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Firebird, a Worm AU/Xover?

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Yojorocks said:
My reaction to the chapter was firmly in "that's terrifying"; on one hand, I'm interested in seeing more of this Madison, because frankly this adds a hell of a lot to an otherwise flat character of Madison. OTOH, she's acting waaaaay too much like a functional sociopath right now - Being X gives me Y, so therefore I am X.

I'm actually pretty happy that she's in the wards, because someone like Coil getting their hooks on a shapeshifter with lots of wants and no morals is terrifying. She may be damaged, but that doesn't excuse her just flat out using people for her own ends - she certainly doesn't care about what happened to Taylor, just the shift in power structure and how it will relate to the people she is coat-tailing off of - I mean, her "friends" - and how that affects her own place in the social structure. I'm almost interested in seeing if Tattletale can pick up anything from Browbeat - if Madison has that much control over her (? - screw it, Madison is a she) body, she could potentially stonewall TT's pickup on tells.

Great job, especially with that curveball!
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IIRC TT could read Dragon just fine, and Dragon literally has no tells.
 
Yeah, Tt can infer from other stuff than just minute body language tells. But if Madison's got a stranger power, that does even things out a bit, depending on if she can figure out what her power is telling her Lisa wants to see/hear.
 
End ruined it.

I prefer a setting where the Protectorate/Wards are actually decent people over all. Sophia was just the oddball that happened to screw Taylor over. Lumping Madison with them means Sophia isn't just an abnormal occurrence, because seriously, one bully/shard-generated sociopath being overlooked is ok, but two?
 
Yanslana said:
I prefer a setting where the Protectorate/Wards are actually decent people over all. Sophia was just the oddball that happened to screw Taylor over. Lumping Madison with them means Sophia isn't just an abnormal occurrence, because seriously, one bully/shard-generated sociopath being overlooked is ok, but two?
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Sophia isn't a Ward here. And Madison doesn't seem anywhere near that level of cruel.
 
@Yanslana as has been mentioned before just a page or 2 ago SS is not in the wards in this fic.

@chibipoe At first i thought you had made Madison into Rune but then she started changing physically, at which point I went into denial because I couldn't conceive of that fanon joke being used. Then you did it anyway, that was awesome.
 
Dreadis said:
@Yanslana as has been mentioned before just a page or 2 ago SS is not in the wards in this fic.

@chibipoe At first i thought you had made Madison into Rune but then she started changing physically, at which point I went into denial because I couldn't conceive of that fanon joke being used. Then you did it anyway, that was awesome.
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I considered having Rune befriend Taylor, then changed my mind. I hope to explore BB's supposed immense cape population a bit here.
 
vendoban said:
Madison can be unisex? I've never heard of a guy named Madison before...
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Madison is a popular unisex given name in the United States, which has grown more popular for females in recent decades. From a practically non-existent girl's name before 1985.

Madison is also a male given name and can be found within the top 1,000 names for boys up until about 1952. Madison returned to the top 1,000 ranked boy's names in 1987, remaining there through 1999, and it also was the 858th most common boys' name in 2004, but it remains uncommon as a male given name in the United States.
 
VolantRedX said:
Sophia isn't a Ward here. And Madison doesn't seem anywhere near that level of cruel.
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Eh, Madison may be indifferent as to what her actions may have caused (at least, outside the context of furthering her own social status when Taylor was an 'acceptable' target), but even with her indifference, she knew what she was doing to Taylor wasn't pleasant, even if her own schemes were 'more petty/not as bad as it appeared to be' compared to Sophia or Emma's plans.

It's moreso callousness than flat-out cruelty, but she went along with it all the same.
 
Metroidvania said:
Eh, Madison may be indifferent as to what her actions may have caused (at least, outside the context of furthering her own social status when Taylor was an 'acceptable' target), but even with her indifference, she knew what she was doing to Taylor wasn't pleasant, even if her own schemes were 'more petty/not as bad as it appeared to be' compared to Sophia or Emma's plans.

It's moreso callousness than flat-out cruelty, but she went along with it all the same.
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I'm not trying to say she's an angel just that her actions seem more in line with petty 15 year old and not raving sociopath.
 
Metroidvania said:
Eh, Madison may be indifferent as to what her actions may have caused (at least, outside the context of furthering her own social status when Taylor was an 'acceptable' target), but even with her indifference, she knew what she was doing to Taylor wasn't pleasant, even if her own schemes were 'more petty/not as bad as it appeared to be' compared to Sophia or Emma's plans.

It's moreso callousness than flat-out cruelty, but she went along with it all the same.
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Pretty much. I don't want it to seem like I'm making Madison into a paragon or anything. She's pretty terrible. Just a lesser degree of it. Will she get better? Who can say?
 
So lets see.

Sophia isn't a Ward here, but by a bit a snippet back the Protectorate know about her and on the lookout for her. Probably to try and curb her violent behavior.

We have two Teens called Catherine and Minako, who are either gang member spies, independents, or just normal teenagers wanting friends in a new environment.

Madison is a not-entirely mentally and emotionally happy Shape-Shifter/Browbeat/Ward/Girl/Boy?

We have Great Teacher Armsmaster, out to grade all the papers as efficiently as possible

We have an Alan Barnes that does not immediately act like a total, absolute jackass and goes around trying to blame everyone but his perfect little girl and is actually acting like a half-decent human.

And Taylor is the host to the slumbering powers of a Cosmic God-Being that gives all the Entities inferiority complexes.

It's not that we have so much left the rails, as the rails never existed in the first place and were never intended to be used/

chibipoe said:
I was kind of getting tired of the TT one and with Aburan devoting time for that photoshop, I figured why not? :)
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Indeed. Totally cool with me.


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Oh god, I can smell dinner and it smells freaking fantastic.
 
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Noxturne90 said:
It's not that we have so much left the rails, as the rails never existed in the first place and were never intended to be used/

Oh god, I can smell dinner and it smells freaking fantastic.
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The Phoenix cares not for your rails. They are straight and rarely curve and are just boring.

And I loathe you. I have another hour of work and I want food.
 
Metroidvania said:
So, while seeing Sophia refuse to believe Taylor got precog abilities from the locker is amusing....

All of my wat @ Madison being Browbeat.
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All of mine too, so two wards screwing with Taylor? So Madison is just another poor me semi rich kid, and just looking for something to do like torment people on their free time? Someone really needs to vet these parahumans.

She is still scum.
 
Sophia is still Shadow Stalker, right?

Did Emma actually trigger in the alley and end up with a weird stranger power to attract capes it her?
 
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