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Firebird, a Worm AU/Xover?

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There comes a time when you look back and think of what choices you made lead to this.

"ALL SHALL WORSHIP ME!"

Then you realize that you are currently on fire because apparently Sirin has a bit of a temper.

"TREMBLE BEFORE ME MORTALS!"

Ok... maybe a huge temper.

"EVERYTHING BURNS!"

Well, thankfully I second triggered. Who knew facing down a cape that could do a good impression of the Simurgh would be so traumatizing?

"HOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!"

Oh, god... she is doing the stupid noble laugh again. That makes cringe everytime without fail.

"I WILL FEED YOU YOUR SPINE!"

Welp... time for me to leave. For you see, I once was a young lad named Clockblocker, who had the power to stop the time of an object by touching it.

"BURN!"

... Anyway. It would seem my second trigger changed my power a bit. Like those things generally do.

"LOVE ME!"

So, instead of the power to stop time with a touch, I got the power to either skip forwards in time, or go backwards in time.

"NO ONE ESCAPES!"

I call myself Retcon man now.

"I CAN SMELL YOUR FEAR!"

And I am going to go back in time and slap my past self before he makes a horrible, horrible mistake.

"I DO NOT LOOK FAT IN THIS DRESS!"

Wish me luck.
 
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Galeiam said:
Insight

The static is growing clearer now.

The thought comes to mind as I wrap up the hands of Merchant pair in plastic ties, and wave off the thanks from the woman they had been accosting.

Even more so when around familiar faces.

"Oi, bitch, let us go or I'll shiv yer in the kidney wit me pointy." I sighed. Why do I have to get all the abrasive ones, can't I run into a simple cape fight?

Duct tape will fix that problem at least, if only it worked on relationships.

T̀͜a̴͟͟͞͡y͢҉̶l̸̵̨͟͢o̴̢r͞͏̕͠

Startled I whip around searching for the one calling my name. "Who is it!"

"Oh hi Sirin, it's just me." Ugh, another one of Piggot's plays.

"Go away Browbeat, I really don't feel like dealing with you tonight." There! A spark of anger under his usual confused jumble of guilt, sadness, and pity. Why does he always think that way about me; does he know?

I͞'̛̀m̴̢͡ ̵̡̢͜s͟ó̵͡͝͠ ̴̢̕ş͝o̶̴͢͝ ̨̧̨͜ş̸̕o̶͢r̶ŕ͡ỳ͟҉͟ ̛́T̛͠a̶y̛̕͞l͟҉o͘͜͞͡r͟͡͠

"What did you say?" I question him, as the whispers seemed to come from his general direction.

"Me? Nothing"

Sigh... Clearer everyday, but still just noise.

"Whatever then, just go away Browbeat, neither one of us wants to be here." I turned my back to the boy and made sure the thugs were secure before I floated away from the scene.

Please Taylor let us in.

Nothing but static on the wind behind me.
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Hope it helps.

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Who know
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Taylor needs to get stronger. Not for the obvious reasons though. Monkey typists go!

Vicky: *mock seriousness* "You're broken. Absolutely broken."
Taylor: *Lisa levels of smug* "Oh, I know."
Vicky: *struggling not to laugh* "And modest. God, I can only imagine how pissed Armsmaster's going to be about this."
Taylor: "Hey, it's a free country. Last I checked this is public 'land' as held by the city, of which I am a citizen, and we're well below flight altitude so I don't need a permit or permission."
Vicky: "You're stretched out on a telekinetically crafted recliner, sitting above the Protectorate base-"
Aegis: *just showing up because he's the only local PRT cape who can fly* "Ladies. Sirin, I've been sent to ask what you're doing."
Taylor: "Want a marshmallow?"
Aegis: "Uh-"
Taylor: "Well, I want to be left alone, so it looks like you're all out of luck." *slowly pushes Aegis back down to the floating Protectorate base*
Vicky: "You're sitting out here eating marshmallows above the hero's base? They're going to cause all sorts of trouble over this."
Taylor: *lights a marshmallow on fire* "No, I'm sitting out here roasting marshmallows above the 'hero's' base. And they can't reach me. Want one?"
*helicopter flies up, Taylor stops the blades and slowly lowers it back down to sit beside the other one*
Taylor: "Really not sure what they were thinking there..."
Vicky: "Eh, why not. Wave up another chair for me?"
Taylor: "Sure."
Vicky: *munching on marshmallow* "These aren't bad. Where'd you get them?"
Taylor: *points down*
Vicky: *stops laughing after a while* "Hey, can I call up the rest of New Wave, or at least the other teens? Mum's going to hate this, it'll be awesome!"
Taylor: "Yeah, it's no problem." *waves a hand around at the open air* "As you can see, there's plenty of seating.*
Vicky: "I'll tell them to bring more marshmallows, wouldn't want to run out."
Taylor *floating multiple extra bags up from the Protectorate base* "Oh, I don't think that'll be a problem."
Vicky: "Isn't that stealing?"
Taylor: "Hey, I'm not the one that keeps insisting I'm a Ward. They can't have it both ways!"
 
Man, so Phoenix is still really pissed at Xavier (i.e. the position of Authority/Father figure), huh.

So, over/under on Coil/Lisa conveniently leaving the lofty warehouse building open?

Also, Taylor's, at least for me, starting to cross the line from opinionated teenage to angsty-derp. I know some don't like canon Taylor for her pig-headedness, but for me, at least in there, it felt like it had purpose, even if you didn't agree with it/thought it was stupid.

Here, it feels more like Taylor just couldn't get her way, ran away from home, and can't quite seem to turn the bend and come to grips with the fact that she might have made the wrong call (even if she does know she's right about the PRT not being on the up-and-up, even if it isn't ALL their fault), or being so self-deluding (with precog, nonetheless) as to believe she'll be fine.

But at least the Taylor/Vicky (friend)shipping continues. Though how long Vicky will be able to hide Taylor's whereabouts now that Dean's apparently put two and two together....

Too bad about Miss M getting tainted by association, but I suppose while she's feeling bad about it, Armsy is investigating Coil (or other hacker) shenanigans, while Piggot is applying as soft a squeeze as she currently can, given Taylor's powerset.

She needs to do more, but it's pretty damn hard to fight off a precog, and it's not like she has the clout to ask someone higher up the Protectorate chain, like say, Alexandria or Legend come in and help out.
 
Metroidvania said:
Here, it feels more like Taylor just couldn't get her way
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That's not it. Kids know they wont always get their own way (more or less), it's that everyone around her was basically ignoring her (even if only because her precog wouldn't show her how to get the result she wanted so she didn't say anything meaningful) or trying to use her. So she doesn't want to trust anyone, and really has no reason to when she knows that the PRT was lying/misleading her and she knows that her father doesn't care about her own opinion, but she's getting lonely because she has, up until now, been living at home all her life and that's a big adjustment to make.

She'll be fine (in terms of loneliness) once a couple of months have past and she's used to it. She'll find hobbies (outside of skinhead shakedowns), maybe get some sort of work, figure out an expanded circle of friends, etc. It's what growing up and leaving home is about. It's just that she's doing it earlier than most do so it's a shock to her system.
 
Metroidvania said:
Man, so Phoenix is still really pissed at Xavier (i.e. the position of Authority/Father figure), huh.

So, over/under on Coil/Lisa conveniently leaving the lofty warehouse building open?

Also, Taylor's, at least for me, starting to cross the line from opinionated teenage to angsty-derp. I know some don't like canon Taylor for her pig-headedness, but for me, at least in there, it felt like it had purpose, even if you didn't agree with it/thought it was stupid.

Here, it feels more like Taylor just couldn't get her way, ran away from home, and can't quite seem to turn the bend and come to grips with the fact that she might have made the wrong call (even if she does know she's right about the PRT not being on the up-and-up, even if it isn't ALL their fault), or being so self-deluding (with precog, nonetheless) as to believe she'll be fine.

But at least the Taylor/Vicky (friend)shipping continues. Though how long Vicky will be able to hide Taylor's whereabouts now that Dean's apparently put two and two together....

Too bad about Miss M getting tainted by association, but I suppose while she's feeling bad about it, Armsy is investigating Coil (or other hacker) shenanigans, while Piggot is applying as soft a squeeze as she currently can, given Taylor's powerset.

She needs to do more, but it's pretty damn hard to fight off a precog, and it's not like she has the clout to ask someone higher up the Protectorate chain, like say, Alexandria or Legend come in and help out.
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You do know that Miss M fucked up when they interrogated Taylor at her school right? So technically it is not by association.

I also disagree with a lot of your points, but I wont go into that.

That way lies pointless arguments.
 
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She'll be fine (in terms of loneliness) once a couple of months have past and she's used to it. She'll find hobbies (outside of skinhead shakedowns), maybe get some sort of work, figure out an expanded circle of friends, etc. It's what growing up and leaving home is about. It's just that she's doing it earlier than most do so it's a shock to her system.
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Eh, doesn't feel like that to me. Taylor's not leaving the nest because it's time, it's because she felt Danny didn't respect her opinion enough to wait like he said he would, and feeling like she was betrayed first, bailed out.

It's leaving home, but I don't know that I'd call it growing up. It's a power-enabled variant slamming the door on your way out, and then ignoring the other person because you couldn't win the argument....but then realizing that maybe you were a little rash, but you're still too bitter about the other person's decision to go beyond admitting that maybe you weren't completely in the right either, but it's still the other person's fault.

(Again, I know it's at least partially justified, but objectively, she's not the sole person interested in her welfare)

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You do know that Miss M fucked up when they interrogated Taylor at her school right? So technically it is not by association.
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Unless I'm remembering wrong, she repaired some of that with her 'straight shooter' approach.

As for the rest, no person seems to see Taylor the same way, especially when interacting with the PRT. I don't intend my opinion to be taken as fact/law, lol.
 
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I find Piggot's plan of "keep annoying her" suspect, and she can't blame tampering with the paperwork this time.
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Actually seemed to me Piggot was doing the minimum required of her to demonstrate she is trying to take care of Taylor as she is legally required to do. She warned Taylor that if Danny signed her to the Wards they would be forced to hound her, and that seems to be what we see happening.

Seclorum said:
The wording right there gives her an out.

Sure the paperwork gets fed into the database but it's as simple as stamping it and making a note/flag on the file that the application has been Rejected.
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"We can't expose the identity of actual participating Wards to reluctant and unwilling applicants." The world doesn't end.
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I don't think she has the option of refusing to take responsibility for Taylor. Think more like CPS taking responsibility for a child the parents elect to hand over than some after school club.
 
Cause this is the internet. Where both people and individuals are idiots.
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Why do people keep hugging me >..>

Am I saying depressing stuff or something.
 
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Galeiam said:
It was merely an oversight on his part.

His borderline Asperger's mentality never made him question that Taylor wouldn't enjoy the intrusion.

So while he could have researched her and gotten more information about the situation, he might still have been outpaced by Piggot.
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I resent that. I have full-blown Aspergers and I'm nowhere near as bad at social-fu as Armsmaster.
 
Hungrily devours new chapter. More please? Though, we are relying on an unreliable narrator for the entire story, so instead of only Taylor, might as well go the whole nine yards make everyone work on differing assumptions and insufficient knowledge (like in real life). Everyone doesn't know jack about what's going on in whose head or their motivations so wrong conclusions come and then...it all blows up messily in everyone's faces. Though I'm curious, who's gonna end up like Mastermind? Will it be Mr. Calvert, Mr. Slash, Ms. Cherish? Or will it be Ms. Livesly? Food for thought.
 
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But some are. The symptoms for Aspergers, like for practically all mental disorders can vary greatly between individuals.
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At risk of a Tangent, I also resent using that term. I am just little bad at reading into the subtleties of social interaction, and half of what I do pick up on I don't care enough about to acknowledge. Personally, if everyone in the world was more like me we'd already have colonies on Mars, world hunger would be solved, wars would be an old history lesson, healthcare would be universally free, the energy crisis would've ended in the early 2000s, and humanity would be slowly dying off from lack of interest in reproducing.
I am perfectly functional. :Citation Needed:
And because I know that some people actually do have significant disruption to their lives and/or society because of this atypical form of social functionality I won't deny that it is still an issue. I just don't like all the negative connotation that always crops up with the terms disease, disorder, or defect. Especially because, even with others who have a worse case than me, I can empathize with others with aspergers. I know why they do what they do, I know what they feel, and in many ways it makes more sense than the baseline behavior of a typical person off the street. Having aspergers makes you feel like one of the only sane people in a world full of crazies.
 
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The thing about opinions is that they are rarely ever the same. To-mae-to, to-mah-to and so on. Fictional characters, believe it out not, would follow the same rule. Vista, apparently, thought it was mean. CB thought otherwise. Those are the characters that have the opinions that matter. You (this is a general term with nobody in particular in mind), me and everyone else on this forum are, fortunately, not a part of this awesome but borderline depressing story (!gasp!). With this in mind, it is my *opinion* that arguing over such a thing is pointless.

Something else to keep in mind is that the teenage years are pretty fucked up when it comes to sensitivity. I, now, am a pretty laid back person in my 20s. In my early teens I was a teacher's pet with sensitivity issues pouring out of every orifice. I got butthurt easily and often, and am both jealous (of my drive to do well in life) and embarrassed (of everything else) of my younger self. Point is: people tend to think differently according to their level of maturity, and sometimes forget that when they say things without consideration.

And that concludes my rant of the month! Stay tuned next time on Sufficiently Hobi!o_O
 
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I resent that. I have full-blown Aspergers and I'm nowhere near as bad at social-fu as Armsmaster.
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I also have full blown Asperger's note I only said social.

I can have entire conversations with people, even strangers, yet I can't look anywhere near that person when talking.

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zzz now I know how shade feels, like 30 hugs when i checked alerts this morning.
 
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