Unfamiliar [ZnT/Prototype], Thread II

Then he would have to go back and die on Earth or risk a paradox that could destroy time!... or just be really, really, confusing. :wtf:

Alternatively, when he says "Cross" he could mean the SH disguised as Cross. Remember, ingame it regenerated from a puddle after the first fight; something tells me the decapitation it suffered at the end of the final battle didn't necessarily mean the end of it.

You're betting on Mercer not eating his infected enemy? :wtf:

Wasn't shown. And he didn't eat the SH the first time, either.

Straws man, grasping at straws. If anything, Mercer making that mistake the first time would guarantee that he'd be more... thorough, with the Supreme Hunter's second death.

We're all kinda grasping at straws here.

Mercer worked hard to get that thing out of him, no way was he putting it back in.

Okay, so I just played Prototype for the first time two weeks ago, so I might have missed things. But I thought that Cross was the SH from the start. Or a SH. When Mercer killed the general, I thought it was revealed that Cross was Elizabeth Greene's son born after she was infected. That's why Mercer said "You could have prevented all of this." If I was mistaken, I won't be surprised, I tend to miss details like that, but I was pretty sure that was what was going on.

The SH wasn't Cross, originally. It was the sentient parasite that Cross infected Alex with; Alex removed it and tried to use it on Greene, who just vomited it out (and it grew into the SH). In one of the CGI segments where SH!Cross is talking with Mercer, he even mentions if Alex ever thought about what the parasite felt when Mercer removed it. Later, you see a scene where Cross is fighting a bunch of infected (shortly after Randall boards a chopper), and we get a POV shot of a significantly larger than usual infected rushing towards him (I assume it was the SH, which was seen regrowing after Mercer "killed" it).

As for Cross being PARIAH, it's mentioned in the WOI that it would be very, very bad if Mercer ever came in contact with PARIAH. Which makes it unlikely that Blackwatch'd send PARIAH out to fight him.

I'm not convinced of the inhumanity until they break out the pâté du bebe.

That's the one I'd been banking towards. Although making a direct deal with the infected (which seems a little flunky, given that they consistently KILL IT WITH FIRE whenever the plague appears, meaning the infected party would be a bit o_e; after a while) wouldn't be completely impossible, considering Sheffield's in play.

My money's on Cattleya. She's clearly evil. I mean, look at the evidence!

See? Surprisingly vicious! It's a siiiiign shiftoneone1!

...where did the drill thing come from? Because it's raising a picture in my head of something I might have seen once, but I can't place what you're talking about. But I feel like I know it.

What a foolish notion. Time to bring out the mallet of disabusing? :drevil:

Really, my issue with Saito is that he's an idiot. And in this case, he presumably wouldn't have Derf or weapon mastery, nor would he have any reason to protect Louise/have her kick him around...


Anyway, more speculation. What if the D-Code virus Henrietta steals effs up like it really should have during Prototype and she creates a bunch of monsters? When will Siesta and the old gang show up? Will anyone have a tentacle fetish and try to seduce Mercer? Is Joseph really the Old Spice guy?

I think this incarnation of Joseph is the best, ever.

EVER.

Three chapters, one update.... words cannot describe the awesome.

Cattleya/Mercer otp? :wtf: Every time I think of it I shudder and chuckle at the same time. (I think the fact that I can almost see it creeps me out the most)

And this line,

Am I the only one who immediately thought of the Red Queen? "Off with her head!"

Can't wait to read more!
Cliff hanger rrrRRRRRRAAAAAARRRGGGHHH

PS As for seeing how much Henrietta values friendship, uhm yeah, the line from Agnes about how this wouldn't be the first friend she's had killed kinda shows her value of friendship, now loyalty on the other hand yeah the conversation does show that abject loyalty turns her crank, so to speak.

Mind PMing me what this plot hole is? It'd help me avoid it when I work on StS.

As an aside... when can we expect the next chapter, Facehugger?

...fuck!

WRIIIIIIIIIIITE! WRIIIIIITE, CURSE YOU, WRIIIIIIIIIIITE!

Isn't that Blizzard's MO?

I was wondering where that was.

Haha, the ring!

No one remembers the ring. Even me

To be fair, I don't think they ever figured out it was destroyed.

Though I don't know why they never stripped it from Cromwell when they had him in their reach.

I think the author completely forgot about it.

The Water Spirit is going to be pissed when it finds out what happened. Eventually. Then again, Halkengenia is doomed to begin with so...

This sounds vaguely dirty.

excellent chapter, the monocle pop was a nice touch. also i vote cross.

Actually, HoS has him eventually see it on Sheffield, and I believe he does return it after killing her.