Yeah the agents not in the know about what happened to Taylor probably just see her as an annoying teenager that wont cooperate with them, while those that do know about what happened probably place more blame on the Brockton Bay department then they do to Taylor but they are probably annoyed that Taylor sees them as the same as those down in Brockton.
Its probably a mix of annoyed, concerned, and uncaring about Taylor's situation amongst they rank and file troops.
The promise was etched in blood.
That makes me happy.
A lot, probably the vast majority, of the former-military PRT are almost certainly in this camp. Post-Vietnam the overwhelming outlook, even were it a WWIII scenario is "conscripts are bad, mmkay?"
Getting Contessa's attention is not good, in fact I would say its very, very, VERY bad. At the short term the surveillance Taylor is receiving will increase tenfold to create a proper mental model of her reactions, with Cauldron contacting Accord to test her and start writing contingencies for either her capture or elimination. If in addition to that she gets Alexandria's attention then we can expect that the pressure for her to take power testing is going to increase to intolerable levels, and while there is a small chance that Costa-Brown decides to use the carrot and gives her Shadow Stalker as a sacrifice its just as likely she will use the stick of getting her illegal hero identity captured (and there are Shakers than can for example reduce the oxygen in an area to make her faint regardless of her intangibility) and then gets a corrupt judge to force her to take the tests (a good choice would be Canary's kangaroo court judge).
That said soldier's reaction in the trenches to conscripts who didn't want to fight due to their convictions, such as conscious objectors during WWI was to tie them just outside the trench line until they took a rifle.By WWII and Vietnam the attitude regarding them had changed a little for the better, particularly regarding stretcher bearers and doctors who were truly heroic despite, or rather due to, their lack of guns.
I will now call them 'paragators'.
Actually I wonder if they would send her to LA. Alexandria/Rebecca Costa-Brown has many, many secrets and she is also one of PtV main focus, to have Taylor close by is begging for an unforseen problem to crop up in such a way it might get one of her secrets out. Personally I would send her to Eidolon in Houston (I think?) where he, another person inmune to PtV and with the potential to generate one or more powers to monitor or contain her can keep an eye on our rebellious Ward.
Meanwhile back in Brockton Bay Emma was hit with an intense feeling of jealousy directed at the Simurgh, she was also hit by a falling brick but nobody really cared.
Other than escaping to Boston and ambushing Taylor on her way to the rumored local Wards school there is not much she can do, Taylor got every form of digital contact blocked and the PRT/Protectorate won't allow her inside the building even if she tries to go as a tourist (I believe Boston is competent enough to check for infiltrators).
She might be able to convince Aegis or the other wards to try and contact Taylor on her behalf but considering they are probably still mad at her and Shadow Stalker for getting them benched and bringing the Youth Guard down on them it seems unlikely. Perhaps she will try and contact Taylor anonymously on PHO but that would require her to find out Taylor's username unless Taylor has an official wards account.
Even the Aegis/Gallant route is probably closed after Taylor formally complained to Armsmaster carelessly giving Phase's phone number so its likely that the rest of the ENE Wards got as part of the penalties imposed a very direct order to not contact Miss Hebert through any means, and that probably includes official PHO accounts (which if the PR department is smart they have direct access to censor them if necessary), plus at this point Emma's civilian account is probably set on Ignore by Taylor.
There is however the possibility of Emma setting up a fake PHO account to try and befriend Taylor online and then reveal it was her the whole time as a way to regain Taylor's friendship but that probably wont go well for her.
Taylor is not going to touch her, not for lack of desire of showing the traitor her little black heart, but because after all the headaches Emma has caused to Piggot, included but not limited to corrupting an already unhinged vigilante into liking to torture innocent people instead of criminals that at least would earn the beating, causing a trigger in her school alongside said vigilante increasing the amount of parahumans in the country by one (which regardless of the side of the law will always be a minus for someone who dislikes capes as much as Emily does), force the PRT to fire at least one agent (which to be fair considering the competence shown was not that big of a loss), making Piggot send a promising Ward to Boston in order to cover everyone's asses and then provoke said formerly promising Ward and now an institutional pain in the rear into unleashing the Young Guard, the fact is that if the redhead tries one more stunt she is going to get messily murdered and her internal organs removed for Emily to have a transplant and finally return to the streets where she can shoot enough supervillains to return her stress levels to something approaching normal.
That sounds like something she would do considering that Emma and Sophia have not been making Piggot's job any easier lately due to their actions, because at the moment they have cost her a new ward so no increase in funding, benched the entirely of the wards team, and brought the Youth Guard to town to investigate internal matters so she is probably being fined out the ass for various violations. The issue has also probably cost Emily her reputation with other directors due to word on how she runs her district getting out to the rest of them. So both Emma and Sophia are currently on Piggot's shit duties list for the foreseeable future, unless she blames Taylor for the whole issue due to her complaining and not sucking it up like a good soldier.
Knowing her, she puts equal blame in both, but while Taylor is bothering her by the book, in a different state and part of a Ward program in the Protectorate chain of command instead of the ad hoc PRT mess of the ENE Wards (not to mention that she probably already oughts her fair share of favors to Amstrong by accepting the political hot potato on very short notice) so she got no legal or practical grounds to punish her both Emma and Sophia are under her direct command and if they decide to do anything as remotely bothersome as what Taylor is doing at this point she got enough evidence to put both on them on juvie for a few years so she can relieve part of her frustration on them whenever the YG representative is not looking in the general direction of her office.
Yeah while she may blame Taylor she is not in a position to punish her nor does she have the authority to get Armstrong to take action due to Taylor going by the book with her complaints, so it shouldn't be a problem for Taylor unless she gets transfered back to Brockton Bay for what ever reason. Where as Emma and Sophia are within Piggot's jurisdiction and are free to punish due to the crimes they have commited and confessed to in Emma's case.
A Silent Ghost of Justice, emphasis on Silent. They definitely want to minimize the times she talks to the public and have a reason to deny interviews and giving her an image of a stealthy ninja dressed in low profile pajamas is as good as any other, particularly if the compromise they reach with Taylor for that image is to decrease the time in PR events in exchange of survelliance on low threat gangs.
Another potential option is that they try and sell her as Boston's version of Shadow Stalker with the brooding edgelord look to go with it.
Only if they are suicidal, particularly since the first time she is compared to SS by anyone not part of the PRT/Protectorate she might have an IN to seed doubts.
Worst case scenario is that the PR department attempt to pull a Vista and go all in on the family friendly look for Taylor as a punishment for the stunt she pulled during the tour group fiasco.
