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earmite

Speculation on who Legacy's next interlude will follow?

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In his index, Notes has already listed next arc's interlude as 'R.' The only 'R' characters I can think of who are still alive are Bitch(Rachel) and Bonesaw(Riley), but both of them have left Brockton Bay. I think Bitch is mentioned by TT as 'camping', and Bonesaw was last seen meeting her Uncle Harbinger.

What are your thoughts? Will Bitch return to Brockton? Will Bonesaw? Will this interlude take us outside of the city? (Maybe Bonesaw is working for Cauldron now...) Or something else entirely?

And where do you think the plot is going in general? In canon, post-S9, many different villainous groups descended on the seemingly open territory. Ones specifically mentioned (in 21.7, when Taylor is looking at TT's files) that we haven't seen yet are Lost Garden, Red Handed, the Adepts, and the Orchard. Will we see any of these? How will E88 play out, now that they've turned over a new leaf? From what we've seen so far, the main plot seems to want to follow the city's reconstruction, the various threats to it, and Taylor's responses (i.e., not extorting the mayor, seriously considering offing Purity).

Are there any other characters whose real name starts with 'R'? I couldn't think of anyone else, but there's tons, so I easily could have missed some.

Posted Sep 28, 2015, 9:21 AM UTC

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Magnive•

I believe that Rebecca is possible as well, unlikely as it may be. Still, for the sake of thoroughness, she should be mentioned.

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earmiteOP•

Agh! I'd totally forgotten about her! She actually doesn't make a half bad candidate. We could see things simultaneously from the point of view of Cauldron, the Protectorate, and the PRT, getting their takes on whatever the aftermath of this arc is. Notes likes to do that, I've noticed. Laserdream's chapter showed us indie villains Uber and Leet (and Speedrun) still trying to operate as usual, but being stopped by the new and improved vigilante E88. It also shows New Wave's (and implicitly, the other heroes' and the public's) reactions to them, as well as an outside perspective on exactly how weird Taylor has gotten. Parian's also neatly shows multiple things, from the fact that construction is ongoing, to the state of the civilians left (better, but still not good), to the younger heroes' views on Tailor (as a hero, not the scary potential mastermind of the gang wars, like PRT suspects).

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SS_Thunderbird•

Does notes have a schedule he follows for Legacy updates?

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earmiteOP•

Not that I'm aware of. He specifically mentioned that updates for Legacy would be "lumpy." As far as I know he posts them whenever he's satisfied with their quality, but he's been busy with real life lately. He just posted the last chapter a week ago, so I wouldn't expect the next for at least another week or so. This past arc he's been averaging one chapter every 2-3 weeks.

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SS_Thunderbird•

Thanks. Did cenotaph and wake have a similar update schedule? I only found out about them after they had already been completed.

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earmiteOP•

I have no idea, I only read them once they had been complete. I do remember in the author's notes at the end of Cenotaph Notes mentions pushing to do arc 5 in a single week as a personal challenge, but that's about it. If you really want to know, you can check the original SB threads for Cenotaph and Wake, and look at the dates on each post. The first arc of Cenotaph is posted all on the same day (Oct 21, 2013), but after that it's generally several days between posts, with chapters in the same arc being released very close to each other. For reference, the epilogue was posted Jan 23, 2014. That's 48 chapters in three months, an average of four posts a week. Compare to Wake, which got its first chapter July 12, 2014, and ended Sept 23, 2014 (an average of 3.5 chapters a week). Wake had fewer chapters at 27, but many more interludes (one out of three chapters were interludes, compared to Cenotaph's one out of six) and longer chapters, with 106,649 words compared to Cenotaph's 126,378.

Legacy has some deceptive stats. The first chapter was posted two months ago, and so far it has an average of a chapter a week (far lower than the previous series, but Notes did say that real life came first, and was taking up more of his time than before.) But the first arc all came out in one week, and chapters since have been 2-3 weeks apart, suggesting that unless something changes in Notes's work or personal life, this is the speed he'll be posting at for the foreseeable future.

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SS_Thunderbird•

Cool, ty, those are some pretty interesting stats.

I've only recently gotten into this fanfiction stuff. I've never read a story one chapter at a time before - I'm a bit of a power reader and once I pick up a book I usually don't put it down until the end.

It's kinda frustrating to have to wait for updates, ya know? But I guess that's really a complement to Notes, and the awesome story he's sharing with us. Been compulsively checking for updates haha.

Legacy has been pretty captivating so far. I love that Notes is exploring the reconstruction of Brockton Bay, it's a really interesting topic/setting/plot that canon skipped over, for the most part. Also Quinn Cale is such an awesome character. Really I just love the story, period.

Edit re: your op - I'm holding out for a Rebecca interlude. Taylor has been making some big waves in BB, if Legacy is going to escalate the plot the only place left to go is Cauldron/PRT conflict. If I was a betting man that's where I would put my money.

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HylianHal•

Oct 21, 2013

My twenty-second birthday, what a great present.

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SirKaid•

It might be Renick, Piggot's second in command.

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earmiteOP•

Oh! That's a thought. I'm not sure that we ever learn his first name, and Notes likes to use their first initial for interlude titles, but he'd make a good choice for many of the same reasons as Alexandria. Although, I feel like we might have a better clue once we see what exactly is going down July 4th.

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