Not how I'd describe the principle, although it may be close to how it's implemented. The principle is good, actual implementation may be problematic but that's why democracy is described as the least worst form of government and not as the best form.
Of course. But saying that to Taylor and Madison would be tantamount to saying that government influence is a bad thing and they would use the 'employed, taught and protected' teenagers as a chain on their parents.
Familiar & having that applied to arresting villains would not be most surprising, despite the PRT raison d'etre - but the context of question in chapter was working as a rogue in commercial business. QI there would be basically allowing e.g. Strider to sell sawdust-filled food on taxpayer dole, iow, whileas normally, government contractors would not enjoy legal immunity for their tax-paid, let alone other business.
Eh, there's lot of hints that they're not really hard to obtain. Taylor had to look up Lung and Oni Lee online (in Gestation 1.3), and even she knew that Wards went to Arcadia from rumors - who let them all walk out in middle of class to stop bank robbery later on. The oversight of who controls the wards also gets shuffled from Protectorate to PRT for convenience. The revelation of Shadow Stalker's identity was treated as major thing, but the preventive measures for keeping it secret in general amounted to trusting people with the expectation that would be sufficient for it to not happen, and nobody with the job to cover the slipups. Their public appearances generally try to show measure of skin, height and voice to humanize them, and regular members of public can simply talk to them on patrol, making excluding false leads easy. Even excluding TT's phenomenal intelligence gathering Undersiders' raid of government, while well-planned, was pretty simple smash&grab that I'm unsure even Merchants would have failed in.
I can buy it resulting in a heroic quest by the local Protectorate, but unless it's in same city as they are Triumvirate response to that is bit harder to swallow, when the only instance of it in canon that I know of (Fallen kidnapping wards for rape breeding) gets the Triumvirate 'scared' that any Endbringer-worshipper they encounter might be Mama Mathers. Maybe if the kidnapper is S-class threat? Of course, fanfic can be different from canon.
I think it really depends on context. If a Ward is hurt or even killed in the process of normal hero-ing, then probably not. If a Ward is specifically targeted, especially out of costume, then I think it's much more likely. That kind of thing is a large chunk of why the Wards exist and is exactly the kind of thing that would bring a disproportionate response. It's practically the core selling point on the Wards program as far as the parents are concerned.
It most likely wouldn't work at all since they have basically the same shard, but with different restrictions. Or it would only barely work and not on the main part of it.
Fair. I have a tendency to go for "slow burn" and sometimes it's a bit slower than others.
Would the main part of it be the ability to drain powers, or the 'all-the-powers' part? Or would it, like, improve Queen's administrative ability? That really wouldn't do much without any powers, but I like the mental image of Queen but super buzzed on caffeine.
So Queenie wouldn't just nom High Priest's corpse and access codes?
In the case of Madison's cape name, the clue is in the title.
More bits that Trigger Events being the worst day in someone's life isn't really known. That's a fun anecdote that'll come across as rather neglectful to anyone in the known. Like, imagine saying that to someone who still has power-enforced trauma over being kidnapped and imprisoned with her sister?
She uses Frequency as a temporary codename, but actually ends up with something else later. Taylor starts out using Match and also changes it.
I think it's canon that there was intentional misinformation about it, too. Carol probably wouldn't enjoy it because she had not only the things you list but also a teen pregnancy shortly thereafter to deal with so she might feel attacked.
said as she stood ? Or maybe just delete said instead.
Fixed. As always, thank you.
I should really try writing one of those sometime. It would probably end up hilarious because I can't write grim dark to save my life.
You know, if it wasn't for the bits about emergencies, it'd seem like Wards would never have reason to use their power outside of testing, being just showpieces, even if I understand the point with powers like Oliver's around. Kinda going against the whole "join Wards to use your powers" thing, heh...especially with the first thing Carol jumped to was using Wards to stop crime followed by suggesting them as business opportunity as well. Supposedly, in other cities Wards rarely to almost never engage in fights with criminals, either, putting Shadow Stalker's offhours patrols in a more sympathetic light if you twist and ignore facts.
Between this and texting Amy incessantly, is this ⌜setting up Amy as the main pairing⌟? Lets see how the cutefied date goes.
Have any amusing attempts?
It's not that strange, I don't think.
On paper, that is definitely true. They also get training in how to use their powers and mentorship from the Protectorate members.
None that I'll confess to.
