Weld was also a really fun character to use as the POV. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. From the perspective of anyone else, I materialized in my room with a gasp. In fact if there was, Weld suspected that would have just slowed down production. Pretending to be totally blind even when I could see my surroundings through someone else wasnt nearly as hard as you might think. Please consider turning it on! Nice! XXX Taylor sighed as she locked up the store. "Honestly, this is pretty surreal right now. She looked decidedly normal. "Yeah. She spent several months mentoring and bonding with Taylor, until the emotional connection caused Taylor to develop a "bud" of her PTV Shard. Chapter 3 It was hard to make that connection seeing a dozen of the girls working to repair a building. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! 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. Instead of controlling bugs, she's a Tinker who can make tiny drones. It's well, a Peggy Sue story, with pre-cannon (by a few months) Taylor having memories up to Leviathon (I think that's where it was, can't 100% remember), smol Skitter is just as scary but makes up for her lost height with misunderstandings everywhere. Weld asked. "This and no weapons to speak of." Besides himself, of course, but that was better left unsaid. "We're on schedule to get the city back in working order in a matter of weeks. No shadows; the sinks and toilet paper rolls almost looked two-dimensional due to that lack. The Protectorate therapist had encouraged him to take up meditation to make up for his lack of sleeping. Hopefully, with the Protectorate.". I guess I'm still trying to wrap my head around it at all. Ah I spoke too soon. 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. 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. Nice to meet you, Weld. 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. Awww, thank you. Remaining in the ghost world rapidly causes Taylor to feel fatigued, becoming exhausted after only a few minutes. And if I have to read "Then I went ghost" one more time I swear to GoD someone's getting hurt. And considering how clannish the misfits of the Band have to be just to survive it will be interesting to see where this goes. Taylor is aptly named Monster. Nonetheless I'm the one who Protectorate chose as their representative.". ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. 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) 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. Thankfully for her, she's gotten quite adept at hiding the bodies. Taylor handed the phone back to Weld and he pocketed it. "We carry the memories of our old selves. 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 band kids will get Brute ratings just from their training. No shading, no different lighting to give things nuances to their colors; I. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. While we've done our best to make the core functionality of this site accessible without javascript, it will work better with it enabled. All Taylor had to do was touch the right person and every Taylor would have knowledge of how to get into the Protectorate database. So much more straightforward. Not the most impressive powers, granted, but powers none the less. 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. Weld asked, "Forget all the innocent people of Brockton Bay? Taylor put a hand to her chest. Well, maybe it is more to the tune of a Slaanesh Horde of Chaos Marines. 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. 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. Using her Shaker ability is tiring, despite the weak effect. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. She said with only a hint of a sigh. Queen of Owls on QQ. Lots of tiny drones. Taylor spoke overly formal, but there was a tension there. Is Hive Daughter the one where after the first two or three people she adds to her hive they lose their memory/personality/whatever? 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. No handshake then. "Right." They sat on a veranda at the top of a hill overlooking the city, Taylor savoring a sundae, Weld admiring the sunset. He hasn't gone. I noticed that Stormtigers defensive blast earlier had knocked some of my hair loose, and it hung down out of the thick hood. For more information, please see our 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. Alt-power Taylor in the Worm verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. 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. Piggot's frown deepened, the wrinkles in her brow tightening even while the skin under her eyes and cheeks seemed to sag. As it was, Weld was walking in blind. But the stakes were too high to do anything else. 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. Camera Shy is a Worm alt-power fic by TheGreatGimmick. Worm fanfic simurgh si - hgtvc.treviso-aug.it 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. Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. It may not display this or other websites correctly. "I think we're a little past first impressions.". Taylor the Shopkeeper Summary: In a world without Endbringers, Taylor just wanted to run her store in peace. 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 suppose that's true." For someone who isn't, it's a footnote about the person unless they're extremely close to them. Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. There is not much conflict ypu can have in a wheelchair. You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again. She was on the wrong side of plain with her gangly frame and wide mouth. Here's a list of Worm isekais . What I wouldn't give to have seen Miss Militias' face that second between 'Wait where'd they go? ' I did not want to go back. So were we.". Contessa unlocked her Path To Victory Shard. 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. My story Chimera has Taylor with Grand Admiral Thrawn's memories which makes her a thinker. I never would have thought that nearly all of my problems could have been solved by suddenly going blind, but here we are. Is it crack? "An older model, communicator only?". Not generic the way people in magazine ads looked, but the sort of ordinary youd see on the bus. Time lapsed: 30 seconds. 4. ", "And so we forget about everything else?" ", Piggot closed her eyes and she relaxed all at once, practically sagging in the seat as she sighed. ", Weld let his head fall back against his chair. He glanced at Taylor and saw her looking down at her sundae, but her eyes were distant. But don't play games with my affection, 5.9 Rondo Welcome to new Brocktonites, have a look around. Read that one already. As Weld walked further downhill, she faded from view. Taylor gave a hard look to Weld, "A real one, make no mistake, but one meant as a warning. You are using an out of date browser. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! It's a bit complicated to explain but it's pretty good Thinker fic imo. False Starts Worm Chapter 2: Only the Blind Can See, a worm fanfic Press J to jump to the feed. Taylor ran a hand through her hair. That," Piggot pointed at the folder, "is all the information we could gather on her with certainty that it wasn't tampered with.". 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 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. "A Wand for Skitter", on Fanfiction.net. Her fists clenched, "I have to. And a disabled unpowered Taylor cannot really hold a fic bigger than a one-shot. Will give some more commentary when I get through the other chapters. left kudos on this work! LORD DOOM WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT HIS NAME IS SPELLED WITH ALL CAPS.. "Taylor!" He called out, catching the girl's attention. She had the look of a woman who had gone too long without sleep and had aged years in weeks. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For someone that's disabled, it's a gigantic part of your life every day. 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. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply", 1. ][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! She said, quiet. Press J to jump to the feed. BlackHorse8986, Ventrisuriel, kevin0617, Jesienny, Yugonostalgia, Blizzardbob, Galaxy_Blaze, LostToLight, AngstApocalypse, SpookyOli, SpecGamer, Soyvolon, joker339, Dimasik841, General_Fiye, ABCelia, TheMultiverseTraveler, waves_under_stars, WDW, ava2607, waterflosser, WordForEveryStar, TheWatcher0711, taxemeEvasion, Psych0Geek, ZiaBlue, Peggysussy, Mitriss, Inclaireporeal, CopperGear, HP22h, Reko15, ruruwkzu, Amogo21, Glumski, Twei, Elbiguana, PinkPhysicist, Dragon_King_of_the_West, Bulder, sereminar, tambuli, Aselo, Epicgamer2034, legosif, halfcrazydoor, OrionVenator, CosmicPenguin, ChildGenius, Quebla, and 888 more users My name is Taylor. She gestured for him to sit. Hunter, a Bloodborne crossover by UnwelcomeStorm. Taylor and Contessa's last conversation in the fic has Taylor asking Contessa if all her actions were worth it. On screens (e.g., computer, TV, etc.) Please inform your superiors of our proposal. ), 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. 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! 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). Bakuda told us no, but in less polite terms. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. "We're working to rebuild some of the more important buildings damaged during the initial fighting." Weld stepped inside the hut and found her already there. Just thinking about that made me cringe inside. Really enjoyed this. Special Edition - Taylor is a powerful precog. People needed time to rest, to center, to refocus. https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/gnawing-gorgon-worm-stranger-things.872206/. #1. "If you'll follow me, we'll give you a more thorough inspection on my side of the line.". liberties . 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. Taylor can see through her own eyes in her Breaker state, as her Thinker power causes her blindness and is disabled in Breaker form. None of them have, not really.". 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. The whole world seemed to have stilled. Contessa says she does not know, and decides to fully confess all her. ", "I haven't forgotten." Get insights SPL Payroll Outsourcing Pvt. 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. If she really pushes this power, she can blow out light bulbs, but that's the strongest effect she's managed to generate. 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. 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. 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. Excellent a new story to read, just in time for the holidays. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Chapter 2 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. 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. It also has the effect of putting Leet in reach of Contessa's machinations, reducing her ultimate plan by several steps. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. LF Any fics where taylor is blind either due to trigger or power related or just naturally. Taylor came around the table until she stood to the side of Weld. The therapist had encouraged him to focus on his breathing before belatedly realizing he couldn't - Weld didn't breathe. 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. 6.1 Crescendo Wake me up inside. Weld looked up at the sky, tinged red and orange, marked by the distant plumes of planes. Privacy Policy. Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. 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. When are you gonna update the rewrite version of that. There had been something more in the locker than just bugs and the horrific collection Sophia, Emma and Madison put together. "Someone who's immune to my power." 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. Weld stood, though he made no motion to leave. Can I get list of fics featuring Taylor with horrific and terrifying alt!powers. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. Weld added quickly, "Amazed, even. First let me say that I really like this. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Glow-worm (Fanfic) - TV Tropes "If you don't mind," Taylor spoke and Weld turned to look at her. Can I get a link? Blink Chapter 1, a worm fanfic | FanFiction Things are changed beforehand and echoed through the dotted lines of the stations, but not tied to them. In all likelihood, her job was next. Work Search: The construction workers. It was two dozen or so pages. Now this is a lovely day already. It makes sense, since shards want their hosts to be active out and about, getting into conflict and such. Fics where Tinker!Taylor builds and fights with interstellar warships (and possibly ends up pioneering a space industry)? Wyvern. Or tinkered prosthetics that work the same as or better than what she had before. I've had the same thought, but I think it comes down to a simple thing: Unless you have a serious disability, you don't tend to really think about it, do you? tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". On the night Taylor ran her first path to find cookies, Contessa felt an overwhelming urge to go buy some cookies (implied to be Taylor's) herself (and even thought she was pregnant due to all the food cravings), and Taylor has gotten flashes of Cauldron's attempts to fight Scion. Bakuda. He asked. The fic ends with Taylor asking Contessa if her plans were worth it, while Contessa answers she does not know. 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. Accelerator/Taylor Hebert. Unfortunately for Armsmaster, he was caught on camera and becomes a PHO meme. 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. 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. Intrepid, where she effectively has locked-in syndrome until Faultline arranges for a tinkered suit to compensate. The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. There's chronic pain/illnesses, developmental disabilities like ASD, specific learning disabilities, mental illness, personality disorders, sleep disorders, and various genetic disorders. 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. Looking for Taylor meets Hookwolf at the gym. Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. So many things to explore. I wanted to avoid it, at all costs. There are a few pact Alt!powers out ther you might want to check 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? She hadn't budged an inch. Again, she does not have access to her other two abilities while in Breaker form, but she does get several double-edged perks. Thanks so much for the Skein recommendation. And a title! "What are you aiming to produce?" In his most even voice, Weld spoke. Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. I'm only sleeping.". She stood resolutely against the last light of the sun, her shadow stretching out towards him. in exiled the prosthetic was built by leet. He's so distinctly not human, it's interesting to see how normal things that we take for granted fail to apply to him. 2. "Alright, fine." 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. --it does have a different title, so yes. You were not who I was expecting." Inspired by the game Breeding Season. "Penny for your thoughts? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/LordDoom. Lord Doom is a Worm fanfiction posted on Spacebattles Dot Com, here. The words came out strained. 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. Worm: Drummer Girl | Sufficient Velocity Camera Shy has a blind Taylor with the ability to see through other's eyes and time-stop-explore as her version of teleportation. One of the construction worker Taylor's repeated, she had a black smudge across her cheek. Like a winding river, it may flow past familiar shores or cut its own path through solid rock. Looks pretty interesting so far. LORD DOOM IS MERCIFUL. ", "Good." It was no wonder the East North East Protectorate had been infiltrated so easily. Taylors primary, strongest power is a Breaker state that she can only enter when not observed. Taylor said. 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. The screech of metal greeted Weld as he entered the warehouse. 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. Contessa was using Taylor's trigger to remove her own restrictions and arrange the defeat of some of the world's worst villains. https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/worm-nine-lives-of-the-calico-new-litter-lucky-seven-complete.41492/. Eventually, it's revealed that her nickname is "Tessa," which is short for. Her friends, her charges, her very city. 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. The power has too many nitpicks and conditions. 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. ", Taylor frowned at him before turning back to the sunset. Well maam, we know he said a curse word and weve documented several different effects associated with the ones hes tested on., She checked her area for eavesdroppers, He can light things on fire with the F bomb and powder stone with Ass. "My apologies, Taylor. Twenty feet away lay an anthill. It's not exactly Thinker power (?) Still in use in some parts of Africa and India, it involves dislocating the cataract lens with a sharp or blunt instrument, and pushing it back into the posterior chamber of the eye. She was smiling again. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. Even though the bullying didn't escalate to the locker incident, Taylor Hebert still triggered with powers. A brief history prior to trigger event, combat logs for the first encounter, medical records, and almost inexplicably a school report card. Specifically one where she is the barber. Going to sleep now. Im happy to follow thi for as long as you want to write it. Im looking forward to how this one goes. What happens when, for the first time in the history of the universe, there's a shard that is actually trying to help? L0kiMotion 4 yr. ago Different circumstances cause Taylor to gain different powers and left her blinded in the aftermath. IF YOU LEAVE THIS PAGE NOW, NO HARM WILL COME TO YOU. Glowworm is a Worm fanfic written by redshirt. That's why I don't want this to end in fire. 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? She sat across from him at a plastic fold-out table, her hands folded together primly in front of her. Revenant. Anything that brain of yours could Tinker can be found. Percussive AOE healing? Weve got Dragons and Heroes, some better, some worse. 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. TruckerMan. Looking for Taylor meets Hookwolf at the gym : r/WormFanfic "What do you mean by 'working order'? tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Has a feeling of the Weeping Angels from Dr. Who. Set in the center of one the bridges leading into Brockton Bay - one of the few still standing. Taylor would never have imagined that going blind would have improved her life so dramatically, yet so it happened to be. If she is not being observed by anyone, she is blind. "I mean, I have to say yes, don't I?" Info@splgroup.co.in Info@splgroup.co.in 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. "I can't reveal all the details, of course, but we've already secured a few contracts." Taylor is a dragon wyvern. Horror Alt!Power Taylor : r/WormFanfic - reddit Still the folder seemed remarkably thin for what the media was calling "the next Nilbog. She can float and pass through objects. She leaned forward, her hand to her chest again, "But he's here. Queen of Owls on QQ. You never walked into the villain's lair without some sort of plan of attack. He looked up and he saw Taylor watching him, her brow knitted together. Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. She held a palm out. 40 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 .