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Fiend; or I how I learned to stop worrying and love the Green Sun. (Exalted/Worm)

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Auks said:
So more speculation; Taylor's been outed and will likely be operating outside the PRT. Coil and the Undersiders may have engineered this, and may attempt to recruit her; that's unlikely to go well given her thought process at this point(she doesn't want to be a Supervillain). If Taylor ends up joining either group, it'll probably be because the E88's attempts to kill her require her making an alliance with someone. ABB is still an option at this point, but less likely I think. Taylor joining a criminal group becomes more likely if she kills Shadow Stalker in the course of their fight (quite possible).
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She could join New Wave, at least on a case-by-case basis. With her identity outed she qualifies for their membership, I think.
 
I thought New Wave was mostly 'family'. Ie. they are basically the Fantastic Four/Challengers of the Unknown expy?
 
Quick update: 3.10 will come out before midnight, AZ time.

It would have been earlier, but two people no showed for their shifts at work today. So I just got off 13 straight hours of work, with a handful of coupla minute breaks. FFFFFFFFF-

I'm at 600 words from last night. Writing away~

EDIT: 13 hours. I can't count time, apparently.
 
logiccosmic said:
Quick update: 3.10 will come out before midnight, AZ time.

It would have been earlier, but two people no showed for their shifts at work today. So I just got off 13 straight hours of work, with a handful of coupla minute breaks. FFFFFFFFF-

I'm at 600 words from last night. Writing away~

EDIT: 13 hours. I can't count time, apparently.
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Lol in frm where I am from it will be 12 pm.
 
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    • Wyld Hunt 3.10

    I froze. The room froze with me, falling deathly quiet.

    "Surprised I know?"

    I burnt some energy from my inner pool and replied, "Surprised you are so crazy. Next, I'm sure you will out Emma as Alexandria."

    No one else spoke.

    "Crazy, maybe. But the PRT knows who you are."

    Resisting my instinctual, 'What!' was hard.

    "Of course," She said, waggling her arm – arm!- "I do have a grudge. You burnt off my arm."

    "I burnt off your arm? That one, right there?"

    "Uh-huh. Panacea, remember?"

    I ignored her, moving down the line, staring at the lunch lady. She stared back at me. I lifted my tray, along with my eyebrows. She passed over a plate, mechanically. I slid my tray along.

    "Ignoring me? Alright. Later, then. I'm just going to go tell your dad about you burning my arm off."

    The tray slammed to a stop. The food, charitably called slop, fell off the plate and on to the tray.
    I cracked the plastic rim of the tray in my hands.

    "Too bad about your mom. I could tell her, but, I heard you killed her."

    I turned, swinging my fist at her face. My knuckles collided with her cheek, and she staggered back. My followup swing to her stomach passed right through her as she turned into her shadow-state. She moved back, returning to her normal form.

    "Well, I'll see you around, Defiler. Off to your dad."

    I sprinted at her, silent as the room, fist cocked back. She met me with a kick to the side of my gut, and the breath exploded out my lungs. Collapsing to the floor, I skidded into a table with a wince. With a variety of shrieks and murmurs, the lunch crowd dissipated back to the edges of the room, and the attached hallways.

    "Worthless cunt! I've been wanting to do this all week."

    Catching my breath, I stood back up, furious. It didn't hurt, much, but that had surprised me. I didn't think she had a crossbow, but I couldn't beat her in a fist fight. I'd have to keep her here somehow. Even ten minutes would be enough, if I could buy that much time.

    Fuck her. Fuck her. She was taking my dad from me. He'd hear about this before I could even talk to him. After everything I had done to break it to him the best way, and now this. And the PRT knew who I was? Had they told her? Were they just waiting to grab me? Just had to incapacitate her, and I could beat her to my dad, at least.

    Fuck. Her.

    "C'mon, Hebert. Or Defiler. At least if you put up a fight, I'd feel better about losing an arm to a little bitch who killed-"

    I discorporated, reappearing to her side, hands together over my head, bringing them down on her head. My hands ignited, matching my anger, green flames haloing my fists. I snarled, "Burn."

    My hands passed right through her.

    "Nice try, but you can't pull the same fucking trick on me twice." She said, reforming from her shadow state, and punching me in the jaw.

    I flinched back, instinctively. But it hadn't hurt, much. I leaned back forward, my fist glowing green as I returned the favor. Nothing. Again, the shadow state. I expected it, but it still surprised me when she slammed her elbow into my back, flooring me. That one hurt.

    "That's it? The only reason you burnt me last time was luck."

    A kick to the ribs as I was on the floor.

    I couldn't hurt her, head on. Her shadow-state was invulnerable to anything I had. Anything any cape I knew had. Maybe Eidolon or Mryddin could hurt her, but I didn't have tenth of their abilities.

    I kicked out to where I thought she was, and she tripped. My follow up heel to her face only phased through her. I pushed myself off the floor, away from where I suspected she would be. Behind me, I heard her foot come down where my head had been. I was so fucking angry. Everything, I had done, for nothing.

    I led her to the back wall. I could feel hate simmering under my skin, ready to erupt. It was a feeling I knew well; impotency at being forced into a sub-par form. It was how I had gained wings and stone. But this, this was something more. I could assume the form I wanted, the form that expressed my rage.

    I walked back, keeping her in view. Behind me, I could hear students rushing out of the way of our fight, away from the wall. Good. This was special, just for her. She looked at me backing away, and pulled a knife from her jacket. Her eyes showed nothing but hate for me. I responded in kind. I'd show her how much hate I had. She charged me, knife held low. I sprung my trap, twisting on my heel.

    A wave of green flame, accompanied by a green flash expanded from me, and I knew she would go shadow. Shrieks of surprise came from the audience. Not now. I sprinted forward, straight at the wall, shoulder held low.

    "Missed-" Sophia was cut off as I checked her, shoulder into her stomach, right into the wall. My shoulder, which had grown correspondingly larger to my now 20-foot tall frame, made of stone. We blew right through the wall, and I slammed her into the ground. Cinder blocks pinged off my back and wings as they fell down, sent high from the force we went through with. Around me, a green light blazed, pulsing with my heightened heart beat. The cloud of dust around us settled, showing Sophia at my feet.

    "Fucking finish it, then." Sophia whispered, her chest caved in, limbs splayed. She looked like a broken bug. I turned away, horrified, reality crashing down like an icy wave. I had done that.

    "Do it, damn it!" She hissed, never rising above a whisper. Coming from the hole in the cafeteria wall, students carefully stepped over broken cinder blocks, staying back. I could see Emma, pale, hands to her mouth. Sophia was dying. Had to be, with that much damage. I turned, walking towards the Docks. I had to find my dad. They'd call 911.

    "Oh – I wonder what will happen," Sophia whispered, then spat blood, "If I attack your dad? Will Defiler stop playing around then?"

    I stopped.

    "Oh, you got mad again?"

    She wouldn't attack him – what was I saying? She just outed and tried to actually kill me. No contest on that, this time. She would, wouldn't she.

    "Still can't do it. It's fucking embarrassing that I lose to you."

    I inhaled, green light dimming to a barely perceptible glow. I faced her, exhaling. A stream of hungry green flames rushed to her. Sophia barely had time to shout her surprise, before she was consumed with a roar.

    Screams followed me as I flew away.



    I dug a divot in the yard with my landing. It's pretty hard to see through tears. Stone shattered and blasted away from me, burning and scaring the lawn. I emerged, naked. My keys were gone, so I burnt the doorknob to slag, and kicked the door in. I didn't even bother stopping, even as I felt my feet pierced by splinters. I sprinted up the stairs to my room, dressing as I picked clothes out.

    Hopping on one leg, the other stuffed down a jean leg, I pulled the ABB's wad of money out of the back of my dresser. It went in my pocket, along with various sundry change I had. I couldn't stay. Everyone and their uncle would be coming for me, and by extension, my dad. Better to think we had cut ties. To think we weren't close, that attacking or kidnapping or harming him was a fruitless approach. I stumbled down the stairs, forcing my feet into a pair of older sneakers. A grocery bag of clothes was thrown over my shoulder.

    I pulled a knife from the carving block, and slashed it across the table, burning my words into it. Knife melted down to the handle, I dropped it below my slashes. I could hear sirens, coming closer.

    I fled.


    CHAPTER 3: END.


    A/N: Coil learned the hard way in canon, and so has Sophia.
    Also, this marks a week and 15 hours or so since Taylor Exalted.
     
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    • arthurh3535 said:
    Eh, costs powers and when it does wear off if she's been hiding it, they'll think her an E88 infiltrator.
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    After what she did to Rune and the other E88 parahumans, I highly doubt that. Also, I don't think it wears off until she decides to shut it off or if it does it has such a stupidly long duration that it doesn't matter.
     
    Shapeshifting wouldn't work to conceal her identity in this case anyway; she just got publicly outed, so everyone will know that Defiler is Taylor.
     
    Taylor's mutations:
    Afflictions:
    Thick Skin
    Talons
    Inexhaustible

    Abominations:
    Dragon's Breath
    Gargantuan
    Wings
    Stone Body

    Theme: I'm in deep shit, time to get out of it. Or, what can't I solve by turning into Durin's Bane?
     
    And Sophia was loud enough when she was threatening Taylor's dad that she has a valid excuse for Green Hatefire. That better come out in the report or I will be disappoint.
     
    logiccosmic said:
    Taylor's mutations:
    Afflictions:
    Thick Skin
    Talons
    Inexhaustible

    Abominations:
    Dragon's Breath
    Gargantuan
    Wings
    Stone Body

    Theme: I'm in deep shit, time to get out of it.
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    One thing of note is that even a cursory set of interviews (which isn't what would happen, it would be very in depth) is that the PRT is going to find out that Sophia drove her to it. By tormenting her (and probably being her trigger) and the outing her right there in public.

    So she could technically have a lesser charge thrown against her as she was certainly not thinking totally straight herself.
     
    Spoiler: Nothing happens independently. Maybe Sophia got a phone call. Or maybe she got a certain pair of files stuffed under her door. Which could, or could not be accurate. And who says the PRT has the initiative?
     
    Taylor almost certainly could have talked her way into probation on a Wards team. The problem is any crimes she commits after this aren't going to have such convenient excuses.
     
    mc2rpg said:
    Taylor almost certainly could have talked her way into probation on a Wards team. The problem is any crimes she commits after this aren't going to have such convenient excuses.
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    Worm is a comedy of miscommunication.
     
    Jaertin said:
    Jesus, Piggot is going to be pissed.
    They come this close to getting the potential S class on their side after a disastrous first contact. They even got a heroic team up between her and Miss Militia on national news.
    And SS pulls this shit.

    I have no idea how the hell they could manage damage control on this Charlie Foxtrot, but Sophia better hope she's dead or Piggot will feed her her own limbs.
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    From what I know about GSNF, being killed by it causes your soul to burn for over ten thousand years of unspeakable agony before being completely annihilated.

    Although, I don't recall if you need an upgrade to do that or not.
     
    arthurh3535 said:
    So she could technically have a lesser charge thrown against her as she was certainly not thinking totally straight herself.
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    Given that Shadow Stalker herself was taken into wards after killing a man, and that's without mitigating circumstances, I don't see this being too bad for Taylor. Probation, mandatory service (draft, basically), restrictions of freedom when not on duty for a time, yes. Serious problems (send her to Birdcage!) - no.

    Remember, all the same things PRT applied to Sophia apply to Taylor too, and apply more, given how incredibly useful her powers are to them.
     
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