A New Dawn (Ex-Papergeist) - A Worm/Naruto Crossover
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You could also write it off as a quick of konan's personality, she fought tooth and nail to remove the bijuu from the hidden villages. In a world where every country with any legitimacy and it's dog have nukes why would she give them any more power. She probably wouldn't mention it was even possible.
Anon42
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The problem is that the PRT and Protectorate has to at least pretend to follow the law and throwing an innocent into the Birdcage for having a scary power would be illegal as all hell, not to mention there's no way the parahuman population at large wouldn't react badly to something like that. If they think the gov't is getting into the habit of disappearing unwanted parahumans regardless of their lawful/unlawful status, they're going to push back hard and nobody wants that to happen.
Not to mention Taylor is highly unlikely to just sit there and take it.
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Not to mention the fact that those posts make it sound like she will just let someone steamroll over her like a bitch.
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Yeah, I agree with that. A lot of them seem to say that she would get beat down right away, when she is an S-Class threat. As long as she doesn't announce that what she's doing will eventually make people as strong as her, it would be unlikely for anyone else to realize that it wasn't more than a minor empowerment ability of like Brute 2, Mover 1, etc. At least, unlikely for anyone else to realize it until it was way too late and she had amassed quite the following and had her people getting to be pretty strong in their own right. Those people would all also know how to pass it on, at which point tying to kill Taynon (which would be incredibly difficult) wouldn't stop it.
The S9 getting their claws into her is bad, but I'm not certain they could. It takes all 9 of them to equal an S-Class threat while she is one on her own. Also, the 9 always struck me as on the low end of the S-Class and Konan seemed to be mid-high on that scale. If her abilities are derived from a shard then it gets easier for them thanks to Jack, but it still isn't guaranteed as his powers aren't perfect (a point that fanon seems to forget sometimes). In canon he still got pushed out of the Bay and lost a fair number of people from it, and that's without trying to take on Taynon (and if the S9 did make a move here, they would face all the other heroes and villains as well as her). Finally, after all that, they would have to find some way to capture her alive, and I predict that if Taynon thought there was a chance they would get her, she would suicide quite violently instead and take some of them down with her. Given the dismal odds in general it's more likely that the S9 would try to get some of the strongest people she had given chakra to and give them to Bonesaw for experimentation and improvements to be given for the group. It would make them more scary, but they would still need time to get to their full potential (and Cauldron would smack them down if they ever became too big a threat).
Ziz... Yeah, Ziz would totally mess her up. Unless she happens to be immune as an outside context thing, her precog would see this coming from miles away and twist it into a plot that would destroy the world (or just kill her since the Endbringers are sandbagging and Ziz!bombing her would kinda end the game). Man, now I'm thinking about why I hate high level precogs sooo much.
All of these are moot points as she just doesn't have the skills or knowledge to do so, but I do think it would be unlikely for her to just be killed if she tried (excepting for if Ziz decided to interfere).
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That was not my intention in the least. I was just trying to present the options from the perspective of the Protectorate. IF Taynon had the ability to bestow chakra upon others, and IF it became public knowledge.
But this is getting off point here, because that won't be happening.
I'll be beginning work on the next chapter later today. All this talking has got me itching to write some up. Hope is to release in a few days.
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One thing I should ask is that will Taylor gain other chakra abilities other than paper or OC paper techniques?
Also, when she learns her heroes were "responsible" for Hess tormenting her for a year, make sure she holds the sword that the PRT and Protectorate will impale themselves on in a PR manner, would you kindly?
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CoughCANARYcough. Wow excuse me something cought in my throat there. Seriously they railroaded that poor woman to hell and back. Got away with it and people cheered. PR is a nasty beast to fight. So yes in the right set up they could get away with birdcaging Taylor.
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Anon42
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Canary also made her boyfriend castrate himself, if memory serves. That's Assault with a Parahuman Power. It doesn't help that it was a master power, either. They had some real good dirt on her.
Taylor hasn't done anything yet. Will that change? Probably. But as of right now, she's squeaky clean. There's nothing to try her for, not even a littering or jaywalking charge.
Edit: Assuming the PRT knows what she can do, which they don't (yet).
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Oh i agree she should of gone to prison accident or not. She was guilty. But heres the thing they condemmed her to life imprisonment with no parol for a crime that in no way shape or form deserved it, and got away with it while people cheered.
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I really like the idea of Taylor using a carefully planned campaign to achieve her goals, it will be a nice contrast from most Worm stories.
You may want to keep in mind that entrapment and undercover work might have more restrictions than a teenager and a guerilla freedom fighter would assume.
For example, if you commit a crime while undercover I'm pretty sure you can still be charged with the crime.
In general, it seems like the Superheroes have a much more lax behavior with the law, but with more backlash around use of force.
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When you mentioned "slow burn" did you mean "A Cloudy Path" Worm/Supcom burn or something faster than that.
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There is slow burn, then there is embers sitting in the base of a fire pit. ACP is the later. The only story slower I have seen is a Ranma one.
Also, 1.1k word alert update and not a chapter makes me a sad sad panda.
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How's Taylor going to protect Danny, anyway? Villains will use him as hostages to make her comply with their wishes, heroes will caution Taylor about his safety to make her join them.
Will be best if someone tries to use Danny and Taylor shows that she's not someone to be pushed around.
Even if Talor joins the Ward and the PRT quietly extract Shadow Stalker and doesn't tell Taylor about Stalker's identity, Konan is a ninja, and ninja is a paranoid bunch, she would know there's something wrong and would investigate it, and everything will blow up to kingdom's come. Is there any chance for Taylor, if she joins the Ward (would rather not, though), to put a clause to the contracts that she will only join if the trio are put into jail? I'm pretty sure because she has Konan's memories, she would negotiate for a contract that suits her taste.
If her identity is known, any chance she will join New Wave? Alan Barnes is a lawyer in the same firm as Brandish, right? Or at least I read in some fics he is. Will that put him in a bad position in the firm for having a daughter that bullied a girl, a former friend she betrayed even, until she triggered?
The ones who saw Taylor being outed, are they all Sophia's lackeys or are there others? If there are other people, Sophia wouldn't be able to use this to blackmail Taylor, not that Taylor-Konan will let them happen surely.
Will be best if someone tries to use Danny and Taylor shows that she's not someone to be pushed around.
Even if Talor joins the Ward and the PRT quietly extract Shadow Stalker and doesn't tell Taylor about Stalker's identity, Konan is a ninja, and ninja is a paranoid bunch, she would know there's something wrong and would investigate it, and everything will blow up to kingdom's come. Is there any chance for Taylor, if she joins the Ward (would rather not, though), to put a clause to the contracts that she will only join if the trio are put into jail? I'm pretty sure because she has Konan's memories, she would negotiate for a contract that suits her taste.
If her identity is known, any chance she will join New Wave? Alan Barnes is a lawyer in the same firm as Brandish, right? Or at least I read in some fics he is. Will that put him in a bad position in the firm for having a daughter that bullied a girl, a former friend she betrayed even, until she triggered?
The ones who saw Taylor being outed, are they all Sophia's lackeys or are there others? If there are other people, Sophia wouldn't be able to use this to blackmail Taylor, not that Taylor-Konan will let them happen surely.
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Slow burn for me is that it will be a relatively small buildup, but it won't be say, oh, 820K words over 96 chapters with hardly anything happening *Cough* Cold Calculus *Cough* *Cough* (Seriously, if you want a fic that will have slower development than paint drying on a wall, have at that monstrosity)
Expect an 'incident' in oh, 3-4 chapters? Right now, I have the immediate aftermath planned for this next chapter, then an interlude, then another chapter in which Taylor comes to grips with what she has, and then it will be the chapter after that (currently planned) that we see a bit of Taynon in action.
I KNOW what I want to write this chapter, but there is a difference between knowing, and putting it down in a document.
Yeah, that's a rather dark area in legality, I have to agree. Of course, how can you prove that it is her, if she's running henge and clones for all of her operations? She has to admit to this, she could play it off as she was observing the crimes in progress, etc. Heck, she could masquerade as peddlers. I right now have it sitting on the backburner because that is several chapters off, at least in the planning.
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To be fair, things do happen there, even if they're only accelerating now. The real problem is the bloated reliance on canon imports from a handful of other series (and I know how hypocritical it is for me to say that given my past efforts but I've mostly changed philosophies) to pad the character count for later mass kill offs.
Well it tickled that love for Naruto that I have, and it's a good start with an interesting premise. Of course I'm gonna watch something so promising.
And Koran gets so little love in the fandom besides fan art that shows her off as a pervert. Which is...actually canon surprisingly. Apparently Kishi made her clothing design under the cloak to reflect that she has a somewhat obscene taste in clothing.
Which is...odd, but hopefully with that aspect will only bleed over enough for Taylor to have an improved taste in fashion or something.
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It's backless, iirc? Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's an even bigger deal in Japan than it is here in the West. It's certainly more palatable than the utterly ridiculous body types of the female Kage, though...
Konan always has been my favorite character in the series. Her paper manipulation isn't a bloodline, a mutation, or some forbidden technique, or so it seems, which seperates her from Nagato, Itachi, Kisame, Sasori, Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, Obito, and Zetsu... the entire Akatsuki lineup, actually. Huh. Anyways, she's like Gai or Sai in that she's one of the greatest figures on the former side of the whole 'Hard Work versus Legacy' thing Kishimoto had going on. I'm mostly certain she came up with all her signature techniques by herself and from scratch, barring some early advice from Jiraiya.
Anyway, my point is, from a purely "inner character" perspective, I'm looking forward to how Taylor changes from having pieces of Konan shoved into her head. Modus operandi, attitude, and superpowers are all surface-level stuff - I'm talking about goal-setting and drive. Konan was the kind of person who looked at her war-torn home city when she was five and said, "I'm going to fix that," actually did, then set her sights on the world and said it again. Taylor's not really any different, in canon - my own admittedly toxic views on her character aside - but she had three years whereas Konan had more like three decades. There's a kind of maturity and prioritization that comes with experience, and she has more than most.
Once the Konan part settles in a bit, I'm expecting her to act kind of like Alexandria, actually. Just... more quiet assurance, I suppose? And even less restraint (and care for PR), because that's a thing. Konan did agree to set the Ten-Tails on mankind in the belief that peace can only be found through shared pain. I think she'd get along less with people like Tattletale or Panacea and more with the "old guard," like Myrrdin, Miss Militia, or, well, Alexandria.
Well, that got kind of long. Lovely story c:
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Yeah, I don't think obscene is exactly the right word here. It's backless, midriff baring, and with some sideboob showing. A little racy, maybe, but certainly not obscene.
That was more of a direct quote from Kishi than anything else. It's just supposed to show that she has a hidden side to her that you wouldn't see because of her cold and stoic demeanor.
Or something. I don't know man, it's really weird and I really don't get the whole obscene thing either.
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Questionable translation or Kishi being Kishi, you decide!
I prefer not to think of kishi's characterization choices vis a vis naruto. I much prefer the idea of Konan being outwardly stoic but inwardly exasperated with all of akatsuki's quirks. My favorite characterization of her comes from a story where, when Itachi (so badass the world can't contain him) Uchiha joins she thanks him for joining her in providing a beacon of sanity.
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I'm torn between "hey, this is cool information and I'm enjoying the gossip about the creator which I hadn't really thought much about" and "Gah dammit get back ta writin'; I wanna read more cool things!"