H+ Mayhem (Worm)
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I d'awwed at this.
And dammit Taylor, that is not how you sell bringing down the organization from the inside.
JamesB
You needed worthy opponents.
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7th betrayal? I came up with more than that.
1. Emma
2-5. Brian, Lisa, Alec, Rachel (problems about Dinah)
6. Armsmaster #1 (trying to kill her during the Leviathan fight)
7. Protectorate (aftermath of finding out Sophia = Shadow Stalker)
8. Dinah giving the Protectorate a plan to try capturing Taylor
9-10. Armsmaster + Dragon (public unmasking at Arcadia)
11. Director Tagg for ordering the public unmasking (resulting in his death)
12. Alexandria for pretending to kill her friends (resulting in Alexandria's death)
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- Canada
Oh there were many more, but she actually starts getting jaded around the middle there.
"Even the crime that I'm doing? Because I like that crime."
Of course she did. Sveta is a good girl.
Skitter sure doesn't take long to switch back and forth between "we should be heroes" and "we should use a mind-controlled army of evil clones! To be heroes!"
Don't give Adam ideas.
There are almost certainly better ways to get somebody to try to punch you than awakening your evil clone.
If Coil's power works the way that I think it does, then long term threats seem to be the way to deal with him. If Mayhem can get a killswitch of some sort on him, then if Coil has forked his timelines after that point then there's nothing he can do about it. If it kills quickly, he wouldn't even know the cause of his own death, would he?
The useful thing here is that Coil's power is countered by something that Adam would try to do anyway, even without knowing what Coil's power is.
"We should start our own team! With blackjack, and... not hookers!"
Skitter is fucking crazy, and Sveta would probably try to kill everyone if you asked her to help you do it. She's a helper. Their odds aren't all that bad, actually.
Tattletale could probably make insane amounts of money with high stakes poker.
That's why he gave her kinetic blasters, missile launchers, and a lightsaber. Standard non-combatant loadout.
"Squeeeee."
She's a non-combatant because combat knows better than to get near her.
apeljohn
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...You know, Skitter is probably the one person in the group who would react better to Adam if she knew what his grand master plan is (and hence that he's not just another Tinker who cares more about making the rockets go up than where precisely they come down).
Now if only she didn't have Tattletale on speed dial. Because Tatletale would not react better to being told that the master plan is "bait the S9 in and then throw all the gadgets at them".
Now if only she didn't have Tattletale on speed dial. Because Tatletale would not react better to being told that the master plan is "bait the S9 in and then throw all the gadgets at them".
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So, Taylor's prompting here got me wondering about a bit of info...
Does she know the exact details of how Mayhem's first meeting with the PRT went? I might be remembering wrong here, but 'non-Protectorate Hero' is categorically not an option for him and never will be. Is there a reason he didn't mention that?
Does she know the exact details of how Mayhem's first meeting with the PRT went? I might be remembering wrong here, but 'non-Protectorate Hero' is categorically not an option for him and never will be. Is there a reason he didn't mention that?
I KNEW it! That sneaky bastard!
See? SEE? THIS is why we need Tinkers! If I had a Tinker, I could pop that rat bastard out and replace it with something better. Something more efficient. Something with MISSILES.
I think Adam can already read the writing on the wall, here. And I can't say I disagree with his conclusion. Skitter's just too idealistic to be able to convince to run the long game OR the "lesser of two evils" option. She's got a very black and white mentality until it's beaten out of her in canon.
...um. I see a "should" and SEVERAL "not like" or "unlikely to" in there, Adam. HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING FROM MAYHEM, YOU KNOB?!
Well... maybe if you asked nicely and set a safe word in advance....
Yay! You did well. You may have one (1) cookie from the cookie jar.
"I was worried it was some sort of kinky sex thing and... why are you blushing? ...oh, Adam. You DIDN'T."
"IT WAS A VALID SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT!"
I'm not saying Adam has a one track mind. It's just that all the tracks end up at the exact same station....
"Look, I SAID I'll patch you up! Just help me find your other arm and I'll have you back together in no time!"
Again, flesh farms. That's an actual thing Adam has. (Remember: Flesh farms, not any other kind of farm.)
"Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" (I'm not sure if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I didn't need to look those up.)
*glances at Sveta*
*glances at Adam*
*nudges The Chart closer*
Now kisssssssss....
*winces* OUCH. I'd say something here, but... man, truth hurts.
Okay, now... quick! Mention how you'd hoped that her being your friend would help her not betray you! Really HAMMER that betrayal aspect! It won't stop her from doing it, but it might make her feel bad when you're rotting in the Birdcage! (Because we all know that's where they're gonna try to send you, the fools.)
FINALLY the legs! Look at all that wasted space, man!
That is a straight up bullshit lie. Tattletale is on TATTLETALE'S side. If she can manage to help the people she likes as she goes, that's fine. But she is NOT altruistic in any sense of the word.
And THIS is all complete valid and logic. I absolutely cannot argue against most anything Adam's said here.
It's not paranoia if people actually ARE after you. ...and given who Adam completely and honestly expects to be after him, there's no such thing as TOO MUCH paranoia.
A team that is ON THE CHART!
How the fuck do they enforce THAT? Seriously, that's gotta be a nightmare to regulate.
The PRT took a lot of advice from their good friends, the RIAA and the MPAA. Don't let little things like "laws" and "international borders" stop you!
She has a Niceness 12+ rating, which somehow gives her a Don't Mind Me rating of at least 7!
You know, I really appreciate how Adam's a complete monster... but he has certain people who he WILL protect, god dammit.
*puerile giggle* Tattletale's been talking about your unit, Adam!
See? And now you know something you didn't know before! Skitter's blind optimism is helping!
Because:
- That's a great way to get a Kill Order FAST.
- He doesn't want to horn in on his sister's thing, you know?
Yes. Let's just make a gang that's based on a series of betrayals of OTHER GANGS YOU'VE JOINED. That'll be a swell way to get a GREAT reputation among all the various hero groups! Whoo-hoo!
*facepalm* God, I don't like the way Skitter was fucked over in canon, but... seriously, her cynical, never-trust-anyone attitude was SO MUCH better than "I'm a good guy doing good because that's what good guys do and everything I do is good because I'm a good guy!"
Pretty sure you forgot Coil trying to kill her in that list. (It sticks in the memory. "DON'T USE GRENADES!")
"My crime is cheeky and fun!"
Have you tried, say, slapping one of the female members of The Grey on the ass? Not only would it work, it would be HILARIOUS.
Helper 8 or 9, easy.
Well, yeah. That's just the bare minimum for living in Brockton Bay. You should see his combatant loadout. It involves the words "M-29 Davy Crockett."
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No, he put the bomb in the BUTTON. The detonator trigger is in her face, thanks to Adam rebuilding it. She can blow up the button at any point.
Other than the mute switch, the only thing he stuck in her throat was that microphone. (Unless you've been reading my fanfic, of course. *eyebrow waggle*)
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The Stormbringer
Worm Fanfic & Crack Connoisseur
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Wait, wait... he put a bomb inside Tattletale's throat? I thought it was just something that would stop her from talking without exploding her? God damn Thinkers and Tinkers with their sneaky talk.
No, he put a bomb in the remote that has the mute button. It'll let her blow up Coil, though she's likely realized the man she's dealing with is a body double and she still doesn't know what Coil's power is, hence why she hasn't used it yet.
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I don't know how the evil clone thing is going to end badly, but it will. It will.
In regards to H+, he's only using mental activation for subtlety and speed. But as we all know that's dumb. Instead of a verbal command, which admittedly is too obvious and takes to long, why not just make it a subtle physical command? Like quickly tracing your tongue in a specific manner on the back of your teeth, or fiddling with your toes in a calculated pattern?
In regards to H+, he's only using mental activation for subtlety and speed. But as we all know that's dumb. Instead of a verbal command, which admittedly is too obvious and takes to long, why not just make it a subtle physical command? Like quickly tracing your tongue in a specific manner on the back of your teeth, or fiddling with your toes in a calculated pattern?
Double checked. You don't have a Worm fanfic, or a fanfic at all. YOU LIAR!
Mizu
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was the easiest cape
whose power is to
and they now lasted
Raviollius
...but what happens afterwards?
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His clone will run to join the S9. Calling it now.
Welp. Time to remove the clones' legs. And his hands.
Now, you might think I'm encouraging senseless violence to a fictional character, but I'm really just suggestion Adam get it out of the way before the clone does it himself.
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Thanks, corrections fixed.
She's still Taylor, she's just still got some preconceptions that she lost fairly early in canon. She actually has a working, supportive school life in this fic, and figuring out what that would do to someone like Taylor is interesting.
esotericist
A Weary Hand
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Doesn't take spacewhale mindfuckery for a naive optimist to think that kind of thought.
Taylor is still pretty thoroughly a child here, and to a child 'well, let's not worry about the middle part, as long as the ending is good' is perfectly reasonable.
Khepri14
Thus kindly I scatter...
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I'm pretty sure she should know that mindrape is bad. After all, that's why people fear Masters, even if they don't actually mindrape people, because the PRT has made that connection(Master=mindrape) be well known, not to mention the mere knowledge of Masters like Heartbreaker and others.
Ha! WRONG! I DO have fanfic! It's just been over a decade since I wrote any and OH GOD I'M OLD. GOD DAMN YOU TO HELL, YOU DAMN KIDS.
Yeah, but you see... those are BAD GUYS doing things to GOOD GUYS. What she's suggesting is doing things to BAD GUYS to make them GOOD GUYS, which is TOTALLY different! Because they're GOOD GUYS, see!
...yes, this is seriously the train of logic she's probably using. "It's okay because we're the good guys."
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Clones are easy to dismiss as not being 'real people' if you don't stop to think about it hard. Especially if they are power created 'evil clones.'
Just like in canon.
Do you want Androsynth? Because this is how you get Androsynth.
Datcord is old. Very old.
Old as balls.
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I'm really glad to hear that. I'm enjoying this to a great degree; you've got a knack for characters and they aren't idiots in unbelievable ways.
Lowercase "she"
"as force multiplication" or "as a force multiplier."
"its", no apostrophe.
consequences
Not A Nice Person At All
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Look at who the closest thing she has to a positive role model is at this point.
Khepri14
Thus kindly I scatter...
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Oh, I didn't name myself after her. That's just a side effect. Besides, I'd like to think I'm not as stupid as Taylor to think that mindraping people is okay, even if they are "the bad guys".