Camera Shy (Fanfic) - TV Tropes He hasn't even died. Read that one already. Piggot's frown deepened, the wrinkles in her brow tightening even while the skin under her eyes and cheeks seemed to sag. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. "Sorry, I didn't mean anything by it. In fact if there was, Weld suspected that would have just slowed down production. 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. Very intense. QA really turned up the volume this time. She spent several months mentoring and bonding with Taylor, until the emotional connection caused Taylor to develop a "bud" of her PTV Shard. Afraid enough that they won't just attack when they think they can get away with it. Weld sank in his seat. It was two dozen or so pages. If she really pushes this power, she can blow out light bulbs, but that's the strongest effect she's managed to generate. Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. Weaver Nine - This technically doesn't count since Taylor and Jack Slash switch places so it's a story from Jack's perspective if she was born in Taylor's place but naming this anyway since it has some Thinker power stuff going on. In the Worm epilogue, a cape tells a joke with the punchline "six different flavors of sausage." . 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. Weld wondered if she was going to leap and tackle him. "An older model, communicator only?" "Yeah." https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/taylor-and-the-unseelie-court-worm-au.498094/, https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/unreality-worm.625972/. Taylor is incorporeal and unable to directly affect the world in her Breaker form. Piggot looked out the window of the helicopter, watching the landscape blur past them. Can I get list of fics featuring Taylor with horrific and terrifying alt!powers. Dec 22, 2020. Different circumstances cause Taylor to gain different powers and left her blinded in the aftermath. First let me say that I really like this. Weld blinked slowly. I haven't read Hindsight Bias, but Taylor has the ability to frequently precog a few seconds into the future. Taylor ran a hand through her hair. Methuselah (original vampire alt!power) has some hints of it but might not quite fit. She was smiling again. Taylor reassured him, "I want to contribute. Weld closed the file and focused on the thrum of the helicopter's blades. "This was the most beneficial option. 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. What happens when, for the first time in the history of the universe, there's a shard that is actually trying to help? "Makes it seem like you come here expecting a fight. She outspeeded Taylor's clap alchemy (in the tar pit) and then created several, seemingly quite complicated creatures, in the matter of seconds, some of them literally on the fly. She stood and turned to look at the sunset, her back to him. Still blind in one eye, though, fwiw. I can't think of any story where it's just 'Taylor in a wheelchair, living normally'. And a title! and crudest form of cataract surgery. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Can I get a link? I noticed that Stormtigers defensive blast earlier had knocked some of my hair loose, and it hung down out of the thick hood. I haven't read Hindsight Bias, but Taylor has the ability to frequently precog a few seconds into the future. Taylor loses access to her other two powers a Thinker sensory ability and a Shaker aura while in her Breaker form. "I can't reveal all the details, of course, but we've already secured a few contracts." Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. 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. There was no foreman to speak of, no one to admonish or criticize her. Watched. She gestured for him to walk. The therapist had encouraged him to focus on his breathing before belatedly realizing he couldn't - Weld didn't breathe. This seems like it's going to be a real good story. 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. Thanks so much for the Skein recommendation. LORD DOOM WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT HIS NAME IS SPELLED WITH ALL CAPS.. Her Shaker power passively causes static to appear for any cameras viewing her when she comes. You were not who I was expecting." A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! Each time I went through him, the smear effect became more pronounced and I grew more tired. 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. 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). Revenant. JavaScript is disabled. ", Taylor sighed, looking out beyond the city where the faint black shapes of the military stood. If none of its of interest to you, youd be the first. This is an informational threadmark discussing the overall premise of the fic, especially Taylors power. Mutually assured destruction and all that. Taylor was in much the same way; her mom had died in a car accident because she had been texting and driving about a year before I met her. He looked up and he saw Taylor watching him, her brow knitted together. Camera Shy is a Worm alt-power fic by TheGreatGimmick. ", "And so we forget about everything else?" Color me intrigued. Contessa. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Taylor nodded as she took Weld's phone inspecting it. Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. Using her Shaker ability is tiring, despite the weak effect. The power has too many nitpicks and conditions. Lord Doom (Fanfic) - TV Tropes In all likelihood, her job was next. Weld reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. 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. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply". Forty taser drones together are able to kill Hookwolf, blasting him en masse and repeatedly until he stops moving and then a few more times for good measure. 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 let his head fall back against his chair. 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. Chapter 2 Without a word said, the other Taylors relaxed a hair and slowed their pace, giving their coworker time to catch up. 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.". The whole world seemed to have stilled. Taylor the Shopkeeper Summary: In a world without Endbringers, Taylor just wanted to run her store in peace. 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." Please consider turning it on! Alt-power Taylor in the Worm verse with butterflies in play before the canon locker scene. 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. 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. I wanted to avoid it, at all costs. L0kiMotion 4 yr. ago Mulberry, Fl. Thoughts as Light as a Feather - Simurgh!Taylor. You never walked into the villain's lair without some sort of plan of attack. Scalar Vectors by Sceptic62 (7 chapters, 19k words, last updated: 9th Jun, 2017) Aisha Laborn/Alec. 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. Why hold back the sleeper cells? . Any area which is directly observed appears as absolute blackness when in this state, this blackness does not block Taylor's ghost-world vision. When Taylors incorporeal form passes through time-locked objects, they appear to smear, like someone smudged a painting. Taylor's going to love that power soon enough. Lots of tiny drones. Ooo, definitely a fun start. "Right." Ltd. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Instagram. Taylor sees through the eyes of anyone that has any part of her in their field of vision. 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. Camera Shy has a blind Taylor with the ability to see through other's eyes and time-stop-explore as her version of teleportation. Yes. Weld stepped towards the table, eerily aware of the clomping sound his feet made against the huts thin floor. If you accept cookies from our site and you choose "Proceed", you will not be asked again during this session (that is, until you close your browser). I only had another week left before I was supposed to go back to school. Spoiler: Malkavians In Brief Omakes: Rolyat's Visit by SirWill A Father's Pride by Seclorum It would have been so much easier to do that. Queen of Owls reminds me of the Drukhari from 40K. In 1-2 more chapters the S9 arc will push over 100,000 words and almost 1/4 of the story. tip: buffy gen teen AND "no archive warnings apply", 1. We understand better than anyone else their thoughts and feelings.". Can also be found on Sufficient Velocity here. She can process numerous separate perspectives on herself without issue. Nice! Very intense. Taylor helps make cookies, but her power makes her make them right, so when Mrs. Abbotson takes the (many) cookies and baked goods to a bake sale, she rakes in $800. 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. Taylor's other two powers do not function in this state. 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. Taylor vs Squealer vs Oni Lee. 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. Again, she does not have access to her other two abilities while in Breaker form, but she does get several double-edged perks. Taylor came around the table until she stood to the side of Weld. "And they're" Weld coughed, "You're all fine with this? 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. That's amazing! Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. There it was. Have a chappie. The new Empire cape is obviously part of her multi trigger, wonder how many others there are and how they all triggered. 40 It also has the effect of putting Leet in reach of Contessa's machinations, reducing her ultimate plan by several steps. --it does have a different title, so yes. The only thing separating Brockton Bay from the rest of the world. Taylor hesitantly asks. Contessa unlocked her Path To Victory Shard. A subreddit to discuss fanfics for Wildbow's works! No white noise to soothe him. One fitting a piece together and passing it along just as the other finished. Weld was also a really fun character to use as the POV. It's a bit complicated to explain but it's pretty good Thinker fic imo. She didnt rise to meet him and eyed his hand, his chrome skin glowing dimly with the sheen of the light. Is it different from my other fics? The sun reflected off his chrome skin with a bright sheen. There had been something more in the locker than just bugs and the horrific collection Sophia, Emma and Madison put together. Two beetles crawled on a drunk man in what was probably the emergency room, off in the distance. Cutting Ties - Taylor uses Jack Slash's Thinker power to make friends. I eventually decided to appear in front of her, but close enough that the dangerous end of the long rifle was. liberties . So many things to explore. 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. My story Chimera has Taylor with Grand Admiral Thrawn's memories which makes her a thinker. False Starts Worm Chapter 2: Only the Blind Can See, a worm fanfic 43 Kudos: 125 Bookmarks: 33 Hits: 2730 Taylor scowled. Seems like were going to get another awesome story from ScottotheUnwise, nice! The fic ends with Taylor asking Contessa if her plans were worth it, while Contessa answers she does not know. "This and no weapons to speak of." Instead of controlling bugs, she's a Tinker who can make tiny drones. Flames, where she uses illusionist powers to get around missing an eye. When are you gonna update the rewrite version of that. After everything else had gone so well, he had ruined it at the end. Truth or Dare by Discreet (1 chapter, 1.2k words, one-shot) Alec/Taylor Hebert. She let out a long breath, her expression settling on a more neutral one. She cannot reenter the normal world in any location which is being directly observed by a sapient being, though she can move. It's interesting to see an alt Taylor who doesn't have major league powers. No part too large or too small. 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. And if I have to read "Then I went ghost" one more time I swear to GoD someone's getting hurt. "Someone who's immune to my power." This force is not usually strong enough to move heavy or anchored objects, but can send light objects flying. I want things like Alma Wade!Taylor or Grudge or The Ring!Taylor or Dominion!Taylor. 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. No handshake then. Looking forward to reading more, 1.2 Adagio I know this music, time to change the beat. Taylor can repeatedly move through objects in the same direction to smear them more and more for greater push force when time resumes. Inspired by the game Breeding Season. 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. "Phones." To use the same suit of armor example (see the Thinker power's description), Taylor would be able to enter her Breaker state because she is concealed within the armor. Work Search: Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. 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 tour is over. All the Myriad Taylors (all Worm fanfic crossover) Crossover and Samara from the Ring got together in Silent Hill and decided to mix and match powers to grant Taylor. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. There was nothing for Weld to focus on. Please consider turning it on! "I think we're a little past first impressions.". 6.1 Crescendo Wake me up inside. She stood resolutely against the last light of the sun, her shadow stretching out towards him. Finding The Path - Taylor has the PtV, fic doesn't take itself too seriously. Her second power allows her to cause momentary disruptions in electronic systems: Lights flicker, cameras momentarily go to static, etc. ], Uber PoV of 1.9-1.13 [mostly canon-compliant! The Taylors didn't just replace their hosts, they subsumed them. Bakuda told us no, but in less polite terms. Taylor and the Unseelie Court (Taylor isn't herself the spooky monster, but deals with old-school type Fae, dead). 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. Mauling Snarks technically has her with a Trump power, but I feel like she uses it to function more as a Thinker 75% of the time. And if so, is there a difference in the power draw between active and passive participants? You are using an out of date browser. 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. Very NSFW. Personally I find the recent shipgirl invasion into the Worm fanfiction extremely pleasurable. The construction workers. Im happy to follow thi for as long as you want to write it. Silence answered him and Weld mentally berated himself. 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). Taylor turned on her heel and headed for the door on her end of the hut. Taylor and Contessa's last conversation in the fic has Taylor asking Contessa if all her actions were worth it. It ramps up fast well into Peggy Sue territory on the crackish side --where I am most cofortable. It looked like a shipping container, although he was told the furnishing on the inside was a little nicer than that. Her attempt to use her power to get in shape backfires slightly, as it puppets her body. TruckerMan. Looks pretty interesting so far. 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. 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. 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? ", 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. There is not much conflict ypu can have in a wheelchair. Lord Doom is a Worm fanfiction posted on Spacebattles Dot Com, here. All Taylor had to do was touch the right person and every Taylor would have knowledge of how to get into the Protectorate database. ][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! ", Weld's eyes widened and he turned to look at her. She said with only a hint of a sigh. 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. "We're on schedule to get the city back in working order in a matter of weeks. "We will lead you 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. It was tiny from where he stood. Taylor can be insane as well. Still, her advice had been sound and Weld used the ambient white noise to clear his thoughts. Confirmed, power that seems tailored to disrupting cameras so that she can use her main power actually needed. Is Hive Daughter the one where after the first two or three people she adds to her hive they lose their memory/personality/whatever? Got through the rest of the posted material and I just love this to bits. He can make the ground rolls like liquid with Shit. Weld said, not looking away from the hut. One of the best fics I've ever read and it makes me weep that it's dead, "It's okay, Mr. Ethan. 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! The whole 'fic so far is on par with early canon as far as we can tell (feeling wise not literally). There's chronic pain/illnesses, developmental disabilities like ASD, specific learning disabilities, mental illness, personality disorders, sleep disorders, and various genetic disorders. Pretending to be totally blind even when I could see my surroundings through someone else wasnt nearly as hard as you might think. As Weld walked further downhill, she faded from view. "She was one of the original twenty-eight. Queen of Owls on QQ. That's why I don't want this to end in fire. Please inform your superiors of our proposal. ", "Why do you suddenly want to work with the Protectorate? They sat on a veranda at the top of a hill overlooking the city, Taylor savoring a sundae, Weld admiring the sunset. When Taylor phases through objects, they appear to "smear" along the direction of her movement as if someone had smudged a painting. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I mean I'm impressed." 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. I mean throughout the whole fic not like she had it and got panacea'd. No reason to ruin this meeting any further. It was hard to make that connection seeing a dozen of the girls working to repair a building. Taylor as a vampire based primarily on the Malkavian from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, with some. 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. "As far as first impressions go, it doesn't exactly inspire confidence." There are a few pact Alt!powers out ther you might want to check out. 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! Twenty feet away lay an anthill. Its function is awkward and inconsistent enough that she still needs day-to-day professional assistance to go out in public. Her fists clenched, "I have to. Taylor triggers with Contessa's Path to Victory power. I'm only sleeping.". 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. Im looking forward to how this one goes. Weld tried to focus on the buzz of the flourescent lights, but as far as white noise went, that was a little too quiet. She sat across from him at a plastic fold-out table, her hands folded together primly in front of her. And if you're concerned about some sort of class system," She pointed to the girl who had first slowed the assembly line. Grind Chapter 1: 1-1, a X-overs + Worm Crossover fanfic | FanFiction Grind 1.1 I walked into the Library. "If you don't mind," Taylor spoke and Weld turned to look at her. Taylor looked up at Weld, her voice harder, "If I said no, then how pointless would that be? 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? I did not want to go back. 28 Taylors Later - Chapter 1 - Discreet - Worm - Wildbow [Archive of Taylor can be insane as well. But I have to agree that is was great. The writing is flickery, like a florescent bulb with an iffy ballast. It was a beautiful day and Weld was surrounded by girls. From up here, the city looked almost normal. She pulled back as if she had been slapped and for a moment her face twisted, her lips pulling back in a snarl. Taylor gets manipulated by Mrs. Abbotson, an old friend of Annette's, in the wake of her first Path- that to getting cookies. Intercession, after Golden Morning, Contessa takes Taylor another world and hands her a baby Harry Potter to raise. Weld said tightly as he followed the worker Taylor's lead. Definitely a strong mover power, but a thinker primary. "A Wand for Skitter", on Fanfiction.net. The screech of metal greeted Weld as he entered the warehouse. 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. Delirium [Worm/VtMB][Alt-PoV][Complete] - SpaceBattles They they're a part of me now.". Weld sat. This power blocks her from using her own eyes, and if nobody is currently looking at her she is blind. The original story had a similar meeting, but with Contessa and Taylor's positions exchanged. axe throwing layton 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. End result: uninjured Taylor, dogs saved, four guards unconscious and tied up and Hookwolf impaled with two rebar spears, hooked up to a generator and turned into a nightlight. "I know they're afraid of me. "Why what? 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. Press J to jump to the feed. 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. 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. --it does have a different title, so yes. 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. Truthfully, I want them afraid of me. but it focuses heavily on the mental aspect of her powers. Or what was left of it. What if Taylor got a different shard, one accidentally broken when Eden collided with Abbadon and received the Path shard? Just thinking about that made me cringe inside. Of those three, Split recently completed while the other two are languishing in indefinite hiatus. Split - Taylor has a power that allows her to steal other powers but also gets all their memories and she gets very confused about who she is. Doing factory work while others", His guide cut him off. While your feet are stompin'. They would have to be. 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.
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