#jospe-aks

[lukore]

Enough.

[lukore]

taylor are you doing this on purpose

[lukore]

Having a post-Worm clarity moment. Jesus Christ that girl was fucked up

[lukore]

But anyway the fun thing about Worm is that it makes it clear that the mere existence of capes is essentially disruptive to any formula of rule and state sovereignty; there is no generalizable rules of cape abilities bc every cape is unique, and thus there are no generalizable rules by which to govern capes. Moreover, bc every cape is unique, they are nonfungible and entirely irreplaceable; any system that relies on capes is inevitably and terminally forced into contingent measures and strategies, because the death of any one cape upturns the operations of any organization that relies on them. See: the death of Alexandria, or the Yangban (whose operations are only possible due to the particular abilities of 2 capes). On the other hand, states couldn’t possibly ignore capes, as by their very nature, parahumans overturn the state monopoly on violence. You cannot really force a parahuman to stop except with other parahumans, but you still can’t reliably keep the parahumans on your side, so your nominally non-cape-run state is sol, and any cape inclusive state structure is the titanic on the hunt for icebergs.

[lukore]

skitter!

[lukore]

tbh the aisha alec dueling powers dynamic where alec can control her only as much as he can pay attention to her goes crazy like. you can have my whole body but only if I have your full obsession.

[lukore]

lisa wilbourn.

[lukore]

ahurgh