> > In that case, either he already better be working on it, or it's in Faite's hands. The only problem is, she wouldn't really be inclined to interfere (a few million deaths doesn't mean much in the course of millions of years of history) unless someone makes an effort to get her emotionally involved. Usually she keeps her distance.
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> Having an all-powerful character who will sweep in and reverse things every time something goes horribly wrong is dramatic suicide. Let's assume this is one of those things Faite knows not to interfere with, as you say.
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I didn't say she'd fix it, just that it's in her hands. What she chooses to do about it is anyone's guess at this point.
Faite generally has to be careful with her power, because it only changes current time, not the past. That means, in this case, millions of people who have memory of being horribly burned to death or vaporized, and then suddenly it's like nothing happened. It would greatly increase the population at Herringcarp as many people can't deal with it. And that doesn't count the fact that "resetting" brings the possibility of it happening all over again.
> > ...unless the Hooded Hood is active again. This does seem a bit like one of his plots, how the timing seems too convenient. Including the timing of Liu Xi Xian having fled the mansion earlier to visit Chiaki's home, which is just barely uptown enough to be outside the destruction zone, Hatman being elsewhere, CSFB! being near indestructible because of something set up much earlier, Lara annoying the Chronicler with the Manga Shoggoth, and most likely Anna being flame resistant and radiation proof. All that stuff happening at once, it might just be a Hooded Hood plot.
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> There are certainly some significant timing coincidences.
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Yup.
> > Nothing annoys Lara more than being treated like an idiot when she has valid questions. She expects that kind of behavior from a non-intelligent super-villain, who believes everyone is beneath him. And she had in mind to treat him accordingly, and stop him before he does any more damage. Nothing worse than a super-villain in a position of extreme power.
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> Think of it like how a cop would view a well-meaning passer-by forcing their way into a crime scene to offer advice about how to investigate it, or to criticise the methods the force was using to examine the scene. The passer-by wouldn't get explanations and justifications. At best they'd be shown off the site, at worst charged with obstructing the course of justice.
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That depends on the cop, and the civilian. In this case, Lara is more like a reporter who shows up at a crime scene to get answers. Sometimes a cop gives a reason, sometimes he says get lost and threatens arrest. Lara got the latter.
Though actually it's not much like a cop at all, really. It's more like a judge tossing Lara in jail because she shows up at a Legionnaire's trial to convince the judge to change his mind.
> > But the worse part is...(below)
> > ...that he didn't do anything to improve that impression. That means Lara still believes an insane man runs things in the Parodyverse and will probably file away removing him from power on her to-do list. Fortunately right now she has more important and immediate tasks to attend to (unless the two goals manage to merge, then she'd be happy for that). She might even recruit the Shoggoth to help.
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> I suspect the Shoggoth is more interested in preventing conflict than taking a side in it.
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Lara would definitely appreciate that. She would also appreciate if he manages to get an explanation, and see if the Chronicler can be convinced not to continually harass and try to destroy the Lair Legion. That last part is what Lara would be most worried about, and the only reason she would even think to try and de-throne him.
> > That is, unless the Chronicler finally does something to convince her that he's not really so dangerous and insane, or Lisa does.
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> We'll cover some of the Lisa conversation, I think, but possibly not until #9 since it includes plot spoilers otherwise.
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Noted.
> > Lara is more patient than most people the Shoggoth might encounter. She likes helping people learn, so she actually would try to explain it carefully (and without Liu Xi's "What the hell are you talking about? That's stupid."). The part that might cause problems is if the Shoggoth understands, and begins to think that means it must be female too (see below as to why that's funny).
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> Well, the main (non Legion) Shoggoth often prefers three to be seperate biomasses, the main Shoggoth, his wife Sh'Ron, and their podling Cthandra.
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I meant only the Lair Legion portion, who always seems to have an identity crisis when it comes to relating to humans. It might decide that humans perceive it as female, I should say.
