Richard Cooper is your average everyday teenager. He wakes up, goes to school where he tries to avoid drawing attention from the gangs, bullies, and gangs of bullies that roam the halls while dealing with one particularly attentive bully, and then goes home only to repeat it all over again. This has been his life for years, and it would have continued if not for a lost ROB who took an interest in him. Thus his life is forever changed, and now Brockton Bay must watch out, for a new hero is on the rise.
Unbound Para-Servant
is a Quest on Sufficient Velocity.com run by Yuki no Yue. The Quest starts in Worm, and follows Richard Cooper, who is empowered by a passing ROB, turning him into a Servant. The goal of the Quest: to make Richard the best hero he can be while also Saving the World from those that seek to destroy it. Simple, right?
Unbound Para-Servant provides examples of:
- Alien Space Bats:
- The whole premise hinges on a bored/lost Random Omnipotent Being deciding to grant the Protagonist the powers of a Servant just because he wanted to see what would happen.
- Later, he interferes again to ensure Jayden gets powers based on those of a Dead Apostle.
- And then he interrupts what would be Jayden's Second Trigger to turn him into a full-powered Servant.
- Bully Turned Buddy: The voters deciding to do this with Jayden lead to his becoming a better person and joining Richard's Hero Team.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Fable's "fight" against Lung ends in a single attack on his part that instantly petrifies Lung. Downplayed in that while Lung goes down in one shot 1.) Fable was terrified the entire time and 2.) channeling such a power almost renders him permanently blind if not for ROB healing him, this time, and even then his eyes turn Grey permanently.
- Dangerous Forbidden Technique: It has been noted that some Skills and Noble Phantasms are, while powerful, either cost too much power to use safely, inflict a heavy price on Richard's body or mind, or may attract the wrong attention.
- When he uses Cybele on Lung, Richard's eyes are turned to stone, and he would've been left permanently blind if not for ROB healing them. It's noted that though they wouldn't hurt him physically, the Mystic Eye's of Death Perception would be worse.
- Any skill that specifically states that its effects come from a connection to a god is stated by Yuki no Yue to draw upon local equivalents. It is also noted that the only beings that exist locally that are worshipped enough to count are the Endbringers and Scion. Do the math.
- Deity of Human Origin: By consuming Ambrosia and Nectar and then killing Leviathan, The Argonauts FableDomains , ArachneDomains , PersisDomains , and PythiaDomains gain Rank A Divinity and become newborn Gods with all that entails. As a reward for killing an Endbringer, the Argonauts are rewarded with an Ambrosia/Nectar Happy Meal (the toy was stolen by the Remnant of Mercury/Hermes) with which they Ascend their fifth member TyroneDomains .
- Didn't Think This Through: Being an online Quest, sometimes the voters' tunnel vision can make them miss obvious holes in their plans, like when attempting to prevent a Trigger Event that Pythia foresaw, they try calming the victim down while forgeting to account for the fact that the Neo-Nazis who would cause the Trigger Event would not take the attempt well, and as a result not only fail to prevent Tyrone from Triggering, but get Richard shot as well. Oops. (He gets better though.)
- Divine Intervention: After Fable uses Cybele, he would have been left permanently blind had ROB not healed his eyes. Though he notes to the players that while they got away with it this time, he won't help them next time.
- Later, after Ascending, the Argonauts begin to do this on a daily basis as they literately answer prayers given to them. Examples include:
- Fable typically answers a Parahuman's prayer by modifying their power in some manner.
- Arachne usually gives sunny days, good health or assistance in battle.
- Persis either helps with weather in some way (such as by calming the seas) or gives someone luck in finding love.
- Pythia mostly grants insight or wisdom to people
- Later, after Ascending, the Argonauts begin to do this on a daily basis as they literately answer prayers given to them. Examples include:
- Instant Armor:
- Using Item Construction, Fable creates [Αόρατος: Refuge in the Dark] a costume that, among other abilities, he can instantly equip with a short Aria:
- I was. I am. I will be. My existence will not be denied. I will be at home in the shadow of this city. And the darkness will obey me. Or else. [Αόρατος: Refuge in the Dark]!
- Later, he creates Storm's Eye Armour: The One Who Connects Sky and Earth for Persis with a similar effect, though in his case Persis just needs to call its name.
- Dinah is most disappointed when she finds out her costume, Vestals Pallium: The Forever Present Hearth, doesn't do the same. She quickly gets over it when shown its other features.
- Using Item Construction, Fable creates [Αόρατος: Refuge in the Dark] a costume that, among other abilities, he can instantly equip with a short Aria:
- Reformed Bully: Jayden starts out as a stereotypical bully to Richard, as well as a shoo-in for the Empire 88. Then Richard finds out that not only is Jayden actually in love with him, but the only reason that he hangs out with the Empire is because of his parents. Then he finds out that Jayden lives by a specific schedule set by his parents that he has to follow or else, and that his interactions with Richard are all that he has control over. When he forces Jayden to realize this, that realization combined with accidentally seeing Richard put on a costume and fight crime lead to Jayden Triggering and deciding to change his ways.
- Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: The Argonauts may be Superheroes, but their parents (at least those that care) still insist that they go to school. They do get a week off to prepare for Leviathan though.
- Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: The reason why ROB is interfering with Earth Bet is that he got lost and then noticed the Entities messing with the world.
