TwiLyghtSansSparkles
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And if his golems get too uppity with him, he eats them.
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It would be shaped like the state of Oregon, and its name would be "What Happened."
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I find the dinosaur one oddly compelling.
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Basically, it's a forced hallucination where you're supposed to choose a knife or a hunk of cheese, and then your choice determines the rest of the test. The results are supposed to tell you which of five factions you belong in--Erudite, Candor, Dauntless, Abnegation, or Amity--each of which value one trait above all others (intelligence, honesty, bravery, selflessness, or kindness). But it turns out the results don't really matter, because you can choose your faction anyway. But the results actually do matter, because Erudite looks at your test results and tries to kill you if you showed traits of more than two factions. The whole "Superman is given powers by an evil star and turns Chicago into a brutal dictatorship where even his calculator (Fortuity) is a serial killer" is a lot more straightforward.
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That's what I'd do. And then when I saw the dog, I'd cut off a hunk of cheese and offer it in an attempt to befriend it. Come to think of it, I'd probably do the same thing to the guy on the train. Is there a Cheese Faction somewhere in Chicago? Because I'd totally join that.
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I can't link on my phone (and the Faction of Meh doesn't care to try and see if I can and there's actually a trick to it) but it's the Allegiant sporking on badbooksgoodtimes.com.
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Two new members. I couldn't care less.
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Or maybe that's the brilliance of it. Making a faction out of people who don't care if they're in a faction, so it won't be any huge loss if the faction is annihilated, because they won't care one way or the other. No matter how you try to destroy their core values, you can't, because their core value is not caring whether or not their core value is destroyed. The Faction of Meh is eternal.
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In a sporking of the Divergent series, the sporker makes a joke about a sixth faction, "Meh, the People We Found Sitting Around Outside." Now I'm imagining a Divergent fanfic where Mister Meh (somehow?) rallies the factionless to create the faction Meh.
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The best part is that all of this is actually plausible.
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Unless we started a city where all the Epics were at Obliteration's level, she would be too OP. (And I don't see a city like that working in our current setting, because there'd be nothing stopping those Epics from taking over the entire state.) Why not just have her get her powers in proximity to the nuclear plant and go on her Rending there?
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He took power by killing every Epic that didn't agree to work for the City Guard, and he's just as hard on vanilla criminals. And he has contingency plans to assassinate wayward Epics in his employ, so combine that with the fact the City Guard definitely rewards Epics who play by the rules, and I don't think it's implausible that he's stayed in power.
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Autumn would oppose immediate assassination for sure. Shiny might've taken her by surprise, and she would've definitely preferred to have been asked on a date instead of having it sprung on her, but she'll want to give Shiny the benefit of the doubt before they take any action against her. That said, if Vondra mandates they "take it slow" or keep their relationship "strictly professional" or something like that, Autumn wouldn't object.
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I can see why, and none of them have to do with being judgmental. A sparkly teleporter who drops into town during an invasion and promptly flirts with the woman in charge of determining which Epics stay and which ones go? He's got every right to be suspicious. Yeaaaahhhhh…..
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Now I'm picturing Autumn saying a quick goodbye to Shiny Sparkle before one of her briefing sessions with Vondra….only to have Shiny Sparkle wait outside the office, tapping her foot the entire time.
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I agree. We ought to arrange one sometime.
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And Autumn isn't as paranoid, but more concerned with keeping them as human as possible. Those who come through her office she sees as the ones who are trying hardest to put their lives back together (since most Epics don't have or want a support network) so her updates would contain everything Vondra wants to know, but also little humanizing details about them. She doesn't trust them, but she wants to, and she wants to see them freed of whatever is corrupting them, so her reports would reflect that.
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I think she'd let all Epics know that Vondra would learn whatever she learned. She wouldn't keep anything from him, and she'd tell him whatever he wanted to know, but she'd make sure the Epics coming through her office knew she'd answer all of Vondra's questions honestly.
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It wouldn't just be those two; it'd be every loyal Epic they could spare. The City Guard takes threats like that very seriously, so the second he went on a rampage, or even threatened Autumn, he'd be a target. There would definitely be casualties, but this wouldn't end well for him either. Most of this is Reader's fault for not telling him their policy on new Epics, but still. Self-righteous speech when he's a guest in town during an invasion=not his best idea.
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Speaking of, does Scribbler ever utilize Autumn's open-door policy (ie, vent about what's bothering her like Edgerunner does)?
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What Frostfire doesn't realize is that Autumn actually has the upper hand here. It seems Reader didn't tell him how things work in The Dalles, but whenever a new Epic comes to town, he and Autumn conduct interviews to see whether or not said Epic is likely to go on a rampage. Reader often recommends a visit to the firing squad (or the lethal injection room, if said Epic can't be shot, like the momentum twins) but Autumn is the one who usually saves them. Waltzing into the clinic and giving a speech like that before acting like he's in charge is NOT a smart move for an Epic whose situation in the city is precarious at best, especially when the invading pandas put everyone on edge. If Frostfire goes after Autumn, she has the authority to send loyal Epics after him, and if he goes on a rampage, he'll have loyal Epics like Edgerunner and Deathwish to contend with. Autumn might be fragile, but she has a lot of political sway. And she's on good terms with at least one loyal Epic. If he doesn't play his cards right, he could find his inspiring speech backfiring horribly.
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By the way, Kobold, I noticed Soulflicker and Amarok's codes are missing from the Pony Vault. If reaching 100 ponies in the Vault is still a goal of yours…. Soulflicker: 3J4B0062007A7A7A00000003400DB0000LK1B3D10A040000F00000007700000A01000000600000 Amarok: 3P400610307A3D1F00000000101F6FE00LK1C3920H01100091000000D9DD9509107F3FCC004CB2
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What are the limits on her energy absorption abilities? Because if she can absorb all the energy of a nuclear power plant and release it in one go, that could easily make her more powerful than Obliteration.
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My prof docked me points for having some paragraphs that were less than three sentences long. I'm sorry, when did I go back to middle school?
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"Cutie Markless," you have introduced one of the creepiest villages since the town in "The Lottery."
