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Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse

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Windborne said:
And I don't think she'd have been in a coma for that long if it was a secondary expression of QA like Broadcast had with Jack's blades.
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It was explicit, Taylor had double trigger, it what happens when you have two triggers in a row, like second trigger but more 1.5, we find it at the end when Cauldron tell Taylor she can't get a second trigger to save the day, since she already got her's.

She than finds a shady second triggers dealer.
Windborne said:
I think most of those "retired" Parahumans she found as Khepri were all Vial Capes like Sundancer.
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We do see their powers being affected from disuse, Taylor called them "rusty", pretty sure their status as natural or cauldron triggers wasn't mentioned, so up to the author.
 
Fencer said:
I dunno, using the Force made easy is very safely in the top twenty Star Wars fics on ff.net by follows and favorites :cool2: I'd say things are going just fine.
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I honestly didn't believe you on this, so I spent the last ten minutes digging through ff.net. Using the force made easy has 3k favorites and 3k follows. When I applied the filter for follows on Star Wars fics on ff.net, your fanfic didn't appear on the list, and it looked like it filtered from most follows to least follows. Near the top of the list were fanfics with 2K and 1K follows. Ff.net's search function must be buggy.
 
Roth963 said:
It was explicit, Taylor had double trigger, it what happens when you have two triggers in a row, like second trigger but more 1.5, we find it at the end when Cauldron tell Taylor she can't get a second trigger to save the day, since she already got her's.
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From what I remember of that conversation in Canon it was that her Double Triggering was a near instantaneous thing that occurred in the locker, almost immediately after her initial trigger. Yet she stayed in the hospital for a week afterwards regardless. Note I'm not disagreeing she got more fine control from that, she definitely did, but I don't think her double triggering or not would've affected the minimum length of her hospital stay. The Multitasking is there regardless, her getting knocked out by it was a gone conclusion I think. But I think we're getting off topic here.

Other than arthopods because that both would be way too easy a choice and possibly an incorrect one by value that it doesn't actually reflect Taylor as a person what would her Animagus form be? I've got my thoughts listed already, Hunting Cat (ie a Panther or Jaguar) or a large Canine (like a wolf or dog). But there's definitely arguments that could be made for others like a Falcon or Owl.
 
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Could be a honey badger for sheer stubbornness...:V. I'm watching another Worm/HP cross where Taylor takes the place of Harry and people were discussing which house she would be in.
 
Functionality said:
I honestly didn't believe you on this, so I spent the last ten minutes digging through ff.net. Using the force made easy has 3k favorites and 3k follows. When I applied the filter for follows on Star Wars fics on ff.net, your fanfic didn't appear on the list, and it looked like it filtered from most follows to least follows. Near the top of the list were fanfics with 2K and 1K follows. Ff.net's search function must be buggy.
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Did you remember to adjust the filters so M rated fics are not excluded?
 
Birdwing said:
Could be a honey badger for sheer stubbornness...:V. I'm watching another Worm/HP cross where Taylor takes the place of Harry and people were discussing which house she would be in.
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Definitely a potential thing I could see, though I think it's a bit too shallow to represent her completely like an Animagus form would be. But it could fit.

As for houses Taylor could fit any of the Houses easily, though the current politics of Slytherin would make her a very poor choice in going there, at least not without a set reason like in Hogwarts: An Escalation where she's a bodyguard and even then she's actually sorted into Hufflepuff, and would end up doing poorly. That's one of my biggest gripes with A Wand for Skitter, it just has the Hat blatantly and completely out of characterization put her into Slytherin against her wishes and despite knowing it would only cause her trouble. It was a move made purely for Drama's sake which as I've said before is poor writing, and ignores one of more solid rules of the Potterverse, you can ask the Hat to place you in a certain house and it'll comply in the Sorting if it's not going to be a bad place for you.
 
A thought, I don't know if anyone else has raised it but would Taylor find paintball guns a useful training tool for her to practice fighting wizards?
And also a potion delivery system?
 
Mr Pumblechook said:
A thought, I don't know if anyone else has raised it but would Taylor find paintball guns a useful training tool for her to practice fighting wizards?
And also a potion delivery system?
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Not really for the first since if she's using it as a substitute for guns in training a paintball gun isn't quite the same due to it being a paintball that's being fired rather than a bullet. That said though there's potential in the second, but I feel like there are easier ways to do it that aren't as potentially open to friendly fire like Epipens and that particular solution is much less easy to block with a simple shield spell. Really the thing Taylor will be wanting to train in is dodging spells which is definitely something that doesn't need a paintball gun.
 
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PossiblyEnos said:
It was explicitly character speculation.
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Her double trigger was explicit, cauldron didn't speculate she had one, they told her she did, they have no way to know what it would have done, but Wildbow said in a WoG that the multitasking was the second power she got after she proved incapable of dealing with the first, and that without the double trigger her control would be more like Aidan.
 
Wild speculation time!

While I doubt Taylor actually can become an animagus - Fencer already said most of the magic she'll be able to do is due to creative rules lawyering of the marriage contract - another fitting animal would be some kind of hunting spider. Sneaks up on its prey, may strike from ambush and keeps track of its surroundings constantly. All very Taylor things.

As for houses (and why would, what is effectively a squib, spouse even be sorted?), there's practically only one choice: Gryffindor, lest Hat meets hungry insects.
Realities of married life aside, I can see her do well in Hufflepuff. Taylor's greatest wish before Gold Morning was for everyone to work together (a virtue among the badgers), she's very loyal to her true friends (another badger virtue) and will kill to protect them if necessary (ok, not that part).
 
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Kaernetron said:
As for houses (and why would, what is effectively a squib, spouse even be sorted?), there's practically only one choice: Gryffindor, lest Hat meets hungry insects.
Realities of married life aside, I can see her do well in Hufflepuff. Taylor's greatest wish before Gold Morning was for everyone to work together (a virtue among the badgers), she's very loyal to her true friends (another badger virtue) and will kill to protect them if necessary (ok, not that part).
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Plus, she's a villain. And as the joke goes it's logical that all the effective villains end up in Hufflepuff, with the loser villains ending up in Slytherin since any halfway competent schemer makes themselves look like one of the "nice ones".

Thus "ambitious and underhanded" Slytherins being bad at it; if they were any good at underhanded scheming, they'd be in Hufflepuff, where nobody would suspect them.
 
Avernus said:
Plus, she's a villain. And as the joke goes it's logical that all the effective villains end up in Hufflepuff, with the loser villains ending up in Slytherin since any halfway competent schemer makes themselves look like one of the "nice ones".
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In my headcanon, it's less about being an effective villain and more about realizing one's ambitions with the least amount of headaches.

In Slytherin, the children of (up and coming) celebrities (or so they like to think) and politicians congregate to trade favors, build alliances of convenience and claw for whatever they perceive to be the top spot.
In Hufflepuff, everyone can make friends and get help with whatever problem they might have at the time just by asking. They meet people who'll be willing to assist even long after graduation, when house affiliations no longer matter. All without the chronic backstabbing disorder endemic to the snakes.

Now if, as an eleven-year old, you had a life's goal you know you can't reach alone, which house would you pick?
 
Kaernetron said:
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I think @Fencer said she wouldn't be able to use wand based Magic, of which the Animagus transformation is one of the very few we know isn't tied to a wand since Sirius used it frequently and often without a wand in Azkaban. Not saying she'll learn it for sure, but I wouldn't put it past Taylor if she got motivated. And yeah Taylor being Hufflepuff would make sense. As for being Sorted she'll essentially be attending Hogwarts with her Husband, so her being sorted would just make sense? Anyone attending must be Sorted after all.

While that spider fits to a degree Taylor it'd also be a really obvious choice, and I'm unsure if only about three months of using her power in active situations would influence her inner self that much. At least for this Taylor, a post time-skip Taylor or Post-GM one would very likely have an Arthopod potentially. But lets try to avoid Arthopods for this discussion please?
 
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Windborne said:
While that spider fits to a degree Taylor it'd also be a really obvious choice, and I'm unsure if only about three months of using her power in active situations would influence her inner self that much. At least for this Taylor, a post time-skip Taylor or Post-GM one would very likely have an Arthopod potentially. But lets try to avoid Arthopods for this discussion please?
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Personally I think bug will fit all through her career, but which bug will change, like she is worm or fly at the start, now I think she is a scorpion, vicious and quick to inflict the worst it can if provoked, but otherwise harmless.

If not using bugs, I think honey badger will fit her well, for their vicious and unrelenting nature, they are known to be so ferocious they can take down lions, much bigger animals, and if you use Hufflepuff values as their symbolic significance (like lions being brave despite it not being particularly true for actual lions), loyalty, hardwork and determination describe her well.
 
Roth963 said:
Personally I think bug will fit all through her career, but which bug will change, like she is worm or fly at the start, now I think she is a scorpion, vicious and quick to inflict the worst it can if provoked, but otherwise harmless.
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You aren't necessarily wrong, I just think any arthropod would be a way too obvious choice. And not necessarily useful, after all she doesn't need to personally be small to be sneaky with her Parahuman power.

The loyalty aspect was why I suggested a large canine like a dog or wolf, but still retains being symbolically a predator animal. Not saying badgers aren't predators, they just aren't necessarily something one would think of.
 
I'm sorry, but since I've seen this one GIF, I can no longer think of badgers as vicious or unrelenting animals. :)

Edit: bowing out of this discussion for the time being.
 
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Regarding Taylor possibly being sorted into Hufflepuff (if she is even sorted), I think there is one thing that was forgotten.

How far away is the Hufflepuff common room from the Gryffindor common room?

I bet it is further away than 600 feet, which is why it is more likely that she simply moves into the Gryffindor tower without sorting. Why risk her being sorted into another house if she can't live there?
 
Windborne said:
after all she doesn't need to personally be small to be sneaky with her Parahuman power.
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It would allow her to basically merge into the swarm.
PaarSiivOnikaan said:
Regarding Taylor possibly being sorted into Hufflepuff (if she is even sorted), I think there is one thing that was forgotten.

How far away is the Hufflepuff common room from the Gryffindor common room?

I bet it is further away than 600 feet, which is why it is more likely that she simply moves into the Gryffindor tower without sorting. Why risk her being sorted into another house if she can't live there?
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I doubt she will be sorted at all, considering she isn't a witch.
 
Taylor shouldn't attend Hogwarts; without a wand, she can't take DADA, Transfiguration, Charms, or the higher levels of Herbology.

Apprenticeship to Hagrid or Filch, maybe.

There are a few things she can learn, by author will, that do not require a wand, including but not limited to legitimacy,(sp?) Occlumency, Animagus, and some magical languages, like Dumbledore speaking Mermish.
 
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