For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. For someone that's disabled, it's a gigantic part of your life every day. "As far as first impressions go, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence." "She was one of the original twenty-eight. He said, "Then I guess we're done here. "Alright, fine." There's chronic pain/illnesses, developmental disabilities like ASD, specific learning disabilities, mental illness, personality disorders, sleep disorders, and various genetic disorders. "Is that fact relevant to a tour of your city?" Well, maybe it is more to the tune of a Slaanesh Horde of Chaos Marines. 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. He glanced at Taylor and saw her looking down at her sundae, but her eyes were distant. She stood resolutely against the last light of the sun, her shadow stretching out towards him. Will give some more commentary when I get through the other chapters. Not the most impressive powers, granted, but powers none the less. as well as While in her Breaker state, time is stopped for everything but herself. If she's persistently missing functionality, she'll pretty much always have some Daredevil-esque powers-related way of at least partially compensating for it. I noticed that Stormtigers defensive blast earlier had knocked some of my hair loose, and it hung down out of the thick hood. Methuselah (original vampire alt!power) has some hints of it but might not quite fit. They wore comically over-sized hard hats and were all as thin as the girl leading Weld, but they worked together in perfect unison. Queen of Owls on QQ. her powers get stronger the greater the number of people who fear her and the deeper fear they feel, An umbrella and a bowling ball in a sling bag, looking directly into the cameras she is being watched through. "My apologies, Taylor. Taylor goes to Harry Potter, and solves the saga in two years. He had overstepped his bounds. "All of them." I suppose youre the Protectorates representative? She said more than she asked. It looked like a shipping container, although he was told the furnishing on the inside was a little nicer than that. Nonetheless I'm the one who Protectorate chose as their representative.". "I'm not what most people expect." No white noise to soothe him. It's a bit complicated to explain but it's pretty good Thinker fic imo. LORD DOOM IS MERCIFUL. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Contessa makes it clear to him with a single. Weld sat. The first time that Taylor uses her power, which is Path To Victory, an unstoppable universe-computing power capable of altering the destiny of the planet, is to get cookies. The hours I was in there had messed with my eyes and the last few days everything had gone from murky to just a mess of grays where any sort of light was painful. Info@splgroup.co.in Info@splgroup.co.in "Are you already aware of my rules?". While your feet are stompin'. Alea Iacta Est - Dinah and Taylor shard swap. The fic ends with Taylor asking Contessa if her plans were worth it, while Contessa answers she does not know. Clearly, the Queen Administrator is too powerful. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. ", "And so we forget about everything else?" A Corpse in the Graveyard [Worm][CYOA v6][OC][AU][Canon Divergence], Last Knight on Earth Bet [Post-GM][Ward][Canon Divergence]. Off in the distance, a crane operated at the side of a skyscraper, the sun at its back. Eventually, it's revealed that her nickname is "Tessa," which is short for. Privacy Policy. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. Weld looked up at the sky, tinged red and orange, marked by the distant plumes of planes. He looked up and he saw Taylor watching him, her brow knitted together. Press J to jump to the feed. "We're working to rebuild some of the more important buildings damaged during the initial fighting." the Empire steadily pushes the ABB back, until suddenly the ABB ambushes them with an assortment of Bakuda's exotic bombs, slaughtering many of the Empire capes and forcing a retreat. This power blocks her from using her own eyes, and if nobody is currently looking at her she is blind. The same wide mouth, the same thin figure even the same curly brown hair. What I wouldn't give to have seen Miss Militias' face that second between 'Wait where'd they go? ' I don't know where to begin. Taylor can see through her own eyes when in the ghost world. ), Chapter 2.10's Among Us meme was just a joke, stop reading so much into it lol, Alert: Stop talking about whether you feel the new HP should be bought or not, Clarification made in a comment after 1.5, Thinker power activation conditions discussion, decent-sized spoiler revealed later (probably 1.8 or such), Implied in 1.1, but still a decent-sized spoiler for later, Not a spoiler, a visualization aid for the Miss Militia scene. Very NSFW. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LordDoom. She said with only a hint of a sigh. Truth or Dare by Discreet (1 chapter, 1.2k words, one-shot) Alec/Taylor Hebert. Weld asked, "Forget all the innocent people of Brockton Bay? A PHO fic. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. Taylor hesitantly asks. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Very intense. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. It was huge, heavy and plastic, but it came complete with a headrest and armrests and that was more than Weld ever got. From up here, the city looked almost normal. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. "I haven't, I swear. 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. 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. 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's literally almost out the door before she wakes up and realizes what's going on. "Is that really what you believe?" She leaned forward, her hand to her chest again, "But he's here. They stared at one another for a long moment, their silence tempered by the staccato of helicopters in the distance. Weld closed the file and focused on the thrum of the helicopter's blades. She stood and turned to look at the sunset, her back to him. A much better version in my opinion, this one actually has things happening in it! Im happy to follow thi for as long as you want to write it. 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. "To be perfectly honest, Weld. 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. He was fairly sure she was the same one that he had met at the hut, but the reality was she could have easily swapped places with any of her doppelgangers when he hadn't been looking. 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. There are a few pact Alt!powers out ther you might want to check out. JavaScript is disabled. Fanfic authors need to have the words "chuckle" and "smirk" taken away from them. in exiled the prosthetic was built by leet. He was a way for Taylor to escape, to be someone else for a little while, a person that had none of her problems or issues. Chapter 4, "Remember," Piggot said, "Don't call her Narcissa.". Chapter 1 Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 40 As it was, Weld was walking in blind. Taylor looked up at Weld, her voice harder, "If I said no, then how pointless would that be? When are you gonna update the rewrite version of that. Taylor vs Hookwolf. Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. A brief history prior to trigger event, combat logs for the first encounter, medical records, and almost inexplicably a school report card. Or maybe you've got something big planned for Taylor to step up with. Last edited: Nov 17, 2018. Piggot handed the file to Weld and he took it. "Penny for your thoughts? That," Piggot pointed at the folder, "is all the information we could gather on her with certainty that it wasn't tampered with.". "Not a very fair question, is it?" --it does have a different title, so yes. "This and no weapons to speak of." and crudest form of cataract surgery. Instead of controlling bugs, she's a Tinker who can make tiny drones. Looking for Taylor meets Hookwolf at the gym. I haven't read Hindsight Bias, but Taylor has the ability to frequently precog a few seconds into the future. Burn just started, but has a psychic Taylor, If you count PtV, there's always Path to Munchies. The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. Chapter 3 Weld said, not looking away from the hut. As I hit refresh I get a second chapter. In fact if there was, Weld suspected that would have just slowed down production. 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). But before she can make enough to be a serious hero, she'll need some starting capital, and that's much easier to do as a villain TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This is an alt-power Taylor in the Worm* verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. What if Taylor got a different shard, one accidentally broken when Eden collided with Abbadon and received the Path shard? Nearly. 43 Kudos: 125 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 2730 From the perspective of anyone else, I materialized in my room with a gasp. At about the time Taylor triggered, she collapsed to the ground - one fact that's known about Trigger Events is that they knock out every Parahuman in the immediate vicinity for a short time. But I have to agree that is was great. Taylors primary, strongest power is a Breaker state that she can only enter when not observed. "That's not what I meant.". "Phones." Besides himself, of course, but that was better left unsaid. 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. Afraid enough that they won't just attack when they think they can get away with it. Now she must learn to be independent, both as a blind person in her civilian life and as an 'independent hero' in her cape life. I only had another week left before I was supposed to go back to school. "I can't reveal all the details, of course, but we've already secured a few contracts." Taylor is correct that she is a grab-bag cape. "Good, then do you have any recording equipment or weapons to surrender?" Dad was standing over me. She didn't. Rather than running through someone multiple times, she should stand inside them and spin in circles, that'll really mess them up. Hopefully, but not necessarily. There it was. Weld filled in. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. I can see Taylor in some sort of spy or support role if she makes the right team. Go Gently by Shana the Short (23 chapters, 74k words, last updated: 21st Apr, 2015) Reign by TP Knight (1 chapter, 2.1k words, one-shot) It was hard to make that connection seeing a dozen of the girls working to repair a building. I know I can. Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. 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. 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. Read that one already. Weld leaned back, setting the file down. It ramps up fast well into Peggy Sue territory on the crackish side --where I am most cofortable. The writing is flickery, like a florescent bulb with an iffy ballast. Still the folder seemed remarkably thin for what the media was calling "the next Nilbog. Taylor's mouth stretched into a thin, wide line. Mauling Snarks technically has her with a Trump power, but I feel like she uses it to function more as a Thinker 75% of the time. "There are entrepreneurs out there who understand the practicality of a workforce that can perfectly coordinate.". Piggot's frown deepened, the wrinkles in her brow tightening even while the skin under her eyes and cheeks seemed to sag. Camera Shy, where she's blind, with a power that lets her see through others' eyes when she's in their view. Work Search: People needed time to rest, to center, to refocus. For y'all trying to think of fics, remember disability isn't just amputees, paralysis, or being HoH/blind. Breeding Worm HellKing666. 5.7 Rondo You're a real tough cookie With a long history Of ruining the hope like whats in me 1.1 Adagio: A slow passage to introduce the setting. Or properly structured sentences, I dunno. Going to sleep now. Seems like were going to get another awesome story from ScottotheUnwise, nice! He had been given a disturbing amount of leeway as far as this meeting went. "I'll trust that holds true. "Right." Taylor reassured him, "I want to contribute. Doing factory work while others", His guide cut him off. Taylor had spent a lot of time and effort grilling her parents about it, and had come to the conclusion that villains operated exactlyas an outlaw did. Taylor is aptly named Monster. She can process numerous separate perspectives on herself without issue. I'll pass your proposal to the Protectorate. ], Triumph's First Encounter [could be canon? Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. I was blind. Percussive AOE healing? The band kids will get Brute ratings just from their training. 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. Special Edition - Taylor is a powerful precog. If he stood in it long enough, he might even feel warm. I was just surprised. Her attempt to use her power to get in shape backfires slightly, as it puppets her body. The only thing separating Brockton Bay from the rest of the world. Contessa was using Taylor's trigger to remove her own restrictions and arrange the defeat of some of the world's worst villains. He hasn't even died. Looks pretty interesting so far. 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. Using this ability rapidly tires her. In all likelihood, her job was next. She let out a long breath, her expression settling on a more neutral one. Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. Hopefully, with the Protectorate.". When all the gangs are invited to Somer's Rock to discuss the ongoing gang war, "For the record, we did invite the ABB. Why? And a title! You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again. It's not exactly Thinker power (?) 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. Truthfully, I want them afraid of me. Please consider turning it on! Ah I spoke too soon. 14 Zusatz. Each time I went through him, the smear effect became more pronounced and I grew more tired.