simurgh, meet your nemesis

[mxglam]

So Glam tests their power some more, and then has a meeting with Piggot where they explain the Siberian. She listens carefully, then asks them not to demonstrate, and says she will communicate that to the appropriate people. That takes a while, and then Lorica is asked to confirm this, and then Glam is asked to demonstrate to very few people with very high clearance.

This should not get out, it would be a PR nightmare, but if the Sibarian copy does what it looks like it does, its help will be invaluable in the upcoming Endbringer fights. When Glam decides to use that power, the story will be that a power copier has grabbed the Siberian's and is using it against the Endbringer, that people should not panic, and that she is an ally. Glam mentions, since they're all being so cooperative about telling everyone on the comms, that the Siberian copy doesn't have to look like the original, so people can know whether to panic or not based on her shape.

That leaves, of course, Glam's own willingness to face the Slaughterhouse Nine. Even if they don't know that Siberian is them, they will likely cause problems, and this will need to be carefully planned.

Careful plans tend not to survive contact with reality, and that is doubly true when the next Endbringer attack happens only two months and nine days after the previous one.

Not that it would matter much: Glam is definitely not going to a Simurgh fight, not yet.

Comments

[thinkering]

"I assume she had some suitably horrifying trigger event."

[msglam]

"What kind of trigger event would even do that," she wonders. "She's not like a regular Brute or Breaker, if she has a regular human form she doesn't ever even show it."

[thinkering]

"She might be a case 53. In which case she doesn't so much have the trauma excuse, but."

[msglam]

"Yeah."

[thinkering]

Sigh.

[msglam]

"And how'd Rewind do at the fight?"

[thinkering]

"Really well. She hung way back, medic-ing people as fast as they could be brought in, she was amazing. It's hard to be sure if she reversed song effects too, but the observations were consistent with that. As soon as my bots are up one of them is going to bring her ice cream."

[msglam]

"She's a serious trump card, we should throw her a 'Rewind is awesome' party."

[thinkering]

"You think she'd be comfy with a party about her?"

[msglam]

"Dunno! We should ask. My hunch is 'yes' and I tend to get those right."

[thinkering]

"Cool. Base station, ask her."

"Emailing," says the base station.

[msglam]

"Speaking of which, your birthday's in a month."

[thinkering]

"Yeah?"

[msglam]

"So how do you feel about having a party thrown?"

[thinkering]

"I don't have really strong feelings about it either way."

[msglam]

"Who should I invite?"

[thinkering]

"This seems like one of those things that might be a problem if you didn't invite all the Wards, sort of like elementary school Valentines..."

[msglam]

"Unless no Wards at all were invited and only your school friends were, if it's more of a secret identity party thing."

[thinkering]

"If it were, you couldn't throw it for me," Lorica points out.

[msglam]

"...point. I guess we couldn't be secretly dating?"

[thinkering]

"All the Wards know who you are and that you-qua-Glam are dating me-qua-Lorica."

[msglam]

"Yes. Fair enough. Would you want to invite the Wards? You know, they're pretty nice, all of them."

[thinkering]

"I'm not socially close with any of them except you but it's honestly a pretty similar situation with my school friends," shrugs Lorica.

[msglam]

"I know, this was me trying to subtly nudge you into becoming socially closer to them."

[thinkering]

"Why? I thought I was managing okay captaining with my current level of interaction."