Cecil really looked at Dupli-Kate-an actual one-woman army with perfect coordination between clones-and thought, “Yeah, let’s just have her run in barehanded and hope for the best.”
Like… seriously? Her entire power is numbers. She can duplicate endlessly, and all her clones share the same mind. That’s perfect coordination, instant tactical updates, synchronized movement -basically everything real-world militaries spend billions trying to achieve with comms and training.
And what does she get? Not even a pistol. Not even a baton. Just vibes and hope.
And despite her powers, let’s not forget-her bodies are still just regular human bodies. She’s not bulletproof, not super strong. She dies just like anyone else. Which makes it extra insulting that they threw her barehanded at the Flaxan army, an alien force with actual weapons. And what happened when she fought the League of Lizards? She died like three times in 10 seconds because, again, no gear. No strategy. Just “run at them, Kate!”
You’d think someone at the Pentagon would realize, “Hey, maybe we should give our human drone army at least some tools to work with.”
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this is for questions with possible Watsonian answers, and this is honestly pushing Doylist response all day
so I got nothing sorry
I don’t think she can duplicate anything more than her tights (presumably Animorphs rules in effect.)
We don’t know she hasn’t been trained in multiple disciplines, the absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence. She might still suprise us with a sniper rifle.
Given neither her nor Paul use weapons, I would imagine their power doesnt copy anything more than basic clothes. It’s a magic curse, so it doesnt have to be fully consistent about what does and doesnt count.
How does each clone get the weapon? It’s a logistics problem in the end. You want an army? You better be ready to transport that army. So she goes in as a single and duplicates as needed. Really they need to get her on a training regime that aids in her duplicating speed. She has not been shown to be able to copy as fast as Paul so far. She needs to train that “muscle” more than get a weapon.
The weapons wouldn’t duplicate. Why use her at all when you could do a missile strike?