... Morgan is beginning to see why the villains outnumber the heroes. Of course they would, with that sort of system in place. 'Hey, person that was recently traumatized and has strange powers you might not be able to control, if you fail to perfectly stay within the bounds of the law you must either join the Protectorate or be a villain, and if you are a villain, there are no takesies-backsies, you go to jail.'
What a dreadful and reprehensible waste of resources. Villains can pay off their debt to society not by sitting in a room wasting tax money, but by helping out society! Building roads or doing demolition or helping at hospitals or transportation or resource gathering or any number of other things.
(That is not to say that jails are useless, but the law not accounting for the fact that they are at war with the Endbringers means that it is a stupid set of laws.)
But she cannot tell the US government to go fuck itself, nor does she want to get into a fight with the Protectorate. Changing it slowly would take too long, they are on a schedule. How can she get around the law and still be efficient and prepare to keep the world from ending? How could she recruit villains without causing a big fuss with the law over stolen hunks of rock?
...
Oh, she is going about this all wrong.
"... Fair enough," she says, after a pause, like she just realized that this would be an issue. "Toss me at a tougher one then."
There are places in the world that are run by parahuman war lords, where who's in charge changes monthly, where things are untidy and the rules are made by whomever is in charge.
She's going to go to one of those places and conquer it. That seems like the reasonable thing to do.
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What a dreadful and reprehensible waste of resources. Villains can pay off their debt to society not by sitting in a room wasting tax money, but by helping out society! Building roads or doing demolition or helping at hospitals or transportation or resource gathering or any number of other things.
(That is not to say that jails are useless, but the law not accounting for the fact that they are at war with the Endbringers means that it is a stupid set of laws.)
But she cannot tell the US government to go fuck itself, nor does she want to get into a fight with the Protectorate. Changing it slowly would take too long, they are on a schedule. How can she get around the law and still be efficient and prepare to keep the world from ending? How could she recruit villains without causing a big fuss with the law over stolen hunks of rock?
...
Oh, she is going about this all wrong.
"... Fair enough," she says, after a pause, like she just realized that this would be an issue. "Toss me at a tougher one then."
There are places in the world that are run by parahuman war lords, where who's in charge changes monthly, where things are untidy and the rules are made by whomever is in charge.
She's going to go to one of those places and conquer it. That seems like the reasonable thing to do.