I thought Gray Boy was dead.

 

Worth reminding everyone Scion's real name is Zion. Maybe we should be calling him such from now on? Considering the mythos surrounding the endbringers, for all we know Zion is one of them.

 

His name is Scion because that's what everyone identifies him by, so I'm going to keep calling him that. Just because he actually said Zion doesn't make it his name.

I'm hoping that someone kills Gray Boy and this releases Scion. Scion can't get indefinitely stuck, that would remove Lisette's plotline entirely.

 

Nah, he was "status unknown" on the Cast page.

I just went through and re-read all of the times he was mentioned. Gray Boy was part of the first generation of S9, alongside Jack, Harbinger, and King. It's unknown if he left S9, was killed, died naturally, became Sadboy, or just disappeared up his own time-well asshole one day. Jack has both loved and hated him [told wonderful stories about him to Bonesaw; but hated King's regard for his precious Gray Boy].

Gray Boy is a Cauldron Cape. Eidolon-clone admits that they sold him powers, but afterwards couldn't control him at all.

 

Gray Boy's got me thinking, though.

If he's really that dangerous, and still at large, I'd expect he'd be, if not an S, then at least a character the Protectorate capes would be briefed on. One way or another, I think it's safe to say the original was neutralized in a way that makes him no longer a concern.

Also, if his power was truly perpetual, don't you think anyone would have come across one of his victims before now? Or we would have heard mention of some powerful hero cape he took out? He had to have done something to earn his reputation.

 

On the topic of S-class threats, does anyone have an idea of what the Three Blasphemies are? I mean, they don't seem to be rated as S-class, but the mentions we've had of them recently make them out to be very dangerous.

 

They're a group of European villains, I'd assume something akin the the S9, but they're not technically an S threat.

 

Wow, that interlude was so tense. Did feel a tad disjointed jumping from the flashbacks to the present but other than that it was great.

Gray Boy betraying at the last minute was a nice touch, Foil was the ace in the hole (which I actually guessed. I was thinking that she'd fake the looping to strike once before anyone knew.), and Golem was pretty badass.

And wow, Gray Boy is scary. I don't get why he dissapeared instead of a body appearing.

Weird to me is:

Did Foil get trapped and then use her power (which hypothetically bypasses the time loop) to kill Gray Boy and then be freed when he dies?

Or does she fake being trapped to kill Gray Boy?

I think its the second but I'm not sure.

 

I read it as the second. There was a sentence in there about Foil using her supernatural timing to fake the screams.

The D.T. uniform is a Dragon's Tooth controlled by...Weaver? Are these like...PRT officers in robot suits? Not quite sure what they are even now.

Ugh, what a cliffhanger.

 

The DT was piloted by a random unpowered individual. My guess is Jack had a secondary power which let him Contessa his way through situations involving passengers, but that it only works on people with Powers, and unpowered people screw it up (thus the meltdown with the containment foam and subsequent Gray Boy backstab).

Edit: @Garden: I'm pretty confident it was the second, due to language involving her using her sense of timing, and her walking around the back of the Gray Zone.

 

No. Shut up. Hold it in for a day. You can talk about it tomorrow after getting the odds from Alcott.

And you don't tell the mentally damaged, severely wounded, just lost his entire family, his sister killed by his allies, Jack's play thing, and entirely too close to the situation, third generation cape.

 

Why not tell the freakin nobody Dragon's Tooth? It's not likely that'll cause problems.

 

AND he'll get a trigger event to copy Endbringers. Subconciously. From range.

Seems to obvious for Wildbow to have whatever Tecton says cause the end of the world.
On another note, Saturdays not an interlude, is it? Which means we're going back to Taylor. And Taylor won't hear what Tecton says ...

 

Taylor. hears. EVERYTHING!

 

Unless she purposely doesn't listen to it, which would probably be the smart thing to do.

The latest developments on Gray Boy's powers seem to put a hole in the theory that he is a patient of Yamada. Unless he is there willingly (which seems unlikely), it doesn't seem like they'd possibly be able to incapacitate or contain him. I'm still pretty confused about what happened to him at the end with Foil's kill shot.

 

I'm hoping that someone (Weaver) kills Tecton right as he whispered that last line. Maintaining the quarantine should be first priority, and he won't even wait until Dinah confirms it's not a stupid move? Pfft.

 

Foil was basically the shit in this chapter. Dropping Siberian, briefly, and Gray Boy after acting like she was stuck in the loop. She is definitely one of the most powerful capes around right now. Also with GB dead Scions free to keep kicking Endbringder ass.

 

I thought GB's power didn't end with his death?

 

Since he was around and terrorising for a while and throughout there story, so far, there has been no mention of Gray Zones, it can be assumed that his power terminates with death. At least until shown otherwise.

 

We were repeatedly told it was so from both Gray Boy's dialogue and from Taylor's point of view narrative and in the last chapter after Gray Boy got killed Jack was still trapped in the loop. Unless you meant that you don't think Gray Boy was killed?