‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 592

Lots of raining on parades here.

Random Background Info: It's mostly due to Kim and Dr. Grace that the hysteria was checked. Kim might be paranoid, but she believes in interrogation and strict quarantine over panic killings; Dr. Grace may not understand much about programming, but he understands hysteria and supported Kim's harsh methods to quell it. It was one of the few times the two worked well together.

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Except you guys did participate. Sure, Tenka might not’ve *killed* all the hackers they found, but they hunted same as everyone. And now look at them, ruling the world with a computer-generated iron fist. Even if she weren’t the cyborg, why would a rebellious programmer want to strap themselves with that?

Of course, we still don’t know Kat’s plan.

I’m running under the assumption that, while she is brilliant and clever at machines, her plan is something childish and simple like “become a “hero” as if that’s all she needs to magically get people to follow her and let her fix things, no matter what she did in the past.

I don’t think she’s thought that far ahead. I don’t think there is any people trusting her or letting her fix things after being a hero, just that being a hero is *good* and she feels that she needs to be good, so being a hero is its own end.

I agree SirFred. She was young when she did “the deed”. She wasn’t exactly sane. She now feels mortified and is emotionally damaged, and just wants to let everyone know that she’s not a “bad person”. She wrongly imagines that if she succeeds in the game while being an Erbana everyone will magically realize she’s not dangerous. In short… she has good intentions but is extremely naive.

I wouldn’t consider her naive. She knows that her identity as the Cyborg would wreck ANY semblance of a life, so she’s trying to prove that she’s a “good person” under a new identity.

I don’t think she’s even trying to prove that she is “good” to other people (she doesn’t seem to care about anyone else’s opinion AFAIK), she mostly seems to be trying to prove it to herself.

Yep. And Bandit knows that one of the major leaders of Tenka WILL kill Kat if she figures out who Kat really is.

This could backfire on Kat. People might decide she’s -TOO- good as a programmer if she can win fairly easily even as an Erbana.

I think we’ve seen hints that there is a deeper plan. I mean, the cities don’t know that she’s alive or that D is actually closer to an AI than a virus, so Kat really has a lot more control over the World of Ruin’s machines than people think. At the same time, Kat seems to be doing a lot more global monitoring than even Tenka City seems to be, specifically the ash clouds and the supervolcanoes. I think Kat’s big plan is a bit of long-term geoengineering, using the army of robots and the AI she controls to rebuild the planet’s ecosystem while the Cities are too busy focusing on their own narrow concerns.

Kat does care about the opinions of others– she tries to shut people out, but she was desperate to have Danni like her earlier (“Maybe if I give her all of my money…” etc).

On a tangential note, does anyone else think the author is setting up for “Kat didn’t start/do the attacks”? We’ve never actually seen a memory of her driving a tank remotely, or even actually hurting anyone, just her apparently getting a lift form a giant robot to where a family member was.

I think it’s definitely plausible that other, more…’politically savvy’ members of Deconstruct Me may have managed to manipulate Kat into doing terrible things. Also I’m curious where her father fits in with everything because he seems like a jerkface.

The real question I’m wondering is, what was the deal with her mom’s hospital? We know that at least everyone thinks she blew it up on purpose. I’m wondering if she knew her mom was there at the time, or maybe someone poked her temper, so that when she was blowing things up she momentarily forgot where her mother was…or something.

I’m currently running on the theory that someone found out that Kat was at the hospital as either a patient or a visitor and they blew up the entire hospital in an attempt to kill her. And then blamed her for the explosion when they found out she wasn’t dead.

But I can see her losing her temper and punching the building with her remote control giant robot.

P.S. Aneeka, I swiped a shirt with D on the front before the store closed. TY, I love it!

For quite a while now, I’ve operated under the assumption that the entire event known as “The Ending” is too complicated to say that Kleya (or any single person) did it. Keeping this brief, I think that she had some form of tantrum shortly after installing her cybernetic interface (RL flashback to when her father was seized) which created a metric ton of problems worldwide. This was exacerbated by the A.I. she worked on (D). I further think that Deconstruct Me, if it ever existed, came about well after the world was already falling apart (kind of like looters after a huricane) and they made a convenient scapegoat since it would be hard to pin every problem on a single girl. If we combine the natural disasters with the computer disasters, the world falls apart.

Oh man, I missed such fun things :>
So this is most definitely fun, huh? Kat and Bandit are on a quiet ‘I know that you know’ level (unless I’m mistaken), poking that balance will be scary for both of them.

At least the spy programmer will go to a City, good job Jake <3

Also, their plan is utterly ridiculous, and thankfully works as an explanation for what the Virus is doing -_-

honestly I think her father was the (to what extant there was on ) villain and shifted blame onto her. while she was trying to save her mother something happend that she “won” that accidently killed her mother which is what she wants to be good because of (course I also wonder if jane is actually the not dead mother)

First, I do think there was a scene where we saw Kat blowing up the hospital while laughing – that’s what bothers Jake/Bandit the most. And I just thought of a good reason for it. Someone had somehow hacked *her*, and she was so surprised that she laughed, even as the hacker was blowing up the hospital where her mother was.

In other threads above:
> Kat is *definitely* naive about the way humans think. She had led a sheltered life, corrupted by her father’s indulgences. She thinks that “being a Hero” is all it would take for people to forgive her. Or, maybe, she is thinking ahead and just realizes that it’s a necessary first step, but we’ve seen nothing suggesting that.

> I don’t think that Kat needs to be liked by people, it’s just that she feels a duty to those who she’s made promises to. Like Mina and her family. As for Danni, it was all about her need to stay alive. After all, Danni did choose her as her partner and helped get her into the trials.

> On further reflection, there’s no way that a group of hackers could have done all the destruction that he’ve seen/heard about. At a certain point they wouldn’t have kept going even if they were all psychopaths. There probably was a hacker group called Deconstruct Me, but they were just a convenient scapegoat. The only thing that could have done this was “The Virus” i.e. D. This is why everybody is so freaked out about it. So somehow Kleya lost control of him and he “over did things as always” – whatever it was he was supposed to do.

There is something weird about Kat’s family. During flashbacks, we see her being held back (IIRC by her mother) as she’s yelling “they’ve taken daddy”.
But, I got the idea from somewhere that they were divorced. Which doesn’t go with the previous flashback. But the island they were on was specifically designed by her father to piss her mother off. So which is it?
Also, after the destruction, wasn’t that her father who was leading the group denouncing her with Jake by his side? Or is he the current president being help in stasis. Or Saisuke? Acch! We have too many possibilities for her father.

Also, after that flashback we see her mother telling Jake to hide her where noone can find her – but couldn’t he still be able to find her since he knows where he hid her?

BTW, anyone else find it significant that we still don’t know Kat/Kleya’s real name? Perhaps her name itself is a major spoiler. But what might that be: Pandora, Cassandra, Prince Diana (Yea, I’m stretching here). Anyone have any good ideas?

honestly her real name is kinda like The Doctors real name. it really isn’t important because it is the name you know her under that is where the important stuff is hapeening

Not A Villain Webcomic

Webcomic of a semi- reformed hacker trying to redeem herself in a post- apocalyptic world she may have created.

‘Not A Villain’ Webcomic – Page 592