Firebird, a Worm AU/Xover?

Yay! It's back!

...I'll have you know I'm still waiting for Taylor to say The Line, do something to show everyone that 'S-Class Threat' doesn't even begin to cover it. The Line I am referring to is of course, this quote: "I am Fire and Life Incarnate! Now and Forever...I AM PHOENIX!"
 
To be specific, Dinah & Accel!Taylor ran afoul of a Suspiciously Competent Woman wearing a Fedora and ended up in a new world. Acce!Taylor had some issues to work out. Then she started a popular young adult series under an assumed name. Dinah edits for her.

...So Taylor already met herself then??

Well crap. That's...something.

Edit: Looking back, all Taylor saw was a Brunette. Accel!Taylor must quite a bit older now if she didn't recognize herself.

Or Taylor's just too caught up with her issues. And there are a lot of Taylors, so Accel!Taylor could be excused for not realizing that she was signing a book for her counterpart.

Still, you would think that AT would want to at least see her father alive...or not, since that would bring back some painful memories...
 
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This was a new take on the Undersiders post Coil. Too many fics don't understand at the start of canon they weren't that close. It is the share troubles post Endbringer. With out those experiences it is much more likely that they would drift apart instead of stay together especially with out being a large targets of other groups and they can all just fade back into the background.

it is also nice to see Talyor starting to think about the future and what is happening to her instead of just flying from mess to mess. I want to see what happens if Talyor meet Glen anytime soon.
 
Nice to see you returning to this again, @chibipoe.
So the bleed over of the Phoenix/Jean Grey memories are taking a greater hold on Taylor.
It is only a matter of time before Taylor sees the whole truth.
When that happens, who knows what will occur.
 
To be specific, Dinah & Accel!Taylor ran afoul of a Suspiciously Competent Woman wearing a Fedora and ended up in a new world. Acce!Taylor had some issues to work out. Then she started a popular young adult series under an assumed name. Dinah edits for her.
...So Taylor already met herself then??

Well crap. That's...something.

Edit: Looking back, all Taylor saw was a Brunette. Accel!Taylor must quite a bit older now if she didn't recognize herself.

Or Taylor's just too caught up with her issues. And there are a lot of Taylors, so Accel!Taylor could be excused for not realizing that she was signing a book for her counterpart.

Still, you would think that AT would want to at least see her father alive...or not, since that would bring back some painful memories...
... I don't know if I've had too much coffee or not enough.
Hoo boy.
 
...So Taylor already met herself then??

Well crap. That's...something.

Edit: Looking back, all Taylor saw was a Brunette. Accel!Taylor must quite a bit older now if she didn't recognize herself.

Or Taylor's just too caught up with her issues. And there are a lot of Taylors, so Accel!Taylor could be excused for not realizing that she was signing a book for her counterpart.

Still, you would think that AT would want to at least see her father alive...or not, since that would bring back some painful memories...

Nah. AccelTaylor wasn't even thrilled about being in BB again and most of the time, her signings there, she's in a bad mood. She's also got a few years on Taylor at this point and with hair, etc, you can do a lot to look different.
 
Nah. AccelTaylor wasn't even thrilled about being in BB again and most of the time, her signings there, she's in a bad mood. She's also got a few years on Taylor at this point and with hair, etc, you can do a lot to look different.

So business as usual then. She was never in a particularly good mood in Acceleration, after all.
 
Nah. AccelTaylor wasn't even thrilled about being in BB again and most of the time, her signings there, she's in a bad mood. She's also got a few years on Taylor at this point and with hair, etc, you can do a lot to look different.
I see. Well, I don't know if this is just a neat little reference or the harbinger of larger plot points, because I can see it one of two ways:
A!Taylor talks to P!Taylor about how cutting loose kills bad guys really damn well, but it doesn't actually do anything about the problems in your life.
P!Taylor has her psychotic Phoenix break, and A!Taylor gets swept up in the fight to stop her... which leads to P!Taylor reading her mind.
 
I see. Well, I don't know if this is just a neat little reference or the harbinger of larger plot points, because I can see it one of two ways:
A!Taylor talks to P!Taylor about how cutting loose kills bad guys really damn well, but it doesn't actually do anything about the problems in your life.
P!Taylor has her psychotic Phoenix break, and A!Taylor gets swept up in the fight to stop her... which leads to P!Taylor reading her mind.
Just a neat reference imo.
 
I see. Well, I don't know if this is just a neat little reference or the harbinger of larger plot points, because I can see it one of two ways:
A!Taylor talks to P!Taylor about how cutting loose kills bad guys really damn well, but it doesn't actually do anything about the problems in your life.
P!Taylor has her psychotic Phoenix break, and A!Taylor gets swept up in the fight to stop her... which leads to P!Taylor reading her mind.

Nah, it's entirely out of story stuff. The Nine aren't showing up here and on a whim, I decided that was why. As I summed up(thanks to someone digging my quotes out):
Re: Acceleration. Her dad was dead, her house was totalled(twice! once by Coil and then again as she brawled with Crawler into a trap). Her dad got picasso'd and she was on her way to a grade A mindfuck/reprogramming before she broke out, killed Jack and cronies. She left BB because even with some friends, she had nothing left there. Recently, I added a final word on it and now AccelTaylor is a prosperous writer of YA lit, putting a sanitized version of her story to page under a pseudonym, and Dinah is the editor. Also, the new earth she found herself on, well, her first act was removing the Nine from existence because fuck that noise.

I might eventually add it there. As it is, in Firebird-land, she did something to disguise herself. Vector'd her hair color and/or skin pigmentation. By this point, she's older too than Firebird!Taylor, so that helps as well while she continues her tour.

It's flavor. I don't have any plans for the Nine to be involved in Firebird. I've done them and they just drag things down and draw the worst sort of negativity, so my headcanon is the Nine are dead and on a whim, I said this was why. It doesn't affect anything so feel free to consider the Nine active if you want. They're just never showing up in Firebird.
 
I see. Well, I don't know if this is just a neat little reference or the harbinger of larger plot points, because I can see it one of two ways:
A!Taylor talks to P!Taylor about how cutting loose kills bad guys really damn well, but it doesn't actually do anything about the problems in your life.
P!Taylor has her psychotic Phoenix break, and A!Taylor gets swept up in the fight to stop her... which leads to P!Taylor reading her mind.

Well, A!Taylor probably just doesn't care. And like Chibipoe said, whatever P!Taylor gets up to is her business, and A!Taylor is content in letting shit happen as long as they don't bother her with it.

She's like the Sleeper in that regard.
 
Brian you are a giant dick.......anyone else who was a co worker off the leash would have just left town with ALL the money.....fucking idiot.
Glenn if you knew the truth your head would spin faster than Reagan in the Exorcist.:o

Pretty sure she could use her powers for everything that's missing......there's always some gold or money hidden or forgotten somewhere.
Treasure..............money lost and never recovered. Hell with the phoenix force she could build herself a fortress in the mountains somewhere.

Lisa let it go........take the money and like the song says, 'slip away'.

Victoria and Dean those two are just annoying.......without powers they would be that couple that married young and despises each other five years down the road. So freaking happy to see a update......too damn bad the Phoenix Force doesn't come with a users manual.
 
Nah. AccelTaylor wasn't even thrilled about being in BB again and most of the time, her signings there, she's in a bad mood. She's also got a few years on Taylor at this point and with hair, etc, you can do a lot to look different.

Taylor isn't her own type anyway. She much prefers to check out only fairly attractive women, anyone else she basically glosses over their appearance, maybe noting one or two traits. No way she would have recognized an older version of herself.
Brian you are a giant dick.
That's actually totally in character for him. He only really cares about very few people in the world, everyone else is either an asset or an obstacle to taking care of those people. He hadn't gotten close to Lisa, so if she ain't gonna help...
 
Taylor isn't her own type anyway. She much prefers to check out only fairly attractive women, anyone else she basically glosses over their appearance, maybe noting one or two traits. No way she would have recognized an older version of herself.

...Well you're not really wrong, but that's still a messed up way to put it.

But hey, she sees the features that she finds unattractive on herself on another woman and I suppose it makes sense...

That's actually totally in character for him. He only really cares about very few people in the world, everyone else is either an asset or an obstacle to taking care of those people. He hadn't gotten close to Lisa, so if she ain't gonna help...

...I'm pretty sure you're talking about Brian, but I don't see the quoted part.

...It's prolly Shadowcub that said it then. It makes sense.

Anyway, I agree. Brian isn't really much of a nice guy, so as long as he sees that he's getting the money to pay for the stuff he needs to do for Aisha and if it's not totally morally reprehensible, he'll throw his bid in with whomever.
 
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...Well you're not really wrong, but that's still a messed up way to put it.
Hey. For someone who's allegedly straight, she spent a lot of time eyefucking attractive women, okay? Very little time was spent on the guys. Hell, when she was checking out Contessa it read like she might have been drooling a little.
Anyway, Brian isn't really much of a nice guy, so as long as he sees that he's getting the money to pay for the stuff he needs to do for Aisha and if it's not totally morally reprehensible, he'll throw his bid in with whomever.
<shrug> It's who he is. He's not a great person. Hardly the worst, but he could and did really come off as an asshole if you weren't a part of his in-group.
 
IT LIVES! LIVES!

Now dogs and cats are living together and I can resume my semester happy!
 
"89.7767% chance I have no idea what I'm doing."
"100% chance you're asking a primary school child to edit things for you."
"Excellent! It'll be perfect for the masses."
"... damn it, 100% chance you're right."
"Never overestimate the lowest common denominator, Dinah."

Mostly meant to convey that Sentinels as they actually are look a great deal more terrifying than what we see.
Looks pretty terrifying to me.

I mean, yeah you can easily say that just an image of one standing around doesn't really convey much, especially without size taken into account, but the right pose of a giant, lumbering, eyes-glowing, laser-hand-reaching-for-your-tiny-self death machine looks pretty bad no matter what stupid colour scheme you pick.

Also, is it just me or do Sentinels share Galactus' colour palette?
 
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YES! RISE PHOENIX! RISE!
Good to see this alive again.
 
Oh, hey, Firebird has updated.

... Mhh: vaguely remembered that Taylor was effectively homeless, but the memory of Noelle being cured had slipped from my mind. And also the OC friends of Taylor.

Still, a good read. Also, with the confirmed cameo of Accelerator Taylor, i expect for this Taylor to somehow met the X-Men in the future.
 
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