Poor Missy. When the authority figures are letting you do everything you want and set loose guidelines, how do you rebel?
In Missy's case, it's pretty easy.
...really? You practically hung a neon sign from every instrument of a seven-nation big brass band (whose marching orders take them between each reader and his or her respective monitor)* proclaiming that they were up to no good. It reminded me of Taylor meeting the danged S9 after they released the brain mist.
This makes no sense as anything except an untested theory; the S9K blatantly disprove it.
Considering one of my readers is t7w? But in all seriousness, no one caught the drug abuse thing, and I thought that was pretty obvious... so... yeah.
That's not foreshadowing, dude. That's a wham moment. Pretty much the exact opposite of foreshadowing.
Yay for red herrings?
Actually, it makes a lot of sense. Word of God is that Echidna could have damaged the cycle by "overbudding" the shards with her clones. Y'know, if she lived that long.
You liked the post where I guessed this.
Actually, I've kind of been wondering for a while now whether or not any of Pantheon having a second trigger would prompt a collapse of all of them, given how linked up all their armor is, possibly propagating through shunt tech or the Taylia link or something like that.
I knew I should have had a guess. I knew I should have had a guess. Collapsed and not responding didn't sound like pregnancy or anything else I could think of, but I figured she might have overdone the stimulants to help rescue people (not quite what happened, but close).
I can honestly say that I am so completely oblivious I sometimes have real life lag moments, so that's my excuse. But that's another story.
Since the shards have to use up energy for every action, having 10 people using, for example, Lisa's power at the same time would use it up up to 10 times as fast. Less time to use it would result in exposure to less situations, so it would run out of energy and receive less data.
Ehhh, yes and no. The longer you have your powers and the more you use them the better your connection to them becomes. It's not exactly a comparable situation, because the Harbinger clones didn't have the same connection to the shard that the Number Man himself had, so he was able to use the shard better/more naturally then them.
This can't be right.
Note that this merely underlines what a lot of people don't seem to realise.Well, there's a reason powers come with limits. I think it might have been interesting if the stimulate overuse tricked the power into releasing some of them, permanently increasing Missy's ability, but causing massive brain damage if used for more than quick bursts. Like a Thinker headache on steroids.
Give her what she wants in the worst possible way.
I don't recall this being canon, although I do recall something about Scion PtV eating up his lifespan.
