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Subj: So there go Yuki's chances of being the tourist board's poster girl.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 at 09:16:50 pm EDT
Reply Subj: It might improve it.
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 at 07:44:35 pm EDT (Viewed 520 times)


> Chiaki is the poster child for reputation preceding her.  Those who know her, including Hatman, know that she's no threat to the world, but as one suspect's interview with Jack and Vicky went, she has a reputation as someone who's cold-blooded and terrifying.
> On the other hand, Chiaki uses that reputation because it often helps her avoid violence.

I'm sure there are any number of scenarios in which Chiaki could be perceived as a threat.

> That brings up the old question again of whether the Lair Legion would take on a government organization to protect Liu Xi, who isn't even an LL member, or if they'd hand her over.  The question might become even more dicey if it's a government organization the LL has worked with before - does the LL trust them again not to harm Liu Xi or do they take the hard line?

The Legion has generally fudged the issue of members and associates that go bad. They made a few desultory attempts to capture Messenger during his killing spree days, and they hunted but failed to catch Dark Knight. Other rogues like the Man Who Wasn't There and Magnetic techbird were allowed to go their own way, and were eventually eliminated by non-Legion adversaries. So generally when a Legionnaire crosses the line there's not been a definitive response - except when Beth von Zemo conquered the planet.

On the other hand, the Legion has often defended its own against unfair accusations. Jarvis, Nats, Donar and Visionary are some examples (although to be fair, Lisa tried to framed Vizh to clear Jarvis). However, two of the Legion's main defence mechanisms, NTU-150's bottomless wallet and Lisa's rolodex of judges are now much harder to access.

> > I think Lara might have blown some of her cover in the last few days of the Parody War.
> I'm sure she ended up on those files as soon as her name was known, simply because anyone who can cross dimensional barriers and therefore can't be captured or arrested easily can be interpreted as a threat.

The government likes to keep tabs on powerful illegal immigrants.

> > Symmetry was the keeper of the chronometer of infinity before Mumphrey. She first appeared in stories somewhere during the Legion World Tour around UT#40 or so. She was taken down after her attempts to destory the Legion in UT#99-100. She'd naturally use her new powers to replicate her old trick.
> In that case I guess Faite's does work differently.  Rather than actually freeze all time around her, Faite just "captures" a moment in time.  The best analogy would be catching a fly in your palm without injuring it and then letting it go at will. 

Symmetry previously ran the sinister funeral business the Westminster Necropolis Company. I'm sure we'll be hearing from them again.

> > I'm not sure that Vicki would really go for hero work. She's really a classic bad girl and she's not that into other women.
> I wonder if the Psychic Samurai would encourage her at all.  Chiaki was part of a crime family, never really a leader, and she made a name for herself before becoming something of a hero. 

I think VV's generally happy as a villain, and gets quite a lot of job satisfaction.