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Dec. 19th, 2020 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sigmalephA thing I am grappling with re: Worm's worldbuilding is that I am not sure what are the mechanics that make it so that most supervillains (that don't draw too much ire) have careers for extended periods.
It's implied that gangs try to break out their people out of prison whenever they are captured, and we see this happen with e.g. Lung. Obviously Lung/Oni Lee are not easy to capture in the first place, so their continued existence as threats makes sense. Similarly the Empire has the numbers to try to mount a rescue for anyone, and they're implied to have a high turnover anyway. But what about lesser villains?
Lisa more or less says outright that minor villains are let out of jail, or at least their escape attempts are unimpeded. I don't think you can take the "cops and robbers" framework as given, there's multiple steps of motivated reasoning in that conversation, but I wouldn't think she makes that out of whole cloth.
The practical question is, how often should you expect a villain who is not a major threat (say, doesn't have a murder to their name) to actually escape from the heroes, vs be captured and 'let go' one way or another, vs actually stay in prison for a while or get recruited for the Protectorate or otherwise end their villainous career?
(the practicality of the question is, of course, that I'm writing fanfic and I don't know what a realistic getaway rate is for Uber and Leet, because them consistently escaping from the heroes seems unlikely, but so does them getting broken out of jail, and yet they continue to exist)
It's implied that gangs try to break out their people out of prison whenever they are captured, and we see this happen with e.g. Lung. Obviously Lung/Oni Lee are not easy to capture in the first place, so their continued existence as threats makes sense. Similarly the Empire has the numbers to try to mount a rescue for anyone, and they're implied to have a high turnover anyway. But what about lesser villains?
Lisa more or less says outright that minor villains are let out of jail, or at least their escape attempts are unimpeded. I don't think you can take the "cops and robbers" framework as given, there's multiple steps of motivated reasoning in that conversation, but I wouldn't think she makes that out of whole cloth.
The practical question is, how often should you expect a villain who is not a major threat (say, doesn't have a murder to their name) to actually escape from the heroes, vs be captured and 'let go' one way or another, vs actually stay in prison for a while or get recruited for the Protectorate or otherwise end their villainous career?
(the practicality of the question is, of course, that I'm writing fanfic and I don't know what a realistic getaway rate is for Uber and Leet, because them consistently escaping from the heroes seems unlikely, but so does them getting broken out of jail, and yet they continue to exist)
