When Taylor phases through objects, they appear to "smear" along the direction of her movement as if someone had smudged a painting. Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. 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 wanted to avoid it, at all costs. Still the folder seemed remarkably thin for what the media was calling "the next Nilbog. Specifically one where she is the barber. 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. and 'RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?'. This power blocks her from using her own eyes, and if nobody is currently looking at her she is blind. 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. 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. "Alright, fine." It also has the effect of putting Leet in reach of Contessa's machinations, reducing her ultimate plan by several steps. Also, is she limited to just one boost at a time, or can she train to split her focus across more than one? ", 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. The theatricality, the bravado, the utter disregard for the thoughts of others, Lord Doom was all that and more. Using this ability rapidly tires her. ", Weld let his head fall back against his chair. Is it different from my other fics? ", "A threat." And a title! ][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! Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. "We will lead you out." Mulberry, Fl. She doesn't officially join the group, but she works with them extensively and exclusively. in exiled the prosthetic was built by leet. "Is that fact relevant to a tour of your city?" 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? Taylor said. No part too large or too small. liberties . Just thinking about that made me cringe inside. In his most even voice, Weld spoke. Just read through the first chapter and damn, this is something I completely new for me and hooked me pretty hard just for the power. Queen of Owls on QQ. Set in the center of one the bridges leading into Brockton Bay - one of the few still standing. What happens when, for the first time in the history of the universe, there's a shard that is actually trying to help? He's so distinctly not human, it's interesting to see how normal things that we take for granted fail to apply to him. Cutting Ties - Taylor uses Jack Slash's Thinker power to make friends. JavaScript is disabled. 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! One fitting a piece together and passing it along just as the other finished. The whole world seemed to have stilled. While in her Breaker state, time is stopped for everything but herself. This force is not usually strong enough to move heavy or anchored objects, but can send light objects flying. Silence answered him and Weld mentally berated himself. Inspired by the game Breeding Season. Taylor has a minor electronic disruption aura, such that she can make lights flicker or devices lose power for fractions of seconds. For more information, please see our By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. "Yeah. As it was, Weld was walking in blind. I. Contessa is mildly annoyed that she's gained a few pounds because of Taylor, but takes it in good humor. the Brockton Bay General security cameras giving me an aerial view of my own hunched form. axe throwing layton I was just surprised. She pulled back as if she had been slapped and for a moment her face twisted, her lips pulling back in a snarl. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. "Makes it seem like you come here expecting a fight. before?". "There are entrepreneurs out there who understand the practicality of a workforce that can perfectly coordinate.". Shes just as broken as blanket but in a completely different way. One of the construction worker Taylor's repeated, she had a black smudge across her cheek. 43 Kudos: 125 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 2730 Grant us eyes. Taylor frowned. Lord Doom is a Worm fanfiction posted on Spacebattles Dot Com, here. 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. "I mean, I have to say yes, don't I?" There is not much conflict ypu can have in a wheelchair. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply", 1. Definitely a strong mover power, but a thinker primary. Taylor triggers with Contessa's Path to Victory power. ", "I haven't forgotten." Weld looked up at the sky, tinged red and orange, marked by the distant plumes of planes. Unfortunately for Armsmaster, he was caught on camera and becomes a PHO meme. She was our first representative to the Protectorate just as I am now. Or properly structured sentences, I dunno. Weld asked, "Forget all the innocent people of Brockton Bay? This is an informational threadmark discussing the overall premise of the fic, especially Taylors power. Thanks to Contessa's jailbroken Path to Victory, Legend gets to her before she breaks down and recruits her into the Protectorate, After Contessa returns from successfully removing her power's restrictions on what it could plan around by getting it to bud off another parahuman, Eidolon realises that it means that there's a second person with access to the Path to Victory and they may need to silence her if necessary. I flew around to his front, ignoring the time-frozen explosion I passed through to do so. 3. Taylor's going to love that power soon enough. Scalar Vectors by Sceptic62 (7 chapters, 19k words, last updated: 9th Jun, 2017) Aisha Laborn/Alec. "If you don't mind," Taylor spoke and Weld turned to look at her. Weve got Dragons and Heroes, some better, some worse. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. When are you gonna update the rewrite version of that. TruckerMan. 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. 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! She's literally almost out the door before she wakes up and realizes what's going on. . He asked. Taylor can see through her own eyes when in the ghost world. I wake up to find a new story by an author I like. Piggot's frown deepened, the wrinkles in her brow tightening even while the skin under her eyes and cheeks seemed to sag. "What are you aiming to produce?" 40 Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. The four year old glanced up, a bright smile on her face as she ran back to where her parents lay . Taylor reassured him, "I want to contribute. 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. Truthfully, I want them afraid of me. Taylor confirmed. The Protectorate therapist had encouraged him to take up meditation to make up for his lack of sleeping. Personally I find the recent shipgirl invasion into the Worm fanfiction extremely pleasurable. They are not affected in any way other than being pushed; the smear effect is likely just Taylors subjective experience of her power, or at most an effect confined to her Breaker-state world. The construction workers. A much better version in my opinion, this one actually has things happening in it! By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Yea, those are great horror, here's the first of the three snippets. 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. ", Weld nearly scoffed. Camera Shy is a Worm alt-power fic by TheGreatGimmick. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Has a feeling of the Weeping Angels from Dr. Who. I haven't read Hindsight Bias, but Taylor has the ability to frequently precog a few seconds into the future. Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. The only thing separating Brockton Bay from the rest of the world. Very horror movie-like. "I know they're afraid of me. Looks pretty interesting so far. I don't know where to begin. My story Chimera has Taylor with Grand Admiral Thrawn's memories which makes her a thinker. "I told you this this secret of mine because I want you to understand. "We're working to rebuild some of the more important buildings damaged during the initial fighting." Finding The Path - Taylor has the PtV, fic doesn't take itself too seriously. 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. It was tiny from where he stood. Dad was standing over me. Hunter, a Bloodborne crossover by UnwelcomeStorm. You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again. As I hit refresh I get a second chapter. She looked decidedly normal. Weld filled in. Mind, I was already posting when I saw yours. 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). Queen of Owls reminds me of the Drukhari from 40K. As they headed down the hill, Weld glanced back at the Taylor that had been Danny Hebert and he saw that she was still standing at the edge of the hill. Taylor has a Dungeon It's a clean Dungeon Everyone Has Issues they're working on it except Lisa She's watching the world burn Amy makes kettle noises Nobody can prove Danny Hebert exists Have I mentioned it's gay? Revenant. Taylor's power is like the Cenobites, Amara from F.E.A.R. A brief history prior to trigger event, combat logs for the first encounter, medical records, and almost inexplicably a school report card. I suppose youre the Protectorates representative? She said more than she asked. Piggot handed the file to Weld and he took it. Chapter 1 Can I get a link? So this is a revisit of an old fic idea I had. Her fists clenched, "I have to. She let out a long breath, her expression settling on a more neutral one. 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. Thoughts as Light as a Feather - Simurgh!Taylor. Weld asked. After that, she deliberately put Taylor into a situation where she would trigger, which simultaneously caused Contessa herself to second-trigger from deliberately forcing someone she had grown to care for into a trigger event. She gestured for him to walk. She looked over her shoulder, clearly annoyed. The Taylors didn't just replace their hosts, they subsumed them. 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. 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. Bakuda told us no, but in less polite terms. Last chance for Weld to back out. The name is Weld, nice to meet you.. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. 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. SupCom altpower. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. She's a bitter little coffee bean of a tinker as a result. Spoiler: Malkavians In Brief Omakes: Rolyat's Visit by SirWill A Father's Pride by Seclorum If none of its of interest to you, youd be the first. I would hate to be surprised." ", Taylor nodded satisfied, "Not to boast, but yes, we're proud of what we've managed.". Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. ". Cannot overstate how good Hunter is. It's a bit complicated to explain but it's pretty good Thinker fic imo. "Some files had to be omitted." 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. They sat on a veranda at the top of a hill overlooking the city, Taylor savoring a sundae, Weld admiring the sunset. Nobody remembers them better than me. She held a palm out. JavaScript is disabled. Taylor is correct that she is a grab-bag cape. And if you're concerned about some sort of class system," She pointed to the girl who had first slowed the assembly line. "If you'll follow me, we'll give you a more thorough inspection on my side of the line.". "I'm not what most people expect." While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. Chapter 4, "Remember," Piggot said, "Don't call her Narcissa.". Using her Shaker ability is tiring, despite the weak effect. We especially love the use of the power by Taylor and the way in which her Cape persona is manifesting to be some kind of phantom vigilante is amazing! as well as I particularly endorse Split, Skein, and Ziz. It's not exactly Thinker power (?) Splinters - Taylor has a Thinker power that lets her create more copies of her own mind. Might edit some others in later, or links. Weld replied. ], Triumph's First Encounter [could be canon? A Cauldron fic. The Protectorate hadn't mentioned that in the file. this is accompanied by static noise. One of the best fics I've ever read and it makes me weep that it's dead, "It's okay, Mr. Ethan. Is Hive Daughter the one where after the first two or three people she adds to her hive they lose their memory/personality/whatever? And I have to ask, is the band coach a fan of a certain Polynesian deity, because that's an interesting collection of items in the closet. Methuselah (original vampire alt!power) has some hints of it but might not quite fit. Really enjoyed this. 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. Pretending to be totally blind even when I could see my surroundings through someone else wasnt nearly as hard as you might think. It looked like a shipping container, although he was told the furnishing on the inside was a little nicer than that. 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. Taylor goes to Harry Potter, and solves the saga in two years. Off in the distance, a crane operated at the side of a skyscraper, the sun at its back. Day of the Tentacle, where she's a multiple amputee and tinkers up brain-controlled prosthetics. They wore comically over-sized hard hats and were all as thin as the girl leading Weld, but they worked together in perfect unison. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. When she re-enters the normal world, anything smeared will be pushed along the direction of the smear. The band kids will get Brute ratings just from their training. Bakuda. I guess I'm still trying to wrap my head around it at all. Centipede (Tokyo Ghoul alt!power, dead), maybe. 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. Very interesting fic so far. It makes sense, since shards want their hosts to be active out and about, getting into conflict and such. Without a word said, the other Taylors relaxed a hair and slowed their pace, giving their coworker time to catch up. "Right." 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. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Not primarily. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Harvey gives her an odd look, but answers her, "Well we're in Stardew Valley, which is at the south-east end of the Ferngill Republic." "Ah got it, thanks." Harvey fixed her with a serious look and then warned, "I don't need to know about what you were doing until now, but Pelican Town is away from all the fighting . Weld said tightly as he followed the worker Taylor's lead. 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. Definitely a strong mover power, but a thinker primary. 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. "Good, then do you have any recording equipment or weapons to surrender?" Taylor can be insane as well. Contessa makes it clear to him with a single. QA really turned up the volume this time. "An older model, communicator only?". 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. At some point since meeting her, she must have communicated his needs to herself and they had found Weld a chair he could actually sit on. Time lapsed: 120 seconds. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! Taylor put a hand to her chest. Read that one already. "I'll trust that holds true. 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. 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. Twenty feet away lay an anthill. She spent several months mentoring and bonding with Taylor, until the emotional connection caused Taylor to develop a "bud" of her PTV Shard. Oh yeah, there's some dead fic which has Taylor die in the locker and shows the consequences a few years later from the perspectives of others. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Summary: 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. Taylor cannot enter her Breaker state while observed, and she cannot exit her Breaker state if so doing would cause her to be observed. Please inform your superiors of our proposal. The whole 'fic so far is on par with early canon as far as we can tell (feeling wise not literally). You took Brockton Bay over in four weeks and then you just stopped at the city limits. Taylor can see through her own eyes in her Breaker state, as her Thinker power causes her blindness and is disabled in Breaker form. Taylor can repeatedly move through objects in the same direction to smear them more and more for greater push force when time resumes. "My apologies, Taylor. She can process numerous separate perspectives on herself without issue. In fact if there was, Weld suspected that would have just slowed down production. Taylor is a dragon wyvern. "Why what? That," Piggot pointed at the folder, "is all the information we could gather on her with certainty that it wasn't tampered with.". http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LordDoom. Even if no part of Taylor herself that is, skin is visible, this Thinker ability is liberal in its interpretation of looking at Taylor: The example Taylor uses is that if she wore a full bulky suit of armor her Thinker power would still count looking at the suit as looking at her. 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. Queen of Owls on QQ. Taylor says that if she pushes herself very hard, she can actually blow out bulbs, but that is the strongest feat she has accomplished. In 1-2 more chapters the S9 arc will push over 100,000 words and almost 1/4 of the story. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Taylor spoke overly formal, but there was a tension there. All Taylor had to do was touch the right person and every Taylor would have knowledge of how to get into the Protectorate database. Contessa unlocked her Path To Victory Shard. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! I did not want to go back. She can process numerous separate perspectives on herself without issue. Taylor is incorporeal and unable to directly affect the world in her Breaker form. ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. Awww, thank you. 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. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". If she really pushes this power, she can blow out light bulbs, but that's the strongest effect she's managed to generate. In the Worm epilogue, a cape tells a joke with the punchline "six different flavors of sausage." . Still, her advice had been sound and Weld used the ambient white noise to clear his thoughts. This work could have adult content. After everything else had gone so well, he had ruined it at the end. It's true that Danny Hebert can't sit here and admire this sunset with us." Why hold back the sleeper cells? 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. And a disabled unpowered Taylor cannot really hold a fic bigger than a one-shot. Call my name and save me from the dark (wake me up), 6.0 Crescendo Say, say, say what you want. Weld nodded wordlessly, he focused on the rush of the river below. Her attempt to use her power to get in shape backfires slightly, as it puppets her body. She waved a hand at the Taylors delicately fitting chips into small plastic cases. but it focuses heavily on the mental aspect of her powers. If she is not being observed by anyone, she is blind. Hopefully, with the Protectorate.". The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. Is it crack? Or tinkered prosthetics that work the same as or better than what she had before. 2. There's chronic pain/illnesses, developmental disabilities like ASD, specific learning disabilities, mental illness, personality disorders, sleep disorders, and various genetic disorders. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. The screech of metal greeted Weld as he entered the warehouse. . On screens (e.g., computer, TV, etc.) "Someone who's immune to my power." There had been something more in the locker than just bugs and the horrific collection Sophia, Emma and Madison put together. Accelerator/Taylor Hebert. There are also Acid where she loses her face, her sight and a leg (or "What happens when BeaconHill's usually one-shot gorefest ideas become serialized") and Exiled where she loses an arm but gets a prosthetic built for her by Commander Shepard (because it's that kind of fic). She didnt rise to meet him and eyed his hand, his chrome skin glowing dimly with the sheen of the light. Chapter 2 Lots of tiny drones. 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. Eventually, Taylor stood, running a hand through her hair as if to clear it from her eyes though it had never been in the way. He looked up and he saw Taylor watching him, her brow knitted together. left kudos on this work! ", Weld glanced up at Piggot, "Is this everything?". Each time I went through him, the smear effect became more pronounced and I grew more tired.
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