Cannot overstate how good Hunter is. Weld stared at the hut. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. It was tiny from where he stood. Grant us eyes. There was surprisingly little difference between a drone and a missile; her power seemed to have zero issues with expendable use-once drones controlled from miles away. Taylor handed the phone back to Weld and he pocketed it. ", "I'd rather that not happen." Chapter 2 Weld asked. They sat on a veranda at the top of a hill overlooking the city, Taylor savoring a sundae, Weld admiring the sunset. She looked decidedly normal. She didnt rise to meet him and eyed his hand, his chrome skin glowing dimly with the sheen of the light. Piggot handed the file to Weld and he took it. Not only is picking on a blind girl too petty even for the Trio, not only has having to learn to care for a blind daughter helped her dad fight through the worst of his depression at losing his wife, but she even got superpowers out of the whole ordeal! Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Taylor discovers that she can also smear the smear (e.g., smearing something up, then smearing the smear itself to the right), resulting in the object following the path of the smear (up then right), if the object is light enough. She stood resolutely against the last light of the sun, her shadow stretching out towards him. However, her sight is by no means normal. Still, her advice had been sound and Weld used the ambient white noise to clear his thoughts. Awww, thank you. Taylor spoke overly formal, but there was a tension there. Special Edition - Taylor is a powerful precog. But I have to agree that is was great. My fic https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/worm-nine-lives-of-the-calico-new-litter-lucky-seven-complete.41492/ where Taylor starts out with spheres of perception that she begins to affect reality as well. The Breaker power is pickier, and though this sounds overly verbose I think the best way to describe it is: If whatever medium either a human or human-analogue is using to perceive visual input has directly bounced off an object, that object cannot be taken into the ghost world. "I'll trust that holds true. Not as crazy broken as blanket but seriously op. Time lapsed: 30 seconds. Taylor came around the table until she stood to the side of Weld. She's a bitter little coffee bean of a tinker as a result. . Weld stepped inside the hut and found her already there. She stood and turned to look at the sunset, her back to him. "Good, then do you have any recording equipment or weapons to surrender?" Even though the bullying didn't escalate to the locker incident, Taylor Hebert still triggered with powers. "If you'll follow me, we'll give you a more thorough inspection on my side of the line.". And a disabled unpowered Taylor cannot really hold a fic bigger than a one-shot. She gestured for him to walk. He's so distinctly not human, it's interesting to see how normal things that we take for granted fail to apply to him. I'm having trouble figuring out how this would mesh with the overall threat of Worm, so maybe this will be a short story in the universe? Or properly structured sentences, I dunno. and our Thankfully for her, she's gotten quite adept at hiding the bodies. "We carry the memories of our old selves. Was interesting cause it went with the concept and I wanna give it a reread but can't remember what the rest of the fic was about. Since Taylor and Contessa triggered simultaneously and nearby, Taylor's bud tried to ping off Contessa and Contessa's shard tried to ping off Taylor, causing the Shard to think it was somehow pinging itself and go into a feedback loop until it disabled the restrictions in order to figure out what had happened and fix it. Taylor can see through her own eyes when in the ghost world. I want things like Alma Wade!Taylor or Grudge or The Ring!Taylor or Dominion!Taylor. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. Taylor Hebert triggers with a rather strange ability, and this causes the domino effect across the events of Brockton Bay, where creatures of sexual lust and living make their home, and Taylor becomes the Breeder taking care of them. 40 the restrictions that the Entity Eden put on Contessa's Path to Victory power made her completely unable to model or plan for the Entities, the Endbringers or their plan, but. She doesn't officially join the group, but she works with them extensively and exclusively. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Depending on what he said or did, the Protectorate and the US army were fully willing to just bomb the whole region to dust and be done with it. Eventually, it's revealed that her nickname is "Tessa," which is short for. Taylor can repeatedly move through objects in the same direction to smear them more and more for greater push force when time resumes. This is an alt-power Taylor in the Worm* verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. "Is that fact relevant to a tour of your city?" 1315 west grand parkway s 101b katy tx 77494 amazon t shirt design custom ink smartthings hub change wifi password. ", "And so we forget about everything else?" No shadows; the sinks and toilet paper rolls almost looked two-dimensional due to that lack. 1.3 Adagio Three Capes a Caping, Two Good Friends, One Majorette and a New Face is Meeting Our T. Combat Ready Piggot I want to see how this plays out. She realizes that she can use it to get into shape, and determines that she can use it as a personal trainer so she doesn't get fat eating all the things her power says she should eat. A Cauldron fic. Set in the center of one the bridges leading into Brockton Bay - one of the few still standing. --it does have a different title, so yes. What happens when, for the first time in the history of the universe, there's a shard that is actually trying to help? This is interesting to keep watch though my paranoia and cynicism tells me that the doctor doe s tell the prt about taylor for her own good and the doctor patient confidentiality is just to keep Taylor from panicking and doing something stupid till the prt can form a strategy. ], Triumph's First Encounter [could be canon? to see how many boys still checked me out. Further, Taylor is unable to locate Ms. Romano in the wake of the Locker, when she went missing, even with PtV, which a vanishingly small number of beings can do (but includes Eidolon, the Endbringers, and Scion). "I know they're afraid of me. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Sure enough the Taylors at the assembly line worked like clockwork. Now this is a lovely day already. He hasn't gone. The helicopter wasn't the best place to read, but Weld's grip on the paper was tight and he started to skim through it. You took Brockton Bay over in four weeks and then you just stopped at the city limits. Her attempt to use her power to get in shape backfires slightly, as it puppets her body. The difference was that these Amazons weren't quite as beautiful as the myths told of. "This and no weapons to speak of." Besides himself, of course, but that was better left unsaid. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. "This and no weapons to speak of." Glowworm is a Worm fanfic written by redshirt. Last chance for Weld to back out. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Taylor tinkers up drones, pushing New Wave back into the fray. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Day of the Tentacle, where she's a multiple amputee and tinkers up brain-controlled prosthetics. Has a feeling of the Weeping Angels from Dr. Who. Taylor turned on her heel and headed for the door on her end of the hut. Contessa was using Taylor's trigger to remove her own restrictions and arrange the defeat of some of the world's worst villains. . Never seen stranger things but this is pretty horrifying. Camera Shys Taylor is a grab-bag cape whose primary ability is a strange Breaker state. Taylor is aptly named Monster. this is accompanied by static noise. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". In fact, they all looked identical. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! What if Taylor got a different shard, one accidentally broken when Eden collided with Abbadon and received the Path shard? Coil manages to kidnap Dinah and plots how to use her to finally defeat Lord Doom not knowing that Lord Doom is about to capture him in both timelines. Thoughts on solutions? I love this authors work. Work Search: Press J to jump to the feed. 1.3 Adagio Three Capes a Caping, Two Good Friends, One Majorette and a New Face is Meeting Our T. You must log in or register to reply here. She didn't. and crudest form of cataract surgery. Tried searching for it and got nothing. When she re-enters the normal world, anything smeared will be pushed along the direction of the smear. All Taylor had to do was touch the right person and every Taylor would have knowledge of how to get into the Protectorate database. ", Weld's eyes widened and he turned to look at her. Weld sank in his seat. Anyways, thinking on how a society of totally like-minded individuals would work was pretty fun, though I didn't go into as much detail about it as I could have. Not primarily. "The tour is over. Scion and Eden were not mates, as much as they were a drug dealer and her bodyguard/best client - so she gets Blasto to make some weed and hands it to Scion. You are using an out of date browser. Weld nodded wordlessly, he focused on the rush of the river below. No white noise to soothe him. If Blackwell inexplicably picked up the stress-ball on her desk and lightly tossed it at my face, I probably wouldnt even reflexively blink until it hit me (much less dodge or catch the thing), that was how disassociating the outside perspective of myself was. Par for this fic. The old man notes that this is the first time anyone offered him the use of their umbrella, or kindness on such a level as her. "She was one of the original twenty-eight. Is it crack? And a title! Taylor frowned. He glanced at Taylor and saw her looking down at her sundae, but her eyes were distant. Weld said, not looking away from the hut. Anything not directly observed by a sapient being appears to be perfectly evenly lit, regardless of real-world lighting conditions. And if so, is there a difference in the power draw between active and passive participants? Bakuda told us no, but in less polite terms. First let me say that I really like this. Taylor performed a "couching," which is the oldest (dating from 2000 B.C.) "A Wand for Skitter", on Fanfiction.net. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Note that while she cannot enter the ghost realm if observed, she can "prime" herself to enter that state, such that she will then go ghost if unobserved for even a microsecond. XXX Taylor sighed as she locked up the store. Taylor reassured him, "I want to contribute. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/worm-nine-lives-of-the-calico-new-litter-lucky-seven-complete.41492/. In one of her "how-to-defeat-Kaiser" paths, Taylor mentions that propelling manhole covers leads to Alabaster becoming a wreck whenever he hears the, When Taylor does a Path about how to register in the PRT, she asks for tea and is given something that is. Her dad had taken the incredibly intelligent and rational route of coping with this by denying his teenage daughter in Brockton Bay a cell phone for her safety. Taylor and Contessa's last conversation in the fic has Taylor asking Contessa if all her actions were worth it. Weld asked. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gnawing-gorgon-worm-stranger-things.872206/. Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. Weld added quickly, "Amazed, even. The power has too many nitpicks and conditions. Taylor can be insane as well. There are a few pact Alt!powers out ther you might want to check out. Chapter 4, "Remember," Piggot said, "Don't call her Narcissa.". Taylor can be insane as well. Please consider turning it on! Taylor was in much the same way; her mom had died in a car accident because she had been texting and driving about a year before I met her. Accelerator/Taylor Hebert. Weld was also a really fun character to use as the POV. ", Weld nearly scoffed. Consider it watched. Definitely a strong mover power, but a thinker primary. No part too large or too small. Confirmed, power that seems tailored to disrupting cameras so that she can use her main power actually needed. Got through the rest of the posted material and I just love this to bits. Not primarily. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. None of them have, not really.". Taylor gave a hard look to Weld, "A real one, make no mistake, but one meant as a warning. Specifically one where she is the barber. They would have to be. There was no foreman to speak of, no one to admonish or criticize her. ][references the PHO interlude], Camera Shy is an Alt-Power fic, not an AU fic, Delays due to unfortunate correlation between the story and real life, Reader Feedback Request (for those caught up to 3.1 only! Contessa is working behind the scenes recruiting the woman who would've been Bakuda to the Protectorate as Starburst, and using her gadgets to eliminate the Slaughterhouse Nine and Nilbog, all of which is made possible by the jailbreaking of Path to Victory, Taylor and Victoria bonding during their Boston roadtrip, Just before Taylor is attacked, she is seen checking her phone and starts running in Taylor's direction. Work Search: She was our first representative to the Protectorate just as I am now. It was huge, heavy and plastic, but it came complete with a headrest and armrests and that was more than Weld ever got. Dressed in slacks and a business shirt and jacket, coupled with the way she sat, she looked like she was sitting at a job interview. Taylor can see through her own eyes in her Breaker state, as her Thinker power causes her blindness and is disabled in Breaker form. Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. 741 guests My name is Taylor. She gestured for him to sit. Her first ability allows her to see through the eyes of any sapient being who has any part of her in their field of vision. The third-person view of myself still made my movements awkward, my responses slower than a sighted person, with my visual reflexes being basically nonexistent. If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Proceed", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). "And they're" Weld coughed, "You're all fine with this? There's chronic pain/illnesses, developmental disabilities like ASD, specific learning disabilities, mental illness, personality disorders, sleep disorders, and various genetic disorders. However, due to being somewhat high on painkillers when she figures it out, she believes she has a strange limit all plans she makes must in some way involve food. Taylor is incorporeal and unable to directly affect the world in her Breaker form. ", "Why do you suddenly want to work with the Protectorate? Of those three, Split recently completed while the other two are languishing in indefinite hiatus. Please inform your superiors of our proposal. Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. "We all do our part, Weld. Weld said tightly as he followed the worker Taylor's lead. Not the most impressive powers, granted, but powers none the less. Another concern is that the language might be repetitive, but theres only so many ways I can say I entered/exited ghost world/form/state or I can/cant see where someone is/isnt observing before I start having to re-use words haha. If you proceed you have agreed that you are willing to see such content. Taylor helps make cookies, but her power makes her make them right, so when Mrs. Abbotson takes the (many) cookies and baked goods to a bake sale, she rakes in $800. Or maybe you've got something big planned for Taylor to step up with. As I hit refresh I get a second chapter. Methuselah (original vampire alt!power) has some hints of it but might not quite fit. The April Fools update ends with Amy, Tattletale and Contessa sharing a bottle of alcohol over how, set off the plan to destroy Ellisburg and Nilbog, now that she and Taylor had both Triggered with the result of jailbreaking Path to Victory, Contessa's role at Winslow is done. "I mean, I have to say yes, don't I?" I. "There are entrepreneurs out there who understand the practicality of a workforce that can perfectly coordinate.". The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. Once the Protectorate learned of this they'd be more afraid than ever. When Taylors incorporeal form passes through time-locked objects, they appear to smear, like someone smudged a painting. Taylor scowled. Her Shaker power passively causes static to appear for any cameras viewing her when she comes. She had the look of a woman who had gone too long without sleep and had aged years in weeks. After the locker she ends up sharing a recovery room with one Colin Wallis, injured in his CID, and is one of my favourite Armsmasters. Hopefully, with the Protectorate.". As it was, Weld was walking in blind. ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. If she is not being observed by anyone, she is blind. Spoiler: Malkavians In Brief Omakes: Rolyat's Visit by SirWill A Father's Pride by Seclorum The therapist had encouraged him to focus on his breathing before belatedly realizing he couldn't - Weld didn't breathe. My story Chimera has Taylor with Grand Admiral Thrawn's memories which makes her a thinker. Clearly, the Queen Administrator is too powerful. Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. And if I have to read "Then I went ghost" one more time I swear to GoD someone's getting hurt. I'll pass your proposal to the Protectorate. She leaned forward, her hand to her chest again, "But he's here. Dad was standing over me. "Yeah. He proceeds to ride Hookwolf like a bronco, humiliating him and making him completely miss the fact that the Undersiders are looting everything not nailed down. 3. ". Will give some more commentary when I get through the other chapters. For someone that's disabled, it's a gigantic part of your life every day. Floating through him once didnt seem thorough enough, so I passed through him twice more, circling around for each smear to keep them all going in the same direction; backwards and down, towards the ground. and 'RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?'. It makes sense, since shards want their hosts to be active out and about, getting into conflict and such. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/taylor-and-the-unseelie-court-worm-au.498094/, https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/unreality-worm.625972/. L0kiMotion 4 yr. ago Weld asked, "Forget all the innocent people of Brockton Bay? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/CameraShy. When all the gangs are invited to Somer's Rock to discuss the ongoing gang war, "For the record, we did invite the ABB. Taylor sees through the eyes of anyone that has any part of her in their field of vision. Here's a list of Worm isekais . Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Title says it all, it was a fic where Taylor met Brad, Melody and Stormtiger (forgot what his name was) at a gym masks off and formed a sort of friendship. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Blind due to injury and complications with being sent back. And just like her, I'll work the assembly line when I'm needed to.". Looking for Taylor meets Hookwolf at the gym. Shes just as broken as blanket but in a completely different way. Contessa makes it clear to him with a single. It ramps up fast well into Peggy Sue territory on the crackish side --where I am most cofortable. Intrepid, where she effectively has locked-in syndrome until Faultline arranges for a tinkered suit to compensate. Nearly. I only had another week left before I was supposed to go back to school. Ah I spoke too soon. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Since I was blind in my normal form and paper money all felt the same whether they were Washingtons or Benjamins, I had counted the money by going back and forth between my ghost world while hiding it. It's true that Danny Hebert can't sit here and admire this sunset with us." Taylor would prefer to work alongside the Protectorate, not against them.". Taylor came around the table until she stood to the side of Weld. Taylor is correct that she is a grab-bag cape. They'd perform crime upon crime upon crime, and then brag about how dangerous they were, even as they ran away from any law-enforcement that might stand a chance at bringing them in. Why hold back the sleeper cells? Due to Contessa essentially using Taylor's Trigger as a way to jailbreak her own Shard, the two start getting overlap and minor nudges from each other. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. She sat across from him at a plastic fold-out table, her hands folded together primly in front of her. Lots of tiny drones. This would have been a bit easier if only certain new villains hadn't cropped up around the same time whose powers seem suspiciously correlated with her own. Is it different from my other fics? Lots of tiny drones. He had overstepped his bounds. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Weld wondered if she was going to leap and tackle him. He said, "Then I guess we're done here. Taylor has a minor electronic disruption aura, such that she can make lights flicker or devices lose power for fractions of seconds. I guess I'm still trying to wrap my head around it at all. TruckerMan. The Protectorate hadn't mentioned that in the file. Coil gets dealt with in such a way that, ultimately, he's curled up into a fetal position, sobbing into a box of muffins on Director Piggot's floor, mind totally snapped. Hmm I'm interested to see where you're going with this lot of different things you could do. Read that one already. For more information, please see our Piggot looked out the window of the helicopter, watching the landscape blur past them. It also has the effect of putting Leet in reach of Contessa's machinations, reducing her ultimate plan by several steps. Taylor the Shopkeeper Summary: In a world without Endbringers, Taylor just wanted to run her store in peace. Different circumstances cause Taylor to gain different powers and left her blinded in the aftermath. She cannot reenter the normal world in any location which is being directly observed by a sapient being, though she can move. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Which, as anyone keeping up with the trigger mechanics explained in Glowworm and expounded upon in Ward knows, implies she was part of a multi-trigger. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Taylor's power is like the Cenobites, Amara from F.E.A.R. She would have to leave the armor behind, however, and similarly could not exit her Breaker state in full view just because she herself is obscured; objects affected by her Breaker power are beholden to the same rules she is. Twenty feet away lay an anthill. Queen of Owls reminds me of the Drukhari from 40K. People needed time to rest, to center, to refocus. as well as El Ahrairah - Power anaylsis. Call my name and save me from the dark (wake me up), 6.0 Crescendo Say, say, say what you want. A brief history prior to trigger event, combat logs for the first encounter, medical records, and almost inexplicably a school report card. "We're on schedule to get the city back in working order in a matter of weeks. He hasn't even died. Very intense. Have a chappie. Very horror movie-like. If she really pushes this power, she can blow out light bulbs, but that's the strongest effect she's managed to generate. We understand better than anyone else their thoughts and feelings.". ", Piggot closed her eyes and she relaxed all at once, practically sagging in the seat as she sighed. Skein is unfortunately dead, but I'd consider what's there probably the best use of a Thinker power I can think of in fanfic. "Phones." There was nothing for Weld to focus on. "What do you mean by 'working order'? It was easy to take Piggot's stand-offishness as hostility, but the reality was that this was a woman who had just lost everything. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. Life just didn't ever seem to turn out how she'd imagined it would. Press J to jump to the feed. The way the lines of sight were described was really good, I could constantly vision what was happening with them, so massive props for that. Is it different from my other fics? Revenant.

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