endbringer, meet gun

[peterxy]

...Very unseasonable rains can be seen in the distance from the shores of Acapulco.

The Brockton Bay Protectorate starts organizing volunteers to be transported or teletransported in batches to it. Heroes, rogues, villains, anyone's assistance is appreciated. A rendez-vous point is set for non-Protectorate capes wishing to volunteer, and Protectorate capes are informed of the situation via communication devices.

Comments

[thinkering]

"Cohorts, teammates, support staff, you don't have to call them minions. If you conjure them up they don't boost you, I imagine - if they did your runaway power scenario could be worse than mine."

[mxglam]

"Yeah I don't think they do, and I still haven't had any success making them anyway. Teammates, other than the Protectorate there are a bunch of other hero teams, I suppose, with slightly different lists of pros and cons. Having non-teammates people working with or for me is harder without having a rep already."

[thinkering]

"You could try New Wave, but you'd have to unmask..."

[mxglam]

"That's actually less of a problem than you might think."

[thinkering]

"Oh?"

[mxglam]

"...I don't have much of a non-cape life. I go to school, have some friends there, but no one close mostly because can't talk shop and because of my expected lifespan."

[thinkering]

"Well, then maybe New Wave would be just the thing."

[mxglam]

"Aren't they all, like, the same family or some such?"

[thinkering]

"They are, but I don't know if that's a membership requirement per se, they might have just not gotten anyone wanting to join them who wasn't related, yet. They'd fit your color scheme too."

[mxglam]

"Yeah, that's actually not a bad idea. And I mean, they've got some cool powers, being seen with them won't hurt."

[thinkering]

"Yeah."

[mxglam]

"...though taking an E88 cape down would probably be like instant-fame, at least around Brockton Bay."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, if you pull if off."

[mxglam]

"And being dead if I don't. I don't expect most of them even know what nonbinarity is, but given their position on gay people they probably would have a problem with me as well."

[thinkering]

"You're a cape, it can just as easily come off as an identity protection measure."

[mxglam]

"Yeah, true enough."

[thinkering]

"My costume and Dad's are both concealing enough that E88 doesn't know if they should hate us or not, so that's fun."

[mxglam]

"Yes it is." Pause. "You're a girl, right?"

[thinkering]

"Don't let the lack of boobplate fool you."

[mxglam]

"I am pretty sure a boobplate's about as necessary as nipples on Eidolon's armor."

[thinkering]

"Worse than."

[mxglam]

"Though, I mean, I suppose some capes are invulnerable enough that they do it for the sexy. Which I don't complain about." Pause. "Or just clueless enough that they think it makes sense or should be used or something, in which case, well, no skin off my nose."

[thinkering]

"I can't actually think of anyone who uses the design off the top of my head."

[mxglam]

"I think I've seen a minor villain or two online."

[thinkering]

"Well, better them than someone I'd stop to wince about if they got their sternum broken."