...Right so, honestly, no.
Like, you're dropping 90% of the context. The baby was in the hands of "Joker Knock Off" who includes in his "Joker Knock Off Repertoire" "Breaking people into villains", and pretty much literally everyone agreed that Grey Boy Loops were "fate worse than death by a lot" territory. Taking over the crime world was to save the mayor's niece who was A. The second most OP human precog in the setting(the most OP managed to move through a cloud of bugs without disturbing a single one, sooo), and B. Taylor was partly at fault for the girl getting kidnapped to become a drug addicted pet oracle who was probably also raped. AS for the emergency relief stuff, it's worth noting that A. She was hardly the only one doing that, and B. the city was genuinely in bad enough shape that relief workers straight up couldn't get the stuff everywhere it was needed, and part of that included the people Taylor had taken responsibility for. Her "lopsided demands" were literally "you don't mess with my friends and let me be actually useful" which... well. Also, there's an interesting question of just how much room to bargain the government actually had at that point, and not just because the Undersiders were arguably the strongest cape group in the country at the time(seriously, for all that they didn't really like the flaunt it, they'd started at "very strong" and gotten much much stronger by this point), but also because the government had pretty comprehensively fucked up in several major and public ways and, like, much of the city straight up trusted Taylor more than them at this point anyway.
Gessellschaft was A. Literally Nazis, and B. Deserting in a fight for ALL THE EARTHS doesn't actually get you anything.
The Undersiders had the most power in Brockton Bay by the end, but given their competition for "worst" included "Forcibly Addicting You to Our Product" Merchants, "Literal Nazi's" Empire 88, and "Asian Nazi's lead by either Rage Dragon of the opinion that fear is the best governing tool or 'Sticks a Bomb in your head and calls it recruitment' Bakuda" Azn Bad Boys... Yeah no, the Undersiders at their worst don't even rate.
Like, Taylor is the actual "Making Hard Decisions" girl, not "Hard Woman making Hard Decisions" and definitely not doing it "While Hard", she doesn't like that she felt she had to make those decisions, she'd make them again with the same knowledge but she'd rather not need to.
And like, let's not ignore that her starting point is "Literally every authority has directly failed to do their job in relation to me at every opportunity".
EDIT: also also
there's this
To be clear, there's a lot of stuff that comes off as fairly reasonable from the perspective of an incredibly emotionally abused fifteen to sixteen year old, in the sense that it's entirely logical that someone Taylor's age, in her situation, would believe that, say, the powers that be are all...
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