Amelia.
  18. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    There's an interesting thought. That would certainly knock everything off the rails. And mess people's loyalty all to hell. The NSFW possibilities are pretty obvious, but just the plot ramifications would be really interesting to follow. (For one thing, Amy is now probably Trump 8-9. And, due...
  19. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    I am certainly an enormous fan of Emberverse anything. I'm not sure how the metaphysics match up, though; Worm is an explicitly materialist universe with Clarketech monsters, while Emberverse is explicitly spiritualist with gods and (functional) demons. Plus if the Powers in Emberverse could...
  20. alethiophile

    Safe For Work Worm Ideas thread

    Now I want it to be a crossover with One More Trigger. You just have to add one more member to make the numbers add up.
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