Hero Commission, huh. The Protectorate - which is kind of our equivalent? They fell apart because their deep rooted corruption was exposed for the whole world to see.
[She realizes that she shouldn't share much more. Krouse's whole lie relies on him idolizing those people. Their tenuous connection hasn't been revealed yet, but it's only a matter of time.]
They ended up rebranding, incorporating a few of the villains into their ranks. [Other than Skitter, that was all a lot later. Valkyrie, Bonesaw. She was never a villain, but they included her too despite her prison sentence.]
They were a problem. They used to wipe out entire towns, take heroes and villains alike and emotionally break them until they could bring them into their ranks, kill thousands of people at a time (they did this in my city actually). A lot of the major hero organizations gave up on fighting them because the death toll on our side was too high and they always came back and retaliated for any victory we got.
[We. By the time she was actually fighting them she'd already lost any right to call herself a "hero." Still, it was the Slaughterhouse Nine that nearly killed Victoria. That forced her to break her rules. She can't pretend like she wasn't responsible for the rest, but there's a small]
Almost all of them are dead now though. Only one survived and she's reformed. [She almost writes 'almost' or 'seemingly' but... she of all people knows that Riley's intentions are sincere.]
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[She realizes that she shouldn't share much more. Krouse's whole lie relies on him idolizing those people. Their tenuous connection hasn't been revealed yet, but it's only a matter of time.]
They ended up rebranding, incorporating a few of the villains into their ranks. [Other than Skitter, that was all a lot later. Valkyrie, Bonesaw. She was never a villain, but they included her too despite her prison sentence.]
They were a problem. They used to wipe out entire towns, take heroes and villains alike and emotionally break them until they could bring them into their ranks, kill thousands of people at a time (they did this in my city actually). A lot of the major hero organizations gave up on fighting them because the death toll on our side was too high and they always came back and retaliated for any victory we got.
[We. By the time she was actually fighting them she'd already lost any right to call herself a "hero." Still, it was the Slaughterhouse Nine that nearly killed Victoria. That forced her to break her rules. She can't pretend like she wasn't responsible for the rest, but there's a small]
Almost all of them are dead now though. Only one survived and she's reformed. [She almost writes 'almost' or 'seemingly' but... she of all people knows that Riley's intentions are sincere.]