goddess and bonesaw roleswap au
HOLD UP OKAY okay okay head over my hands taking deep breaths thinking about this.
A young Goddess taking on Bonesaw's role is just so shockingly perfect as a fit. Jack probably wasn't involved in her trigger this time, but found her somewhere along the way and swept her into the Nine. She almost immediately took on a role as some kind of apprentice to him (he only managed to not be mastered by his power messing with her thoughts on the matter.) She leans into her new role and learns fast, where Bonesaw can't seem to get it right. Jack hates how easy her master power makes it to acquire new members, but loves the fucked up things she can make people do with it. Combined with her danger sense and TK, she can do some absolutely brutal and terrifying things.
But, Goddess has bigger ambitions than playing second fiddle and she doesn't really like Jack the some way Riley does, though she plays at it. He rubs her the wrong way, makes her think of the people that made her trigger, though she does latch onto Siberian. Jack knows there's a sword hanging over his head in every single interaction between the two, but he loves it, the tightrope of playing with her and seeing how far he can push her before she tries everything.
At some point things will blow up and she and Shatterbird will head off to make that #Girlsquad, but that's years down the line.
An older Riley as Goddess is SO interesting. I see for her a pattern of harassment, getting her powers and doing something unconscionable, then being pushed into a corner and having to do it again and again. If we keep the cluster for her, I think it's all but guaranteed Bill pushes her to do something so fucked up she convinces herself anything she does in response is righteous. At some point Cauldron sees the path she's heading down and intervenes to put her somewhere more containable.
They also make sure to drop her somewhere she's pressed to fight and that the ball will just keep rolling. Shin is already a world falling apart and a young Riley, with this need to do good, falls into a Taylor framework. She convinces herself it's for a better cause and keeps doing worse and worse things: converting capes, making monsters, biological weapons.
Despite this she still manages to get people behind her, and when she starts taking over places she brings it all down. Riley craves that human connection, it's central to her character, and in a world where she can't seem to do anything right, she'll instead build a world where she can. It's a fucked up Kingdom, maybe likeable to something Nilbog might do if he cared about humans more, but it's hers and she's happy to be its queen.
Essentially though, she just makes the world of Twig. This fucked up society of body horror and bio punk, just with a bit more actual tech mixed in there.
Though she's helping out with those parahuman research facilities from the get go; can't let the scientists steal all the fun.
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