Ability to survive potentially becoming a rogue agent, clearly. Because, given their level of support, there should be entire havens of rogue supernaturals that were former agents of theirs and clearly don’t want to return.
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I mean, yeah, you’re right. I was just happy to meet a team that wasn’t filled with members with sticks up their asses for a change. A and M have the obvious ginormous sticks up their asses, N has a prude stick shoved so far up it comes out his nose, and F has the “I’m an asshole who thinks it’s funny to insult people and cause trouble” stick up their ass so far it’s out the top of their head.
Meeting someone who sniffed you and basically said they’d take anything you offered was a nice change. Lesedi was nice, too, but not so weird about it like N. Hell, even Dezh liked them and she doesn’t like most people at first. Then again, she’s worked with wolves in the past, so the sniffing doesn’t bother her at all… she just views Tane and Maaka as gigantic hot wolf men. She found UV to be a bit obnoxious–you’re better off sniffing her than asking questions about her “thing” with Mason. The latter just pisses her off.
I like the fact that N says there aren’t that many rogues, but M’s expression makes you think otherwise. I’d love it if there were a whole army of rogues… and if half of them were still at the Agency pretending to go along with things just to feed info to the rogues.
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Imagine mc being confronted with a rogue agent, telling them about all the hidden shit Rebecca has been doing. 
Hey isn’t it suspicious that anyone that doesn’t agree with the super secret agency gets branded as a threat and locked up? No?
I like the fact that N says there aren’t that many rogues, but M’s expression makes you think otherwise. I’d love it if there were a whole army of rogues… and if half of them were still at the Agency pretending to go along with things just to feed info to the rogues
Someone did gave Murphy the bombs. But I assume that is never mentioned again. Right?
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I’d gladly tolerate a team of Agency boyscouts with sequoias up their arses if they were competent at the very least. I don’t have to like them as people, but surely there must be a beacon of competence in the Agency. Surely they don’t simply syphon taxes for different versions of supernatural MK-Ultra.
I state surely specifically because I’m pretty confident it’s the opposite.
I don’t mind them, but sniffing is something I really don’t vibe with. It’s a breach of personal space, but at least they aren’t as forgettable as Unit… Vita, Vivo? Viva (las Vegas)? I can’t remember a simple soul from that squad.
Clearly a coincidence, clearly. No soul would ever dare crossing our mighty agency.
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I think the only option for this is the medical team at the agency. Ellidor is actually freaking competent. I can’t really think of anyone else we’ve seen at the Agency to fit that description.
And it’s understandable about the sniffing thing, and needing personal space. My MC just didn’t mind it so much, which is funny because she’s big on personal space, too. But, again, ginormous wolf men. She expects them to behave like wolves. She was just happy they weren’t jumping on her yet (she figures they may next time, because that’s what wolves do if they know you and want to play).
There was the obnoxious woman who put her feet on the table in the cafeteria (fucking gross), some guy who insisted on knowing what’s going on between the MC and their LI, and… some other guy. And Mary Sue Alima, who the MC hasn’t met yet so it can be sprung on M-mancers in b4.
Then we have b3!Rebecca:
R: “Oh yeah, we know this guy. He’s always having auctions of supernaturals.”
And the Agency has done fuck all about it until now… Dezh was just like, “What the actual fuck? Are you serious right now??? What is wrong with you people!”
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I’M NOT ALONE!!! 
Like, Alpha leader is great, and the Alpha speedster with ADHD is an almost total unknown, but I really wanted an option to hit the brothers on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper and go “Bad dog! Bad!”
Yeah, M basically gives N the “oh honey, hook, line, and sinker, huh?” look at that point.
It is, actually. If you did the tests and get recognised in the sewer fight, the fact that there’s very obviously a mole in the Agency gets mentioned again. Nothing is done about it, because competence is something other groups do.
This would be the medical staff. As for the field agents, the people whose presence somehow makes everything worse at every turn, I’ve already said a couple of times that I would actually respect the Bravos if they were human, in which case they’d be fighting a huge uphill battle and somehow surviving and that’s badass. But the Bravos are actually super-high in the power scale, and somehow they don’t just fail at everything, they actually contribute negatively to things. The Alphas are apparently the Agency’s top notch agents, go on patrol in Wayhaven, fail to find any Trappers, and then you get ambushed by two of them in the AGENCY’S PARKING LOT.
These people are peak incompetence. I’m gonna tag Blood Moon again, where Carrie breaks through abusive conditioning to rip half the vampire’s face off and Shawnie stacks dead thralls as if she were operating a forkilift, Fernweh where R hacks at a fucking 10 foot tall tree monster with razor fingers with an axe until the thing nearly rips their arm off, or Out for Blood where Monroe goes toe to toe with her goddamn SIRE on the basis of “I either get my humanity back or I die trying, but I’m not putting up with your bullshit anymore”. Yes. Competence! Badassery! Hot! Gimme more of THAT!
But to be fair when we capture someone we throw them into an eternal drug-induced coma of their worst nightmares, so, y’know, getting auctioned off isn’t sounding so bad as a career choice.
The status quo. Duh.
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They have been busy chasing Murphy and tripping at every step.
(In all seriousness how long had those auctions took place? How many were sold into slavery or for body parts? Why is the agency still going? What are they even protecting at this point?)
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I kinda want to write this now…
M seems to be the only UB member cognizant of the Agency’s failings. They are loyal to UB, but I don’t think that holds true with the Agency itself, except for the fact that they seem to have the “let’s just follow orders and see if it works” attitude, but I think that’s because they are, ultimately, lazy. The rest of UB has blinders on about how great the Agency is.
And who comes to help? Not any of the agents who are supposedly patrolling these areas. Nope, it’s Ellidor! Of course, Dezh had already kicked the trappers’ asses by then, but still…
We’ll never get that in Wayhaven. 
The MC has to be incompetent so “angst”. UB has to be incompetent so they get hurt and “angst”. No one can ever be competent and badass in this damned game. Or act like an adult, but that’s another problem…
All the more reason for supes to join the rogues, if you ask me.
The same reason all bloated bureaucratic agencies exist–they get a budget. In this case, they get tons of money from all the governments, with no apparent oversight or fiscal responsibility. So yeah… that’s why.
The secret that supernaturals exist. That literally seems to be the only real objective of the Agency, at this point. Because they do a shit job at everything else.
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This is called “practicing pre-emptive medicine”. 
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It’s hard to not headcanon that governments have their own strike teams made out of supernatural bullshit at this point. You clearly need Agency for something, so you give them budget out of the arse. This out of the arse budget has to have reasonable returns on the investment.
Diversity win, I guess…?
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To be honest I am still caught up in the Agency’s horror prison that is sorta treated as something you just have to Accept. Not a proponent of the death penalty but uh, the eternal mental torture chamber that seems to be solitary isolation (also a horrid thing to do!) on steroids is sort of horrifying, actually, and I’d like for the MC to eventually have a long talk about that.
Especially since MC now has friends/a partner who is not exactly guaranteed to be safe from the Agency’s idea of jail if they ever go rogue for whatever reason, even if it’s unlikely. Or MC themself, if their blood gets real fucky. Having the mental hellscape looming as a potential threat would not be fun, I imagine!
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At least it won’t be forever or for a long time as long as you have at least 1 friend in the agency, with their track record for discipline, protocol and pre-emptive actions someone would definetly break you out for one reason or another, hell even your enemies might save you if no one else does.
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I’m actually hoping the MC ends up in one of those torture cells, at some point. Unfortunately, I doubt it’ll happen. I think the bad guys may, at some point, stick the LI in one of them in order to make the MC come to them (I mean, if they were smart, which they aren’t, so…). She seems to enjoy physically torturing the LIs more than the MC, after all. With the MC, she prefers torturing them in the romances.
Either way, I’m guessing (hoping) that, at some point in b7, all of the supes trapped in those cells break out and start wreaking havoc. And that’ll be what causes the Avengers to happen with all the “allies” the MC gathers.
Pfft. This is Wayhaven. The door will magically open and let them out. Or someone will spill ice cream in the lock and freeze it so it shatters.
I hate it that I’m being ridiculous but could still see it happening that way because that’s just how stupid the damned plot and various scenes were in b3…
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In the nightmare coma cells? Great, I can’t wait to read that I’m in a locked room with ten strangers talking sports at me. 
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Mine would be having opera sung at me. I already have tinnitus, ffs. I don’t need it to get worse from listening to people screech like banshees.
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Oh no, they will force me to relieve my Genshin Impact days. Even playing old-ass korean MMOs was more preferable to the two years I’ve spent in lands of Teyat.
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It’s just the A route. Everything is exactly the same except… no, actually everything is just exactly the same.
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You make a valid point.
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It’s funny bc in book 1 my mc can literally drag herself up from Murphy’s “experiment” and using all her willpower push on to the point where at the end part of the fight she pretty much single handedly gets Murphy subdued…
To book 3 where she is imprisoned with Bobby and cannot do f*ck all except pretty much sit there and wait for her “fate.”
Talk about going backwards.
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As many of us have stated, the plot dictates how incompetent your MC (and the entire cast of characters) is at any point. The plot required the MC to be a worthless tool, so that’s what they were. My MC escaped the idiot trying to get her blood, but that didn’t do a damned thing to help Bobby. Pissed me off.
Plus, I would’ve loved to have seen Bobby as a supernatural, instead of them deciding to turn him into a servant or whatever bullshit they were doing to him.
Also, for those interested, here is the patreon schedule this month–a mood board, a pencil sketch, an N scene, more side project stuff (“teaching” people how to write), and a paragraph or two on the lighthouse. Probably worth it if you’re an N fan, but not so much otherwise.
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