Jenny and Ted discuss Shell 4.x (bonus).

Episode Notes:

• Ted is wily!
• As is Wildbow. Way to hide the ball, Wildbow.
• Boo! There’s racism inside this feminism!
• Maybe Kayden is tragic but not sympathetic?
• She’s also seemingly very ineffective when not fighting
• Kayden and Aster as symbols
• Purity, blankness, and whiteness
• Is Theo too “pure”? Or is he lacking “manliness”?
• Empire Eighty Eight sounds like working at Amazon
• I don’t really have a quippy line about this, but we try to grapple with how 2011 supervillain Nazis feel different from the 2025 mundane ones
• Does Kayden want to change? Or even want to want to change?
• Oops we compared Purity to Tattletale
• If we can think Kayden's a hero for three-quarters of the chapter, what does that say about heroes?
• Purity and Bakuda are both changing the odds for the upcoming gang war
• This is an interlude more like what Jenny was expecting
• Jenny reads the first five words of the next chapter
• Does the dog die??

Links:

• https://parahumans.wordpress.com/category/stories-arcs-1-10/arc-4-shell/4-x-bonus-interlude/
• https://www.patreon.com/Wildbow