Editing The Menagerie: The Legacy (section)

=Backstory=

''When did you officially become a part of your legacy?''

Augustus had been shortlisted and that's how he picked up on the clues that Silence had put out there. He thought he was solving riddles that would bring him to something interesting, and it did. Silence's Shadow-Self was ready to spawn, and Augustus proved worthy enough. The bonding was about a year ago, but the true entrance into the legacy was a few months ago when Silence accepted Whisper's ''nom de l'ombre'' and entered it into the records of the legacy and allowed him to pursue his own course towards justice.

''What's the greatest accomplishment of your legacy?''

The greatest accomplishment of Justice's Shadow had to do with stopping an attempted coup in the UK conducted by a group of absolute shitbags (who may or may not be a persistent conspiracy). In Halcyon City, Emptiness and Silence took down a conspiracy to mass produce super powered criminals via stolen alien technology. Of course they fail to mention that they recognize the technology via their shadow-selves, which are highly motivated to purge and suppress said technology.

''How does the public perceive your legacy?''

The public is mixed on the legacy. There's something sinister and unsettling about them, and the cultivated attitude of "smarter than you could ever be" is pretty insufferable. On the other hand, they regularly take out regular corruption that harms the average person. They're more popular with the regular people than authorities.

''How does your legacy tie into your reasons for being a hero?''

Part of the selection and training is framing being a hero as the ultimate puzzle and challenge, and the only way to safely direct the desires of the Shadow-Self. Augustus followed the puzzles and clues hoping for some sort of government internship or the like. The legacy has redirected him towards heroics, and he definitely agrees about keeping the Shadow-Self in check. It has some disturbing requests after all.

''Why do you care about the team?''

Despite the tendency for Justice's Shadow to run solo, besides meetings with one another, Augustus thinks this is what makes them all super creepy and weird and figures he should get some outside perspectives on being a hero.

''All things considered, we did well and impressed an established hero. Who was it?''

We definitely impressed the Haunt. Something about shaking things up or meeting with his secret expectations, he wasn't clear but he was sincere in how impressed he was.