DraconianGreed
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Cauldron just didn't know that Scion is a depressed idiot, right? They only knew that he had an aversion to looking where there's concentrations of case-53s which are like hosts who wear the Thinker's entrails, I guess.I guess to keep track of them? It does seem pretty pointless though and possibly counterproductive to their whole secrecy thing. Same goes for them selling powers to be honest.
Did Cauldron memory-wipe every case-53 in fear of them revealing cauldron has access to other dimensions to Scion or something? Why did they release the case-53s in the first place then...?
Really the biggest issue for me right now, is I am trying to come up with a reason other than stupid-evilness as for why Cauldron wiped Sveta's memory. In my fic, a version of her gets her memories back, but since my mc isn't an SI they're finding out about Cauldron from her perspective.
Stole her(him at first I guess) from her world before she died, experimented on her and then wiped her memories.
Could they not find a use for her? She lived in a cell anyway, so it would be better for her to be cauldron where they might get a loyal minion a la the way Coil kept Echidna/Noelle under control.
Like seriously. I can either have it be that they took one look at Sveta and then wordlessly had the Slug get to work on her (incongruous with how they have a living mass of air guarding cauldron's main base.) or make Sveta into a Goku expy where pre-memory wipe she was just uncontrollably enraged or something.
Even then, why did they release Sveta afterward?
Was the release of the case-53s all bids to give some potential cape a bad day so that Cauldron could incidentally create a powerful cape for the final fight? Since Victoria exists with her having budded off of Dean, a vial cape, Cauldron should have sent the case-53s in endless droves against cape families with third-generation capes and such like Aster.
No seriously, what the fuck was Cauldron doing letting Jack Slash get away with his crap? The only powerful capes he ever made that could be useful were like two! And cauldron didn't even make use of them! Jesus Christ! I'd like to buff Jack so that he becomes a cognito-hazard even for Contessa but then what's the point of Doctor Mother? Am I going to have to just scape goat Doctor Mother or something?
One of Cauldron's biggest mistakes was letting Jack Slash keep Bonesaw. The second Bonesaw demonstrated her ability to mess with powers, Contessa should have made plans for stealing her from Jack Slash. Or if Jack Slash really was such a threat with Broadcast, have Doctor Mother put together a team of military contractors to pull an extraction.
So many problems would be solved by Bonesaw. Its not even funny. There had to be striker powers that would let her operate even on someone like Weld. I think the only cape Bonesaw might find impossible to mess with would be Dragon since her corona pollentia was probably a mass of incomprehensible code.
But that's not what my mc could gripe about since they wouldn't know about Bonesaw's abilities.
Also, Nepea-5 makes no sense, it completely ignores the economic principle with comparative advantages. I guess it might have helped the PRT and Protectorate form but that's the only utility it had. Cauldron was extremely dumb for ripping out one of the ways humanity reached the heights it did as a possibility from all capes. Greed makes for a powerful driving force.
Could you tell I was/am losing my mind writing this?
I guess my only option is to turn Jack into a cognitohazard even for Contessa. So maybe Cauldron would never have known to steal Bonesaw. That leaves the Case-53 issue, though. I could just have Cauldron not notice what possibilities Victoria's existence hints at and/or its impossible to bud off of case-53s since they happen in the first place because of faulty Firmament connections. Still, that means none of the case-53s should have been released.
That leaves me with... just have Cauldron releasing Case-53s out of the goodness of their hearts....? Seriously? What kind of incompetent "necessary-evil" are they?
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