PaRARGdox 183
Say your prayers!: Epoch to the rescue! One of the things I appreciate about him as a character is that when it is time to bring the FOOSH CHOOM KROM he never hesitates! Anyway, that’s Sista Superior taken care of… for now, anyway… next up, the Rarg!
Also, we finally learn Sista Superior’s first name! Exciting, I know! 😉
I know some people were wondering if Ken would try the “space bugs/space demon” line from last time… but I figured this was a very different situation where he’d believe Justine and Freya would have a better chance at escape if he could sacrifice himself.
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Next update: January 14, 2023: Powering up!
Just how long has it been since Ken used his powers? Not counting that time he almost used them in that one fight
Heh heh, “bringing the FCK”, I see what you did there.
Or maybe It’s just me reading too much into it.
Meh, it’s all good.
lol I guess if Sista had grunted out an UGH you would have had the full acronym mix…! 😀
Augustina Superior? Nah, not buying it.
You think Superior is her actual surname? I doubt that.
Smoot 🤨😬🙃
What is the source of Sista Superior’s powers, since it doesn’t seem like she was affected by the power nullification ’emp’?
Her powers were already nullified at the time of the zap, the zap also turned off the nullified that she was strapped into which gave her a chance to escape as her powers returned. That’s the current working theory 🙃
Sista Inferior had been locked up in a power-dampening cell. When the EMP hit, the power to the cell went out and she got her powers back. At that point, she started blasting stuff and managed to effect a jail-break, again.
Sista Superior is pretty tough- just chuck her at the Rarg ship as hard as you can!
Agreed. But assume there’s some moral issue of sending a criminal to a deadly situation without a formal trial.
I don’t see any disadvantage of this plan.
But if she lives, you gotta do this all over again later.
Secureing the loose cannons first. A good move is the enemy lets you do it. And they may.
The Rarg may well be recalibrating their plan. This time around (and the Rarg don’t realize there was ever a previous time around) their weapon was minimally effective, So what next? Can the Rarg use it again? Everybody is acting like it was a one-shot deal.
Disabling it is actually first order of business and ought to take precedence over trash pickup.
Why would they use it again if they don’t think it works? You’re right, they don’t realize there was a first time where it worked. They just know it doesn’t work.
I bet she’d hit children with a ruler for getting answers wrong.
Ken comes off like he doesn’t understand his colleagues. I appreciate he has those self-sacrificing superhero instincts, but they’re superheros too. Come on, what would he think if it he heard they left some other guy (someone who wasn’t him) behind or *threw that guy at a supervillain* to escape. He’d call them crap and demand they be drummed out of Magellan, probably.
It’s actually insulting for him to think they would sacrifice him, like he secretly has a low opinion of them or something.
Ken doesn’t feel heroic after the events that put him in the chair. He is just an angry asshole now and really needs to talk to a professional head readjuster to move forward. The way he is now he is just a loose end who barely moves the plot of his own life foreward. I’m sure teaching supposedly helps him, but I worry about what students are learning from him besides what he overtly teaches.
Grace, does Ken teach classes? I thought he was more of an administrator. We did see him run that one disaster training thing but that was because the teacher who was supposed to do it wasn’t available.
But in general I agree with you about Ken’s state of mind. It kills him that he can’t be saving the day at a time like this, so he’d rather die.
In part though, I think he’s so hard on the students because he’s trying, in his angry asshole way, to make sure their fate isn’t like his.
He’s on the Council which oversees the running of the island and the academy and the activities of the Magellan forces, but he does miss the ‘good old days’ and does also get involved in teaching where required. 🙂
Yes, throw Sista Superior at the Rarg, mr. Epoch!
She is very likely to fight whomever, hero or villain alike.
I wonder if Epoch has ever had trouble fighting Augustina in the past. They’re both flying bricks, but she has a ranged attack, which is something he doesn’t have. Though I get the impression he can fly much faster than her.
Have we ever seen her fly? She seemed restricted to the ground earlier in the story (in the now-aborted timeline), and here she appears to have jumped down rather than floated down. I think she just has some degree of invulnerability (probably more akin to Wombatman than Epoch) and energy blasts.
Oh, and super strength, forgot about that part.
I don’t believe we ever have. Plus, the cast page for SS says nothing about flight. Mobility seems like the edge that keeps Charisma more or less even with her.
She can jump Hulk style, but that doesn’t give her a lot of range.
She can only jump (Hulk style) so he has that over her. They have tussled in the past, she is certainly one of the stronger physical threats in the Magellanverse.
I do wonder why Ken never got prosthetics. We’ve seen a level of tech that would suggest such advanced prosthetics that would allow him to be able to walk again, and he has enough of a stump left for them to be attached to, so I wonder if it’s his innate power-set that prevents him from being able to use them at all. Or if he’s just too prideful to accept them, since it’s possible even with them he’d still be left on the sidelines.
He is also paralysed from the waist down, the missing legs is just part of the injury he sustained. I have thought about the robot legs angle… maybe one day!
I kind of think pride and mistrust. Ken strikes me as the type to simultaneously consider prosthetics a sign of weakness and a vulnerability, particularly with the likes of The Man Who Can and potentially some villains with powers that could hijack his means of mobility.
Why then, you might ask, is Ken okay using his hover chair? I imagine it probably took a LOT of convincing to get him in to it, and probably only after someone convinced him that it would be easy for him to blast the chair to pieces if it was ever taken over by a hostile technopath. I feel it might also be in character for him to crack a joke about deserving to sit on his ass after spending so many years fighting villains and training cadets, and deep down he really does just want to rest.