Taylor gave a hard look to Weld, "A real one, make no mistake, but one meant as a warning. First let me say that I really like this. Also I propose the cape name Glow Sticks for the Lols. Afraid enough that they won't just attack when they think they can get away with it. Weld filled in. "Right." 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 did not want to go back. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. I never would have thought that nearly all of my problems could have been solved by suddenly going blind, but here we are. Weld replied. She had the look of a woman who had gone too long without sleep and had aged years in weeks. In his most even voice, Weld spoke. What I wouldn't give to have seen Miss Militias' face that second between 'Wait where'd they go? ' Piggot handed the file to Weld and he took it. Her fists clenched, "I have to. Really enjoyed this. He hasn't gone. Twenty feet away lay an anthill. "Is that fact relevant to a tour of your city?" "If you'll follow me, we'll give you a more thorough inspection on my side of the line.". TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. It's true that Danny Hebert can't sit here and admire this sunset with us." "What do you mean by 'working order'? "Phones." Taylor can be insane as well. She stood and turned to look at the sunset, her back to him. Alt-power Taylor in the Worm verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. "My apologies, Taylor. Fanfic authors need to have the words "chuckle" and "smirk" taken away from them. Not the most impressive powers, granted, but powers none the less. Weld said, not looking away from the hut. and 'RIGHT NEXT TO ME!?'. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. Personally I find the recent shipgirl invasion into the Worm fanfiction extremely pleasurable. "What are you aiming to produce?" Weld nodded wordlessly, he focused on the rush of the river below. Mulberry, Fl. Chapter 2 Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. She was our first representative to the Protectorate just as I am now. Within this realm, Taylor is intangible, able to move freely in any direction at about the equivalent of a brisk jog and phase through solid objects. Taylor spoke overly formal, but there was a tension there. Taylor reassured him, "I want to contribute. "That's not what I meant.". Advancing Technology has Taylor with what seems to be the power of advanced learning, and may be more than that. I'll pass your proposal to the Protectorate. The Protectorate already knew that the Taylors had a sort of network hivemind, but this went far deeper than that. 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. The Taylors didn't just replace their hosts, they subsumed them. "We all do our part, Weld. So Taylor with AOE music powers that include rapid full regeneration type healing. Taylor can see through her own eyes in her Breaker state, as her Thinker power causes her blindness and is disabled in Breaker form. When Weld didn't get an answer, he looked up to see Piggot tired as she was, glaring at him, the muscles in her neck tensed. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Path to Munchies is a Worm fan fiction by Merle Corey, completed in April 2017. 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). Life just didn't ever seem to turn out how she'd imagined it would. Taylor ran a hand through her hair. Breeding Worm HellKing666. They sat on a veranda at the top of a hill overlooking the city, Taylor savoring a sundae, Weld admiring the sunset. However, her sight is by no means normal. ], Uber PoV of 1.9-1.13 [mostly canon-compliant! She said with only a hint of a sigh. 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. Get insights SPL Payroll Outsourcing Pvt. 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. Doing factory work while others", His guide cut him off. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. The power has too many nitpicks and conditions. This seems like it's going to be a real good story. "I know they're afraid of me. Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. We have a number of canon characters who are disabled, and I wish we could see that reflected more in fics. Taylor put a hand to her chest. 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. 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. Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. Camera Shy has a blind Taylor with the ability to see through other's eyes and time-stop-explore as her version of teleportation. That," Piggot pointed at the folder, "is all the information we could gather on her with certainty that it wasn't tampered with.". Taylor would prefer to work alongside the Protectorate, not against them.". She held a palm out. 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. Even though the bullying didn't escalate to the locker incident, Taylor Hebert still triggered with powers. Read that one already. the Brockton Bay General security cameras giving me an aerial view of my own hunched form. ][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! You took Brockton Bay over in four weeks and then you just stopped at the city limits. Scalar Vectors by Sceptic62 (7 chapters, 19k words, last updated: 9th Jun, 2017) Aisha Laborn/Alec. 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. and Samara from the Ring got together in Silent Hill and decided to mix and match powers to grant Taylor. Please inform your superiors of our proposal. The therapist had encouraged him to focus on his breathing before belatedly realizing he couldn't - Weld didn't breathe. Work Search: She said, quiet. Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend. Taylor loses access to her other two powers a Thinker sensory ability and a Shaker aura while in her Breaker form. 6.1 Crescendo Wake me up inside. Truth or Dare by Discreet (1 chapter, 1.2k words, one-shot) Alec/Taylor Hebert. Taylor confirmed. Taylor says that if she pushes herself very hard, she can actually blow out bulbs, but that is the strongest feat she has accomplished. What happens when, for the first time in the history of the universe, there's a shard that is actually trying to help? The words came out strained. Different circumstances cause Taylor to gain different powers and left her blinded in the aftermath. Maybe he improvised and got that last one with something that disoriented people into passing out. She theorized. Weld stepped inside the hut and found her already there. I mean throughout the whole fic not like she had it and got panacea'd. "All of them." Lots of tiny drones. Taylor vs Hookwolf. If he was any other man, he might have been excited. Taylor and the Unseelie Court (Taylor isn't herself the spooky monster, but deals with old-school type Fae, dead). Time lapsed: 30 seconds. Nice to meet you, Weld. Time lapsed: 120 seconds. Hopefully, but not necessarily. You are using an out of date browser. When time resumes, smeared objects are pushed in the direction and intensity of said smear. 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. Just thinking about that made me cringe inside. "We will lead you out." Oh Good Hunter looks like it might be headed that way. The whole world seemed to have stilled. She didnt rise to meet him and eyed his hand, his chrome skin glowing dimly with the sheen of the light. Color me intrigued. ", Piggot closed her eyes and she relaxed all at once, practically sagging in the seat as she sighed. Cookie Notice She sat across from him at a plastic fold-out table, her hands folded together primly in front of her. Looking forward to reading more, 1.2 Adagio I know this music, time to change the beat. Things had been surreal before, now it felt like madness. 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. Nearly. Taylor's going to love that power soon enough. "Someone who's immune to my power." Even though the bullying didn't escalate to the locker incident, Taylor Hebert still triggered with powers. It would have been so much easier to do that. 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. She gestured for him to walk. Contessa is mildly annoyed that she's gained a few pounds because of Taylor, but takes it in good humor. 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. ", "Why do you suddenly want to work with the Protectorate? She can float and pass through objects. Eventually, it's revealed that her nickname is "Tessa," which is short for. . He had been given a disturbing amount of leeway as far as this meeting went. The screech of metal greeted Weld as he entered the warehouse. "An older model, communicator only?" "Yeah." I slowly slooooowly turned around, cowl obscuring my head and robe obscuring my shuffling feet as I appeared to rotate in place to face the heroines direction. None of them have, not really.". Weld added quickly, "Amazed, even. They would have to be. The difference was that these Amazons weren't quite as beautiful as the myths told of. 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. and Samara from the Ring got together in Silent Hill and decided to mix and match powers to grant Taylor. Looks pretty interesting so far. She doesn't officially join the group, but she works with them extensively and exclusively. Based it around the idea that observing a thing changes the thing. For y'all trying to think of fics, remember disability isn't just amputees, paralysis, or being HoH/blind. Taylor helps make cookies, but her power makes her make them. 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! "Makes it seem like you come here expecting a fight. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. 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. 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. The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. Dec 22, 2020. 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. I love this authors work. Taylor would never have imagined that going blind would have improved her life so dramatically, yet so it happened to be. 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. Camera Shys Taylor is a grab-bag cape whose primary ability is a strange Breaker state. Thanks so much for the Skein recommendation. Her Shaker power passively causes static to appear for any cameras viewing her when she comes. Awww, thank you. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. And if you're concerned about some sort of class system," She pointed to the girl who had first slowed the assembly line. For someone that's disabled, it's a gigantic part of your life every day. "We're working to rebuild some of the more important buildings damaged during the initial fighting." Im happy to follow thi for as long as you want to write it. This power blocks her from using her own eyes, and if nobody is currently looking at her she is blind. to see how many boys still checked me out. "If you don't mind," Taylor spoke and Weld turned to look at her. She spent several months mentoring and bonding with Taylor, until the emotional connection caused Taylor to develop a "bud" of her PTV Shard. I can't think of any story where it's just 'Taylor in a wheelchair, living normally'. 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. And a title! Excellent a new story to read, just in time for the holidays. Day of the Tentacle, where she's a multiple amputee and tinkers up brain-controlled prosthetics. Not primarily. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. Contessa says she does not know, and decides to fully confess all her. As a result (and to further illustrate the Thinker ability by way of visualization), Taylor will always be looking at herself if she can see at all, since she only gets vision when in someones field of view.