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As has been established, it doesn't.I don't think you even need to go that far. Consider that her power inflicts proportional retaliation. Consider also that Coil's admitted intent was to insinuate himself into her life and exploit her power to protect himself.
I submit to you that Coil's recruitment is not, in fact, any sort of preemptive action on the part of Taylor's power, but rather its response to Coil's overarching scheme. Just as his injuries mirrored those of his catspaw, he finds himself maneuvered into a mirror of the role he'd intended for Taylor: forced to exploit his own power to protect her.
Really, once we've established that her power operates on intent, this isn't any sort of expansion of its parameters at all.
Someone who's doing something that might harm her can be deflected into doing it a different way that doesn't harm her. Someone who's trying to harm her can't be deflected as easily, so they need to be dissuaded. Piggot already had an idea of her power, so a bug down the throat and a flickering light were all that was needed to deflect her from two courses of action that Taylor's power considered sub-optimal. Coil required a flooding base, an electrocution, a broken collarbone, an exploding base, and nine anvils in very close proximity before he got the message.
In Piggot's case, her power merely had to do the equivalent of clearing its throat meaningfully. In Calvert's case, it had to shout.
And in all cases, the funnier the better.
Nope. But it did set several things into action the moment it manifested. So the longer she gets around, the more elaborate the effects.what would be really freaky with her power, it was manipulating things BEFORE her trigger
Yes. (see above)Except it doesn't. This has been WoGed several times, in very big letters. It works based on minimum necessary force to prevent the harm, which looks a lot like working by intent, because someone who really wants to hurt her will require a lot of effort to warn off, whereas somebody who would only harm her by accident can be stopped just by preventing that accident.