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Gunnerkrigg status: Still rad!

Did Kat do anything actively bad, up to this point? I don't think she did, but I might simply have forgotten.
If not, I'll withhold judgement for when she does. But I'm certainly on the side of the person, who only acts in self defense. Whatever pain would have come to them is on them, for attacking Kat.

Again, I don't think this is a set up trap. I think it's something she can do now, and acts in panic.
Which is a perfectly human reaction. If someone is trying to kill you, and even kills a friend of you, you will not act rationally, and think things through.

I get, that you think about the way she is developing. But acting in self defense is not something evil. Yes, she shouldn't have this power. But this isn't a case against that. People try to kill her, she is defending herself.
 
As you say, taking action in self-defense is understandable. And she is still just a child. But she's a kid who has godlike powers. It's less about her actively acting badly, and more about a completely unserious, blase attitude towards her actions and a lack of understanding or acknowledgement of the repercussions or responsibilities of her actions.

For example, if you have the powers of Superman, you have an ethical and moral responsibility to be constantly tempering how you act/react, even during a chaotic moment in self-defense. If Superman so much as swings his arm the wrong way, he could go from incapacitating somebody, to knocking a whole building down. Everyone here acknowledges Jack & Co have their own POV and motivations; someone with the powers that Kat has, has as responsibility to always using them with temperance. Jack & Co are not completely irrational and can potentially be reasoned with and come to a peaceful conclusion, but they're a lot less likely to ever do so if you meance them with your godlike powers. Even if they bought that reaction up on themselves.

Kat's growing power set is different from Superman's, but no less serious. She's created an entirely new race of life, who have created an organized religion around her no less, and she is almost completely dismissive of the entire thing. She's yet to have had an Uncle Ben moment, but I fear that's what it'll take/where we're headed with this story for her to begin taking what she does seriously.
 
Eh, whatever. Yes, Kat shouldn't play with powers she doesn't respect enough. No, she is in no way acting badly here, and certainly shouldn't be accused for the fallout of these people trying to murder her. If they die, that's because they tried to kill her.
That's all I have to say about this.
 
Oh goddammit, Omega would play coy even now, wouldn't she?

(Edit: though we do know ghosts in this world lose their memories as they pass on so it might be genuine, but that seems awful fast compared to Mort, who didn't start to forget until he was crossing the threshold)
 
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That's the tragedy: she got to live much longer and know much more than a "regular human", finally got a chance to be "normal"... and she only lasts like a week. All she got was a lifetime.
 
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