I doubt Alexandria is immune to Panacea but even if she was there's no reason that Eidolon couldn't have used some power similar to what Echidna-Eidolon used to 'flicker' back to progressively less damaged states. Clearly not the same thing, since Alexandria still lost her eye, but there are obviously healing abilities that work on grounds other then brute force biological reconstruction.

 

We know for a fact that Alexandria's brain is not immune to powers. The problem would be for Panacea to have access to the brain, but it shouldn't be impossible.

 

One thing that I find a little confusing is that Alexandria did most of her thinking outside of her brain anyways, so why is she so vulnerable to brain damage?
Maybe her Gemma got damaged, which ruined her ability to communicate so smoothly with her passenger, screwing up her ability to think the way she did?

 

Can you explain what you mean by Alexandria making most of her thinking outside of her brain? I don't remember anything like that.

Also, Cauldron cape have a weird contact with their passenger. It's, well, 'off'. If they even have a passenger as such.

EDIT:
Chapter got re-titled:

 

Those are some quotes supporting that idea.

 

The reason is simple, ultimately it is our brain that actually decides to act. Depending on your powers parts of your brain end up only having to ask the question while your powers give the answer but it is still the brain that decides what to do with it.

 

Not necessarily. Remember that when Taylor was knocked unconscious after attacking Tagg/Alexandria, her Passenger took over and gave some extra commands to the bugs under her control. Not very good commands, but commands nonetheless.

Actually, that gives me an idea. What if the reason Passengers give powers to people is so that they can use the hosts as a learning aid? I mean, it would explain why they attach themselves to humans, if that's the case. It would also explain why Taylor's Passenger is attempting to give commands by itself now and why her 'shadows' appear brighter than most. Her Passenger is closer to... what? Imago? Being born?

 

If Defiant was correct about Dragon actually being a cape, then Passengers aren't limited to bonding with human biology, or any biology.

 

They've also been shown to bond with alien creatures. I think in Lung's trigger they are shown bonding with some balloon creatures on a gas giant planet, and Trickster sees some crystalline creatures that move like slugs that (at least, I think) passengers had bonded to.

I'm on my phone, so i can't post the quotes, but that should be enough info to look them up yourself.

 

Substitute human with host then. The point is still the same.

 

You are talking about another thing. The quote was saying Alexandria did her thinking outside her brain and I refuted that.

What the passenger does is something else that I agree with, pretty sure they can't actually do anything the host can't though.

 

I was very happy with this last chapter. Wildbow does interpersonal stuff so well, and having it be 100% conflict and angst for 3 arcs or so was really getting stressful.

 

Er, what chapter? Still not up for me.

http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/02/scarab-25-2/

 

The new chapter is scarab 25-1. parahumans.wordpress.com/

The chapter that used to be called scarab 25-1 got renamed as an interlude.

 

Oh! Thanks. Didn't catch onto that.

 

All the dick jokes in the chapter were epic. Taylor school the Directors was pretty cool too, but god that thing was as big as her forearm.

 

Taylor gets pushed into a corner > Murderizes people

Director West: Push her into a corner!

 

Yes, they really, really have no idea what they're doing, all the way to the top. Do these people not read the reports? If they're going to quietly lock her away they shouldn't have even let her in at the meeting.

The director was at a collosal disadvantage, trying to reduce Skitter's influence was maybe a smart idea, but the way he went about it was stupid. Tell her that she has to spend one more day in jail before joining the wards, then throw away the key once she's down there. Tell all the heroes that ask that Skitter is on an "undercover assignment" or some bullshit and those daft heroes will fall for it. If any of them get nosy, so what? By the time they do figure what happened, they won't be able to rally enough support to get her out, the momentum for the public would be dead.

Of course, this plan is destined to fail because we know that SKitter is more powerful when she's imprisoned, so it's still a fucking stupid idea. The BEST way to go about getting rid of her is to just give her a task in the middle of nowhere. "Hey, endbringers might attack antarctica, we're sending you down there to prevent them from melting it, or whatever. Have fun." What's she gonna do once she steps off the boat? Not like there are any bugs down there, let alone bugs that could ferry her across the ocean. Bam, no more seditious behavior or whatever, she's stuck down there on an assignment that nobody can question.

 

The problem is if the people on top were competent enough to do that then things wouldn't have developed like they did.

 

Besides she can control crabs.