So. Anyway, this is the post people have been waiting for.
I'm not entirely sure everyone is going to like what I'm about to say. 
So. The crossover is the core new World of Darkness setting.
Note the phrasing. It is very specific. What I am admitting to is that it is a cross with the New World of Darkness core book [1]. That is to say, in several ways, it is more akin to a full-on genre replacement, recasting the entire superhero milieu of Worm into the dark urban fantasy setting packed full of conspiracies and things lurking in the shadows. I am
specifically not doing a WoD multicross. You're much more likely to see something from an obscure core-line book than you are to see anything from Vampire: the Requiem (and if you see anything from Requiem, it's probably something from The Wicked Dead, being absorbed by Worm-ness and more used as inspiration [2]). I'm going to steal stuff from all over, but just as Helminths is a Warframe-flavoured Worm AU, so all I am admitting to is that this is a nWoD coreline-flavoured Worm AU. [3]
Hence, there are also narrative and genre reasons for what I have done to the gang structure, as well as any dissatisfaction I may or may not have with the canon set-up of gangs and politics and economics and... well, a lot of things. Imago rejects the "great man" theory of history, and canon Worm buys into it totally - hence why in millions of words you can count the number of normal human beings who matter to the narrative on your fingers and toes and have plenty left over. Imago rejects, at a fundamental level, a lot of the axioms and conventions of the superhero genre, even as it uses its aesthetics - or otherwise it takes the convention, but provides it no plot protection and thus leaves it to live or die whether or not humans would follow it.
Imago basically cares a lot less about superheroes fighting, and a lot more about societies, economics, social inequity, the means of control, and how the superman cannot stand above society; that he is fundamentally born of it.
Now, there has been widespread guessing that Taylor is this or that, and many of those guesses are that she's an Awakening Mage. Is she?
Good question. Some of the evidence would suggest that. Other bits would would disagree. If you asked her, she wouldn't say she is. There are certainly distinct ways that she seems to be doing things which Awakening Mages wouldn't do them. It would certainly be possible to conclude that just as in Helminths, she's a parahuman who just happens to resemble a Nyx warframe, in this, she's a parahuman who just happens to have a power which resembles some of the things a mage can do. Or maybe she is a mage. Or maybe she's something else. Maybe I've just taken several powers given classically to creepy girls in horror series and smushed them together into a parahuman framework.
But no, I won't give you a clear answer to that. Certainty and knowledge denies horror. And in a very real sense, it
doesn't matter if she's a mage or not. She's certainly not getting a handy explanation of what her powers are precisely. So neither will you.
[1] It is not in any way a cross which uses the God Machine Chronicles, which is mechanically fucked up and the product of a rote copying of FATE-like design principles without actually thinking of how that affects the Simulationist nWoD. I detest the GMC. Likewise, nDemon can fuck right off because it in no way belongs in the nWoD (while fitting right in the oWoD).
[2] Or
Cymothoa sanguinaria, which is a nasty little thing which canon Skitter could have done dreadful things with, and which has its horror coming from the fact that it's completely mundane.
[3] There has been a lot of use of Damnation City, but that's because Damnation City is... like, the
best book ever for writing urban settings, especially horror-tinged ones, and anyone who is writing a Wormfic should, IMO, read Damnation City because it's basically a book on cities, power and influence, neofeudal hierachies, and territory control.
