Amelia, Worm AU [Complete]

Anyway, it doesn't matter if the allergies come from the saliva or the hair, because Vicky didn't mention the orders of magnitude less horrifying faux kitten towels.

 

Riley could hijack the brain in canon. No reason she couldn't build that into the suits. Just as a precaution for Master/Stranger encounters, of course.

 

Actually that's fairly easy when you know how to do it right. The cat probably wouldn't be happy about it and complain loudly but I personally have had a cat that was a ball of angry razors when given a bath switch to doing nothing but mowing in displeasure with half-hearted escape attempts after I learned how to do it.

The trick is to not dunk them. Keep the water warm, not hot, and only about an inch or two deep and use a cup to gently pour it on the cat. Avoid their head and the cat will be irritated but not enraged about given a bath and keep them in the warmed bathroom until they have finished drying if it's cold out so they don't get sick from being soaked.

There's more to it like making sure you use pet shampoo and whatnot because they will try to clean themselves right afterwards and regular shampoo residue can make them sick, but those are the basics to washing a cat without getting scratched/bit.

 

Great chapter as always and I take back some of my speculation on her usefulness in terms of battle intel because Jesus, Timing??

Let's start drama on the way to people who are 1. hard as hell to kill 2. kill people like others order pizza. I'm reasonably sure behavior like that ended in people getting fragged on more then one occasion.

Forget the amazing self centered issue for a moment and just appreciate the *stunning* lack of professionalism this implies. I'm stunned anyone in the Dallon / Pelham crew is still above ground if this sort of things acceptable behavior.

Vicky's still got amazing powers, but to be frank her worldviews so upgefucht at this point she may as well not have any. And if some peoples guesses are right, that could happen.*

I wont even get into the "Hi I'm in a brand new supersuit that I know zip about built by people who I intend to throw a tantrum at." /facepalm God Bless overrides I guess.

I look forward to seeing how this works out but TBH other then a few years therapy I don't see much hope for GG remaining a part of the team.


thanks for sharing,

G23

* I mean shit they have Blasto on the team they just clone her ass with a better outlook from the start. (Hello Cranial? how you fixed for teaching machines for Simulants and Bioroids? Yea pod people, basic agent training and social skills, uh huh, want another 10 years of tinkering for Christmas? Excellent.)

 

Reily, you'd better crack out the hugbugs

 

I wonder how well Vicky would handle getting the same advice Lisa did about turning her thinker power inward on herself

 

I got a new one...Victoria's is a Char!

 

Ya'know, Vicky's crazy ass unreasonableness here actually saves her for me. Last few updates I was thinking "who gave Vicky a personality transplant?", but now she's back to being crazy, unreasonable, and soon-to-be shunted over into the next dimension to cool off. Or perhaps Khepri will opt to go for BEEEEEEEEES! The solution to all problems.

Either way, Vicky's always been a loose cannon and that was fine because her powers were reasonable. Now, however, she's a loaded piece of artillery pointed at a heavily populated area at lunchtime. Her power tells her the best way to destroy something and she knows *way* too many Pantheon secrets. I vote she gets mind wiped and de-powered (I'm pretty sure they could do that right?) before the inevitable explosion. They really need to get Rapture and Yamada on retainer.

If I were Khepri right now I would have a nice long rant as follows: Good God Glory Girl, would you get over it!? I. Am. Not. A. Villain. I give millions of dollars to charity. The Mayor comes to my parties. I make butterfly displays for children, My team stops so many crimes that the Protectorate only keeps capes in town for legal reasons. We've stopped so many supervillains that Brockton Bay no longer has any gangs *left*. I took out how many members of the Slaughterhouse 9? I literally gave my life to stop Butcher's rampage just a short while ago. We killed a goddamn Endbringer! So pretty please, with sugar on top, stop bitching about that one time my friend said mean things to my fiancée.

... I'm not mad :3

 

Very nice update, but I only have one thing to say on that one: Victoria fucked good and something has to be made about her ASAP

You know what, I Will add something: Victoria's attitude here makes me want her to spent some time with Brian, just like Othala and Menja did.

I can get that she has trouble adjusting to her new circumstances and that her brain has been polluted with Brandish's brand of bullshit. But that's no excuse for what she is doing and how she is behaving here, especially towards Taylor now that she knows more about her, if she didn't one could almost excuse it given her last experiences with the girl.

Not only that, but she does it in the middle of a mission which is to be against potentially dangerous foes, so by behaiving like that she endangers everyone, especially given Taylor's role in things. This is a lot worse than Flechette's fuck up in a way, especially given Victoria's power.

 

what about that part where she was hugging herself,did Riley or Amelia put an defense program to prevent Vicky or any clone from aggressively attacking the founders of Pantheon
or just specifically Taylor.

 

Amelia was listening in on the conversation. It seems like that was her cue to disable Vicky's powers. Either through Riley's power suppressing gas, or through the suit being in contact with the Yggdrasil.

A built in countermeasure in the clones themselves violates one or more of the Rules.

 

Maybe Riley went behind their backs and installed the countermeasures or Amelia subconsciously planted it in the clones.its the first time they've crossed the "it's wrong" line.

 

That was Taylor using the same system override she used vs Butcher.

 

I don't think Amelia can use her powers subconsciously. If she could have, there would have been a lot less drama with Vicky, because Vicky would have ended up wanting Amelia right back.

I can't rule out the Riley thing, but the narrative points pretty heavily to it being a conscious decision on Amelia's part to remove the threat to her partner and to the mission.

Disappointment
In regards to the fact that Vicky decided on this course of action.
Anger
At the above, and at the fact that she chose now to do it. Anger at threatening Taylor.
Certainty
Sure that the choice to disable the threat Vicky presents is a good one.

Or that. But it's more dramatic for Amy to be the one to take Vicky out.

 

You sure know how to curate an active thread.

I look forward to many replies to this line.

 

Unrequited

S'not what you told Zach and Emma.

Yay, drama mostly averted!

 

Hey baby, wanna jack my slash?

 

Gallant: Orgasmo.....PUNCH.
Vicky: Huh, okay. Why not?

 

It's Amelia who could technically suspect that her earlier memories are fake, but we have read them happening in real time, so Vicky being right would take all the earlier narrative actually being a recollection of Amelia's faked delusions, even the ones that were told from others' POV.

 

And that is just an extremely big mistake...But eh this is the pantheon after all.

Clockblocker: You know my clock isn't always blocked

 

Clockblocker: Hey gurl, I can make the Earth stand still for you.

 

More to the point, if Vicky is right and Amy's been mindscrewed, why is Vicky bringing this up in front of Taylor? Obviously the evil villains would have made Amy completely loyal to them and incapable of disobeying an order in any way, just like they did with Coil. What Vicky would need to do is kidnap Amy, completely isolate her from Pantheon, and take her to the Protectorate so Amy can go through anti-master deprogramming.

It's almost like Vicky just doesn't think this stuff through.

 

Well she doesn't and that's her problem, I would even argue it has always been. And the worst why bring that up in the midle of a mission.

 

Kid Win: *sighs* Hey babe, wanna upgrade me to 'Man Win'? On a related topic, never give Clockblocker the chance to win an unspecified dare against you in a bet...

 

My halberd is multifunction and fully equipped.

 

Wouldn't work. Or, it WOULD work, but then Vicky would know what she was currently feeling, whether or not she was lying, and both the best way to kill herself and the best way to avoid allowing herself to kill herself.

Hey, if you can't be a great writer, at least be good at working the crowd, right?

Yeah. The author would have to be a real dick to do something like that, right?

 

Had the same ne but with Mister Win instead of Man Win

Armsmaster: Hey, wanna help me lubricate my Halberd ?

 

Dragon drools, and gives a weak - but enthusiastic - thumbs up.

 

In all seriousness though, a troll ending on a story this long would be odd, too much effort to get enough payoff.

I think Vicky may be a bit more aggressive than seems reasonable when she knows Amelia and Taylor have some kind of instant communication. Even someone with Vicky's canon sense of invincibility would be a bit more circumspect in her threats in my opinion.

I mean if you think they are mindfucking people already, whats the chance of them being unwilling to do worse if you make things awkward.

Then again I may be giving Vicky too much credit, Thinker powers do seem to lend themselves to intellectual laziness in some cases in canon.