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Just a Phase [Worm]

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Mr.unlucky said:
this feels like a cauldron plot to either kill or get rid of Taylor as she is making going independent a better option then join the PRT.
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No actually since Taylor in the grand scheme of things is only a minor PRT headache since despite having strong opinions about the PRT/Protectorate she isn't starting a national movement against them or advocating for them to be shut down. Also in an ironic way her team's success has boosted the rep of the Wards program since the majority of her teammates are former Wards and that they are a successful and professional team. The PRT can point to them as success story because they used the skills they learned in the Wards to be heroes and not villains which is part of the Wards public goals of teaching young parahumans to use their powers responsibly. It also helps them fight off claims that the Wards are just a pipeline to the Protectorate by critics.

In actuality the Brockton Wards ended up doing more damage to the program's rep than Taylor in this omake. They didn't publicly get branded as Brockton Bay's Bad Batch for nothing after all.
 
wtdtd said:
This story hasn't had a chapter for 1.5 years, can we please let it lie fallow?
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The story was dead before the author migrated it to QQ, specifically so that reader would have an easier time posting, reading and reacting to omakes compared to AO3.
As the thread was never active, and will never be active, the only reason to place alerts are to participate or read those interaction, so necromancy does not have any drawback in this case.
 
JustOneGuy said:
The story was dead before the author migrated it to QQ, specifically so that reader would have an easier time posting, reading and reacting to omakes compared to AO3.
As the thread was never active, and will never be active, the only reason to place alerts are to participate or read those interaction, so necromancy does not have any drawback in this case.
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The story wasn't dead when it was posted here, as seen by some of the chapters posting time being literal years apart, it's not neccesarily forever dead either, fics have come back from longer hiatuses.
 
tarrangar said:
The story wasn't dead when it was posted here, as seen by some of the chapters posting time being literal years apart, it's not neccesarily forever dead either, fics have come back from longer hiatuses.
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Also helps that the author still adds omake threadmarks and is still active in general while stating they intend to come back to this fic when their IRL stuff settles down.

Also unrelated but I am surprised no one has asked about the Brockton Bay's Bad Batch comment in thr omake.
 
KingCrimson1081 said:
Also unrelated but I am surprised no one has asked about the Brockton Bay's Bad Batch comment in thr omake.
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Hmmm so that sounds like Clockblocker is the only one with out a ton of egg on his face.
Vista feels like she is going to snap first, given not being able to hero + parents + not fully understanding/empathizing with Taylor.
Sophia and Emma don't need to say anything.
Not sure about the rest unless Gallant gets caught as a Vial Cape.
 
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Tukata said:
Hmmm so that sounds like Clockblocker is the only one with out a ton of egg on his face.
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Not actually sure where you got this from considering he wasn't mentioned as separate from the rest.
Tukata said:
Vista feels like she is going to snap first, given not being able to hero + parents + not fully understanding/empathizing with Taylor.
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Pretty much what is likely to happen if the Brockton Wards program goes down.
Tukata said:
Not sure about the rest unless Gallant gets caught as a Vial Cape.
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They could be dead since he canonically didn't make it out of Leviathan along with several other Wards.
 
KingCrimson1081 said:
No actually since Taylor in the grand scheme of things is only a minor PRT headache since despite having strong opinions about the PRT/Protectorate she isn't starting a national movement against them or advocating for them to be shut down.
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until something goes wrong and she speaks out. my guess a new PRT director will try to used Emma to get Taylor to commit a crime and arrested her or mark her as a villain but of course it backfire's.
 
Mr.unlucky said:
until something goes wrong and she speaks out. my guess a new PRT director will try to used Emma to get Taylor to commit a crime and arrested her or mark her as a villain but of course it backfire's.
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I mean at the moment Taylor has no reason to speak up against the PRT because a lot of the issues she had with the organization are no longer a factor and she is more or less happy at the moment with her new team. She isn't a Ward anymore and Emma and Sophia went to prison along with the Brockton department now being defunct. Sure a PRT director could attempt something but Taylor and her team aren't an issue anymore than any other independent group of heroes. That and Armstrong is still in charge of Boston and neither he or Weld are interested in starting shit after everything that has happened.
 
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Would Taylor put out a statement in response to Emma getting hired? She could call it a move that perfectly encapsulates why she ditched the PRT as soon as she legally could.
 
RogueInquisitor said:
Would Taylor put out a statement in response to Emma getting hired? She could call it a move that perfectly encapsulates why she ditched the PRT as soon as she legally could.
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I mean she could but as Weld put it in the omake she doesn't have a say in who the Protectorate recruits, and the Protectorate is in the clear because in this omake Emma went to juvie and did her time. Nothing says the Protectorate can't recruit a criminal parahuman who did their time, in fact many would consider it the prefered outcome when a parahuman leaves prison instead of turning to villainy due to a lack of options. At this point it would be dragging up an old issue that many already consider to be solved.

Of course so long as neither Taylor or Emma decide to make a scene if/when they run into each other.
 
KingCrimson1081 said:
I mean she could but as Weld put it in the omake she doesn't have a say in who the Protectorate recruits, and the Protectorate is in the clear because in this omake Emma went to juvie and did her time. Nothing says the Protectorate can't recruit a criminal parahuman who did their time, in fact many would consider it the prefered outcome when a parahuman leaves prison instead of turning to villainy due to a lack of options. At this point it would be dragging up an old issue that many already consider to be solved.

Of course so long as neither Taylor or Emma decide to make a scene if/when they run into each other.
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They might consider it a preferred option, but people are hypocrites, just look at how most people believe ex-cons should get a job, yet most places hiring has a no ex-cons policy, so Taylor absolutely could do a lot of harm to Emma's career, by repeatedly reminding the world she's an ex-con with severe crimes on her head.
 
tarrangar said:
They might consider it a preferred option, but people are hypocrites, just look at how most people believe ex-cons should get a job, yet most places hiring has a no ex-cons policy, so Taylor absolutely could do a lot of harm to Emma's career, by repeatedly reminding the world she's an ex-con with severe crimes on her head.
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And it doesn't help that Taylor can still try to sue Emma for her actions since at no point she or her father signed a settlement or any other documentation in which she renounced to her right to start a civil lawsuit against Emma's and Sophia's civilian identities, which the Protectorate can't protect since the transgressions weren't done while they were acting as law enforcement.

If they're few departments willing to accept an ex-con, there are even less willing to accept ex-cons with a live lawsuit on their heads, both for the bad publicity and the time they'll have to dedicate to the court case even if they're willing to settle.

Hell, depending on how much they want Emma the Protectorate can lend her the money in exchange of a guaranteed service term measured in years or S-class contingencies.
 
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They might consider it a preferred option, but people are hypocrites, just look at how most people believe ex-cons should get a job, yet most places hiring has a no ex-cons policy, so Taylor absolutely could do a lot of harm to Emma's career, by repeatedly reminding the world she's an ex-con with severe crimes on her head.
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I'm just going to point out there is a great difference between hiring an ex-con at a McDonalds, and hiring one as law enforcement, and even then, I expect the poisoners to be barred from food service entirely.

More directly on-topic, how would the Unwritten Rules work with ex-Wards, and other parahumans who knew each other prior? Especially in Emma's case, where she moved in from out of town?
 
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I'm just going to point out there is a great difference between hiring an ex-con at a McDonalds, and hiring one as law enforcement, and even then, I expect the poisoners to be barred from food service entirely.

More directly on-topic, how would the Unwritten Rules work with ex-Wards, and other parahumans who knew each other prior? Especially in Emma's case, where she moved in from out of town?
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Probably by not talking about secret identities with anyone not knowing about that specific bit of knowledge and strictly separating the deals with a civilian identity from those with the cape alter-ego.

Since in this case Taylor doesn't want to talk with either Emma or Ampere and is perfectly willing to ask for a Restriction Order for the former and the later just received explicit orders to actively avoid making contact with Phase in or out of costume the end result is that unless Phase and Ampere are forced to respond to the same incident and can't disengage there's no reason they should interact at all, and even then Phase will insist on record to keep things 100% professional and not to talk beyond the tactical situation.
 
Most of those who re-enlisted did so out of loyalty to their fellow soldiers rather than patriotic fervor or economic incentives. In this specific case however Taylor did take a lot of care not to fall through that particular trap and keep her distance from the rest of the team so that's probably another recruitment death end.
 
BF110C4 said:
In this specific case however Taylor did take a lot of care not to fall through that particular trap and keep her distance from the rest of the team so that's probably another recruitment death end.
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Maybe not considering that she has slowly started to warm up to Flechette and Valve. While she is being safe by avoiding anything Wards related with Valve but she isn't doing that with Flechette due to the offer of lessons and pointers.
 
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KingCrimson1081 said:
Maybe not considering that she has slowly started to warn up to Flechette and Valve. While she is being safe to avoid anything Wards related with Valve but she isn't doing that with Flechette due to the offer of lessons and pointers.
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More or less, being simply friendly seldom gets people to re-enlist, you can find a lot of amiable people in the course of civilian life. What makes people willing to sign for a life of hardship and danger is to ensure your fellow GIs who saved your life as often as you saved theirs have someone covering their backs on the field.

Taylor is non-confrontational with Valve and Flechette because they agree that she got a right not to be conscripted by the Protectorate/Wards not because they shared grueling training and life and death experiences. They don't depend on Phase to makes lewd jokes about the sarge who put them to clean the floors with their toothbrush or to save their lives from the Teeth and viceversa and without that bond once Taylor reaches the majority of age and leaves they won't do more than missing her a couple of days and send an e-mail every few months, much less pressure her for weeks to sign with the Protectorate.
 
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