Writing Something Different - A Mercenary Tinker Who Has A Mech And Everything She Makes Goes Into The

Writing something different - a mercenary tinker who has a mech and everything she makes goes into the mech in some way - and I intend for her to work for Coil. Now, she's been a parahuman and soon after that a cape for ~15-20 years, probably triggering around 1990's. The point of her is that she's been a smuggler and veteran tinker operating in the texas/mexico/columbia/brazil region, and now Coil's secured a meeting with her (probably through a favour owed to Accord since I like that) and she'll be in Brockton Bay around January 2011.

Expect this character to pop up in my feed a lot, since I'm hoping to make this my first released fanfiction (the Faerun character cross is going to take a lot more nerve and workshopping tbh). I'm rambling.

What I'd like some thoughts on; how long has Coil been a parahuman? Nilbog, Lady and Ellisburg was 2001, and Coil must've spent time in prison for his actions there. How long would someone spend in prison for killing a fellow (superior?) officer during a complete FUBAR? No real world situations really compare. Here's an interesting assumption I'll make; Cauldron arranged for Coil's sentence to be commuted in some way, without arousing enough suspicion that he can work in the same department as Piggot. Maybe 5 years in prison? Then he needs maybe 2-3 years minimum to establish himself in competition with the Empire I think. That fits the timeline with regards to Tattletale and the Undersiders, who have been together for a year or so.

I don't think he's been a parahuman for more than 4-5 years by the start of 2011. Probably took his vial around 2006, and I feel that the Merc will pick up on that quickly. She's meant to be OP in certain ways, and one of the justifications for that is being one of the oldest Tinkers around, with a vast horde of upgrades and refining done to her Mech. Only being able to build things that are best used when plugged in, wielded, fired by or grafted onto her Mech will explain why she's not a household name like Dragon or Uppercrust, the same for the fact that she wouldn't waste her time building more than one mech. Being more involved in the micro conflicts of central america will explain why she's not more well known outside of criminal and vigilante circles, and why the public aren't aware of her beyond cape geeks, both because of her obscure stomping grounds and that the PRT scrub non-hero parahuman accomplishments and activities to bolster PR.

I think I'm just rambling here before I go off to work. Coil's usual greed might not work out, and I feel she'd point it out to him. She respects Accord, but she's experienced plenty of criminal mastermind Thinkers, and he should be careful about what he's paying for.

the cursed teddy bears really tie everything together.

@heyitschartic how delightful!

help me come up with a novel way of saying "i'd forgive ward everything if vic and ashley fucked"

Skitter should have said "We must choose the lesser of two weevils." while holding up a handful of weevils at least once in her goddamn career, called zero attention to it beyond that, just absolute deadpan while everyone else is losing their minds over her casually dropping puns.

It completely fits her character. If you know you know.

also just saying that I was unaware how cute weevils are, I believe I've had them confused with silverfish since I heard weevils were in hard tack biscuits on long sea voyages.

they have numberman for that though. I could see Coil being a small part of the laundering, sure.

Very late Worm opinion and spoilers but honestly Cauldron backing Calvert makes more sense if he was helping them launder money. Maintaining those black-book facilities is expensive. No need for an elaborate experiment when Cauldron can just steal from PRT ENE’s budget with Calvert’s help and get a big chunk of Calvert’s fraudulent earnings for the price of letting him run rampant and covering for him.

lol I got an iPad and then got my self locked out a day later on accident. anyway this is the Taylor drawing I did on it.