"If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."
Mutant law was an emergent field, more or less the wild west of the legal profession, and on a good day, you're lucky if the law and facts aren't all dead-set against you. And when your list of recurring clients includes the Wielder of Cerebro and the Master of Magnetism?
Well... suffice to say, there is plenty of pounding the...
Autumn's never trained a pokémon for battle in her life, and she's not going to start now. Can she still make a comfortable life in Hoenn? And what's up with this goth chick who keeps insisting on helping her?
Slowburn yuri. Chapters weekly on wednesday evenings. Complete.
AO3 Mirror.
Once, there was a moth, drawn inexorably to the divine flame. It stole that fire for itself, forged it into weapons that could shake the earth and cast down the heavens themselves, heedless of cost or sacrifice. Surely, it thought, even as its wings charred in that heat, with this might it could defeat the ceaseless malice which sought to consume all life. Anything was justified in the face of such evil. Victory would wash away all sin.
It failed.
The moth burned. Its world burned with it...
Taylor didn't survive the Locker, but was given a second chance because a certain toddler hates paperwork. (Considerable AU elements, canon need not apply)
The world has changed much since the Year of Chaos.
The goblinization event in 2021 brought about the return of orks and trolls into the fold of metahumanity, technology has advanced to the point where cybernetic enhancement has gone from possible to mundane, a nearly-omnipresent network called the Matrix ties most if not all computer systems in the world together, corporations have obtained enough power that some might be considered nations unto themselves, the United States broke apart...