"Phones." Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. It would have been so much easier to do that. ", "A threat." JavaScript is disabled. Going to sleep now. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. He had been given a disturbing amount of leeway as far as this meeting went. I know I can. "I suppose that's true." The fic ends with Taylor asking Contessa if her plans were worth it, while Contessa answers she does not know. Thoughts on solutions? I mean I'm impressed." Truth or Dare by Discreet (1 chapter, 1.2k words, one-shot) Alec/Taylor Hebert. He hasn't even died. No shading, no different lighting to give things nuances to their colors; I. Burn just started, but has a psychic Taylor, If you count PtV, there's always Path to Munchies. When Taylors incorporeal form passes through time-locked objects, they appear to smear, like someone smudged a painting. 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. Grant us eyes. 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. Centipede (Tokyo Ghoul alt!power, dead), maybe. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Not generic the way people in magazine ads looked, but the sort of ordinary youd see on the bus. Two beetles crawled on a drunk man in what was probably the emergency room, off in the distance. Instead of controlling bugs, she's a Tinker who can make tiny drones. BDSM Soft Dom for the most part Trauma Language: English Words: 23,335 Chapters: 2 /? Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. 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. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". She was probably feeling the pressure from the higher-ups. Is it crack? Taylor's mouth stretched into a thin, wide line. and Samara from the Ring got together in Silent Hill and decided to mix and match powers to grant Taylor. Now this is a lovely day already. This is an alt-power Taylor in the Worm* verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again. Hunter (Bloodborne cross, very spooky, very dark) and All Things Devoured (Dead Space necromorph alt!power, not quite as dark) by Unwelcome Storm, both in hiatus I think. ", "And so we forget about everything else?" Press J to jump to the feed. That's amazing! We will escort you to the bridge. 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. I was going to ask but the story answered, she, Wandering Eyes [non-canon][Kiss/Kill speculation], Loves me, Loves me not [non-canon][Kiss/Kill speculation], Canon Clockblocker meets Camera Shy Clockblocker [non-canon][crack! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. In fact, they all looked identical. Percussive AOE healing? Still the folder seemed remarkably thin for what the media was calling "the next Nilbog. ", Weld let his head fall back against his chair. He asked. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gnawing-gorgon-worm-stranger-things.872206/. Oh Good Hunter looks like it might be headed that way. The difference was that these Amazons weren't quite as beautiful as the myths told of. Very intense. 741 guests Different circumstances cause Taylor to gain different powers and left her blinded in the aftermath. I can't think of any story where it's just 'Taylor in a wheelchair, living normally'. I haven't read Hindsight Bias, but Taylor has the ability to frequently precog a few seconds into the future. I wanted to avoid it, at all costs. "I'll trust that holds true. Finding The Path - Taylor has the PtV, fic doesn't take itself too seriously. Path to Munchies is a Worm fan fiction by Merle Corey, completed in April 2017. The whole world seemed to have stilled. Taylor would never have imagined that going blind would have improved her life so dramatically, yet so it happened to be. Can I get list of fics featuring Taylor with horrific and terrifying alt!powers. She held a palm out. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Read that one already. Taylor put a hand to her chest. I suppose youre the Protectorates representative? She said more than she asked. She said with only a hint of a sigh. --it does have a different title, so yes. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. "I think we're a little past first impressions.". 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. 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. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! So: Overhaul, where she was in the car wreck alongside Annette and the PRT are dragging their heels about letting her come up with her own solution for the crippling results. "What do you mean by 'working order'? She looked over her shoulder, clearly annoyed. Thirty feet away and six and a half straight down, cicada larvae slowly crawled underground, most of their 17 year span lived completely out of human view. Weld looked up at the sky, tinged red and orange, marked by the distant plumes of planes. Splinters - Taylor has a Thinker power that lets her create more copies of her own mind. The door to Brockton Bay. Taylor can see through her own eyes when in the ghost world. ", "I'd rather that not happen." 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. The screech of metal greeted Weld as he entered the warehouse. the Brockton Bay General security cameras giving me an aerial view of my own hunched form. It's true that Danny Hebert can't sit here and admire this sunset with us." She let out a long breath, her expression settling on a more neutral one. Watched. After everything else had gone so well, he had ruined it at the end. Once the Protectorate learned of this they'd be more afraid than ever. ", Weld nearly scoffed. Life just didn't ever seem to turn out how she'd imagined it would. Remaining in the ghost world rapidly causes Taylor to feel fatigued, becoming exhausted after only a few minutes. Maybe he improvised and got that last one with something that disoriented people into passing out. She theorized. 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. Privacy Policy. "There are entrepreneurs out there who understand the practicality of a workforce that can perfectly coordinate.". 43 Kudos: 125 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 2730 Yea, those are great horror, here's the first of the three snippets. 6.2 Crescendo Got real estate, I'm buying it all up in outerspace. You must log in or register to reply here. "Sorry, I didn't mean anything by it. Weld leaned back, setting the file down. but it focuses heavily on the mental aspect of her powers. ", "Why do you suddenly want to work with the Protectorate? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. She hadn't budged an inch. The sun reflected off his chrome skin with a bright sheen. One fitting a piece together and passing it along just as the other finished. If today has proven anything, it's that I'm working to help. Bakuda told us no, but in less polite terms. The theatricality, the bravado, the utter disregard for the thoughts of others, Lord Doom was all that and more. 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. Thankfully for her, she's gotten quite adept at hiding the bodies. Not as crazy broken as blanket but seriously op. And just like her, I'll work the assembly line when I'm needed to.". Thanks so much for the Skein recommendation. Piggot looked out the window of the helicopter, watching the landscape blur past them. She spent several months mentoring and bonding with Taylor, until the emotional connection caused Taylor to develop a "bud" of her PTV Shard. taken, most of them involving pulling from other vampire media. Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. I only had another week left before I was supposed to go back to school. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Not primarily. She leaned forward, her hand to her chest again, "But he's here. 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. One of the best fics I've ever read and it makes me weep that it's dead, "It's okay, Mr. Ethan. and Samara from the Ring got together in Silent Hill and decided to mix and match powers to grant Taylor. Chapter 4, "Remember," Piggot said, "Don't call her Narcissa.". Off in the distance, a crane operated at the side of a skyscraper, the sun at its back. And like the Amazons, they were deadly. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. It ramps up fast well into Peggy Sue territory on the crackish side --where I am most cofortable. Inspired by the game Breeding Season. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Weld said tightly as he followed the worker Taylor's lead. Work Search: Weld asked. 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. In fact if there was, Weld suspected that would have just slowed down production. The only thing separating Brockton Bay from the rest of the world. And if you're concerned about some sort of class system," She pointed to the girl who had first slowed the assembly line. Or what was left of it. Blind due to injury and complications with being sent back. So many things to explore. This seems like it's going to be a real good story. Piggot's frown deepened, the wrinkles in her brow tightening even while the skin under her eyes and cheeks seemed to sag. They wore comically over-sized hard hats and were all as thin as the girl leading Weld, but they worked together in perfect unison. "We all do our part, Weld. Abstract representations of Taylor (for example, a dot on a movement radar) don't activate her Thinker power, and neither do simulations of her (for example, if Coil is looking at her in universe A, universe B Taylor is not considered observed). "Right." On Missing Limbs, a Metal Gear Solid cross where the locker leaves her a few pounds of flesh lighter, and Armsmaster hooks her up with prosthetics as a result. Things had been surreal before, now it felt like madness. Her primary power allows her to enter a kind of time-frozen "ghost realm" as long as she is not being directly visually observed by any sapient being, bringing anything she is wearing or carrying with her. She pulled back as if she had been slapped and for a moment her face twisted, her lips pulling back in a snarl. I dont want things like Taylor Varga or Monster or powers where she appears terrifying to others but is in reality harmless like Camera Shy. this is accompanied by static noise. Taylor the Shopkeeper Summary: In a world without Endbringers, Taylor just wanted to run her store in peace. The Protectorate hadn't mentioned that in the file. She was on the wrong side of plain with her gangly frame and wide mouth. Nobody remembers them better than me. Anything that brain of yours could Tinker can be found. "She was one of the original twenty-eight. "I know we all look identical to you, but each and every Taylor is unique in their own way." One of the construction worker Taylor's repeated, she had a black smudge across her cheek. Fics where Tinker!Taylor builds and fights with interstellar warships (and possibly ends up pioneering a space industry)? "We're on schedule to get the city back in working order in a matter of weeks. Taylor is a dragon wyvern. She held a palm out. 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. Taylor's consciousness disperses into her swarm, and actions from the Protectorate push her away from the Wards. The same wide mouth, the same thin figure even the same curly brown hair. "I mean, I have to say yes, don't I?" My own fic Claim The Spoils has her with Victor's power, able to know what skills other people have and drain them from them. Taylor can be insane as well. It looked like a shipping container, although he was told the furnishing on the inside was a little nicer than that. LORD DOOM IS MERCIFUL. In his most even voice, Weld spoke. 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. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Lots of tiny drones. He said, "Then I guess we're done here. So were we.". "Penny for your thoughts? Taylor sees through the eyes of anyone that has any part of her in their field of vision. If you log in you can store your preference and never be asked again. Taylor cannot enter her Breaker state while observed, and she cannot exit her Breaker state if so doing would cause her to be observed. Set in the center of one the bridges leading into Brockton Bay - one of the few still standing. "Someone who's immune to my power." Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. I would hate to be surprised." Even though the bullying didn't escalate to the locker incident, Taylor Hebert still triggered with powers. I was just surprised. 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. Definitely a strong mover power, but a thinker primary. "Right." She doesn't officially join the group, but she works with them extensively and exclusively. It was huge, heavy and plastic, but it came complete with a headrest and armrests and that was more than Weld ever got. Weld wondered if she was going to leap and tackle him. Please inform your superiors of our proposal. She can float at a maximum speed of about 25 miles per hour; as Taylor noted, a decent frame of reference would be Olympic-sprinting fast, but slower than most flying capes. Very NSFW. There was nothing for Weld to focus on. He thought of sailors washing up on the shore on an island of Amazons. liberties . Lord Doom is a Worm fanfiction posted on Spacebattles Dot Com, here. There are a few pact Alt!powers out ther you might want to check out. So far, Taylor's augments seem to work best if she's been applying her percussive skills beforehand, they need to test the limits of that. I guess I'm still trying to wrap my head around it at all. 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. When she finished, the process resumed effortlessly. It's interesting to see an alt Taylor who doesn't have major league powers. Im looking forward to how this one goes. 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. There was no foreman to speak of, no one to admonish or criticize her. For more information, please see our Taylor loses access to her other two powers a Thinker sensory ability and a Shaker aura while in her Breaker form. Consider it watched. He had overstepped his bounds. Camera Shy has a blind Taylor with the ability to see through other's eyes and time-stop-explore as her version of teleportation. 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. Queen of Owls reminds me of the Drukhari from 40K. Nice! And if so, is there a difference in the power draw between active and passive participants? When Lord Doom steals Armsmaster's tinkertech motorcycle, promptly crashes it, and then flies away into the sky while laughing, "Armsmaster said some things that were probably not PR approved." "An older model, communicator only?" "Yeah." Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. "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. She waved a hand at the Taylors delicately fitting chips into small plastic cases. The name is Weld, nice to meet you.. Is it different from my other fics? Is Hive Daughter the one where after the first two or three people she adds to her hive they lose their memory/personality/whatever? Honestly, I'm surprised there aren't more explicitly labeled disabled protagonists in worm fanfic because all the stress and bullshit ableism disabled people go through is prime conditions for trigger events. Weld closed the file and focused on the thrum of the helicopter's blades. 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 love seeing new and interesting powers and this one is really cool. He glanced at Taylor and saw her looking down at her sundae, but her eyes were distant. Wyvern. Taylor's going to love that power soon enough. Camera Shy has a blind Taylor with the ability to see through other's eyes and time-stop-explore as her version of teleportation. This work could have adult content. ], Triumph's First Encounter [could be canon? I love this authors work. Yes. Weld stepped towards the table, eerily aware of the clomping sound his feet made against the huts thin floor. End result: uninjured Taylor, Armsmaster saved, Armsmaster's motorcycle foamed (and saved), Squealer's truck rendered inoperable, Squealer trapped in a cotton candy cloud, Oni Lee with a bucket of molasses on his head. It was a beautiful day and Weld was surrounded by girls. Hmm I'm interested to see where you're going with this lot of different things you could do. Anything not directly observed by a sapient being appears to be perfectly evenly lit, regardless of real-world lighting conditions. Rather than running through someone multiple times, she should stand inside them and spin in circles, that'll really mess them up. Chapter 1 There it was. El Ahrairah - Power anaylsis. While your feet are stompin'. Each time I went through him, the smear effect became more pronounced and I grew more tired. Methuselah (original vampire alt!power) has some hints of it but might not quite fit. to see how many boys still checked me out. So the intro said that the power was a trump so maybe some sort of field that links capes, like instruments in a band, and amplifies the effects they have? Her attempt to use her power to get in shape backfires slightly, as it puppets her body. However, this exhaustion is not felt in the real world, and remaining in the real world allows her to recover at roughly a ten-to-one ratio (for every ten seconds in the ghost world, she needs one in the real world to recover). Personally I find the recent shipgirl invasion into the Worm fanfiction extremely pleasurable. I did not want to go back. When determining whether Taylor is or will be 'observed' for the purposes of allowing/disallowing her to transform to and from her Breaker state, Taylor's Breaker power is much more lenient regarding what 'counts' as 'looking at Taylor', compared to her Thinker power. 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. Instead of controlling bugs, she's a Tinker who can make tiny drones. "This and no weapons to speak of." Accelerator/Taylor Hebert. ", Piggot closed her eyes and she relaxed all at once, practically sagging in the seat as she sighed. It also has the effect of putting Leet in reach of Contessa's machinations, reducing her ultimate plan by several steps. Spoiler: Malkavians In Brief Omakes: Rolyat's Visit by SirWill A Father's Pride by Seclorum "My apologies, Taylor. No handshake then. We have a number of canon characters who are disabled, and I wish we could see that reflected more in fics. She didn't. "I told you this this secret of mine because I want you to understand. Whether it was the mood or the exhaustion he shouldn't have been capable of feeling, Weld asked the question that had been weighing on him the whole day. It was two dozen or so pages. What if Taylor got a different shard, one accidentally broken when Eden collided with Abbadon and received the Path shard? But don't play games with my affection, 5.9 Rondo Welcome to new Brocktonites, have a look around. However, her sight is by no means normal. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. 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? He looked up and he saw Taylor watching him, her brow knitted together. Get insights SPL Payroll Outsourcing Pvt. 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. in exiled the prosthetic was built by leet. ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. SupCom altpower. ", Weld's eyes widened and he turned to look at her. "To be perfectly honest, Weld. 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You took Brockton Bay over in four weeks and then you just stopped at the city limits. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. She looked decidedly normal. Not the most impressive powers, granted, but powers none the less. Taylor has a minor electronic disruption aura, such that she can make lights flicker or devices lose power for fractions of seconds. Doing factory work while others", His guide cut him off. Or properly structured sentences, I dunno. 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. Taylor goes to Harry Potter, and solves the saga in two years. 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. That," Piggot pointed at the folder, "is all the information we could gather on her with certainty that it wasn't tampered with.". Alt-power Taylor in the Worm verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. Press J to jump to the feed. Weld stood, though he made no motion to leave. ), 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. Weld asked. Scalar Vectors by Sceptic62 (7 chapters, 19k words, last updated: 9th Jun, 2017) Aisha Laborn/Alec. Taylor vs Hookwolf. Weld tried to focus on the buzz of the flourescent lights, but as far as white noise went, that was a little too quiet. Weld said, not looking away from the hut. Taylor hesitantly asks. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. The Protectorate therapist had encouraged him to take up meditation to make up for his lack of sleeping. Again, she does not have access to her other two abilities while in Breaker form, but she does get several double-edged perks. Weld blinked slowly. It's a bit complicated to explain but it's pretty good Thinker fic imo. "A Wand for Skitter", on Fanfiction.net. Taylor helps make cookies, but her power makes her make them. Shes just as broken as blanket but in a completely different way. I'll pass your proposal to the Protectorate. "Is that really what you believe?" 6.1 Crescendo Wake me up inside. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LordDoom. Taylor said as a pair of her doppelgangers stepped up onto the veranda wearing overalls and suspenders. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Without a word said, the other Taylors relaxed a hair and slowed their pace, giving their coworker time to catch up. "As far as first impressions go, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence." "Good, then do you have any recording equipment or weapons to surrender?" Working on a Path that could let her bypass the restrictions on her power, the Path led her to get close to Taylor as her school librarian and new mentor, got her to build up a genuine, emotional rapport between them to get Path to Victory to "Bud" onto Taylor, then forced Contessa to put Taylor into a situation bad enough for her to Trigger while reminding her that her Path is forcing her to do this, the mental anguish causing Contessa to Second Trigger. "All of them." Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. 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. "That's not what I meant.". ", Taylor frowned at him before turning back to the sunset. 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. TruckerMan. "And they're" Weld coughed, "You're all fine with this? Weld noticed one of the Taylors at the assembly line slowing down, the miniscule pause noticeable from how much it deviated and the effect rippled down the line. Any area which is directly observed appears as absolute blackness when in this state, this blackness does not block Taylor's ghost-world vision. Queen of Owls on QQ. And considering how clannish the misfits of the Band have to be just to survive it will be interesting to see where this goes. "I know they're afraid of me. "I haven't, I swear. Par for this fic. A PHO fic. She's literally almost out the door before she wakes up and realizes what's going on. Since both of them were close to each other, both shard buds pinged off each other to communicate and modify each other, and the recursive modification caused a feedback loop that eventually caused Path to Victory to reset itself without any restrictions, She would deny until her dying day that she cried, almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. 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. Taylor came around the table until she stood to the side of Weld. Hopefully, with the Protectorate.". ", Weld folded his arms very deliberately - he didn't want to scrape them against each other, but as a result it was exaggerated like a stage version of the movement. She had the look of a woman who had gone too long without sleep and had aged years in weeks.
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