--==You are now chatting with: Handler #0137==--

"I think there are binding options that work faster, or allow remote influence, too? Dunno. Not a fan of shopping for bindings."

She taps a message into the chat.

Hi. Do you know why the Company needs duplicate captures?

They do not, strictly, *need* duplicate captures.  However, having multiple versions of a person available to them both increases their overall throughput for their bulk copying, and introduces both new personality vectors and potentially new powers into the process they use to make "custom orders".

It is also a behavioral incentive.

So unless a capture has a particularly unprecedented power expression or isn't in the catalog yet at all, it's not a significant advantage or change for them? I ask because there are rare cases — like All for One on MHA world variants — where there are not particularly better or safer or faster options than stamp-and-sell, because all the alternatives are going to get bunches of heroes killed or depopulate a city or something. And I really don't like the idea of participating in that, but it's sounding like the calculus might favor it in those rare cases.

Using the Stamp as a vector for targeted removals of near-'canonical' (insofar as a 'canon' exists) alternates will not generally have a significant impact on the Company's operations, no. Not at the scale at which the Company operates.  Such removals *can,* however, have significant impact on the scale at which *you* operate.

We would, obviously, prefer a multiverse where this was not the case, but such strategies can end up producing positive utility.

However, we advise that you contact us to confirm that your targets do *not* have any novel abilities, or secret load-bearing functions, before you sell them.  We have a better ability to determine this than you do.

Yeah I'm definitely not gonna pass up more eyes checking to make sure there aren't any secret traps or gotchas in a sale we're considering. Thanks.

And then she holds the phone over to Momo in case she wants to add anything or has comments on it.

"...What about weird mirror universe stuff where All Might is evil?  ...Kiyuko can't be evil because then she wouldn't be Kiyuko."

"I mean, yeah, Kiyuko doesn't come in 'evil', that's just ridiculous. She's Kiyuko Midoriya, it's absurd to think of her being anything other than a cinnamon roll of determination on par with me. What's your worry about an evil All Might, though? That he might be hard to deal with, or that he might be unprecedented and change things for the Company somehow?"

"That - evil All Mights are much more likely to be prospective Company assets?  I think."

"Fair. I'll ask."

Random hypothetical: evil mirror-universe All Mights?

It is unlikely that an evil All Might will provide true novelty as far as the Company is concerned.  This *may* vary depending on who is roleswapped, and how that is expressed, but that is unlikely.

Thanks. Good to know.

"Well. We learned a thing?"

It is my duty, though the thanks are appreciated.

"So we did."

"Got any other questions while we've got a handler on the line?"

"...It seems exceedingly unlikely.  And we have the soft evidence that the Company thinks my Kyoka exists.  But I need to ask if I'm - if I was made."

Okay it is clearly Hugging Momo Hours now.

She'll type with her hands behind Momo's back while hugging her fiercely.

Can you confirm whether our Companion, Momo Yaoyorozu, corresponds to an actually-extant original Momo from an actually-extant MHAverse, or was reverse-constructed to match us?

She's as real as anyone and anything can be. We did *nudge* the randomizer, but that's all we *could* do; the Company pays a *lot* of attention to custom work.

So basically y'all weighted the selection of *which* Momo was selected to copy to make sure we'd match well on the quest to tear down the multiversal jerks, but otherwise she's a faithful-to-source copy of a Momo that actually happened in a particular universe?

Yes.

Thank you. She was having concerns.

Okay. Phone away, intensify the Momo hugging.

"Yeah, confirmed. Picking you rather than a different Momo was weighted, but you're an exact match for an original out there, no custom tweaks or built-to-match or anything."